Did You Know...
...that Robert Adler has the dubious distinction of being the Father of the Couch Potato? Back in 1955 Adler was employed by what was then Zenith Radio Corp., where he was charged to invent something that would allow viewers to turn down the TV volume without leaving their chairs. After a series of flops (such as a wired contraption that people tripped over), Adler hit on the idea of using sound waves. Thus the Remote Control was born...
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4915118 | Smoking article wrapper and method of making same A smoking article wrapper which when combined with a suitable tobacco column produces up to 75% less particulate sidestream smoke than do prior art cigarette paper wrappers and to methods of producing same. The paper conains freshly precipitated magnesium... | 04/10/1990 |
| 4805644 | Sidestream reducing cigarette paper Sheet material especially useful in forming wrappers for smokeable articles such as cigarettes that results in reduced sidestream smoke. The sheet is formed by incorporating as a filler in a cellulosic web an amount of high (at least about 20 M2 | 02/21/1989 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 4542755 | Dry-forming of reconstituted tobacco and resulting product An improved method of making reconstituted tobacco using a dry-forming process. Fiberized tobacco stems and scrap are combined with tobacco material of a fine particle size. The resulting tobacco mixture is conveyed in an airstream and deposited on a movi... | 09/24/1985 |
| 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 |
| 4238283 | Post-treatment of humic acid-dyed paper Humic acid-dyed paper suitable for use as wrappers for smoking articles is post treated with magnesium sulfate to fix or render the humic acid insoluble. Paper treated in this manner provides a product of acceptable brown color. Smoking articles wrapped i... | 12/09/1980 |
| 4146041 | Brown cigarette wrappers The present invention relates to brown cigarette paper having reduced gas phase constituents during pyrolysis wherein the paper which has been stained with humic acid or salts thereof is further treated by washing with water in an amount effective to redu... | 03/27/1979 |
| 4108151 | Gamma alumina filled paper wrapper for smoking articles Cigarette paper containing a filler of gamma alumina, for selectively reducing the organic vapor phase constituents in tobacco smoke. The paper is comprised of cellulosic fibers and a gamma alumina filler with the amount of alumina filler present being at... | 08/22/1978 |
| 4100396 | Method for electrically perforating moving webs Apparatus and method for electrically perforating a moving web such as paper, film and the like by passing the web between at least one electrically charged electrode and a ground electrode in a perforating unit, the charged electrode comprising a member ... | 07/11/1978 |
| 4020850 | Thermoplastic cigarette wrapper A cigarette wrapper comprising a microporous sheet formed from a cellulose derivative binder filled with finely ground paper. The wrapper also includes a small amount of potassium nitrate. Such cigarette wrappers are effective to selectively reduce the ni... | 05/03/1977 |
| 3930935 | Apparatus for making webs of filtering material for tobacco product filters, particularly cigarette filters An elongated web of paper is treated to render it especially suitable for being gathered transversely and wrapped to make cigarette filters. The treatment includes passing the web through the bight between a pair of rotating rolls provided with intermeshi... | 01/06/1976 |
