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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5537670 | Product appearance inspection methods and apparatus employing low variance filter Images such as product images are identified as substantially similar to one or more reference images by finding pixels which have substantially the same value or values in all or substantially all of the reference images. Image erosion and/or dilation ma... | 07/16/1996 |
| 5530225 | Interdigitated cylindrical heater for use in an electrical smoking article A heater having a generally cylindrical or tubular configuration comprised of a selected plurality of thermally conductive heater blades and adjacent heat sink and aerosol barrier blades interposed between the heater blades to form an interdigitated struc... | 06/25/1996 |
| 5480025 | Step-shaped innerframe for use with short cigarettes and hinged lid box Step-shaped innerframes and blanks for forming such innerframes are provided to permit shorter than conventional cigarettes to be packaged in a conventionally sized hinged lid box. A front panel is foldably connected to a substantially perpendicular step ... | 01/02/1996 |
| 5479948 | Electrical smoking article having continuous tobacco flavor web and flavor cassette therefor An electrical smoking article is provided in which tobacco flavor medium is carried past a heater by a continuous web. The web, which preferably is substantially non-combustible, may bear continuous tobacco flavor medium or spaced-apart portions of tobacc... | 01/02/1996 |
| 5468936 | Heater having a multiple-layer ceramic substrate and method of fabrication A heater having a multiple-layer ceramic substrate and a method for fabricating the heater are provided. The heater consists-of a plurality of ceramic layers which are laminated to form a single ceramic substrate. A plurality of resistive heating elements... | 11/21/1995 |
| 5468266 | Method for making a carbonaceous heat source containing metal oxide A carbonaceous heat source comprising metal oxides and methods for making such heat source are provided. The heat source has an ignition temperature substantially lower than conventional carbonaceous heat sources, while at the same time produces virtually... | 11/21/1995 |
| 5452984 | Filter plug tray A filter plug tray includes a housing having a loading port which cooperates with external loading and unloading stations, a feed conveyor for conveying filter plugs across the loading port, and expandable filter plug constraining means positioned in the ... | 09/26/1995 |
| 5448365 | Systems for optical inspection Improved systems for optical inspection are provided. The improved systems use modified camera boxes to provide increased, and more uniform, illumination of the objects being inspected through the use of illuminator windows. The lens arrangement of the im... | 09/05/1995 |
| 5432600 | Systems for optically inspecting cylindrical surfaces The entire cylindrical surface of a cylindrical object such as a cigarette is optically inspected by first inspecting at least 180° of the circumference of a first side of the surface, and then inspecting at least 180° of the circumference of the other ... | 07/11/1995 |
| 5425383 | Alignment of filter and cigarette components A filter tipped cigarette making machine and method in which spaced apart generally cylindrical components are supplied to flutes in processing drums. Gaps between the components are partially closed in a motion limiting spreader drum.... | 06/20/1995 |
| 5385526 | Apparatus and method for packaging blanks The blanks (1) are withdrawn one after another from a storage part (20) by transfer means (21) and are disposed on the cylindrical support surface of a drum (3) driven rotatingly by portions of a revolution. Various processing operations are performed on ... | 01/31/1995 |
| 5377905 | Packaging box, blank therefor, and method of assembly The packaging box is made from a one-piece blank and comprises a receptacle portion and a lid portion bounded by perforation lines made in the receptacle portion. A closure flap is fixed to the lid portion. The box is opened for the first time by acting u... | 01/03/1995 |
| 5372148 | Method and apparatus for controlling the supply of energy to a heating load in a smoking article A method and an apparatus for controlling energy flow into a heating load array of a smoking article are provided. In response to a pressure drop in the mouthpiece of the smoking article, a selected load in the heating load array is switchably connected t... | 12/13/1994 |
| 5366077 | Hinged-lid cigarette boxes with fold-in locks to facilitate consistent lid closure A pack has a retention member formed in the walls of the innerframe and the lid. The retention member can be tab-like extension members extending from a top edge of the innerframe and the bottom edge of the lid. When the tab-like extension member is folde... | 11/22/1994 |
| 5365951 | Concentric smoking filter having cellulose acetate tow periphery and carbon-particle-loaded web filter core A concentric smoking filter in which the peripheral filter medium is a fibrous tow, such as fibrous cellulose acetate tow, and the core filter medium is a web material, such as paper, loaded with carbon particles, is provided. The filter improves the tast... | 11/22/1994 |
| 5365596 | Methods and apparatus for automatic image inspection of continuously moving objects The acceptability of images is determined by comparing each image to a template image which may be an average of several images which are known to be acceptable. The amount by which the image deviates from the template image is used as a measure of the ac... | 11/15/1994 |
| 5363955 | Hinged lid box with attached coupon A hinged lid cigarette pack includes a bottom portion defining a receptacle for the cigarettes and a hingably connected lid which closes over the cigarette. A tab is foldably connected to the front wall of the lid at a mating edge between the lid front wa... | 11/15/1994 |
| 5350051 | Agitator apparatus for cylindrical articles An apparatus for agitating cylindrical articles in a bulk flow and removing non-aligned articles from the flow includes a plurality of parallel, spaced rotating pins having helical threads on an outer surface. The flow of articles is directed through the ... | 09/27/1994 |
| 5345951 | Smoking article A smoking article in which a flavored aerosol is generated by heat transfer to a flavor bed from the combustion of a heat source is provided. The article generates substantially no sidestream smoke. The transfer of heat from the heat source to the flavor ... | 09/13/1994 |
| 5342657 | Apparatus and method for applying fluid to a moving continuous web Apparatus and method for applying a fluid to a moving continuous web whereby fluid is collected and stored in a multichamber cylinder when application of fluid to the web is ceased, and substantially all of the fluid collected and stored is promptly and d... | 08/30/1994 |
| 5342484 | Method and apparatus for making banded smoking article wrappers A method and apparatus for making banded smoking article wrappers is provided. The apparatus includes a cylindrical rotating applicator that has alternating regions of mesh material and regions of solid material on its outside surface. The applicator allo... | 08/30/1994 |
| 5339836 | Cigarette-making machine with transfer device A strip of paper (42) in which the rod of tobacco (31) is to be wrapped runs parallel for a certain distance to a porous band (21) carrying the rod. By applying a certain degree of compression to the rod before it enters a guide groove disposed under a gu... | 08/23/1994 |
| 5337948 | Half-carton structure and method of forming same A half-carton container for cigarette packs, formed from a unitary blank, having windows formed in a first wall to display and facilitate the removal of the contained goods and having partitions hingedly attached to the first wall and secured to a second ... | 08/16/1994 |
| 5332472 | Application of fluidized material to a substrate using displacement transfer This invention relates to the treatment of substrates with fluidized material in repetitive patterns during application cycles. The treatment patterns made with this invention can be altered by changing machine operating parameters. The patterns of fluidi... | 07/26/1994 |
| 5325956 | Method and apparatus for orienting elongated components with distinct ends A method and apparatus for orienting elongated components, where the components are initially oriented in a random manner with respect to the ends of the components. Improperly oriented components are separated from properly oriented ones and are transfer... | 07/05/1994 |
| 5322075 | Heater for an electric flavor-generating article A smoking article is provided in which a flavor-generating medium is heated electrically to release an aerosol for inhalation by a consumer. The smoking article includes a heater having resistive heating elements printed on a flexible substrate. The heate... | 06/21/1994 |
| 5302079 | Apparatus and method for aligning packaging blanks One or more misaligned packaging blanks or blanks for cigarette boxes in a stack can be realigned by causing the stack to be engaged at both ends by two half-shell-shaped receiving portions. It is then tilted by 90° so that the edges of the blanks all re... | 04/12/1994 |
| 5301805 | Reusable hard-pack cigarette case and blank therefor A limited-life reusable hard pack for encasing a soft pack of cigarette. The reusable hard pack permits easy access to the cigarette by the feature of a sliceable interior wall attached to a pivotable bottom wall that when moved relative to the exterior w... | 04/12/1994 |
