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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6782892 | Manganese oxide mixtures in nanoparticle form to lower the amount of carbon monoxide and/or nitric oxide in the mainstream smoke of a cigarette Cut filler compositions, cigarettes, methods for making cigarettes and methods for smoking cigarettes which involve the use of manganese oxide mixtures that include nanoparticle manganese oxide and other nanoparticle additive(s) capable of converting carbon monoxide... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6732740 | Method of making a tobacco rod with embedded additive The filler of a cigarette rod has a tubular portion made of shredded tobacco and surrounding at least one row of spherical inserts made of aromatic material or aerosol. The tubular portion is made by feeding tobacco shreds against the underside of the horizontal low... | 05/11/2004 |
| 6516809 | Method of and apparatus for making a tobacco rod with embedded additive The filler of a cigarette rod has a tubular portion made of shredded tobacco and surrounding at least one row of spherical inserts made of aromatic material or aerosol. The tubular portion is made by feeding tobacco shreds against the underside of the hor... | 02/11/2003 |
| 6443160 | Method and device for forming a cigarette rod containing an additive material The invention relates to a method for forming a cigarette rod containing an additive material in a cigarette making machine, in which a continuous tobacco rod is fed along a vacuum conveyor and particles of the additive material are fed to and incorporate... | 09/03/2002 |
| 6263881 | Apparatus for applying a liquid medium to tobacco The invention relates to an apparatus for applying a liquid medium, more particularly, a flavor or menthol, to tobacco in a cigarette maker equipped with a conduit for feeding the liquid medium, and provided at the end of the conduit with a nozzle orifice... | 07/24/2001 |
| 5052412 | Making of smoking articles In a method of making lengths of smoking-material rod, particularly cigaret lengths, smoking material and wrapper-web material are each continuously fed to a rod maker operable to wrap and seam-seal the wrapper material about the smoking material to provi... | 10/01/1991 |
| 5012823 | Tobacco processing A method and apparatus are disclosed for applying foamed material to tobacco, and for drying and setting the foamed material, particularly in connection with the making of cigarettes. The foamed material may be added to the tobacco, for example, in the pa... | 05/07/1991 |
| 4995405 | Process and apparatus for producing aromatized strand-shaped smoking material Aromatized liquid is introduced into the tobacco in the area of the settling path (AS) at a point at which nearly half the final tobacco layer has accumulated. Subsequently, the second half will settle thereon so that the inserted liquid is inside the fin... | 02/26/1991 |
| 4993434 | Cigarette rods with liquid flavor centers Methods and apparatus for applying liquid strands containing additives to cigarette rods. Liquid is extruded to form one or more strands that are applied to loose tobacco filler in the chimney section of a conventional cigarette maker. The liquid has a vi... | 02/19/1991 |
| 4967772 | Tobacco smoking article and treatment of tobacco smoke with at least one alcohol A tobacco smoking article including smoking tobacco held in a container and an alcohol supported by the container. The alcohol has two or more carbon atoms and is capable when the vapor thereof is inhaled by the smoker of inhibiting the selective localiza... | 11/06/1990 |
| 4966169 | Process for manufacturing cigarettes A process for manufacturing cigarettes which imposes reduced health risks to the smokers thereof. According to this process redried cut rag tobacco is directly sprayed with one or more pre-selected alcohols which are capable, when the vapors thereof are i... | 10/30/1990 |
| 4913166 | Method for adding a flavoring substance to a tobacco rod and apparatus for carrying out the method In order to provide when smoking a cigarette a substantially uniform concentration of the flavoring substance or substances supplied to the tobacco rod (23) in the form of at least one flavoring substance, the flow of flavoring substance is controlled, in... | 04/03/1990 |
| 4898187 | Cigarette manufacture Loss of tobacco from the ends of cigarettes is reduced or prevented by applying foamed adhesive thereto. The foam may in general be blown onto the cigarette ends [(FIGS. 1, 2 and 4)] or may be "printed" onto the cigarette ends [(FIG. 3 and FIGS. 5 and 6)]... | 02/06/1990 |
| 4856536 | Cigarette manufacture Apparatus for applying measured quantities of foamed adhesive to the ends of cigarettes comprises a drum 10 arranged to having apertures 14A aligned with the respective cigarettes 12 and arranged to recieve foam from a source 18 adjacent to the plate, cha... | 08/15/1989 |
| 4781203 | Method and apparatus for making self-extinguishing cigarette A cigarette making apparatus for making self-extinguishing cigarettes including an electromagnetically actuated spray nozzle for directing a solution of sodium silicate onto a stream of tobacco at predetermined intervals such that when the stream of tobac... | 11/01/1988 |
| 4777966 | Manufacturing machine for producing cigarettes composed of tobacco portions having different characteristics A cigarette manufacturing machine, comprising an ascending shaft arranged to feed a tobacco mixture into a belt conveyor in such a manner as to form thereon a substantially continuous tobacco layer, a trimmer device arranged to reduce and regularize the t... | 10/18/1988 |
| 4715388 | Cigarettes having minimized loose ends and a process for preparing same Cigarettes having reduced loose end propensity and a process for preparing same are disclosed. The cigarettes are prepared from shredded smoking material having been uniformly treated with a free-flowing non-deliquescent, hygroscopic powder and aged prior... | 12/29/1987 |
| 4619276 | Tobacco processing A method and apparatus are disclosed for applying foamed material to tobacco, particularly in connection with the making of cigarettes. The foamed material may be added to the tobacco, for example, in the paper guide section of a cigarette maker at the ga... | 10/28/1986 |
| 4488562 | Cigarette making with temperature conditioning A method and apparatus for producing a tobacco rod of predictable characteristics whereby the tobacco filler is tempered prior to forming into a rod in a cigarette making apparatus. The tobacco filler is tempered prior to entry into the maker region to a ... | 12/18/1984 |
| 4459998 | Manufacture of cigarettes Cigarettes are made by forming a basic filler stream comprising particles of tobacco or artificial tobacco or a combination of both, folding around the basic filler stream a web of reconstituted tobacco, and enclosing the resulting combination in a contin... | 07/17/1984 |
| 4434804 | Smoking article Smoking articles, e.g. cigarettes, are disclosed into the fuel rod of which particulate smoke-modifying agent has been introduced in such a manner that the concentration of the agent is greater at one or each end of the fuel rod than that at the middle re... | 03/06/1984 |
| 4409995 | Method for applying particulate matter to tobacco A method and apparatus for applying particulate matter to tobacco during the cigarette making process is disclosed. The amount of particulate matter that is lost during the cigarette making process is minimized by applying the particulate matter to the to... | 10/18/1983 |
| 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 |
| 4295479 | Method and device for manufacturing cigars A method and a device for the manufacture of cigars in which each bunch or filler is enveloped in a tobacco leaf portion, wherein the bunches or fillers are advanced one after the other along a given length, whilst a tobacco leaf portion is applied along ... | 10/20/1981 |
| 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 |
| 4168712 | Extended sheet cigarette filler Cigarettes or cigarette filters are made by forming a filler by feeding continuously at least one web of filler material which has lines of spaced slits extending across the width of the web, the slits in each line being offset from those in adjacent line... | 09/25/1979 |
