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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120067363 | TOBACCO PRODUCT A tobacco product is formed by rolling moistened tobacco leaves about a cylindrical form casing and allowing the leaves to dry to form a shell. After the form casing is removed a consumer can fill the shell with crushed tobacco leaves of a favorite blend, thereby elimin... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120031417 | Banded Papers, Smoking Articles and Methods Wrapper for cigarette manufacture includes transversely extending band regions applied by a printing technique, such as gravure printing. The band regions comprise starch, an anti-wrinkling agent such as 1,2 propylene glycol or glycerin, and optionally calcium carbonate... | 02/09/2012 |
| 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 |
| 20110315153 | Smoking Articles and Method for Manufacturing Smoking Articles The invention relates to a method of manufacturing a plurality of smoking articles, comprising providing a wrapping paper having a permeability of less than 15 CU and applying a burn retardant additive material in a predetermined pattern to the wrapping paper. The wrapp... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110303233 | Banded Papers, Smoking Articles and Methods Wrapper for cigarette manufacture includes transversely extending band regions applied by a printing technique, such as gravure printing. The band regions comprise starch, an anti-wrinkling agent such as 1,2 propylene glycol or glycerin, and optionally calcium carbonate... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110297169 | Banded Papers, Smoking Articles and Methods Wrapper for cigarette manufacture includes transversely extending band regions applied by a printing technique, such as gravure printing. The band regions comprise starch, an anti-wrinkling agent such as 1,2 propylene glycol or glycerin, and optionally calcium carbonate... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110271972 | SEGMENTED SMOKING ARTICLE WITH SHAPED INSULATOR 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 |
| 20110209718 | LOW FLAME-SPREADING CIGARETTE PAPER A cigarette paper exhibiting a low flame-spreading property comprises a base cigarette paper, and a plurality of burn-suppressing regions that are provided spaced apart from each other on one surface of the base cigarette paper. The burn-suppressing regions are formed b... | 09/01/2011 |
| 20110180086 | SMOKING PRODUCT WRAPPING MATERIAL HAVING IMPROVED SMOULDERING PROPERTIES Disclosed is a smoking article wrapping material comprising a base wrapping material to which has been applied, at least in discrete zones, a composition comprising a mechanically fragmented, chemically crosslinked polysaccharide having a particle size (weighted average... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110180088 | Plug Wrap or Tipping Paper for Smoking Articles The present invention relates to plug wrap or tipping paper (5) for smoking articles (1). More particularly, the present invention relates to plug wrap or tipping paper for smoking articles, wherein the plug wrap and tipping paper comprises a sheet having ... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110155158 | Banded Papers, Smoking Articles and Methods Wrapper for cigarette manufacture includes transversely extending band regions applied by a printing technique, such as gravure printing. The band regions comprise starch, an anti-wrinkling agent such as 1,2 propylene glycol or glycerin, and optionally calcium carbonate... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110155156 | Wrapper for Smoking Material Rods The present invention related to wrappers (4) for smoking material rods. More particularly, the present invention relates to wrappers for smoking material rods, wherein the wrappers comprise a single sheet having two or more plies (10, 11) and one of the p... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110132382 | CIGARETTE PAPER COATED WITH COATING MATERIALS FOR LOW IGNITION PROPENSITY AND A FIRE-SAFE CIGARETTE COVERED BY THE SAME The present invention relates to a cigarette paper with a coating material for Low Ignition Propensity (LIP) and a fire-safe cigarette having the same. More particularly, the present invention manufacture a cigarette paper by coating a pre-determined area with a coating... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20110108042 | REGISTERED BANDED CIGARETTE PAPER, CIGARETTES, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE Registered banded wrapper, cigarettes using that wrapper paper, and methods of making cigarettes with that banded paper result in banded regions of cigarette paper which begin at substantially the same location on each cigarette. With the banded region positioned at a p... | 05/12/2011 |
| 20110041862 | Cigarette A cigarette, in which the paper surrounding the tobacco column comprises discrete areas, in particular in the form of bands, which are loaded with the acetate of a polysaccharide and thus increase the self-extinction of the cigarette by reducing the access of air to the... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110041861 | SEGMENTED SMOKING ARTICLE WITH INSULATION MAT 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... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110030710 | ROLLING PAPER STRUCTURES FOR CREATING SMOKING ARTICLES AND ADHESIVES COMPRISING HEMP ADDITIVE FOR SAME Aspects of the invention generally provide structures for rolling paper structures for an end user to create a cigar or cigarette. In one aspect, a rolling paper structure is provided including a first paper section having a first height, a second paper section coupled ... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110030709 | Materials, Equipment, and Methods for Manufacturing Cigarettes Cigarettes are manufactured using modified automated cigarette making apparatus. Those cigarettes possess smokable rods having wrapping paper having additive materials applied thereto as patterns. The additive materials, which can include a starch and/or a polymer, are ... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110023901 | BANDED PAPER, SMOKING ARTICLE AND METHOD A cigarette wrapper includes transversely extending banded regions applied by a printing technique, such as gravure printing. The banded regions are applied in a single application of an aqueous starch solution also containing an anti-wrinkling agent such as propylene g... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110000497 | Smoking Articles Having Reduced Analyte Levels and Process For Making Same Smoking articles having reduced Hoffmann analytes contained in the mainstream smoke is disclosed. In one embodiment, an alginate composition is applied to a wrapper that is incorporated into a smoking article. The alginate composition causes a significant reduction in a... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20100275935 | Smoking article with modified smoke delivery A smoking article (10) comprises a tobacco rod (12) wrapped with a paper wrapper (14), and a patch (16) of material between the tobacco rod and the paper wrapper that extends along the tobacco rod from or near the mouth end (B) to an intermed... | 11/04/2010 |
| 20100269839 | Smoking article with closed end and methods and apparatus for manufacture thereof A method of making a smoking article comprises providing a folly or partially fabricated smoking article comprising at least a tobacco rod of tobacco wrapped in cigarette paper; adhering a foldable paper to the cigarette paper such that the foldable paper encircles the ... | 10/28/2010 |
| 20100192964 | LOW SIDESTREAM SMOKE CIGARETTE WITH COMBUSTIBLE PAPER A low sidestream smoke cigarette comprises a conventional tobacco rod, and a combustible treatment paper having a sidestream smoke treatment composition. The treatment composition comprises in combination, an oxygen storage and donor metal oxide oxidation catalyst and a... | 08/05/2010 |
| 20100180903 | Smoking Article with Thermoresilient Design and Methods of Producing the Same A smoking article can comprise a rod of smoking material enclosed in a wrapper wherein the wrapper is provided with a design which comprises thermoresilient material.... | 07/22/2010 |
| 20100154808 | FILTER CIGARILLO A cigarillo includes a tobacco rod including a tobacco cut filler circumscribed by an inner binder, a filter adjacent to the tobacco rod, a band of tipping paper circumscribing the filter, and an outer wrapper of natural tobacco circumscribing the tobacco rod and a rod ... | 06/24/2010 |
| 20100116282 | LOW IGNITION PROPENSITY CIGARETTE PAPER A cigarette paper of the present invention includes a base cigarette paper and a plurality of combustion-suppressing regions provided, spaced apart from each other, on one surface of the base cigarette paper, the combustion-suppressing regions being formed by applying a... | 05/13/2010 |
| 20100071710 | PREPARATION OF MIXED METAL OXIDE CATALYSTS FROM NANOSCALE PARTICLES Mixed metal oxide catalysts are prepared by combining first nanoscale particles and second nanoscale particles to form a mixture of nanoscale particles and then the mixture is heated to form a mixed metal oxide catalyst. The mixed metal oxide catalysts, which are capabl... | 03/25/2010 |
| 20100059072 | VENTILATED SMOKING MATERIAL PERFORATION APPARATUS, METHOD AND PRODUCT An apparatus to make ventilated cigars is disclosed. The apparatus includes a perforating means along a first wrapper paper section and arranged before the first wrapper paper section and the second wrapper paper section are joined together. A roller member rotates the ... | 03/11/2010 |
| 20100000555 | SYNTHESIS AND INCORPORATION OF HIGH-TEMPERATURE AMMONIA-RELEASE AGENTS IN LIT-END CIGARETTES A tobacco smoking mixture and/or a cigarette wrapper with high-temperature ammonia-release agents therein are provided, wherein the high-temperature ammonia-release agents are present in an amount effective to reduce the cytotoxicity of gas phase or particulate matter f... | 01/07/2010 |
| 20090320865 | Flame-retardant and Fireproof Cigarette A flame-retardant and fireproof cigarette which aims to contain the combustion process to the cigarette. The flame-retardant and fireproof cigarette has a filter that is aligned with a tobacco body. A flame-retardant and fireproof covering is positioned over at least a ... | 12/31/2009 |
| 20090314303 | Smoking Articles And Filter Therefor A filter for smoking articles includes two sections, a first section (2) comprising a longitudinally extending opening (4) surrounded by smoke impervious material (6) and a second section (8) comprising a core (10) having a high-pressu... | 12/24/2009 |
| 20090301506 | LOW IGNITION PROPENSITY CIGARETTE, WRAPPING PAPER THEREFOR, AND METHOD OF PRODUCING WRAPPING PAPER A low ignition propensity cigarette has wrapping paper (6) wrapping filling material into a rod-like shape, and the wrapping paper (6) includes highly conducting bands (10) formed by calendering and arranged in a longitudinal direction of the cigare... | 12/10/2009 |
| 20090277466 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MAKING SLIT-BANDED WRAPPER USING MOVING ORIFICES A method and apparatus of manufacturing a web which is striped with add-on material, comprising: a first slurry supply which forms a sheet of base web and moves the sheet along a first path; a second slurry supply; and a moving orifice applicator operative so as to repe... | 11/12/2009 |
| 20090266371 | Smoking Product Wrapping Material Having Improved Smouldering Properties Described is a smoking article wrapping material comprising a base wrapping material to which has been applied, at least in discrete zones, a composition comprising a mechanically fragmented, chemically crosslinked polysaccharide having a particle size (weighted average... | 10/29/2009 |
| 20090260645 | METHOD FOR NEUTRALIZATION, ADSORPTION, AND ABSORPTION OF HAZARDOUS OR OTHERWISE UNDESIRED COMPOUNDS IN A TOBACCO PRODUCT A tobacco product comprising nanocrystalline particles and methods of reducing the levels of undesirable compounds in tobacco smoke are provided. The nanocrystalline particles are effective sorbents of numerous toxic compounds released by burning tobacco and may be inco... | 10/22/2009 |
| 20090229620 | Transparent paper, for tobacco-packaging system Transparent paper for tobacco packaging systems is made from trees under reforestation which go through a pulverizing process without chemical products to make cellulose pulp for manufacture of 100% natural, biodegradable and odorless paper. This product can be stored i... | 09/17/2009 |
| 20090223529 | Treated Areas on a Wrapper For Reducing the Ignition Proclivity Characteristics of a Smoking Article Smoking articles having reduced ignition proclivity characteristics are disclosed. The smoking articles include a paper wrapper containing cellulosic fibers and filler particles. The paper wrappers are formed so that the filler particles form a concentration gradient th... | 09/10/2009 |
| 20090223528 | Cigar With Support Embedded Therein A cigar has a rod a thin material placed in between the cigar leaf and the tobacco. A thin, strong, bendable strip is embedded in the outer rolling leaf of a cigar. As the cigar is smoked more and more, the rod will be more and more exposed to prevent fingers, and/or fi... | 09/10/2009 |
| 20090159090 | SMOKING ARTICLE WITH IMPROVED EXTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTCS A smoking article includes a tobacco rod and a wrapper, wherein the wrapper includes at least one zone treated with an inorganic salt providing reduced ignition propensity. Preferably, the porosity of the wrapper in the treated zones is larger than 10 CU. Suitable inorg... | 06/25/2009 |
| 20090151739 | Smokable Rod for a Cigarette A smokable rod for a smoking article, such as a cigarette, possesses a co-axial or concentric construction. The outer material that circumscribes the inner core in an annular fashion is composed of a tobacco material treated with a burn suppressing agent, and the outer ... | 06/18/2009 |
