Class 131/58 - Wrapping devices

Subclass of Class 131 - Tobacco
Definition: Devices including means for applying a wrapper to a cigarette
No. of applications: 35
Last issue date: 02/23/2012

Application No.	Application Title	Issue Date
20120042883	Composite Packaging System For Particulate Smokable Product A composite packaging system for particulate smokable product comprises an aggregate of particulate smokable product, a bag element of organic polymeric film, an envelope element of metallized organic polymeric film, and at least one externally viewable image disposed o...	02/23/2012
20110259351	TOBACCO ROD MANUFACTURING APPARATUS An apparatus is provided for forming tobacco rod portions of a smoking article. A conveyor unit is configured to receive a continuous stream of the tobacco material and to transport the continuous tobacco material stream along an elongate path for formation of the conti...	10/27/2011
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
20110023894	AUTOMATIC CIGARETTE MAKER An automatic cigarette maker comprises a case that is provided with a container therein. The container has an opening at the top thereof. The tobacco leaves in the container are pushed out of a tobacco supply duct by a feeding module. A rotary disc is connected with one...	02/03/2011
20100294289	Filtered Cigarette Possessing Tipping Material A filtered cigarette possesses a smokable rod and a filter element. The smokable rod is secured to the filter element using tipping material. The cigarette possesses more than one layer of tipping material. An outer layer of tipping material can overlie at least a porti...	11/25/2010
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
20100236561	APPARATUS FOR INSERTING OBJECTS INTO A FILTER COMPONENT OF A SMOKING ARTICLE, AND ASSOCIATED METHOD An apparatus and associated method is provided for forming a rod for use in the manufacture of cigarette filter elements. A continuous supply of a filter material is formed into a continuous filter rod by a rod-forming unit. An object insertion unit is configured to ins...	09/23/2010
20100218777	INTERMEDIATE WRAPPER AND METHOD OF MAKING A tobacco product is formed by perforated cigar or shell, the shell comprising a sheet of material with an intermediate sheet, the sheet comprising tobacco leaves and/or homogenized tobacco paper. The cigar or shell is packaged for shipment to an end user or consumer. T...	09/02/2010
20100212677	SMOKING ARTICLE WITH REMOVABLY SECURED ADDITIONAL WRAPPER AND PACKAGING FOR SMOKING ARTICLE A smoking article includes a tobacco column, a binder surrounding the tobacco column, a first wrapper surrounding the binder, and at least one additional removable wrapper which surrounds the first wrapper and is removably secured to a wrapper beneath the additional rem...	08/26/2010
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
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
20100101588	MACHINE FOR MANUFACTURING POUCHES OF COHESIONLESS MATERIAL A machine manufacturing pouches of a smokeless tobacco product, or other similarly cohesionless material, comprises a feed system (100) by which the tobacco is supplied to a conveyor (4) at a delivery station (5), from where it is transported by the...	04/29/2010
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
20100012133	Manufacturing Machine for Producing Combination Cigarette Filters A manufacturing machine for producing combination filters for cigarettes, and having: a group-forming unit for forming groups of filter portions, each having at least two different filter portions aligned axially and contacting at the ends; a winding unit which receives...	01/21/2010
20090314301	Smoking Kit for Customizing a Tobacco Product, Method for Purveying a Tobacco Smoking Product, Smoking Product and Method of Providing a Smoking Product Smoking kit and techniques for purveying a tobacco product are provided. The kit includes at least one pre-finished tobacco product. The kit further includes at least one wrapping sheet supported by the pre-finished product in a predetermined shape. The wrapping sheet m...	12/24/2009
20090260640	Unit and a method for wrapping tobacco products Tobacco products are wrapped by a unit equipped with a rotating drum carrying a set of holder mechanisms around the periphery, each rotatable about an axis parallel to the axis of the drum, by which single products are supported and carried through an assembly station t...	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
20080216847	Fine-Cut-Tobacco Portion Pack And Process For Producing Fine-Cut-Tobacco Portion Packs A fine-cut-tobacco portion pack (50) for use in making home-made cigarettes contains a wrapper (52) which encloses on all sides a fine-cut-tobacco filling with at least one separated tobacco portion for making a cigarette. The wrapper (52) is prefer...	09/11/2008
20080115794	Smoking articles and wrapping materials therefor A smoking article includes a smokable rod manufactured using a paper wrapping material having an additive material applied thereto as a pattern. The additive material is applied as coating formulation (e.g., an aqueous coating formulation) incorporating a film-forming a...	05/22/2008
20080047569	Cigarette making apparatus A cigarette making apparatus comprises an application nozzle for applying a flavoring material to a wrapping-paper web supplied continuously to a wrapping machine, a pump for supplying the flavoring material to the application nozzle, and a pump control device for contr...	02/28/2008
20080006284	Apparatus and methods for manufacturing cigarettes An apparatus and method for manufacturing small quantities of cigarettes provides for such manufacture in a substantially simultaneous fashion while maintaining consistent quality between the cigarettes. The apparatus and method provide for delivering at least one charg...	01/10/2008
20070295343	Cigarette-making machine and method A cigarette-making machine comprises a casing, a tobacco slot in the casing, and a nipple for retaining a cigarette tube outside the casing. A handle/handle drive is accessible from an exterior of the casing to be manually handled. An internal mechanism has a compactor ...	12/27/2007
20070277838	Cigarette manufacturing apparatus A cigarette manufacturing apparatus has an applicator that is interposed in a wrapping paper supply path for continuously supplying wrapping paper to a hoist and applies an aroma chemical to the wrapping paper, a high-frequency dielectric heating device that is installe...	12/06/2007
20070240726	Apparatus for manufacturing rod-shaped smoking articles An apparatus for manufacturing rod-shaped smoking articles has a forming section (10) for forming a material layer (K) made up of particles of smoking material and delivering the formed material layer (K); a wrapping section (20) disposed downstream of the...	10/18/2007
20070235045	Cigarette-making machine In one embodiment, a cigarette-making machine of the tobacco-injecting type includes an improvement being a handgrip that provides improved ergonomics to a user of the machine. The handgrip is configured to project upward from a top surface of the housing of the machine...	10/11/2007
20070144541	Unit for conveying tobacco products Filter plugs or sticks are directed from a filter maker onto a pair of conveyor rollers counter-rotating substantially in contact one with another at a point of tangency and furnished with equispaced peripheral flutes by which the single sticks are taken up and transfer...	06/28/2007
20070144542	System for monitoring and controlling machines used in the manufacture of tobacco products Tobacco products (2), typically cigarettes, are manufactured on a line (1) including a cigarette maker (3) and a filter tip attachment machine (4), both equipped with a number of production devices and units connected to respective master con...	06/28/2007
20060243289	Process and device for conveying a wrapper strip in a machine of the tobacco processing industry Process and apparatus for operating a machine of the tobacco processing industry. The process includes guiding at least one wrapper strip along a conveyor path from a wrapping strip supply to a garniture device, and fixing the at least one wrapper strip in at least one ...	11/02/2006
20060196513	Triple hopper max with built-in granulated cavity filling capability Methods and apparatus for forming smoking products include a triple hopper for forming filter components of multiple sizes. The filter components are partially wrapped, and at a downstream location granular media is dispended onto the partially wrapped components. A cov...	09/07/2006
20050098185	Method of and apparatus for simultaneously making plural rods of smokable material The invention relates to a method of and to an apparatus for at least substantially simultaneously producing at least two wrapped rod-like fillers of smokable material. The fillers are advanced lengthwise along discrete paths having spaced-apart upstream portions where ...	05/12/2005
20050076925	Materials, equipment and methods for manufacturing cigarettes Cigarettes are manufactured using modified automated cigarette making apparatus. Those cigarettes possess smokable rods having paper wrapping materials having additive materials applied thereto as patterns. The additive materials, which can have the forms of liquid or p...	04/14/2005
20050076926	Apparatus and method for the simultaneous manufacture of multiple cigarette rods Apparatus and method for manufacture of continuous tobacco rods. At least one continuous rod conveyor, having at least two suction tapes, that transports continuous tobacco rods constructed from tobacco fleece as continuous double rods, at least one separator associated...	04/14/2005
20050051181	Rod-like article forming apparatus A rod-like article forming apparatus comprises an endless garniture tape (10) used for forming a tobacco rod (R) with shredded tobacco and a paper web (P), a driving drum (12) for causing the garniture tape (10) to travel in one direction, and a plu...	03/10/2005

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