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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8113217 | Filter tip cigarettes and method of manufacturing same The invention relates to a filter-tip cigarette with a tobacco rod (1) wrapped in a cigarette paper and a filter (6) wrapped along its length in tipping paper (4) or other wrapper being other than plugwrap, and a strip of material (5) ful... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8074663 | Flame-retardant and fireproof cigarette A flame-retardant and fireproof cigarette which aims to contain the combustion process to the cigarette. The flame-retardant and fireproof cigarette has a filter that is aligned with a tobacco body. A flame-retardant and fireproof covering is positioned over at leas... | 12/13/2011 |
| 7866325 | Smoking articles The present invention relates to a smoking article comprising two layers of wrapper material, the outer wrapper having an air permeability of at least 200 C.U. and having a greater permeability than the inner wrapper. Encapsulated flavour is held between the inner a... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7836898 | Reduced ignition propensity smoking article A smoking article having reduced ignition propensity is disclosed. The smoking article includes a tobacco column, a wrapper surrounding the tobacco column and a filter element. The wrapper has a base permeability, an untreated area and a least one discrete area trea... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7810508 | Smoking article with encapsulated flavourant A filter cigarette comprises a tobacco rod and a filter attached to the tobacco rod by a band of tipping paper. The surface of the band of tipping paper is coated with a solution of cells having at least one flavorant encapsulated therein. In use, when the filter ci... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7757699 | Cigarette with smoke constituent attenuator Smoke constituent reduction is achieved by resolving from puff-to-puff analysis at which location along a tobacco rod production of a particular smoke constituent is maximized, and locally applying an attenuator at said resolved location to reduce production of the ... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7743773 | Over-wrap for smoking article An over-wrap for connecting a tobacco rod and a cigarette filter. The over-wrap includes a tipping wrapper and a plurality of raised ribs extending from the tipping wrapper and forming a plurality of channels between the tipping wrapper and the plug wrap. The plural... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7740019 | Equipment and associated method for insertion of material into cigarette filters Filter rods for use in the manufacture of cigarette filter elements are provided, with each rod having a longitudinal axis and incorporating a generally longitudinally extending filter material and a generally longitudinally extending strand within that filter mater... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7717120 | 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... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7712472 | Smoking article with removably secured additional wrapper and packaging for smoking article A smoking article includes a tobacco column, a binder surrounding the tobacco column, a first wrapper surrounding the binder, and at least one additional removable wrapper which surrounds the first wrapper and is removably secured to a wrapper beneath the additional... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7677256 | 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... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7640936 | Preparation of mixed metal oxide catalysts from nanoscale particles Mixed metal oxide catalysts are prepared by combining first nanoscale particles and second nanoscale particles to form a mixture of nanoscale particles and then the mixture is heated to form a mixed metal oxide catalyst. The mixed metal oxide catalysts, which are ca... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7604008 | Smoking kit for customizing a tobacco product Smoking kit and techniques for purveying a tobacco product are provided. The kit includes at least one pre-finished tobacco product. The kit further includes at least one wrapping sheet supported by the pre-finished product in a predetermined shape. The wrapping she... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7600518 | Smoking articles and wrapping materials therefor A smoking article including a smokable rod manufactured using a paper wrapping material having an additive material applied thereto as a pattern. The additive material is applied as aqueous coating formulation incorporating both an alginate and hydroxypropylcellulos... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7434586 | Tobacco odor deodorizing perfume composition, tobacco odor deodorant, cigarette low in sidestream smoke odor, and tobacco package A tobacco odor deodorant contains the components of at least two component groups selected from five component of (I) octanal, nonanal and/or decanal, (II) linalool, (III) carvone, (IV) methyl anthranilate and/or N-methyl anthranilate, and (V) sinensal and/or orange... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7398783 | Smoking article The invention relates to a reconstituted smoking material which comprises a non-polyol aerosol generator, tobacco (optional), binder (optional) and inorganic filler. A further polyol aerosol generator may also be contained in the smoking material. There is also prov... | 07/15/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7297227 | Method of making sheet electrode for electric double layer capacitor and roller rolling machine suitable for use therein A sheet electrode with a predetermined thickness for an electric double layer capacitor is made by carrying out a roller rolling step in which a long sheet intermediate is made from a material containing a carbonaceous powder, a conductive assistant and a binder and... | 11/20/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7243659 | Recess filter and smokeable article containing a recess filter The invention relates to a recess filter with a cavity associated with the mouth and provided with a cavity wall, in addition to one or more filter elements associated with the tobacco. The cavity wall surrounds either the cavity or the cavity and, at the most, one ... | 07/17/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7234471 | Cigarette and wrapping materials therefor Cigarettes are manufactured using modified automated cigarette making apparatus. Those cigarettes possess smokable rods having paper wrapping materials having additive materials applied thereto as patterns. The additive materials, which can have the forms of liquid ... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7232475 | Chemical upgrading of filters The invention provides a filter treated with a humectant which may optionally be in combination with a surfactant. The treatment may also include a water soluble rheology modifier to alter the viscosity of water drawn onto the filter by the humectant. A tackifier ma... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7227051 | Disposable wearing article A disposable wearing article includes a liquid-pervious topsheet, a liquid-impervious backsheet, a liquid-absorbent core interposed between the top- and backsheets, a pair of liquid-impervious leak-barrier sheets and a pair of elastically stretchable sheets. Each po... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7219672 | Method of preparing paper for self-extinguishing cigarettes A method is described for the manufacture of a paper for self-extinguishing cigarettes, by reducing its permeability to air, obtained by applying continuously or onto well defined areas, a composition based on gum Arabic or acacia gum, with or without a fire retarda... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7216652 | Smoking article wrapper with improved filler The invention relates to a tobacco smoking article wrapper which selectively reduces the content of gaseous components in the smoke delivered during the use of the smoking article. The gaseous components can be low molecular weight aldehydes in the smoke produced du... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7174770 | Method and device for automatic determination of the permeability of a porous material having alternating levels of porosity A method and device for using a permeameter comprising a measuring head (2) opposite which the sheet or strip (1) is displaced step by step. The method and device can comprise a registration including the determination of the permeability profile of th... | 02/13/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7077932 | Method of making sheet electrode for electric double layer capacitor and roller rolling machine suitable for use therein A sheet electrode with a predetermined thickness for an electric double layer capacitor is made by carrying out a roller rolling step in which a long sheet intermediate is made from a material containing a carbonaceous powder, a conductive assistant and a binder and... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7051739 | Method for making a cigarette with burn rate modification A cigarette with burn rate modification is described. The cigarette has a partial double wrap design and incorporates an inner wrap material which extends partially around the interior portion of the outer wrapper of a cigarette. The inner wrap can be a single eleme... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7052581 | Process of producing magnesium ammonium phosphate in monohydrate form (dittmarite) A process for converting the more easily synthesized and stored AMP hexahydrate into monohydrate of high purity. The resultant monohydrate (dittmarite) can then be either dried to stabilize it, or used directly in cigarette production such as paper making as filler ... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7017586 | Cigarette A cigarette comprises a tobacco section including a columnar tobacco filler material and at least one cellulose-based wrapping paper sheet for wrapping the outer circumferential surface of the columnar tobacco filler material. The outermost wrapping paper sheet amon... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7011096 | Oxidant/catalyst nanoparticles to reduce carbon monoxide in 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 nanoparticle additives capable of acting as an oxidant for the conversion of carbon monoxide to carbon dioxide and/or as a ca... | 03/14/2006 |
| 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 |
| 6976493 | 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... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6939609 | Filler and pigment The present invention relates to the use of calcium oxalate as a filler or pigment. In particular described herein is a method of reducing the combustion residue of coated paper or cardboard products by replacing at least a part of the conventional pigments and fill... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6935346 | Smoking article comprising a wrapper containing a ceramic material The invention describes a smoking article (1) comprising a wrapper (3) enwrapping a tobacco smoking material (2), the wrapper comprising a ceramic material and being capable of mechanically trapping mainly aqueous particulate phase materials in ... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6929013 | 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... | 08/16/2005 |
