Class 131/358 - Wrapper

Subclass of Class 131 - Tobacco
Definition: Reconstituted tobacco used as a wrapper for a tobacco product,
No. of patents: 36
Last issue date: 08/02/2011

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Number	Title	Issue Date
7987858	Method of making a tobacco product A tobacco product is formed by rolling a sheet of material supplied by a roll or rolls (e.g. moistened tobacco leaves) and/or homogenized sheet tobacco about a slit mandrel to form a shaped tube. The shaped tube is then packaged for shipment to an end user or consum...	08/02/2011
7308898	Process for making a bandcast tobacco sheet and smoking article therefrom A bandcast tobacco sheet for use in a cigarette includes from about 5 to 15% by weight of wood pulp, from about 15 to 40% by weight of binder and from about 15 to 40% by weight of tobacco. A humectant may be included up to 30% by weight and an additive, such as ment...	12/18/2007
6692835	Innerwrap with polyvinyl alcohol slip coating Polyvinyl alcohol (PVOH) is used as a slip coating on a cigarette package innerwrap to prevent the innerwrap from sticking to the rollers of cigarette packaging machinery during processing of the innerwrap material. PVOH unexpectedly has a low retention o...	02/17/2004
6571803	Method for gumming a reconstituted tobacco leaf The present invention relates to a reconstituted tobacco leaf coated with a stripe of adhesive along one of its margins, the linear mass of the stripe of adhesive being greater than 70 mg/m in the dry state. The invention also provides a method of deposit...	06/03/2003
6206008	Make your own cigarettes A non-smokable tobacco product comprises a rod-shaped element of cigarette tobacco with a filter element at one end and both enclosed by a tubular wrapper. The product is rendered unsmokable by a perforation extending through the wrapper of the tobacco or...	03/27/2001
6095152	Smoking article with non-combustible wrapper, combustible fuel source and aerosol generator The invention relates to a smoking article (1) having a high proportion of non-combustible, inorganic material and a relatively low level of visible sidestream. The smoking article includes a substantially non-combustible, wrapper (5) which extends along ...	08/01/2000
5927288	Hydromagnesite/magnesium hydroxide fillers for smoking article wrappers and methods for making same Hydromagnesite-magnesium hydroxide compositions are prepared which, when used as fillers in smoking article wrappers, significantly reduce the amount of sidestream smoke produced by the burning smoking article while providing the smoking article with good...	07/27/1999
5878754	Smoking article wrapper for controlling ignition proclivity of a smoking article A smoking article wrapper having improved ignition proclivity characteristics includes discrete areas of an outer circumferential surface of the wrapper treated with a non-aqueous solution of a solvent soluble cellulosic polymer dissolved in a non-aqueous...	03/09/1999
5762074	Tobacco sheets for rolling tobacco products Reconstituted tobacco sheets prepared and packaged such that a consumer may roll a smokable tobacco product from a single sheet of reconstituted tobacco. The preferred embodiment comprises a plurality of rectangular sheets of reconstituted tobacco, each s...	06/09/1998
5632287	Flat smoking article and method of making same A smoking article and methods of making the article are described in which a sheet of reconstituted tobacco having an area less than about 100 cm2 is manually or machine folded into a substantially flat strip of tobacco for smoking. The reconst...	05/27/1997
5462073	Cigarette having wrapper made by extraction and paper-making process A novel reconstituted tobacco sheet material is provided which is useful in providing a novel smoking product which has a smoking quality closely approximating that of cigarettes having conventional paper wrappers. The reconstituted tobacco sheet is prepa...	10/31/1995
5450863	Smoking article wrapper and method for making same A smoking article wrapper comprising a base web material having a first burn rate and one or more regions having a second burn rate is provided. The regions having a second burn rate are comprised of a composite layer structure of: said base web material,...	09/19/1995
5284166	Method of producing brown cigarette wrapper paper There is disclosed a method of coloring cigarette paper. Cigarette paper is made by forming a furnish, adding at least one colorant to the furnish, forming a sheet of paper from the thus treated furnish, and adding at least one colorant to the paper to pr...	02/08/1994
5159944	Cigarette A cigarette includes a charge or roll of smokable material (e.g., tobacco cut filler) circumscribed by two layers of paper wrapping materials. The first or inner wrapping material includes a cellulosic base web and carbonaceous material within the web. Th...	11/03/1992
5141007	Cigarette Cigarettes which yield low levels of visible sidestream smoke upon use employ an outer paper wrapping material including magnesium hydroxide, calcium carbonate and flax fibers. The outer wrapping material has an inherent permeability of about 10 CORESTA u...	08/25/1992
4942889	Expanded web of sheet material and method of making same A composite expanded web for making a cigarette wrapper is provided, the web comprising a laminate of a first web of generally flat sheet material and a second web of expanded sheet material. The expanded web is formed by passing a web of sheet material t...	07/24/1990
4768527	Tobacco material processing Co-extruded smokable material in sheet-like form has a multi-layered structure. The layers are generally parallel to the major surface of the material. The material is provided by subjecting at least two filler materials to high shear agitation and co-ext...	09/06/1988
4622983	Reduced ignition proclivity smoking article wrapper and smoking article The invention is an improved wrapper construction for smoking articles such as cigarettes resulting in a reduced tendency to ignite combustible materials accidentally or carelessly coming into contact with the lit cigarette. The wrapper constructions and ...	11/18/1986
4615345	Wrapper constructions for self-extinguishing smoking articles The invention is an improved specially designed wrapper construction for smoking articles producing controlled burn properties of smoking articles such as cigarettes so that the cigarette will self-extinguish after free burning in air for a designed time ...	10/07/1986
4607647	Smoking articles The smoking articles, such as cigarettes, comprise smoking material wrapped in a low side stream wrapper paper incorporating or being coated with a stain resist substance, such as EVA (ethylene vinyl acetate)....	08/26/1986
4590955	Cigarette paper with reduced CO on burning The present invention relates to smoking article wrappers having a non-ionic surfactant added to the wrapper. The non-ionic surfactant is added to the wrapper in an amount sufficient to reduce the amount of carbon monoxide produced upon burning of the wra...	05/27/1986
4589428	Tobacco treatment A process for maximizing reduction of gas phase components during combustion of tobacco products is disclosed. The process comprises contacting tobacco material with an aqueous solution to form a tobacco extract. After separating the extract from the fibr...	05/20/1986
4574821	Expanded wrapper and smoking articles including same An expanded wrapper is provided which includes a flexible layer of sheet material with stiffening means attached to a surface of the sheet material. The expanded wrapper can be used in the fabrication of smoking articles thus providing an article in which...	03/11/1986
4564031	Smokable, coherent sheet and method for its manufacture A smokable, coherent sheet of disintegrated vegetable materials and/or tobacco waste, said sheet being provided with a water-insoluble film on one surface and being obtained in that the vegetable materials and/or tobacco waste are pressure-formed with bin...	01/14/1986
4548677	Cigarette paper The invention relates to a cigarette paper having the conventional burning additives and fillers containing from 20 to 50% by weight of bast fibres of fine fibrillation, with which a degree of grinding of at least 85 SR is produced. The cigarette paper pr...	10/22/1985
4534371	Smoking product A combustible smoking material having a color other than that of conventionally cured tobacco leaves is coated with finely divided vermiculite that has previously been subjected to heat treatment to develop a brown color therein. The vermiculite coating i...	08/13/1985
4510950	Foamed, extruded, tobacco-containing smoking article and method of making same A substantially cylindrical foamed, extruded, tobacco-containing smoking article is provided which has properties substantially equivalent to those of a conventional cigarette and which contains from about 5 to about 98 wt. % of tobacco particles having a...	04/16/1985
4505282	Innerliner wrap for smoking articles This invention relates to an innerliner wrap for a tobacco smoking article comprising a combustible porous sheet of cellulosic fibers and finely pulverized porous carbon particles coated with calcium citrate, and a smoking article comprising a tobacco fil...	03/19/1985
4461311	Method and smoking article wrapper for reducing sidestream smoke Sheet material especially useful in forming wrappers for smokable articles such as cigarettes that results in reduced sidestream smoke. The sheet is formed by applying to a cellulosic web an amount of an alkali metal salt greatly in excess of the amounts ...	07/24/1984
4434805	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 ...	03/06/1984
4407308	Smoking articles A smoking article such as a cigarette has a rod of smoking material wrapped in a wrapper of which the substantially uniform air permeability due to viscous flow is not more than 3 and preferably not more than 2 Coresta Units and of which the Do/t value is...	10/04/1983
4286605	Treating sheet material for making cigar wrappers A method of treating a web of smokable sheet material to simulate the markings of natural tobacco leaf before the web is cut to provide cigar wrapper blanks. The web is printed with a thickened ink which dries to form a ribbed pattern. Coloration of the i...	09/01/1981
4225636	High porosity carbon coated cigarette papers A method for producing high porosity, high carbon content cigarette papers in which a paper substrate having an initial Filtrona porosity of at least 10,000 air permeability units is coated with an aqueous suspension containing from 10 to 50% by weight fi...	09/30/1980
4140135	Hydrophobic coating for tobacco sheet material This invention provides coated tobacco product having a hydrophobic coating on at least one surface thereof, the coating comprising a cellulose propionate having an acetyl content of less than about 6% by weight, a hydroxyl content of at least 1.5% by wei...	02/20/1979
4109665	Decorated cigar wrappers A cigar wrapper is provided having opposed surfaces and a predetermined thickness, said wrapper having a vein-like pattern embossed through the thickness thereof resulting in a raised, vein-like pattern formed on one of the surfaces and a complimentary de...	08/29/1978
4002178	Foams and sponge sheet for cigar manufacture Cigar tobacco sheet of low density, smoking articles prepared therewith, and foamed intermediates therefor. Fine-bubble stable foams, wherein at least 80% of the bubbles are less than about 100 microns in normalized dimension are formed in a high shear sy...	01/11/1977

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