Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
131360000 | Cigar or cigarette | 63 |
20100108086 | TOBACCO AND TOBACCO PACKAGING MATERIAL FOR PREVENTING OR REDUCING TOBACCO-ASSOCIATED INJURY IN THE AERODIGESTIVE TRACT OF A SUBJECT - Articles of manufacturing for preventing or reducing tobacco smoke- and smokeless-tobacco associated injury in the aerodigestive tract of a subject are disclosed, which comprise at least one agent capable of reducing or preventing tobacco associated loss of peroxidase activity in said aerodigestive tract, said at least one agent being selected from the group consisting of a cyanide chelator and an iron chelator. | 05-06-2010 |
20100200008 | E-Cigarette With Vitamin Infusion - A smokeless cigarette that provides for the dispensation of vitamins to the user by way of a vitamin infused cartridge whereby a liquid mixture of vitamins and/or botanicals are injected into a liquid supplying bottle within the nicotine cartridge for inhalation and absorption by the user. | 08-12-2010 |
20130220354 | Novel Cigar And Cigar Box Combination - 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 cigar, the tobacco fill material of the cigar is disrupted so as to improve the draw of the cigar. Once the cigar puller is removed from the tobacco fill material, a flavorant and/or aromatic can be infused into the less dense tobacco fill material which is provided upon the removal of the cigar puller. | 08-29-2013 |
20150083150 | HEAT GENERATION APPARATUS FOR AN AEROSOL-GENERATION SYSTEM OF A SMOKING ARTICLE, AND ASSOCIATED SMOKING ARTICLE - A smoking article is provided, having opposed lighting and mouth ends, and including a mouth end portion at the mouth end. A tobacco portion is between the lighting end and the mouth end portion. An aerosol-generation system is between the lighting end and the tobacco portion. The aerosol-generation system includes a heat generation portion, comprising an elongate fluted member actuated by ignition of the lighting end. The fluted member defines grooves extending longitudinally between opposed first and second ends, with the first end being at the lighting end and the grooves being equidistantly spaced apart about the fluted member. Each groove has a maximum depth. The depth maxima of the grooves define a circle having a radius. The maximum depth of each groove is no more than the radius of the circle. A heat generation apparatus for an aerosol-generation system of a smoking article is also provided. | 03-26-2015 |
131361000 | End structure | 3 |
20080236602 | METHOD OF MAKING A SMOKING COMPOSITION - The present invention relates to smoking articles such as cigarettes, and in particular to catalytic systems containing metallic or carbonaceous particles that reduce the content of certain harmful or carcinogenic substances, including polyaromatic hydrocarbons, tobacco-specific nitrosamines, carbazole, phenol, and catechol, in mainstream cigarette smoke and in side stream cigarette smoke. | 10-02-2008 |
20110271971 | SEGMENTED SMOKING ARTICLE WITH STITCH-BONDED SUBSTRATE - A cigarette includes lighting and mouth ends. It may include a smokable segment disposed at the lighting end. It also includes a mouth-end segment; an aerosol-generation system disposed between the lighting and mouth ends, which includes (i) a heat-generation segment adjacent the smokable segment, including a heat source configured to be activated by combustion of a smokable material and an insulation layer of a non-glass material that is woven, knit, or both, and (ii) an aerosol-generating segment with aerosol-forming material disposed between, but physically separate from, each of the heat generation segment and the mouth end; a piece of outer wrapping material that provides an overwrap around at least a portion of the aerosol-generating segment, the heat-generation segment, and at least a portion of the smokable segment; those segments being connected together by the overwrap to provide a cigarette rod; that is connected to the cigarette rod using tipping material. | 11-10-2011 |
20150027478 | MOUTHPIECE LINING PAPER, FORMED AS A FILM/FOIL, OF A FILTER CIGARETTE - A mouthpiece lining paper of a filter cigarette, which mouthpiece lining paper is provided on surface regions to be adhesively bonded with a three-dimensional surface structure, that is to say with a surface which has elevations and/or depressions, wherein the elevations and depressions protrude from and are set back from the film/foil surface only locally, respectively. The mouthpiece lining paper is a film/foil. In one preferred embodiment, a row of elevations and/or depressions runs along an edge of the mouthpiece lining paper of the type which runs along the overlap region of the mouthpiece lining paper with itself on the finished cigarette. | 01-29-2015 |
131365000 | Wrapper or binder | 56 |
20080202542 | Wrappers For Smoking Articles Having Reduced Diffusion Leading to Reduced Ignition Proclivity Characteristics - Smoking articles having reduced ignition proclivity characteristics are disclosed. The smoking articles include a wrapper comprising cellulosic fibers and a filler. In accordance with the present disclosure, the filler has a particle size of at least about 3.2 microns and is present in the wrapper in an amount less than about 20% by weight. Further, the wrapper may have a basis weight of less than about 23 gsm and a permeability of from about 15 Coresta to about 110 Coresta. It has been discovered that such wrappers are capable of reducing the ignition proclivity characteristics of a smoking article. If desired, the particular wrapper as described above can also contain discrete areas treated with an ignition reducing composition which further serves to reduce the ignition proclivity characteristics of the article. | 08-28-2008 |
20080271745 | SMOKING ARTICLE AND METHOD - A smoking article provides one or more sheets of material that can be rolled and packaged, at least one sheet including cellulose. In one embodiment, cellulose and tobacco sheet material are separately rolled layers that can optionally be wrapped around a form casing (or pre-rolled inside) and then packaged. In another embodiment, the sheet is a laminated sheet of tobacco and cellulose layers that can be optionally wrapped around (or pre-rolled inside) a form casing. These sheets can be filled with custom tobacco to make one or more new cigars for an end user. In another embodiment, a complete cigar filled with tobacco material can be disassembled by an end user to produce tobacco and cellulose sheets, enabling the end user to form two new cigars using his or her own custom tobacco. | 11-06-2008 |
20080295854 | Banded papers, smoking articles and methods - 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 the tobacco rod. The pattern can be applied in one or more layers. The pattern may be configured so that when a smoking article is placed on a substrate, at least two longitudinal locations along the length of the tobacco rod have film-forming compound located only on sides of the smoking article not in contact with the substrate. | 12-04-2008 |
20090025742 | LOW IGNITION PROPENSITY CIGARETTE PAPER - A low ignition propensity cigarette paper includes base cigarette paper having a basis weight exceeding 22 g/m | 01-29-2009 |
20090044819 | Covering material for smoking products having improved carbon monoxide reducing properties - The smoking article wrapping material contains calcium carbonates of differing particle size as a filler, one of the calcium carbonates having a particle size in the range from 0.1 to 2 μm and being present in an amount of 51-99%, based on the total content of calcium carbonate fillers, and another calcium carbonate having a particle size of 3.5-10 μm and being present in an amount of 1-49%, based on the total content of calcium carbonate fillers. | 02-19-2009 |
20090120450 | Smoking Articles Having Reduced Ignition Proclivity Characteristics - Smoking articles having reduced ignition proclivity characteristics are disclosed. The smoking articles include a paper wrapper containing cellulosic fibers and filler particles. The paper wrappers are treated with a film-forming composition in order to reduce the ignition proclivity characteristics of the smoking articles. In one embodiment, the film-forming composition contains an alginate combined with a starch. In an alternative embodiment, the film-forming composition contains a film-forming material combined with filler particles. The filler particles may comprise kaolin clay, magnesium oxide, mica, alum, or mixtures thereof. | 05-14-2009 |
20090151739 | 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 outer material acts as a substrate for an aerosol forming material. A preferred aerosol forming material is glycerin. An outer paper wrapper circumscribes the length of the smokable rod, and another paper wrapping material also can circumscribe the inner core material. In use, one end of the smokable rod is lit, and the tobacco cut filler of the inner core burns to yield tobacco smoke. The outer material smolders, and hence thermal decomposition products of the outer tobacco material and volatilized aerosol forming material are produced. Alternatively, a smokable rod can be provided by positioning the tobacco cut filler in the outer annular region, and by constructing the inner core portion using the tobacco material treated with aerosol forming material and a burn suppressing agent. | 06-18-2009 |
20090266371 | Smoking Product Wrapping Material Having Improved Smouldering Properties - Described is a smoking article wrapping material comprising a base wrapping material to which has been applied, at least in discrete zones, a composition comprising a mechanically fragmented, chemically crosslinked polysaccharide having a particle size (weighted average) in the range from 1 to 1000 μm for the dry product; a process for production thereof; and a smoking article comprising the smoking article wrapping material described. | 10-29-2009 |
20090301506 | LOW IGNITION PROPENSITY CIGARETTE, WRAPPING PAPER THEREFOR, AND METHOD OF PRODUCING WRAPPING PAPER - A low ignition propensity cigarette has wrapping paper ( | 12-10-2009 |
20090320865 | 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 least a portion of the tobacco body and isolates the open fire associated with the consumption of the tobacco during the course of smoking or burning the cigarettes. Such a cigarette reduces the risk of undesired, inadvertent, and latent ignition of adjacent materials. | 12-31-2009 |
20100116282 | LOW IGNITION PROPENSITY CIGARETTE PAPER - A cigarette paper of the present invention includes a base cigarette paper and a plurality of combustion-suppressing regions provided, spaced apart from each other, on one surface of the base cigarette paper, the combustion-suppressing regions being formed by applying a polyvinyl alcohol having a degree of polymerization of 900 or more, or a polyvinyl alcohol whose 3% by weight aqueous solution exhibits a viscosity of 5 to 30 mPa·s as measured at 20° C. | 05-13-2010 |
20100192964 | 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 and an essentially non-combustible finely divided porous particulate adjunct for said catalyst. | 08-05-2010 |
20110000497 | Smoking Articles Having Reduced Analyte Levels and Process For Making Same - Smoking articles having reduced Hoffmann analytes contained in the mainstream smoke is disclosed. In one embodiment, an alginate composition is applied to a wrapper that is incorporated into a smoking article. The alginate composition causes a significant reduction in at least certain of the Hoffmann analytes that are generated when the smoking article is smoked. The alginate composition may be applied so as to cover a substantial portion of the surface area of the wrapper in one embodiment. In another embodiment, the alginate composition is applied as a single band to the paper wrapper so to cover a substantial portion of the distal end of the smoking article. | 01-06-2011 |
20110023901 | BANDED PAPER, SMOKING ARTICLE AND METHOD - A cigarette wrapper includes transversely extending banded regions applied by a printing technique, such as gravure printing. The banded regions are applied in a single application of an aqueous starch solution also containing an anti-wrinkling agent such as propylene glycol, and calcium carbonate. The pattern of banded regions may be bands or stripes and the like along and/or around the tobacco rod. The banded regions may be solid or contain any number of cross-web and/or longitudinal discontinuities. The pattern may be configured so that when a smoking article is placed on a substrate, at least two longitudinal locations along the length of the tobacco rod have film-forming compound located only on sides of the smoking article not in contact with the substrate. | 02-03-2011 |
20110030709 | Materials, Equipment, and Methods for Manufacturing Cigarettes - Cigarettes are manufactured using modified automated cigarette making apparatus. Those cigarettes possess smokable rods having wrapping paper having additive materials applied thereto as patterns. The additive materials, which can include a starch and/or a polymer, are applied to a continuous paper web either online or offline the cigarette making apparatus. The formulation can be applied to the paper web using application apparatus possessing a series of rollers. In particular, a wrapping paper for a smokable rod can include a pattern of bands having a water-insoluble material comprising a starch ester, a starch-coated inorganic filler, and/or a thermoplastic polymer in an amount such that the material is sufficiently deformable so as to (a) reduce an amount of pressure to apply the bands, (b) decrease paper diffusivity, and (c) maintain paper opacity at a level acceptable for commercial production of the smokable rods. | 02-10-2011 |
20110030710 | ROLLING PAPER STRUCTURES FOR CREATING SMOKING ARTICLES AND ADHESIVES COMPRISING HEMP ADDITIVE FOR SAME - Aspects of the invention generally provide structures for rolling paper structures for an end user to create a cigar or cigarette. In one aspect, a rolling paper structure is provided including a first paper section having a first height, a second paper section coupled to the first paper section and the second paper section having a second height longer than the first height, and an optional adhesive disposed on the second paper section. The rolling paper structure may be folded between the first paper section and the second paper section having a portion extending beyond the first paper section. An adhesive comprising a hemp additive for rolling paper structures is also provided. | 02-10-2011 |
20110041861 | SEGMENTED SMOKING ARTICLE WITH INSULATION MAT - A cigarette includes lighting and mouth ends. It may include a smokable segment disposed at the lighting end. It also includes a mouth-end segment; an aerosol-generation system disposed between the lighting and mouth ends, which includes (i) a heat-generation segment adjacent the smokable segment, including a heat source configured to be activated by combustion of a smokable material and an insulation layer of a non-glass material that is woven, knit, or both, and (ii) an aerosol-generating segment with aerosol-forming material disposed between, but physically separate from, each of the heat generation segment and the mouth end; a piece of outer wrapping material that provides an overwrap around at least a portion of the aerosol-generating segment, the heat-generation segment, and at least a portion of the smokable segment; those segments being connected together by the overwrap to provide a cigarette rod; that is connected to the cigarette rod using tipping material. | 02-24-2011 |
20110041862 | Cigarette - A cigarette, in which the paper surrounding the tobacco column comprises discrete areas, in particular in the form of bands, which are loaded with the acetate of a polysaccharide and thus increase the self-extinction of the cigarette by reducing the access of air to the burning tobacco column, wherein the polysaccharide is a starch. | 02-24-2011 |
20110132382 | CIGARETTE PAPER COATED WITH COATING MATERIALS FOR LOW IGNITION PROPENSITY AND A FIRE-SAFE CIGARETTE COVERED BY THE SAME - The present invention relates to a cigarette paper with a coating material for Low Ignition Propensity (LIP) and a fire-safe cigarette having the same. More particularly, the present invention manufacture a cigarette paper by coating a pre-determined area with a coating material for LIP to lower a porosity of the cigarette paper, and relates to a cigarette paper which retains original flavor and taste of the cigarette and has an improved fire-safety and a cigarette having the same. The present invention provides a cigarette paper containing a coating material for LIP having an improved quality as compared to a conventional composition applicable to a fire-safe cigarette and thus capable of retaining the original flavor of the cigarette as well as having ash integrity, and cigarette having the same. | 06-09-2011 |
20110155158 | Banded Papers, Smoking Articles and Methods - 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 the tobacco rod. The pattern can be applied in one or more layers. The pattern may be configured so that when a smoking article is placed on a substrate, at least two longitudinal locations along the length of the tobacco rod have film-forming compound located only on sides of the smoking article not in contact with the substrate. | 06-30-2011 |
20110180088 | Plug Wrap or Tipping Paper for Smoking Articles - The present invention relates to plug wrap or tipping paper ( | 07-28-2011 |
20110209718 | LOW FLAME-SPREADING CIGARETTE PAPER - A cigarette paper exhibiting a low flame-spreading property comprises a base cigarette paper, and a plurality of burn-suppressing regions that are provided spaced apart from each other on one surface of the base cigarette paper. The burn-suppressing regions are formed by coating of a low-methoxyl pectin. | 09-01-2011 |
20110271972 | SEGMENTED SMOKING ARTICLE WITH SHAPED INSULATOR - A cigarette includes lighting and mouth ends. It may include a smokable segment disposed at the lighting end. It also includes a mouth-end segment; an aerosol-generation system disposed between the lighting and mouth ends, which includes (i) a heat-generation segment adjacent the smokable segment, including a heat source configured to be activated by combustion of a smokable material and an insulation layer of a non-glass material that is woven, knit, or both, and (ii) an aerosol-generating segment with aerosol-forming material disposed between, but physically separate from, each of the heat generation segment and the mouth end; a piece of outer wrapping material that provides an overwrap around at least a portion of the aerosol-generating segment, the heat-generation segment, and at least a portion of the smokable segment; those segments being connected together by the overwrap to provide a cigarette rod; that is connected to the cigarette rod using tipping material. | 11-10-2011 |
20110297169 | Banded Papers, Smoking Articles and Methods - 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 the tobacco rod. The pattern can be applied in one or more layers. The pattern may be configured so that when a smoking article is placed on a substrate, at least two longitudinal locations along the length of the tobacco rod have film-forming compound located only on sides of the smoking article not in contact with the substrate. | 12-08-2011 |
20110303233 | Banded Papers, Smoking Articles and Methods - 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 the tobacco rod. The pattern can be applied in one or more layers. The pattern may be configured so that when a smoking article is placed on a substrate, at least two longitudinal locations along the length of the tobacco rod have film-forming compound located only on sides of the smoking article not in contact with the substrate. | 12-15-2011 |
20120031417 | Banded Papers, Smoking Articles and Methods - 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 the tobacco rod. The pattern can be applied in one or more layers. The pattern may be configured so that when a smoking article is placed on a substrate, at least two longitudinal locations along the length of the tobacco rod have film-forming compound located only on sides of the smoking article not in contact with the substrate. | 02-09-2012 |
20120067363 | 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 eliminating some steps in the making of a “roll-your-own” tobacco product. | 03-22-2012 |
20120152266 | Film-Forming Composition For Applying To Cigarette Paper - The present invention relates to a composition having two or three film-forming agents for applying to cigarette paper, wherein the molecular weight distributions of the film-forming agents are statistically significantly different from each other. The invention further relates to a cigarette paper on which the composition is applied to discrete regions, wherein the regions are characterized by a value for diffusivity, and to a cigarette comprising the cigarette paper, characterized by values for auto-selection. The present invention further relates to a method for producing the cigarette paper and the cigarette. | 06-21-2012 |
20120227754 | SMOKING ARTICLES AND WRAPPING MATERIALS THEREFOR - A smoking article includes a smokable rod manufactured using a paper wrapping material having an additive material applied thereto as a pattern. The additive material is applied as coating formulation (e.g., an aqueous coating formulation) incorporating a film-forming agent such as alginate, starch, or another polymer. The wrapping material includes at least one coated region with a porosity of less than about 20 CORESTA and a diffusion capacity no greater than about 0.2 cm/sec, where the coated region is on a base sheet with a porosity of greater than about 120 CORESTA and a diffusion capacity of at least 1.7 cm/sec. | 09-13-2012 |
20120285477 | PROCESS OF PREPARING PRINTING SOLUTION AND MAKING PATTERNED CIGARETTE WRAPPERS - A process for making patterned cigarette wrapper includes the steps of: preparing a printing solution including the steps of: mixing at least water and a starch to form a starch mixture, heating the starch mixture to a temperature of at least about 180° F. preferably for at least about 30 minutes to release amylopectin and amylose, adding propylene glycol to the starch mixture, and mixing the starch mixture and propylene glycol to form a printing solution, wherein the solution is maintained and applied at elevated temperature (120° F. to 150° F.). The process also includes providing a base web of wrapper and applying the printing solution to the wrapper in a predetermined pattern. | 11-15-2012 |
20120298126 | Phase Transition Compositions Used to Impart Reduced Ignition Propensity to Smoking Articles - A composition for imparting reduced ignition propensity properties to a smoking article by treating the smoking article wrapper. The composition comprising at least one phase transition substance which, upon being subjected to the heat of the smoking article burning firecone, physically transforms and at least partially fills the pores of the smoking article wrapper to reduce the permeability of the wrapper in the vicinity of the burning firecone. The reduced permeability of the wrapper in the vicinity of the firecone will permit sufficient air flow to sustain free burn, but, when the smoking article is placed on a substrate, the reduced permeability of the wrapper imparts reduced ignition propensity such that there is insufficient air flow to sustain combustion of the firecone or insufficient air flow to sustain an intensity of the burning firecone necessary to ignite the substrate. | 11-29-2012 |
20130118513 | LIP Smoking Article Wrapper, Smoking Article, Method and Apparatus - A low ignition propensity wrapper comprising a first region and a second region different to the first region, wherein the first region is an embossed region. A low ignition propensity smoking article incorporating the wrapper and an apparatus and a method for forming the wrapper are also described. | 05-16-2013 |
20130139837 | Embossing Techniques - An embossing apparatus for applying an embossing pattern to a wrapper for a smoking article, the embossing apparatus configured so as to act to at least partially minimise the reduction, in at least one direction, in the tensile strength of the wrapper resulting from the application of said embossing pattern. | 06-06-2013 |
20130139838 | Cigarette Paper Having a High Diffusion Capacity During Thermal Decomposition - The invention relates to cigarette paper which contains a water-soluble salt, preferably sodium bicarbonate, potassium bicarbonate or ammonium carbonate, as a result of which a high diffusion capacity during thermal decomposition, and thus a reduction in harmful carbon monoxide in the cigarette smoke, is achieved. The invention relates in particular to cigarette paper comprising at least one water-soluble salt which has lost more than 15% of its initial mass after heating to 230° C. The invention further relates to a cigarette produced from the cigarette paper, to a method for producing the cigarette paper and to the use of the water-soluble salt. | 06-06-2013 |
20130180537 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MAKING SLIT-BANDED WRAPPER USING MOVING ORIFICES - A method and apparatus of manufacturing a web which is striped with add-on material, comprising: a first slurry supply which forms a sheet of base web and moves the sheet along a first path; a second slurry supply; and a moving orifice applicator operative so as to repetitively discharge the second slurry upon the moving sheet of base web. The moving orifice applicator includes a chamber box arranged to establish a reservoir of the second slurry across the first path, an endless belt having orifice groups, the endless belt received through the chamber box, and a drive arrangement operative upon the endless belt to continuously move the orifices along an endless-path and repetitively through the chamber box. | 07-18-2013 |
20130247927 | LOW IGNITION PROPENSITY WRAPPING PAPER MANUFACTURING MACHINE, LOW IGNITION PROPENSITY WRAPPING PAPER AND CIGARETTE - The present invention provides a machine for manufacturing low ignition propensity wrapping paper for cigarettes having combustion inhibition bands (B) intermittently formed on a web of paper by applying a combustion inhibition agent solution to the web by transfer. The machine includes a gravure roll ( | 09-26-2013 |
20130306086 | 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 eliminating some steps in the making of a “roll-your-own” tobacco product. | 11-21-2013 |
20130306087 | CIGARETTE WRAPPER WITH NOVEL PATTERN - A wrapper for a smoking article has a base web and a plurality of crenellated bands, each having a diffusivity value in the range of 0 to about 0.2 cm/sec. The add-on material can be applied by gravure printing in a single pass in a chevron pattern such that an apex of the element is co-linear with substantially symmetrically spaced points on a trailing, outer edge of an adjacent chevron element. Testing elements may be simultaneously printed with the add-on material to monitor diffusivity and/or presence of add-on material. | 11-21-2013 |
20130306088 | CIGARETTE WRAPPER WITH NOVEL PATTERN - A wrapper for a smoking article has a base web and a plurality of elements each having at least a pair of patch areas where diffusivity is in the range of 0 to about 0.2 cm/sec. Patches of adjacent elements are circumferentially offset from one another along the axis of a smoking article. The add-on material can be applied by gravure printing in a single pass in a chevron pattern such that an apex of the element is co-linear with substantially symmetrically spaced points on a trailing, outer edge of an adjacent element. Testing elements may be simultaneously printed with the add-on material to monitor diffusivity and/or presence of add-on material. | 11-21-2013 |
20140144454 | COMPOSITION FOR COATING A PAPER WRAPPER FOR SMOKING ARTICLES - The present invention relates to a composition for coating paper wrapper for smoking articles, which comprises a combination of gum arabic, preferably between 40% and 95% by weight with respect to the total dry material weight of the composition, and a filler that comprises calcium carbonate, preferably in an amount of at least 5% by weight with respect to the dry material weight of the composition, alone or in combination with other substances such as, for example, kaolin, calcium sulphate, titanium dioxide and mixtures thereof, and to the use thereof for producing a paper wrapper for smoking articles. | 05-29-2014 |
20140318563 | SINGLE-LAYER PRINTING METHOD OF PAPER WRAPPER FOR SMOKING ARTICLES - The present invention describes a single-layer printing method of a wrapper for smoking articles, so as to obtain a wrapper for smoking articles with low propensity to ignition using the flexographic technique, characterized in that (1) the printing is carried out by means of a central drum flexographic printing machine using a single printing unit, (2) said unit has an anilox with a capacity of between 10 and 40 cm | 10-30-2014 |
20140360519 | Smooth Wrap - Hybrid Cigar Wrap - A hybrid cigar wrap provides unfilled two-ply shells, machine rolled cigars, and cigarillos having a natural tobacco outer leaf wrapper and an inner hemp, rice or wood-based paper wrapper, having a lighter, cleaner, smoother and less harsh tasting cigar. | 12-11-2014 |
20150013707 | 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 permeability within a predetermined range sufficient to reduce the ignition proclivity properties of a smoking article made with the wrapper. In accordance with the present invention, the film-forming composition contains a film-forming material. The film-forming material has a relatively low viscosity. In this manner, the film-forming composition can have a relatively high solids content and still be applied to the wrapper using conventional techniques, such as by using a gravure printer. | 01-15-2015 |
20150040932 | 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 eliminating some steps in the making of a “roll-your-own” tobacco product. | 02-12-2015 |
20150107614 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PREPARING A FINISHED TOBACCO PRODUCT INCLUDING SPECIAL FORM CASINGS AND SHEET CONFIGURATIONS - A finished tobacco product is formed by a set of pre-rolled sheets. In one embodiment a form casing is used which includes at least two portions—a non-smokable portion along with a container portion which includes tobacco filler material. | 04-23-2015 |
20150122280 | SYNTHESIS AND INCORPORATION OF HIGH-TEMPERATURE AMMONIA-RELEASE AGENT IN LIT-END CIGARETTES - A tobacco smoking mixture and/or a cigarette wrapper with high-temperature ammonia-release agents therein are provided, wherein the high-temperature ammonia-release agents are present in an amount effective to reduce the cytotoxicity of gas phase or particulate matter formed during smoking of the cigarette. The high-temperature ammonia-release agents are capable of reducing the cytotoxicity of gas phase or particulate matter by evolving ammonia at temperatures greater than about 200° C., wherein the ammonia can interact with the particulate matter. Additionally, the high-temperature ammonia-release agents can be formed by heating an aqueous mixture of an iron precursor compound, an ammonia source compound and an acid. | 05-07-2015 |
20150289560 | Cigarette Paper for Self-Extinguishing Cigarettes - The invention relates to a cigarette paper for self-extinguishing cigarettes. The cigarette paper comprises bands onto which a material reducing the diffusion capacity is applied, wherein a band comprises two band-like outer zones ( | 10-15-2015 |
20150327593 | Cigarette Paper with Filler Material with Special Particle Size Distribution - A cigarette paper is disclosed which contains pulp fibres and filler material particles, wherein at least 50% by weight, preferably at least 70% by weight and particularly at least 90% by weight of the filler material has a particle size distribution measured in accordance with ISO 13320 for which for the distribution parameter p=d | 11-19-2015 |
20160000141 | SMOKING ARTICLE HAVING HIDDEN INDICIA - Smoking articles include a marking that includes an indicia that is hidden when viewed from certain angles and visually distinct when viewed from other angles. The marking may be provided on a wrapper, such as a plug wrap, a smokable material wrap, or a tipping paper wrap. The marking may include aligned embossed and printed features with a portion being misaligned. The marking may include a coloured adjacent or surrounding region into which the indica may be hidden and from which it may appear, depending on the viewing angle. The marking may allow a consumer to identify the smoking article as genuine, as opposed to counterfeit. | 01-07-2016 |
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