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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7882843 | Smoking article component transfer device and method Described herein is a method and apparatus for transferring rods, or tubes, comprising feeding a plurality of rods into a hopper, feeding the rods through a hopper using agitation and gravity to align the rods in a single-file stacked configuration, and transferring... | 02/08/2011 |
| 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 |
| 7305994 | Device and a method for separating at least one continuous rod of forming material for tobacco products A continuous tobacco rod generated by a machine for making tobacco products is separated into reclaimable lengths by a device that comprises a pair of tension rollers designed to exert a pulling force on the rod, also a pair of brake rollers operating upstream of th... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7300394 | Method and device for producing a filter rod Method and device for producing a filter rod. The method includes melting at least one first type of filter material, pressing the at least one first type of filter material through at least one nozzle, depositing the at least one first type of filter material on a ... | 11/27/2007 |
| 6742525 | 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... | 06/01/2004 |
| 6526986 | 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,... | 03/04/2003 |
| 6357448 | 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,... | 03/19/2002 |
| 6321755 | Tobacco product and a method of making thereof 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,... | 11/27/2001 |
| 6247475 | Device for compressing and molding a filler stream in a cigarette manufacturing machine In a cigarette manufacturing machine, a device for compressing and molding a filler stream includes a tongue, which defines a part of a compression-molding passage. The filler stream passes the compression-molding passage. The device further includes an u... | 06/19/2001 |
| 6202648 | Method of and apparatus for making a cigarette rod with an insert A cigarette rod wherein a flexible tubular insert is surrounded by smokable material which, in turn, is surrounded by a wrapper of cigarette paper is formed by advancing the insert from a source at a variable speed toward one or more stations where the ru... | 03/20/2001 |
| 5498224 | Starch based hot melt adhesives for cigarettes In a process for manufacturing degradable cigarette filters wherein adhesive is applied to at least one longitudinal edge of the plug wrap paper, a bond is made while the adhesive is molten and the resultant bond is held in compression for sufficient time... | 03/12/1996 |
| 5353816 | Foil filaments containing tobacco and method and apparatus for the production thereof The invention relates to tobacco-containing foil filaments comprising tobacco particles, water, binding agents and moisturizing agents and having a substantially partially circular or closed circular cross-section, and to a method and apparatus for produc... | 10/11/1994 |
| 5141000 | Tobacco product consisting of a preformed tobacco strand and a preformed tubular cigarette wrapper A tobacco product consists of a preportioned tobacco strand (10) surrounded by a preformed tubular cigarette paper wrapper (11; 17). The tobacco strand is formed of individual tobacco fibers which are interconnected to each other by a binding agent to for... | 08/25/1992 |
| 5129409 | Extruded cigarette Cigarettes which heat but do not burn tobacco are described, preferably having a carbonaceous fuel element extruded around a physically separate aerosol generating means, comprising an aerosol forming material. These cigarettes are capable of producing su... | 07/14/1992 |
| 5088507 | Apparatus for assembling components of a smoking article Apparatus is described for inserting a component comprising an elongate cartridge containing an aerosol forming material, at one end of which there is a fuel element, within a jacket component comprising a rod, a sleeve of insulating material, or a combin... | 02/18/1992 |
| 5072744 | Relating to the making of smoking articles Smoking article rod is made by extruding a tobacco/binder mixture, with the addition of water, to provide a rod form extrudate, under conditions such that the extrudate is of a cross-section greater than that of the die orifice. The extrudate is drawn dow... | 12/17/1991 |
| 5060663 | Process for minimizing loose ends in cigarettes A method for producing a tobacco-containing rod from tobacco materials is disclosed. The method comprises shredding tobacco material, mixing a binder with the shredded tobacco material, activating the binder and forming a tobacco-containing rod. The binde... | 10/29/1991 |
| 5052413 | Method for making a smoking article and components for use therein A method for making a smoking article is described wherein an aerosol generating cartridge is inserted into a sleeve, preferably having a tobacco insulating material. Also described are articles of manufacture having an elongate jacket module with a rod s... | 10/01/1991 |
| 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 |
| 5024242 | Methods and apparatus for making multiple component smoking articles Relatively fragile components for cigarette-like smoking articles are wrapped with an overwrap by bringing an exposed axial surface portion of the component into resilient contact with the overwrap, and by then rolling the component about its longidudinal... | 06/18/1991 |
| 4972855 | Shredded tobacco leaf pellets, production process thereof and cigarette-like snuffs A shredded tobacco leaf pellet is composed of tobacco leaf shreds bound together with a nicotine-non-absorptive thermoplastic binder while retaining air permeability. The pellet is produced by mixing tobacco leaf shreds and a nicotine-non-absorptive therm... | 11/27/1990 |
| 4936920 | High void volume/enhanced firmness tobacco rod and method of processing tobacco A tobacco product characterized by improved void volume and firmness characteristics and a method of making a tobacco product by applying binder material to tobacco filler, treating the filler to the extent necessary to cause the filler to become substant... | 06/26/1990 |
| 4893637 | Apparatus and methods for making components of a smoking article Apparatus and methods are described for forming a composite member for use in making a smoking article. The apparatus comprises a forming device that comprises (a) an elongate structure having a curved inner surface that tapers from a larger proximal end ... | 01/16/1990 |
| 4832056 | Apparatus for making cigarettes A hand operated device for applying cigarette paper to a preformed tobacco rod comprises a forming roller arranged to rotate the rod about its longitudinal axis, a mechanical applicator for applying a pregummed sheet of cigarette paper to the rod as the r... | 05/23/1989 |
| 4632131 | Foamed, extruded, coherent multistrand smoking articles An extruded, coherent, multistrand, tobacco-containing, generally cylindrical smoking article and a process for making it are disclosed. The smoking article contains a plurality of strands that are adhered to one another so as to form passageways between ... | 12/30/1986 |
| 4605013 | Method and apparatus for forming discrete batches of tobacco particles Circumferentially extending recesses in the peripheral surface of a rotating suction wheel are filled with tobacco shreds which are delivered in the form of a narrow stream by a pneumatic conveyor having a narrow tobacco propelling channel extending radia... | 08/12/1986 |
| 4595024 | Segmented cigarette A cigarette, having a tobacco rod consisting of at least two segments. The segment toward the filter end of the tobacco rod has a density at least 20% greater than the fire-end segment. The density differential may be combined with a nicotine differential... | 06/17/1986 |
| 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 |
| 4513756 | Process of making tobacco pellets A blend of dark-fired and one-sucker tobacco and a cased cigar type tobacco are cut to obtain a shredded product. After the addition of water and a binder, the resultant mixture is heated, dried and then pelletized into individual discrete pellets. Variou... | 04/30/1985 |
| 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 |
| 4481954 | Cigarettes The invention concerns a method for modifying the peripheral conformation of a cigarette, which has an external, heat deformable, wrapper comprising a proportion of thermoplastic fibers or filaments. The method comprises the application of heat to the wra... | 11/13/1984 |
| 4391285 | Smoking article Smoking articles comprising a high density, relatively low porosity coherent mass of combustible tobacco-containing material having at least one passage extending therethrough are disclosed. In a preferred embodiment the smoking article is a cylinder havi... | 07/05/1983 |
| 4330002 | Method of producing cheroots and similar tobacco articles and an apparatus for carrying out this method In the production of cheroots and similar tobacco articles with a wrapper made from natural tobacco relieved of central rib portions but containing portions of side ribs, the said ribs are flattened solely in the end flap of the wrapper.... | 05/18/1982 |
