Class 131/31 - With tobacco treatment

Subclass of Class 131 - Tobacco
Definition: Combinations in which the rolling mechanism is provided
No. of patents: 26
Last issue date: 08/31/2004

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

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