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Crispy Chip Sandwich and Process of Producing a Sandwich Product
A food product comprising a multilayer cookie or snack having outer layers formed from a crispy type edible food product such as a potato chip or corn chip, etc. with an intermediate marshmallow layer being in contact with the inner surface of each crispy chip and one or more filler substances.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7383840 | Apparatus for scanning and sorting tobacco leaves An apparatus for scanning and sorting tobacco leaves includes a conveyor to convey a flow of tobacco leaves. The flow of tobacco leaves includes acceptable and unacceptable leaves and undesirable particles. An air flow source lifts and accelerates the flow of leaves... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7159594 | Method and device for adjusting the selecting out of winnowings The invention relates to a method for adjusting the selecting out of winnowings in the manufacture of smokable products, in particular cigarettes, wherein the current size distribution of a stream of tobacco particles passing a measuring point, per unit of time, is ... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7027148 | Method and apparatus for determining the triacetin content in filter plugs Apparatus and method for determining the triacetin content in cigarette filter plugs during the manufacture of the filter plugs from a filter tow. The apparatus including a filter tow storage container, a filter tow stretching device, a device for feeding triacetin,... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7004177 | Method and device for detecting foreign bodies in cigarettes The invention relates to a method for detecting and selecting foreign parts in cigarettes, in which the tobacco is exposed in the vicinity of the cigarette maker to microwave radiation and both a signal SD relating to the tobacco density and a signal S | 02/28/2006 |
| 6814082 | Apparatus and method for generating information on the characteristics of a fiber rope The invention relates to a method and a device for providing information on the fiber structure, particularly for determining deviations from an average fiber structure, of a fiber rope in the tobacco-processing industry and especially a tobacco rope. A first measur... | 11/09/2004 |
| 6768317 | Method of and apparatus for testing a first material for potential presence of second materials A method of detecting impurities in a mass, such as detecting metallic and/or plastic particles in a stream of tobacco particles or filter material for tobacco smoke, includes the steps of moving the mass relative to a microwave field and/or vice versa, and analyzin... | 07/27/2004 |
| 6763838 | Device for detecting a filling density of filler forming a rod-shaped article A device for detecting a shredded tobacco filling density in a tobacco rod includes four light sources (18, 20, 22 and 24) arranged separately from one another at an angle of 45° around a tobacco rod (T) and causing infrared rays to enter the tobacco ... | 07/20/2004 |
| 6543457 | Apparatus for applying adhesive to a running web of wrapping material for smokers products The application of adhesive to selected non-perforated sections of one side of a running web of tipping paper in a filter cigarette making machine is carried out in such a way that the adhesive is invariably applied only to the non-perforated sections whi... | 04/08/2003 |
| 6421126 | Density checking apparatus for tobacco flavor-tasting article or component of tobacco flavor-tasting article In an optical density checking apparatus, a 0.7-μm first light beam not transmitted through shredded leaf tobacco and a 1.3-μm second light beam transmitted through the shredded leaf tobacco, which are from first and second light sources, are synthesize... | 07/16/2002 |
| 6394097 | Device and method for inspecting filter rod for cigarette A device for executing an inspection method of a filter rod for cigarettes includes an inspection drum (6), and the inspection drum (6) has plural pickup grooves (8) for receiving one filter rod (F) each in its outer periphery. The filter rod (F) in each ... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6384359 | Inspection system An inspection system detects the presence or absence of desired components of an assembled cigarette after tipping paper has been applied to join a multi-component filter to a tobacco rod. A transport moves the assembled cigarettes having multi-component ... | 05/07/2002 |
| 6213128 | Apparatus and method for making and inspecting multi-component wrapped article In an apparatus for making and inspecting a multi-component cigarettes, each cigarette including two or more different components arranged relative to one another, the apparatus includes a device for advancing a web in a first direction. The apparatus fur... | 04/10/2001 |
| 6198537 | Optical inspection system for the manufacture of banded cigarette paper A station optically inspects banded cigarette paper by directing an elongated beam of white light laterally across a web of the cigarette paper. The elongated beam impinges on the surface of the cigarette paper and forms reflections. A plurality of line s... | 03/06/2001 |
| 6173716 | Method and apparatus for inspecting cigarette density A density inspection apparatus and method. The apparatus is disposed downstream of a wrapping section of a cigarette manufacturing machine. In accordance with pulse output signals generated by a rotary encoder in synchronism with the travel of a cigarette... | 01/16/2001 |
| 6169600 | Cylindrical object surface inspection system An inspection system and method for optically inspecting substantially the entire circumference of a cylindrical surface, such as a cigarette is provided. The system includes first and second moveable supports for supporting and transporting the cigarette... | 01/02/2001 |
| 6021782 | Method of and system for cigarette tipping glue skip detection and rejection A method of and system for detecting glue skips on tipping paper used to secure filters to cigarette tobacco rods and the rejection of defective cigarettes based thereon in which a particle radiation sensor is used to monitor the amount of glue applied to... | 02/08/2000 |
| 5967148 | Lighter actuation system A cigarette identifier system comprising an infrared emitter and an infrared detector located across an opening of a cigarette receiver, wherein the sensor registers changes in the transmission of the infrared beam across the opening so as to detect the d... | 10/19/1999 |
| 5651041 | Apparatus for measuring the density of accumulations of fibrous material in rod making machines of the tobacco processing industry The density of successive increments of two neighboring rod-like flows of tobacco particles in a cigarette rod making machine is determined by an apparatus which employs a source serving to emit a divergent beam of X-rays across the paths for the two flow... | 07/22/1997 |
| 5583633 | Device for detecting a defect in charcoal type filters of manufactured filter cigarettes A device for inspecting the filter end face of a filter cigarette is provided with an optical sensor having an aperture ring for emitting a measuring light toward the filter end face and receiving the light reflected from the filter end face and outputtin... | 12/10/1996 |
| 5568818 | Method and device for determining the density of a stream of fibrous material on a cigarette manufacturing machine To determine the density of a stream of fibrous material on a cigarette manufacturing machine, two different measurements are performed, the first of which is capacitive and supplies a first signal as a function of the density of the dry component and of ... | 10/29/1996 |
| 5566686 | Method and device for determining the density of a stream of fibrous material on a cigarette manufacturing machine To determine the density of a stream of fibrous material on a cigarette manufacturing machine, two different measurements are performed, the first of which is capacitive and supplies a first signal as a function of the density of the dry component and of ... | 10/22/1996 |
| 5505215 | Method and device for position controlling cigarette filter paper A cigarette, with a cigarette paper and a filter paper of different colors and separated by a boundary line with a given nominal position, is fed past a pair of optical sensors located on either side of the nominal position of the boundary line. The optic... | 04/09/1996 |
| 5476108 | Method and apparatus for detecting foreign matter within a layer of tabacco The invention is directed to a method and apparatus for detecting foreign matter including small particles of organic materials such as plastics within a layer of tobacco. The tobacco is irradiated with a plurality of selected NIR radiation wavelength ban... | 12/19/1995 |
| 5462176 | Latex detection system A method and apparatus for detecting foreign matter in a particulate material stream, particularly tobacco, including an optical scanner, in combination with a camera system with beam splitter and filters, and a computer to process signals from the camera... | 10/31/1995 |
| 5423128 | Cigarette filter rod minimum point gauge Provided is an apparatus which allows for the facile and accurate measurement of the recess of a cylindrical core of filter tow which is surrounded by a paper wrapper which extends beyond the core to form the recess.... | 06/13/1995 |
| 5377697 | Cigarette filter test apparatus and associated method for measuring filter hot collapse and tobacco consumption A test apparatus includes an optical displacement transducer for sensing deformation of the cigarette filter responsive to a predetermined load applied transverse to the filter during simulated smoking of the cigarette, and a barcode laser scanner for sen... | 01/03/1995 |
| 5370137 | Apparatus for controlling the diameter of cigarettes to be manufactured by means of a cigarette production machine A control apparatus according to the present invention comprises a hinge for rockably supporting a second upper mold, which is utilized for the final formation of a tobacco rod, right over a lower mold of a cigarette production machine, an adjusting devic... | 12/06/1994 |
| 5341824 | Method and apparatus for inspecting and controlling tipping paper perforation The perforation of tipping paper on a high-speed perforation line is monitored and controlled by an electro-optic detection and data processing system which produces a signal related in value to an expected pressure drop through the paper based on calcula... | 08/30/1994 |
| 5301694 | Process for isolating plant extract fractions Fractionated plant extracts, particularly essentially nicotine-free tobacco extracts, useful as tobacco flavorants and methods for preparing and using the same are described herein. These fractionated extracts are stable, non-volatile and relatively odorl... | 04/12/1994 |
| 5235992 | Processes for producing flavor substances from tobacco and smoking articles made therewith Processes for producing flavor substances from tobacco are disclosed. The processes involve heating tobacco during a first staged heating to a first toasting temperature to drive off volatile materials; increasing the toasting temperature during a second ... | 08/17/1993 |
| 5228462 | Cigarette inspection device Inspection of completed cigarettes is accomplished by the cigarettes traveling on a rolling drum past a single stationary rolling block with preferably two cameras connected to a vision system. The first camera views the cigarette before the rolling block... | 07/20/1993 |
| 5163454 | Method of and apparatus for measuring moisture content of a moving stream of tobacco A method of and an apparatus for accurately measuring the moisture content of a moving bed of a product, such as strip tobacco, are disclosed. As the bed of tobacco is conveyed by a perforated or porous conveyor, a flow of air is directed upwardly through... | 11/17/1992 |
| 5141001 | Method of and apparatus for ascertaining the filling power of fibrous material in cigarettes and the like The hardness of cigarettes which move in a direction at right angles to their axes is measured with one or more pivotable levers which rest on the moving cigarettes to elastically deform the adjacent portions of the cigarettes. The extent of elastic defor... | 08/25/1992 |
| 5060664 | Method of and apparatus for making streams containing fibrous materials of the tobacco processing industry A stream of filter tow which has been sprayed with atomized plasticizer is advanced past two detectors each of which monitors the density of the stream in a different way and generates corresponding signals which are processed by an evaluating circuit to ... | 10/29/1991 |
| 5010904 | Method and apparatus for detecting loose ends of cigarettes The invention is directed to an inspection method, apparatus and system for identifying cigarettes having insufficient tobacco at their lighting end in which cigarettes are conveyed serially through a beam of infrared radiation. The amount of infrared rad... | 04/30/1991 |
| 5002072 | Cigarette manufacture A cigarette making machine includes one or more conveyor bands (12,14,28) or other parts of non-metallic material from which pieces can break off and become entrained in the tobacco, including means (30,42) for detecting such pieces in the tobacco by dire... | 03/26/1991 |
| 4986285 | Method and apparatus for ascertaining the density of wrapped tobacco fillers and the like The density of successive increments of a cigarette rod is measured by an apparatus which employs one or more photocells operating with ultraviolet, infrared or visible light. The radiation source of each photocell emits a beam of ultraviolet, infrared or... | 01/22/1991 |
| 4971077 | On-line tobacco evaluation system and method The present invention comprises a product moving apparatus for moving a tobacco product, a vertical feeder tube for metering the tobacco product onto the product moving apparatus at a predetermined rate, a system for maintaining a predetermined height of ... | 11/20/1990 |
| 4955948 | Process and apparatus for the checking of cigarettes For the checking of cigarettes for their correct formation in terms of a sufficient tobacco content, electrooptical test processes have been employed for a relatively long time. The use of these processes has hitherto made it necessary to employ high-perf... | 09/11/1990 |
| 4942363 | Apparatus and method for measuring two properties of an object using scattered electromagnetic radiation A method and apparatus for monitoring two components of an object, such as moisture content and density in a tobacco rod, using scattered electromagnetic radiation are provided. The invention relies on the fact that both the real imaginary parts of the di... | 07/17/1990 |
