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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 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 |
| 5829453 | Low-density tobacco filler and a method of making low-density tobacco filler and smoking articles therefrom A low-density filler material for cigarettes from either a low-density tobacco composition or an extruded grain or starch composition. The low-density tobacco composition and a method of making the low-density tobacco composition by extruding a mixture of... | 11/03/1998 |
| 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 |
| 4961437 | Wrapping for bagpacks and a process and apparatus for producing it It has not been possible hitherto to equip outer wrappings (10) for (tobacco) bagpacks of the twistbag type (11) with a tear-open thread or strip (15). The present wrapping (10) is provided with a tear-open strip (15) extending transversely relative to th... | 10/09/1990 |
| 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 |
| 4832057 | Manufacture of a smoking article An apparatus for making a smokeable cigarette from a preformed inherently unsmokeable rod of tobacco and a separate sheet of cigarette paper provided with a strip of contact adhesive comprises an open-ended smooth bore resilient tube provided with a longi... | 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 |
| 4620552 | Method and apparatus for making and manipulating streams of fibrous material A tobacco stream which is formed at the upper side of one elongated reach of a foraminous endless belt conveyor opposite a suction chamber is inverted upside down by a twisted intermediate portion of the elongated reach so that it adheres to the underside... | 11/04/1986 |
| 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 |
| 4347855 | Method of making smoking articles A method of making smoking articles wherein a combustible tobacco material is mixed with one or more other ingredients including a liquid, the mixture being subjected to further processing to produce a shaped coherent mass having a through passage. Shapin... | 09/07/1982 |
| 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 |
| 4164229 | Portable cigarette making machine A portable cigarette making machine which has a horizontal conveyor belt adapted to support a continuous strip of cigarette paper, paper forming means which engage the conveyor belt and cause it to fold the cigarette paper into a concave trough, a conveyo... | 08/14/1979 |
