258 85 http://www.patentstorm.us/ http://www.patentstorm.us/images/logo.gif http://www.patentstorm.us/rss/class/applications/rss-131.xml Recent patent applications filings in USPTO Class 131 Tobacco. Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:03:05 patents@patentstorm.us en http://www.patentstorm.us/applications/20120037175/description.html

Application Number:  20120037175

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  Cantrell, Daniel Verdin; Chen, Gong

A meltable smokeless tobacco composition configured for insertion into the mouth of a user is provided. The smokeless tobacco composition includes a particulate tobacco material and a lipid having a melting point of about 36° C. to about 45° C. An associated process is also provided. The process includes melting a lipid having a melting point of about 36° C. to about 45° C. to form a molten lipid composition, mixing a particulate tobacco material with the molten lipid composition to form a ...
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Application Number:  20120037174

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  Kalb, Roland; Steinlechner, Sepp

A tobacco product filter is provided comprising a carrier material which comprises an immobilized ionic liquid. By the term “tobacco product filter” may particularly be meant all sorts of filters which are suitable to remove harmful substances, particles, gases or the like from tobacco smoke. In particular, the tobacco product filter may be suitable to form cigarette, small cigars and smoking ...
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Application Number:  20120037173

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  Banerjee, Chandra Kumar; Clark, Melissa Ann; Dunlap, Sharon Pitts

A filter element incorporating an adsorbent material is provided. The filter element may comprise a first section of filter material and a second section of filter material spaced apart to form a compartment therebetween. The compartment may be filled with one or more adsorbents or the compartment may be divided into two regions, wherein one compartment region is filled with an adsorbent and the other compartment region is either filled with an ion-exchange resin or remains empty. The section ...
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Application Number:  20120037172

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  Lee, Robert E.; Allen, Jeffrey Lynn; Williams, Dwight D.; Longest, JR., Herbert Carrington

A filter component for a smoking article includes an upstream segment of filter material, a downstream segment of filter material in a spaced apart relation to the upstream segment of filter material so as to define a cavity therebetween, and a flavor bead disposed in the cavity. The flavor bead has an outer diameter, which is at least 75% of the spaced apart relation of the upstream segment of filter material and the downstream segment of filter material. The outer diameter of the flavor bead ...
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Application Number:  20120037171

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventors:  Zhuang, Shuzhong; Karles, Georgios D.; Zeng, Yi

A method for providing an encapsulated flavorant or chemesthetic agent in a smoking article includes forming an emulsion including: (i) a first aqueous solution, comprising one or more cross-linkable polysaccharides; and (ii) a hydrophobic additive comprising one or more flavorants or chemesthetic agents. The method also includes extruding the emulsion into a second aqueous solution in the form of an elongated structure, cross-linking at least a portion of the one or more cross-linkable ...
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Application Number:  20120037170

Publication Date:  2012-02-16

Inventor:  Wan, Liangchuan

A smoking cessation tobacco pipe helps smokers to fully and directly realize the harm of tobacco to a human body when they are smoking and give up smoking and publicize smoking cessation. The tobacco pipe is a transparency which is assembled with a top cover part (2) integrated with a smoke-inlet pipe (3) and a smoke-outlet pipe (4), a box body part (1), a bottom cover part (6) and a smoking pipe part (5), wherein the smoke-outlet pipe (4) is ...
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Application Number:  20120031417

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventors:  Lipowicz, Peter J.; Rasouli, Firooz; Parrish, Milton E.; Sherwood, Timothy S.; Li, Ping; Garg, Rajesh K.; Baren, Randall E.; Rose, Marc W.; Phan, Tony A.; Yang, Szu-Sung; Miser, Donald E.

Wrapper for cigarette manufacture includes transversely extending band regions applied by a printing technique, such as gravure printing. The band regions comprise starch, an anti-wrinkling agent such as 1,2 propylene glycol or glycerin, and optionally calcium carbonate. Any suitable printing technique can be used to apply the aqueous solution to the banded regions. The pattern of banded regions may be bands, stripes, two-dimensional arrays, undulated regions, and the like along and/or around ...
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Application Number:  20120031416

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventors:  Rossman, James M.; Atchley, Frank Scott; Mishra, Munmaya K.

A smokeless tobacco product includes smokeless tobacco and structural fibers. The structural fibers forming a network in which the smokeless tobacco is entangled. The structural fibers have a composition different from the smokeless tobacco. The tobacco-entangled fabric can have an overall oven volatiles content of at least 10 weight percent. In some embodiments, the structural fibers form a nonwoven network. In some embodiments, fibrous structures of the smokeless tobacco are entangled with ...
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Application Number:  20120031415

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventors:  ESSEN, Tomas; BRANNBERG, Tobias; NORSTROM, Herman

A non-tobacco snuff composition for oral use including at least one type of plant fibers with a high dietary fiber content, wherein the fiber dietary content in the composition is 15-90 w/w % based on the dry weight of the composition and a method for manufacturing the non-tobacco snuff ...
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Application Number:  20120031414

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventors:  Rossman, James M.; Atchley, Frank Scott; Mishra, Munmaya K.

A smokeless tobacco product includes smokeless tobacco and a polymeric material in intimate contact with the smokeless tobacco and stabilized in conformance to a surface topography of the tobacco's fibrous structures such that the stabilized polymeric material secures the smokeless tobacco together. The smokeless tobacco product has a moisture-permeable porous surface and an overall oven volatiles content of at least 10 weight ...
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Application Number:  20120024306

Publication Date:  2012-02-02

Inventors:  Sweeney, William R.; Lipowicz, Peter J.; Mishra, Munmaya K.; Liu, Shengsheng

A process for preparing a filter plug for a smoking article, such as a cigarette, includes: (a) freeze-drying a solution of a biopolymer to form a structure; and (b) cutting the structure to a predetermined dimension, to thereby prepare a filter plug for a smoking article. Another process for preparing a filter plug for a smoking article, such as a cigarette, includes: (a) extruding a mixture of a foaming agent and a biopolymer comprising a protein to form a structure; and (b) cutting the ...
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Application Number:  20120024305

Publication Date:  2012-02-02

Inventors:  Nepomuceno, Jose; Zhuang, Shuzhong; Liu, Hongwei; Karles, Georgios D.

Multi-shelled capsules are made by co-extruding a first liquid flavorant composition and a first shell-forming polymeric material to form droplets which are hardened to form an inner shell containing a first liquid flavorant composition, and then coated with a second shell-forming polymeric material which is hardened to form an outer shell. The result is a capsule where the inner surface of the outer shell is separate and/or separable from the outer surface of the inner shell to define a space, ...
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Application Number:  20120024304

Publication Date:  2012-02-02

Inventor:  Sebastian, Andries Don

A filter element for use in a smoking article and providing filtration of particulate material and gaseous components of mainstream smoke is provided. The filter element includes a segment of fibrous tow comprising a plurality of individual filaments, wherein each individual filament includes a plurality of adsorbent material particles at least partially encapsulated with a removable encapsulant imbedded therein. The individual filaments may further include an outer coating that provides a ...
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Application Number:  20120024303

Publication Date:  2012-02-02

Inventors:  Sakai, Tsutomu; Sugai, Kazunori; Kondo, Mitsuru; Inoue, Yasunobu; Sasakawa, Kiyohiro; Imai, Sadako; Murata, Fumiko

A cigarette includes a shredded tobacco rod and a cigarette paper that wraps the outer peripheral surface of the shredded tobacco rod. The shredded tobacco and/or the cigarette paper contains a transition metal salt of an organic ...
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Application Number:  20120024302

Publication Date:  2012-02-02

Inventor:  Richardson, John

A filter for a smoking article such as a cigarette is provided comprising a body of smoke filtering material (1) and having a thread (5) incorporated therein. The thread is composed of material derived from a plant containing a naturally occurring tobacco ...
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Application Number:  20120024301

Publication Date:  2012-02-02

Inventors:  Holland, Tommy C.; Carroll, Andrew Nathan; Black, Shannon Maxwell; Macko, Jason Andrew; DiNovi, Christopher Joseph

Some embodiments of a smokeless tobacco system include one or more preformed smokeless tobacco products configured to generally retain their shape during processing, shipping, and consumer handling. In particular embodiments, each smokeless tobacco product can comprise a moist smokeless tobacco in combination with a selected binder such that the final product is configured to have material properties providing improved handling, an improved mouth feel, and a satisfying flavor ...
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Application Number:  20120017927

Publication Date:  2012-01-26

Inventor:  Kobal, Gerd

A flavor delivery release system for a cigarette or cigarette package. The system includes a cigarette, at least one capsule containing a flavorant, the capsule positioned on an external surface of the cigarette; and wherein the flavorant is released upon rupturing the ...
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Application Number:  20120017926

Publication Date:  2012-01-26

Inventors:  Nepomuceno, Jose; Karles, Georgios D.; Allen, Jeffrey Lynn

Improved delivery of additive materials to cigarettes is provided through the use of one or more oval capsules containing releasable additive materials, such as flavor components, in the filter section of a cigarette. The oval capsule or capsules are provided between first and second absorbent members and have the long axis thereof arranged parallel to the longitudinal axis of the cigarette. When the capsules are subjected to an external force, such as squeezing, by a smoker prior to or during ...
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Application Number:  20120017925

Publication Date:  2012-01-26

Inventors:  Sebastian, Andries D.; Norman, Alan B.; Joyce, Leigh Ann; Gan, Huamin

A biodegradable fiber (including fiber tow) and/or biodegradable paper substrate may be coated with cellulose acetate, plasticized cellulose acetate and/or ethylene vinyl acetate for use in a filter material configured for application in a filter of a smoking article. A filter made in accordance with this design may also include non-biodegradable ...
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Application Number:  20120017924

Publication Date:  2012-01-26

Inventors:  Lindell, Katarina E.A.; Olsson, Roland; Lindberg, Nils-Olof

A coated chewing gum product for the delivering of nicotine in any form to a subject by a rapid transmucosal uptake in the oral cavity comprising at least one gum core, nicotine in any form and/or a nicotine mimicking agent, at least one coating layer and optionally at least one or more other additive, wherein said at last one coating layer is buffered. Also contemplated is a method for the delivering of nicotine in any form, a method for the reduction of the urge to smoke or use tobacco as ...
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