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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120067360 | SEGMENTED SMOKING ARTICLE WITH SUBSTRATE CAVITY A cigarette includes lighting and mouth ends. It may include a smokable segment disposed at the lighting end. It also includes a mouth-end segment; an aerosol-generation system disposed between the lighting and mouth ends, which includes (i) a heat-generation segment ad... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120006344 | SMOKING ARTICLE AND METHOD A smoking article provides one or more sheets of material that can be rolled and packaged, at least one sheet including cellulose. In one embodiment, cellulose and tobacco sheet material are separately rolled layers that can optionally be wrapped around a form casing (o... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20110305888 | RECYCLING PROGRAM AND METHOD OF ENCOURAGING RECYCLING OF TARGET WASTE MATERIALS BY USE OF PRECIOUS METALS A recycling program provides a monetary incentive to encourage recycling of target waste materials, such as paper, glass and plastic products. A precious metal, such as gold, silver, platinum or palladium, is incorporated into the target waste material during manufactur... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110271971 | SEGMENTED SMOKING ARTICLE WITH STITCH-BONDED SUBSTRATE A cigarette includes lighting and mouth ends. It may include a smokable segment disposed at the lighting end. It also includes a mouth-end segment; an aerosol-generation system disposed between the lighting and mouth ends, which includes (i) a heat-generation segment ad... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110174324 | DEGRADABLE CIGARETTE FILTER: PILL WITH MULTILAYERED COATING A degradable cigarette filter includes a filter element of a bloomed cellulose acetate tow and a plug wrap surrounding the filter element, and a pill dispersed in the tow. The pill includes a material adapted to catalyze hydrolysis of the cellulose acetate tow that is e... | 07/21/2011 |
| 20110108044 | FILTER ELEMENT COMPRISING SMOKE-ALTERING MATERIAL The invention provides a filter element of a smoking article having a longitudinal axis and adapted for filtration of mainstream smoke generated by the smoking article, the filter element including a first region extending along the longitudinal axis of the filter eleme... | 05/12/2011 |
| 20110083676 | COATED IMPREGNATED POROUS FILTER PLUG A process for producing a coated filter plug for a smoking article including: (a) incorporating an additive to a porous filter plug, thereby obtaining an impregnated filter plug; (b) coating a surface of the impregnated filter plug with a cross-linkable polymer material... | 04/14/2011 |
| 20110023897 | CIGARETTE HAVING CONFIGURED LIGHTING END The lighting end or tip of the smoking article is configured in such a manner that the entire front or upstream face thereof does not lie in a plane that is generally perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the smoking article. For example, at least a portion of the f... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20100288293 | SMOKING ARTICLE WITH IMPROVED FLOW RESTRICTION ELEMENT A smoking article includes a rod of smokable material and a filter including a flow restriction element attached to the rod of smokable material. The flow restriction element includes a first upstream integral tubular portion, a second downstream integral tubular portio... | 11/18/2010 |
| 20100186757 | Smoking Article A smoking article, such as a cigarette, comprises a lighting end and a mouth end. The smoking article possesses an aerosol-generation system that includes (i) a heat generation segment, and (ii) an aerosol-generating region or segment. A mouth end piece segment can be l... | 07/29/2010 |
| 20080264433 | Cucurbituril Added Cigarettes and Manufacturing Method Thereof Provided is a cucurbituril-containing tobacco. The cucurbituril-containing tobacco includes a cucurbituril represented by Formula 1. The cucurbituril-containing tobacco can produce a reduced amount of harmful substances.... | 10/30/2008 |
| 20080236602 | METHOD OF MAKING A SMOKING COMPOSITION The present invention relates to smoking articles such as cigarettes, and in particular to catalytic systems containing metallic or carbonaceous particles that reduce the content of certain harmful or carcinogenic substances, including polyaromatic hydrocarbons, tobacco... | 10/02/2008 |
| 20080185011 | Sealed cigarette filter Smoking articles, such as cigarettes and cigarette filters, methods of manufacturing smoking articles including sealed filters, and methods of treating tobacco smoke are provided. In one exemplary embodiment, a smoking article contains sealed filters, wherein additives ... | 08/07/2008 |
| 20080142028 | Filtered Cigarette A filtered cigarette possesses a smokable rod and a filter element. The filter element possesses a segment incorporating filter material (e.g., cellulose acetate tow) having carbonaceous material (e.g., activated charcoal particles) or other adsorbent dispersed througho... | 06/19/2008 |
| 20080087290 | Cigarette Filter Material and Cigarette Filter A cigarette filter material useful for selectively and efficiently reducing formaldehyde while maintaining a palatable component such as nicotine or tar is provided. A cigarette filter material is obtained by adhesively treating a substrate (such as a cellulose acetate ... | 04/17/2008 |
| 20070295346 | Tobacco Smoke Filter A tobacco smoke filter containing a high activity activated carbon impregnated with a metal impregnant. The use of a relatively low level of impregnant, in combination with a base carbon having higher activity than that use in standard cigarette filters, is highly effec... | 12/27/2007 |
| 20070235050 | Smoking article with a restrictor A smoking article filter includes a flow restrictor and a cavity downstream of the flow restrictor. The flow restrictor includes an orifice or flow channel for directing smoke into the cavity. The filter is attached to the tobacco rod with tipping paper and includes an ... | 10/11/2007 |
| 20070235049 | Magnetic filter elements and cigarettes having magnetic filter elements A magnetic cigarette filter element is provided comprising a filter material and at least one magnetic substrate. The magnetic substrate can comprise at least one monolithic ferromagnetic substrate in the shape of a disc, ring, ribbon, mesh, rod, cylinder and/or spheroi... | 10/11/2007 |
| 20070215167 | Smoking article A smoking article, such as a cigarette, comprises a lighting end and a mouth end. The smoking article possesses an aerosol-generation system that includes (i) a heat generation segment, and (ii) an aerosol-generating region or segment. A mouth end piece segment can be l... | 09/20/2007 |
| 20070215168 | Smoking article A smoking article, such as a cigarette, includes a carbonaceous heat source. A mouth end piece segment is located at the mouth end of the smoking article, and the mouth end piece segment allows the smoking article to be placed in the mouth of the smoker to be drawn upon... | 09/20/2007 |
| 20070186942 | Tobacco Articles and Methods Some embodiments of a tobacco article may include tobacco disposed in a porous matrix. The tobacco article may provide tobacco, tobacco constituents, or both tobacco and tobacco constituents to the consumer's mouth in the form of particles, liquid, or vapor so as to pro... | 08/16/2007 |
| 20070186944 | Tobacco Articles and Methods Some embodiments of a tobacco article may include tobacco disposed in a porous matrix. The tobacco article may provide tobacco, tobacco constituents, or both tobacco and tobacco constituents to the consumer's mouth in the form of particles, liquid, or vapor so as to pro... | 08/16/2007 |
| 20070186943 | Tobacco Articles and Methods Some embodiments of a tobacco article may include tobacco disposed in a porous matrix. The tobacco article may provide tobacco, tobacco constituents, or both tobacco and tobacco constituents to the consumer's mouth in the form of particles, liquid, or vapor so as to pro... | 08/16/2007 |
| 20070181141 | Smoking articles with activated carbon and sodium bicarbonate-treated fibers and method of treating mainstream smoke Filters and smoking articles include sodium bicarbonate-treated fibers and activated carbon capable of selectively removing one or more selected constituents from mainstream smoke. Methods for making cigarette filters and cigarettes using the sodium bicarbonate-treated ... | 08/09/2007 |
| 20070181140 | Smoking article having flavorant materials retained in hollow heat conductive tubes A smoking article includes a cylinder of smoking material having at least one hollow tube having a heat conductive wall within the cylinder of smoking material and a filter system attached to the cylinder of smoking material. The filter system includes an adsorbent mate... | 08/09/2007 |
| 20070169785 | Smoking article with bypass channel A smoking article having a tobacco rod of a smokable material and a filter system attached to the tobacco rod of smokable material. The filter system includes a first filter portion and a second filter portion, the second filter portion concentrically positioned with re... | 07/26/2007 |
| 20070137667 | Smoking article with coaxial tobacco rod A smoking article having a cylindrical tube of smokable material having an outer wrapper, a concentric rod of smokable material coaxially positioned within the cylindrical tube of a smokable material, and an inner wrapper separating the cylindrical tube and the concentr... | 06/21/2007 |
| 20070113862 | Oxidant/catalyst nanoparticles to reduce tobacco smoke constituents such as carbon monoxide Cut filler compositions, cigarettes, methods for making cigarettes and methods for smoking cigarettes are provided, which involve the use of nanoparticle additives capable of reducing amounts of at least one constituent from mainstream and/or sidestream tobacco smoke, t... | 05/24/2007 |
| 20070102016 | Filter tip A filter tip used by a cigarette has at least one screw-like tunnel. Adopting the above structure, under the premise of not increasing air clogging, the screw-like tunnel of the present cigarette filter increases path length of the smoke crossing the cigarette filter an... | 05/10/2007 |
| 20070095357 | Smoking article with manually releasable odorant A smoking article has an outer surface and a plurality of frangible microcapsules provided on the outer surface, wherein the microcapsules are capable of being manually ruptured by a consumer to release an odorant encapsulated therein. The smoking article preferably com... | 05/03/2007 |
| 20070000508 | Templated carbon monolithic tubes with shaped micro-channels and method for making the same Disclosed is a method for forming an article with template shaped channels by (a) mixing a precursor with a fibrous template, (b) forming the mixture into a pre-determined shape, (c) curing the mixture to form a precursor composite, (d) carbonizing the precursor composi... | 01/04/2007 |
| 20070000507 | Templated carbon fibers and their application Disclosed is a carbon fiber with a template derived shape and method for making the same by (a) mixing a precursor with a fibrous template, (b) forming the mixture into a pre-determined shape, (c) curing the mixture to form a precursor composite, (d) carbonizing the pre... | 01/04/2007 |
| 20060254607 | Smoking article comprising a segmented rod of smokable material A smoking article comprises: a rod of smokable material having a mouth-end and a distal-end remote from the mouth-end; an outer wrapper circumscribing the rod; and a mouthpiece abutting and attached to the mouth-end of the rod, the rod includes at least two segments (in... | 11/16/2006 |
| 20060213529 | Apparatus and methods for lighting tobacco-containing articles Apparatus and methods are provided for lighting a tobacco-containing article. The tobacco-containing article includes a tobacco-containing element having an electrically conductive end portion and the apparatus for lighting a tobacco-containing article having a conducti... | 09/28/2006 |
| 20060185687 | Filter cigarette and method of making filter cigarette for an electrical smoking system A cigarette of an electrical smoking system includes a filter tipping including a web including added filtering material and a tubular wrapper around the web, and a tobacco rod portion adapted to generate a puff of smoke upon being heated by one or more heating elements... | 08/24/2006 |
| 20060174901 | Flavor capsule for enhanced flavor delivery in cigarettes Improved delivery of additive materials to cigarettes is provided through the use of one or more capsules containing additive materials, such as flavor components, in the filter section of a cigarette. The sealed capsule or capsules are subjected to an external force, s... | 08/10/2006 |
| 20060157075 | Perforated capsule filter The present invention is a capsule that has a perforated outer shell that is substantially filled with a filtering media which has been pressurized to remove air pockets resulting in more effective and consistent filtration. The media may be activated carbon or other fi... | 07/20/2006 |
| 20060102188 | Filter tip cigarettes and method of manufacturing same The invention relates to a filter-tip cigarette with a tobacco rod (1) wrapped in a cigarette paper and a filter (6) wrapped along its length in tipping paper (4) or other wrapper being other than plugwrap, and a strip of material (5) fully c... | 05/18/2006 |
| 20050178399 | Cigarette with smoke constituent attenuator Smoke constituent reduction is achieved by resolving from puff-to-puff analysis at which location along a tobacco rod production of a particular smoke constituent is maximized, and locally applying an attenuator at said resolved location to reduce production of the cons... | 08/18/2005 |
| 20050061340 | Double filtered cigarette A cigarette having a rod-shaped tobacco element with a first end and a second end. A first filter element is attached to the first end of the tobacco element and a second filter element is attached to the second end of the tobacco element. A tubular wrapper surrounds th... | 03/24/2005 |
