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Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) received Patent No. 121,992 for "An Improvement in Adjustable and Detachable Straps for Garments." He later received two more patents: one for a self-pasting scrapbook and one for a game to help players remember important historical dates.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7040325 | Method of and apparatus for convoluting bands around rod-shaped articles Adhesive-coated bands of paper, tipping paper or plastic foil are convoluted around discrete one-piece or composite rod-shaped articles, such as coaxial plain cigarettes and filter mouthpieces, during travel through a rolling zone bounded by a pair of surfaces at le... | 05/09/2006 |
| 6578583 | Apparatus for making and inspecting multi-component wrapped article In an apparatus for making and inspecting a multi-component cigarettes, each cigarette including two or more different components arranged relative to one another, the apparatus includes a device for advancing a web in a first direction. The apparatus fur... | 06/17/2003 |
| 6213128 | Apparatus and method for making and inspecting multi-component wrapped article In an apparatus for making and inspecting a multi-component cigarettes, each cigarette including two or more different components arranged relative to one another, the apparatus includes a device for advancing a web in a first direction. The apparatus fur... | 04/10/2001 |
| 5462070 | Method and apparatus for making a filter cigar product A method and apparatus are described for forming a cigar type product having a filter disposed therein. The filter is positioned inwardly of the ends of the cigar such that the smoke may pass through the filter and subsequently through the additional toba... | 10/31/1995 |
| 5072740 | Device for filling prefabricated cigarette tubes, especially filter tipped cigarette tubes A device for filling prefabricated cirgarette tubes, especially filter-tipped cigarette tubes, comprising a tobacco pressing chamber (14) with a filling opening (13), in which tobacco introduced through the filling opening (13) is pressed to form a tobacc... | 12/17/1991 |
| 5042509 | Method for making aerosol generating cartridge Making an aerosol generating cartridge useful for a smoking article is described. The method comprises filling a non-combustible elongated capsule, open at one end, with a substrate bearing an aersol forming material, and applying a fuel element to the op... | 08/27/1991 |
| 5009237 | Device for making cigarettes A device for the do-it-yourself making of cigarettes employs a pre-proportioned tobacco rod (16) which is transferred from a cylindrical rod wrapping (18) into a cigarette paper tube (14) by an axially moveable pusher member (10; 110), which is associated... | 04/23/1991 |
| 4547568 | 3-O-(3-p-Methylphenyl-3-oxo)propionyl glucopyranose and related compounds A non-volatile source of ketone to flavor tobacco smoke is provided by a ଲ-ketocarboxylic acid ester of a sugar or related compound. The ester is applied to the smoking material and remains in place until the burning coal releases the ketone.... | 10/15/1985 |
| 4303080 | Method for producing filter cigarettes The invention concerns a method for producing a filter cigarette with a filter unit which is provided with a porous or perforated covering strip. A porous or perforated connecting strip joins the tobacco part to the filter unit. The adhesive for connectin... | 12/01/1981 |
| 4284088 | Method of monitoring filter rod sections in filter tipping machines A method of monitoring filters and sections in a filter tipping machine wherein pairs of coaxial plain cigarettes are united with filter plugs of double unit legnth by adhesive-coated bands. When a filter plug is missing, a mechanical or a photosensitive ... | 08/18/1981 |
| 4256124 | Method and apparatus for manufacturing filter cigar Method and apparatus are provided for manufacturing a filtered large cigar which includes the steps of simultaneously introducing onto the rolling table of a cigar rolling machine preformed cigar filters and a charge of tobacco filler material for spiral ... | 03/17/1981 |
| 4243055 | Method and device for wrapping closed tip cigars A method for mechanically wrapping closed tip cigars of the type in which the bunches are wound in the normal direction of the machine used when wrappers are to be employed which are cut out from a half-leaf corresponding to the "type" of the machine, i.e... | 01/06/1981 |
| 4238993 | Apparatus for monitoring filter rod sections in filter tipping machines A filter tipping machine wherein pairs of coaxial plain cigarettes are united with filter plugs of double unit length by adhesive-coated bands. When a filter plug is missing, a mechanical or a photosensitive filter plug detector transmits a signal to a va... | 12/16/1980 |
| 4191198 | Cigar head wrapping mechanism When wrappers are applied to cigar bunches by rolling the bunches over the wrappers while laid on a supporting surface, the tail portion of each wrapper will not properly wrap itself around a shaped head of the bunch. A mechanism to overcome this problem ... | 03/04/1980 |
| 4180082 | Apparatus for manufacturing cigarettes or the like Disclosed is apparatus for manufacturing cigarettes, cigarillos, and the like. The apparatus comprises a housing, a tray for receiving and measuring a charge of a smokable substance, a cylindrical form for forming a cigarette or the like, and means for op... | 12/25/1979 |
| 4077415 | Particularly to the manufacture of filter-tipped cigarettes A cigarette filter attachment machine comprises means for joining filter portions to cigarette portions by rolling adhesive-coated paper around adjacent parts of corresponding filter and cigarette portions, a conveyor for conveying the completed assemblie... | 03/07/1978 |
