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Mouthguard made at least partially from an edible candy
A mouthguard includes a U-shaped upper bite plate which removably fits over upper teeth of a person, with the entire upper bite plate being made from a soft, deformable and edible gummi candy.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7117872 | Method and a device for managing the supply of wrapping and/or additional and/or auxiliary materials in a system for the manufacture of tobacco products The supply of consumables and other materials to production machines in a system for the manufacture of tobacco products is managed using a method whereby, once a nominal target number of products has been programmed at a master control unit, a tally is kept of the ... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7079912 | System and method for high speed control and rejection The present invention provides a system and method for high speed control and rejection of out-of-specification products, such as cigarettes, in a manufacturing process. Sensors are placed at strategic locations along a production line, with the signals from the sen... | 07/18/2006 |
| 6446632 | Process and apparatus for detecting and eliminating defective and/or incorrectly positioned cigarettes A process and an apparatus for detecting and eliminating, defective and/or incorrectly positioned, in particular transversely located, cigarettes in the cigarette magazine of a cigarette-production and/or a cigarette-packaging machine. Thus, the avoidance... | 09/10/2002 |
| 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 |
| 6065358 | Stack-height sensor An arrangement determines the height of a multilayer stream of articles such as the rod-shaped cigarettes of the tobacco industry. The arrangement includes a flexible elongate member connected to move up and down with the uppermost articles in the multila... | 05/23/2000 |
| 6062226 | Cigarette manufacturing apparatus When tobacco shreds continuously supplied while the supply amount thereof is controlled are wrapped continuously with an elongated cigarette paper to form a tobacco rod and the tobacco rod is cut to predetermined lengths to manufacture cigarettes, the fil... | 05/16/2000 |
| 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 |
| 5284164 | Method for improving the quality of products produced in the cigarette manufacturing process The present invention comprises a method for improving the quality of products produced in a cigarette manufacturing process. Selected machine operating parameters for at least one machine are monitored, as well as the product being produced. Samples of t... | 02/08/1994 |
| 5092349 | Cigarette quality assurance method The quality of finished cigarettes is assured by incorporating an individual, predetermined lubricant at predetermined locations in the cigarette manufacturing process. When a cigarette spotted or stained by a lubricant deposit is obtained, the lubricant ... | 03/03/1992 |
| 5044379 | Cigarette manufacture In a cigarette making machine, each of a number of quality parameters of the product (individual cigarettes and/or packaged cigarettes) is monitored and a quality value for each parameter is continuously calculated in accordance with predetermined criteir... | 09/03/1991 |
| 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 |
| 4762138 | Device for monitoring the end dropout of cigarettes For monitoring the end dropout of cigarettes in the course of the cigarette production beneath a point at which the cigarettes rotate about their longitudinal axis a mass transducer for the dropping tobacco particles is disposed; an evaluating device dete... | 08/09/1988 |
| 4724429 | Diagnostic and control system for cigarette filter rod making machine A system for monitoring each of multiplicity of variables in the operation of a filter rod making machine includes sensors located at various points on the machine. These sensors measure the value of such variable parameters as the width of the tow, the a... | 02/09/1988 |
| 4677993 | Method of and apparatus for inspecting cigarette paper A method and apparatus for inspecting cigarette paper of eventual cigarette bar unit, which permit further improvement of the precision of inspection, is provided. According to the method and the apparatus, the mean, variance and standard deviation are ob... | 07/07/1987 |
| 4671299 | Tobacco manufacturing machine A tobacco manufacturing machine including a cover which covers the whole of the machine, a plurality of openable doors disposed in positions corresponding to various portions of the machine which require a manual correction by an operator, power sources f... | 06/09/1987 |
| 4619277 | Tobacco filter tip attaching apparatus A tobacco filter tip attaching apparatus including a filter tip attaching portion for rolling and pasting a tip paper onto both one end portion of a cigarette and a filter tip disposed adjacent thereto, a filter tip feed portion disposed in the vicinity o... | 10/28/1986 |
| 4503868 | Cigarette manufacture Apparatus for controlling the timing of control signals concerning operations on conveyed cigarettes or other articles of the cigarette industry comprising means for generating a first control signal; means for measuring the speed of transport of the ciga... | 03/12/1985 |
| 4417934 | Monitoring a deposit on a travelling web Method of monitoring a line of adhesive deposited on a travelling paper web to check for accidental omission of adhesive wherein the adhesive has a distinguishing relative permittivity and is sensed by a capacitive proximity sensor. The web may be plugwra... | 11/29/1983 |
| 4373188 | Cigarette weight monitoring system Cigarette-rod weight monitoring system in which the signals from a scanner, e.g. a nucleonic device such as Molins "MODIC", are processed and stored in a memory in a digitized form, and the memory contents are used to drive an analog display device. These... | 02/08/1983 |
| 4350170 | Apparatus for monitoring the exterior of a moving cigarette rod or the like An apparatus for monitoring the exterior of a cigarette rod which moves lengthwise through an annular housing has a ring-shaped light-conducting prism which is mounted in the housing and is surrounded by an annulus of discrete light sources to direct test... | 09/21/1982 |
| 4121595 | Apparatus for increasing the permeability of wrapping material for rod-shaped smokers products Webs which are to be converted into wrappers for filter rod sections, cigars, cigarillos or cigarettes, or the wrappers of such articles, are perforated by one or more laser beams in the machine wherein the articles are produced. The permeability of wrapp... | 10/24/1978 |
| 4112954 | Testing of cigarettes A cigarette filter attachment machine with a wrapper testing facility includes means for feeding pieces of tipping paper each of which is wrapped around associated tobacco and filter portions to join those portions to one another; means for testing the wr... | 09/12/1978 |
| 4053741 | System for cyclic operation of self-running objects A system for the cyclic operation of self-running objects in a circular network of guide means including at least two working stages, each having a plurality of working zones. The individual working zone of one stage differs in working capacities from the... | 10/11/1977 |
| 4045657 | Method of facilitating exact evaluation or control of the processing of a product mass, and apparatus for carrying said method into effect This invention relates to a method of evaluating processing of a product mass, such as a tobacco leaf mass, by measuring the weight of the mass as throughflow per unit of time during transport of the mass between two locations and by measuring, in a point... | 08/30/1977 |
| 4037608 | Method and apparatus for producing cigarettes with dense ends Cigarettes with dense ends are produced by converting a continuous tobacco stream into a rod-like filler wherein spaced-apart portions contain more tobacco than the parts therebetween. The conversion involves removal of surplus tobacco from the stream in ... | 07/26/1977 |
| 3952185 | Standard deviation determining apparatus Standard deviation determining apparatus includes an integrator for integrating changes exhibited by a random variable, a circuit for selecting integrator output signals and a further circuit for averaging signals selected by the selecting circuit. The ap... | 04/20/1976 |
| 3930508 | Wrapper absence detecting and control device for cigar machines A pneumatic-electric, or a pneumatic sensing and control system is used in a cigar making machine to prevent a wrapper or binder paster from operating and a formed tobacco member from being delivered to the roller nest when a tobacco strip is not transfer... | 01/06/1976 |
