Did You Know...
...that one person who claimed to be the inventor of the television is Russian emigre Vladimir Zworykin? In 1929 David Sarnoff, founder of RCA, asked Zworykin what it would take to develop TV for commercial use. He said: a year and a half and $100,000. In reality, it took 20 years and $50 million! Before his death in 1982 at the age of 92, Zworykin said of his invention: "The technique is wonderful. It is beyond my expectations. But the programs! I would never let my children even come close to this thing."
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7690384 | 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 c... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7448390 | 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 material can be applied as a coating formulati... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7363929 | Materials, equipment and methods for manufacturing cigarettes Cigarettes can be manufactured using modified automated cigarette making apparatus. Those cigarettes can possess smokable rods having paper wrapping materials having additive materials applied thereto as patterns. The additive materials can have the forms of liquid ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7281540 | Equipment and methods for manufacturing cigarettes Cigarettes are manufactured having smokable rods with paper wrapping materials having additive materials applied thereto as patterns. The additive materials can be applied to a continuous, moving paper web on a cigarette making apparatus using application apparatus ... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7275548 | Equipment for manufacturing cigarettes Cigarettes manufactured using modified automated cigarette making apparatus can possess smokable rods having additive materials applied to paper wrapping materials as patterns. The additive materials can be applied to a continuous paper web using rollers.) One of th... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7237557 | Method of and apparatus for applying adhesive to webs of wrapping material Apparatus for the application of adhesive to one side of a running web of tipping paper for use in filter cigarette makers has a single source of adhesive or two or more sources containing identical or different adhesives, and one or more conduits leading from the s... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7195019 | Equipment 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, are applied to a continuous paper w... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7077145 | Equipment and methods for manufacturing cigarettes Cigarettes manufactured using modified automated cigarette making apparatus can possess smokable rods having paper wrapping materials having additive materials applied as patterns. The additive materials, which can have the forms of liquid or paste formulations, are... | 07/18/2006 |
| 6543457 | Apparatus for applying adhesive to a running web of wrapping material for smokers products The application of adhesive to selected non-perforated sections of one side of a running web of tipping paper in a filter cigarette making machine is carried out in such a way that the adhesive is invariably applied only to the non-perforated sections whi... | 04/08/2003 |
| 6103013 | Marker inserting device for web converting apparatus This disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for reliably inserting a tab or other marker into a bobbin of material which is undergoing a converting or other processing step. A spindle having a retention device such as a vacuum or magnetic zone which... | 08/15/2000 |
| 6021782 | Method of and system for cigarette tipping glue skip detection and rejection A method of and system for detecting glue skips on tipping paper used to secure filters to cigarette tobacco rods and the rejection of defective cigarettes based thereon in which a particle radiation sensor is used to monitor the amount of glue applied to... | 02/08/2000 |
| 5735292 | Method and device for the production of filter tip bands for ventilated cigarettes A method and device for the production of filter tip bands for ventilated cigarettes, according to which a continuous strip is advanced along a pre-set feed path, an adhesive substance is applied to the strip using a gumming device, defining on the strip ... | 04/07/1998 |
| 5634477 | Paste transfer apparatus for a filter cigarette manufacturing system A paste transfer apparatus for a filter cigarette manufacturing system includes a movable guide roller and a fixed guide roller separated from each other in the traveling direction of tip paper, and a paste transfer roller is arranged between these guide ... | 06/03/1997 |
| 5531233 | Method of and apparatus for applying adhesive to cigarette paper and the paper and cigarette produced thereby An adhesive spray delivery apparatus and a method of applying a predetermined quantity of anchoring adhesive in a predetermined spray pattern to an advancing web of cigarette paper are disclosed. The apparatus includes a pressurized spray system under con... | 07/02/1996 |
| 5329004 | Method of manufacturing cigarettes using high amylopectin starch phosphate material as an adhesive An adhesive for use in cigarette manufacturing which is a natural based liquid starch phosphate material having good flow or fluidity characteristics and viscosity stability and comprises a phosphorylated starch material made from a fluidity or converted ... | 07/12/1994 |
| 5226432 | Method of and apparatus for draping rod-like fillers into webs of wrapping material A continuous rod-like filler of tobacco or filter material for tobacco smoke and a continuous web of cigarette paper or other wrapping material are advanced at a plurality of different speeds toward and into a wrapping mechanism wherein the web is draped ... | 07/13/1993 |
| 5200020 | Apparatus and method for laminating patches of a first web material onto a second web material Apparatus and a method for laminating patches to a base web accurately, and as efficiently as possible, are provided. Two webs are fed at speeds which are related as the ratio of the width of each patch to the separation distance between patches, the patc... | 04/06/1993 |
| 5155140 | Use of adhesive mixtures containing gum arabic for glueing the longitudinal seam of cigarette tube The use of adhesive mixtures containing--per 100 parts by weight water--40 to 120 parts gum arabic, 3 to 80 parts by weight water soluble starch degradation products and/or carboxymethyl starch and/or gelatinized starch and, optionally, typical preservati... | 10/13/1992 |
| 4361156 | Method and applicator for applying glue to a travelling stream of tipping paper The applicator roll is provided with two recesses to apply uniform layers of glue to a travelling stream of tipping paper. In addition, the applicator roll has a series of spaced apart grooves in each recess so as to apply additional stripes of glue onto ... | 11/30/1982 |
| 4237907 | Apparatus for convoluting adhesive-coated uniting bands around groups of rod-shaped articles in filter tipping and like machines A filter tipping machine for the production of filter cigarettes has an apparatus which convolutes adhesive-coated uniting bands around groups of coaxial filter plugs and plain cigarettes while the groups move sideways through a gap which is defined by th... | 12/09/1980 |
