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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8015979 | Cigar A novel cigar is provided with an elongated cigar puller device which extends into the interior of the cigar. By removing the cigar puller from the device, the tobacco fill material of the cigar is disrupted so as to improve the draw of the cigar. Some of the cigar ... | 09/13/2011 |
| 7921856 | Sleeve for a russian cigarette A cigarette casing for independent making of a Russian cigarette by a smoker or for bulk production. The casing of the Russian cigarette has an empty mouthpiece and a connected empty envelope and at least a part of the cavity of which is intended for the allocation ... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7789089 | Filtered cigarette possessing tipping material A filtered cigarette possesses a smokable rod and a filter element. The smokable rod is secured to the filter element using tipping material. The cigarette possesses more than one layer of tipping material. An outer layer of tipping material can overlie at least a p... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7753056 | Smokable rod for a cigarette A smokable rod for a smoking article, such as a cigarette, possesses a co-axial or concentric construction. The outer material that circumscribes the inner core in an annular fashion is composed of a tobacco material treated with a burn suppressing agent, and the ou... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7546839 | Colored smoke module for cigarette A colored smoke module is disclosed that is mountable to at least a portion of a cigarette or other smoking device. The colored smoke module produces colored smoke when burned. Further, the colored smoke module is user mountable to a cigarette or other smoking devic... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7503330 | Smokable rod for a cigarette A smokable rod for a smoking article, such as a cigarette, possesses a co-axial or concentric construction. A longitudinally extending inner core of tobacco cut filler is positioned within a smokable rod. The outer material that circumscribes the inner core in an an... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7484511 | Cigarette and filter with downstream flavor addition A cigarette comprises a tobacco rod and a multi-component filter comprising a bed of adsorbent and a flavor-releasing filter segment located downstream of the bed of adsorbent. In the preferred embodiment, the adsorbent is also flavor-bearing and comprises high surf... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7377281 | Cone wrapper for the consumption of smokable substances The present invention provides a product and method of making thereof for the consumption of smokable substances such as tobacco or herbs. The product is comprised of tobacco, homogenized tobacco and/or natural leaf materials and has a hollow conical shape that allo... | 05/27/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7302955 | Selectively tobacco shortened cigarette and method of use Selectively tobacco shortened cigarettes are disclosed, which have a multiplicity of components including a shortened butt and an inner tube for reinforcing a casing of the selectively tobacco shortened cigarette. Selectively tobacco shortened cigarettes have an ext... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7282249 | Pads of cigarette rolling papers Pads of cigarette papers for making self-rolled cigarettes are provided comprising a stack (1) of cigarette paper sheets (3) adhered to a base sheet (2). Each sheet (3) is adhered by means of an adhesive (7) applied on the bottom s... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7237559 | Wrapping materials for smoking articles Smokable rods of cigarettes are manufactured using wrapping materials that incorporate at least one fibrous material (e.g., flax fibers, hardwood pulp fibers and/or softwood pulp fibers) at least one filler material (e.g., calcium carbonate in particulate form). The... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7165553 | Nanoscale catalyst particles/aluminosilicate to reduce carbon monoxide in the mainstream smoke of a cigarette A smoking article composition and a method of making a smoking article composition comprising tobacco cut filler, cigarette paper and/or cigarette filter material further comprising a catalyst capable of converting carbon monoxide to carbon dioxide, wherein the cata... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7163015 | Opposed seam electrically heated cigarette smoking system An electrically heated cigarette smoking system includes a cigarette that is formed with a tobacco rod portion, a filter tube portion, a tobacco mat layer wrapped around the tobacco rod portion and the filter tube portion with opposite ends of the tobacco mat layer ... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7152609 | Catalyst to reduce carbon monoxide and nitric oxide from the mainstream smoke of a cigarette Cut filler compositions, cigarettes, methods for making cigarettes and methods for smoking cigarettes are provided, which involve the use of a catalyst capable converting carbon monoxide to carbon dioxide and/or nitric oxide to nitrogen. Cut filler compositions comp... | 12/26/2006 |
| 6997190 | Wrapping materials for smoking articles Smokable rods of cigarettes are manufactured using wrapping materials that incorporate at least one fibrous material (e.g., flax fibers, hardwood pulp fibers and/or softwood pulp fibers) at least one filler material (e.g., calcium carbonate in particulate form). The... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6953633 | Fiber cooling of fuel cells Fuel cells for example solid oxide fuel cells require cooling to maintain temperature levels and remove thermal energy generated by the fuel cells. The present invention provides a fuel cell assembly comprising at least one fuel cell. The fuel cell comprises an anod... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6935347 | Smoking artifact A smoking artifact having a tobacco rod section and a prior art filter section connected to the tobacco rod section. In the preferred embodiment, the tobacco rod section containing a plurality of aloeswood seeds. The aloeswood seeds may be applied either as whole se... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6918867 | Production of filter elements not suitable for cutting A method and apparatus for producing multi-segment filter elements in the tobacco-processing industry. The multi-segment filter elements each include a first filter segment and at least one second filter segment. A sleeve element is arranged in the first filter segm... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6904918 | Low sidestream smoke cigarette with non-combustible treatment material A low sidestream smoke cigarette comprises a conventional tobacco rod and a non-combustible treatment material for the rod. The treatment material has a porosity less than about 200 Coresta units and a sidestream smoke treatment composition. The treatment compositio... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6904917 | Method of manufacturing cigarette suppressing spread of burn and apparatus for manufacturing cigarette suppressing spread of burn An apparatus includes a unit which forms burn control agent coated regions on a web of a wrapping paper transferred by a wrapping paper transfer unit at a plurality of positions separated from each other in the longitudinal or in the width direction of the web, a un... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6883523 | Cigarette having porous heat transfer tube A smoking article includes a cylinder of smoking material, a filter attached to the cylinder of smoking material, and a tube of preferably porous and/or perforated material adapted to collapse at an open end upon exposure to thermal energy and preferably extending f... | 04/26/2005 |
| 6860274 | Low fire-spreading cigarette A low fire-spreading cigarette has a tobacco section including a columnar tobacco filler material, an inside wrapper paper sheer wrapping the outer circumferential surface of the columnar tobacco filler material and an outside wrapper paper sheet wrapping the outer ... | 03/01/2005 |
| 6860273 | Cigarette with adsorbent at tip end thereof A zone or plug of porous adsorbent material, primarily activated carbon, is placed in the tobacco rod of a cigarette a short distance from the lighting end thereof. The amount of activated carbon is sufficient for effective removal of volatile smoke constituents whi... | 03/01/2005 |
| 6857431 | Nanocomposite copper-ceria catalysts for low temperature or near-ambient temperature catalysis and methods for making such catalysts Nanocomposite copper-ceria catalysts are provided, which comprise copper oxide nanoparticles, copper nanoparticles, or a mixture thereof combined with ceria nanoparticles. Methods for making such catalysts are also provided, which involve the steps of (i) combining ... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6854471 | 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, thereby el... | 02/15/2005 |
| 6848450 | Cigarette filter using intermetallic compounds A filter such as a cigarette filter having a metal reagent which selectively binds with a gaseous component of a gas stream such as tobacco smoke. The metal reagent comprises nanometer or micrometer size clusters of a transition metal or alloy containing a transitio... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6832613 | Filter cigarette A cigarette filter is surrounded by a wrapping paper, and the wrapping paper includes metal only on portion of a surface thereof, such that air can penetrate through the wrapping paper into the filter. ... | 12/21/2004 |
| 6823872 | Smoking article with reduced carbon monoxide delivery The present invention is generally directed to smoking articles having reduced carbon monoxide delivery. In order to reduce carbon monoxide delivery, the wrapping papers used to construct the smoking article has a fiber basis weight of less than about 18 gsm. Smokin... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6817365 | Cigarette paper having heat-degradable filler particles, and cigarette comprising a cigarette paper wrapper having heat-degradable filler particles A cigarette paper includes heat-degradable filler particles to increase the porosity of the cigarette paper during smoking of the cigarette. The porosity of the cigarette paper during smoking of the cigarette will typically be from about 30% to abut 60%. The heat-de... | 11/16/2004 |
| 6810884 | Low sidestream smoke cigarette with non-combustible treatment material A low sidestream smoke cigarette comprises a conventional tobacco rod and a non-combustible treatment material for the rod. The treatment material has a porosity less than about 200 Coresta units and a sidestream smoke treatment composition. The treatment compositio... | 11/02/2004 |
| 6799578 | Low sidestream smoke cigarette with combustible paper A low sidestream smoke cigarette comprises a conventional tobacco rod, and a combustible treatment paper having a sidestream smoke treatment composition. The treatment composition comprises in combination, an oxygen storage and donor metal oxide oxidation catalyst a... | 10/05/2004 |
| 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 |
| 6779530 | Smoking articles with reduced ignition proclivity characteristics A process for reducing the permeability of a paper wrapper used in the construction of a smoking article is disclosed. The paper wrapper is treated with a film-forming composition that forms treated discrete areas on the wrapper. The treated discrete areas have a pe... | 08/24/2004 |
| 6776169 | Ginkgo biloba L. leaves cigarette This invention provides a kind of cigarette substitute which is called Ginkgo Biloba L. leaves cigarette. It not only has the function of refreshing, but also is good to people's health. It avoids the harm which is brought to human bodies by the poisonous substances... | 08/17/2004 |
| 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 |
| 6725867 | Process for producing smoking articles with reduced ignition proclivity characteristics and products made according to same A process for reducing the permeability of a paper wrapper used in the construction of a smoking article is disclosed. The paper wrapper is treated with a film-forming composition that forms treated discrete areas on the wrapper. The treated discrete areas have a pe... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6722372 | Wrapper for smoking article A smoking article particularly to eliminate spotting or staining and provide good smoke quality includes a double wrap smoking article which includes an outer wrap of a conventional cigarette paper and an inner wrap which is comprised of from about 55 to 85% wood fi... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6718987 | Smokers′ article The present invention pertains to the tobacco industry and may be used in the production of smokers' articles that include a mouthpiece and consist of a new product that conjugates the functional properties and qualities of cigarettes with a cardboard mouthpiece and... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6708695 | Cigarette rod product with different densities An asymmetrical trimmer disk/paddle wheel apparatus for trimming tobacco from a stream or braid of cut tobacco in a cigarette maker comprises a pair of counter rotating disks with a plurality of pockets arranged to coact with one another to trim off excess tobacco a... | 03/23/2004 |
