| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 4977548 |
Clock security device |
December 11, 1990 |
| A clock security device to be hung on a wall of a facility such as, for example, a store. The clock face has a convex mirrored surface which provides reflected panoramic view of the facility. The clock security device also includes a mounting bracket which provides for the mounting of |
| 4961438 |
Smoking device |
October 9, 1990 |
| A smoking device includes a cylindrical reticulated tube having an open air inlet at one end and an open air outlet at the other end filled with an aerosol generating material. An insulating collar is concentrically located with the reticulated tube covering a portion of the tube and |
| 4955397 |
Cigarette |
September 11, 1990 |
| A cigarette including a tobacco rod circumscribed by a metal foil wrapper and having a cylinder of carbon fuel surrounding the metal foil wrapper tobacco rod. An air permeable outer wrapper circumscribes the cylinder of carbon fuel. A filter plug is located at one end of the cigarette. |
| 4945931 |
Simulated smoking device |
August 7, 1990 |
| A simulated smoking device includes a hollow tube with a capsule of pressurized aerosol generating material located inside the tube. An air flow passage is defined between the capsule and tube wall. The capsule includes an aerosol outlet port having a valve for selectively opening and |
| 4934524 |
Package for storing moisture laden articles |
June 19, 1990 |
| A storage package for storing moisture-laden articles such as cigarettes including a shaped receptacle sized to receive a plurality of cigarettes, the receptacle having a moisture control vehicle disposed therein within an overwrap having a low moisture vapor transmission rate (MVTR) wit |
| 4924886 |
Smoking article |
May 15, 1990 |
| A smoking device includes a tobacco column having a wrapper and either a mouthpiece or filter rod located coaxially at one end of the tobacco column. A rigid tube is concentrically located in the tobacco column. A substrate of porous material is located within the tube. A flavor rele |
| 4917121 |
Smoking article |
April 17, 1990 |
| A smoking article includes a tobacco column with a gas impermeable tube concentrically located in the tobacco column. The tube is filled with a granular material which is coated with an aerosolizing material. A first chamber is located at one end of the tobacco column with its inlet end |
| 4913169 |
Smoking article |
April 3, 1990 |
| A smoking article includes a fuel rod, an insulation section at one end of the fuel rod, a tobacco plug at the end of the insulation return, a cooling chamber at the end of the insulation section, and a filter at the end of the chamber. A tube extends concentrically through the fuel rod |
| 4912910 |
Package structure for storing articles and a method and apparatus for accomplishing the same |
April 3, 1990 |
| A unique and novel storage package and method and apparatus for making the same wherein differences in dimension between the outer receptacle and a package stored therein are compensated by a unique corrugated spacer to provide snug storage, such as in the packaging of cigarette packs. |
| 4911184 |
Smoking articles |
March 27, 1990 |
| Low sidestream cigarettes comprise cigarette rods not exceeding 20 mm in circumference. The cigarette rods comprise paper wrappers of a type which effect a sidestream reduction of at least 30% when used on rods of conventional dimensions. |
| 4898191 |
Smoking device |
February 6, 1990 |
| A smoking device having a fuel column circumscribed by a wrapper has a passage with an impermeable wall extending concentrically therethrough and a filter rod at one end of the fuel column in flow communication only with the passage. The passage is filled with a material including an aer |
| 4893638 |
Cigarette |
January 16, 1990 |
| A cigarette having a generally cylindrical tobacco rod having a tobacco filler of ground tobacco. The tobacco rod has a circumference within the range of 10 mm to 19 mm. The tobacco rod is circumscribed by a combustible paper. |
| 4892109 |
Simulated smoking article |
January 9, 1990 |
| A smoking article including a cylindrical, open ended sleeve with a capsule concentrically located within the sleeve and cooperating with the sleeve to define an annular air flow passage therebetween. The capsule includes chemical reactants which exothermally react when mixed together. A |
| 4883449 |
Device for making grooves in cigarette filters |
November 28, 1989 |
| An apparatus for sequentially forming a plurality of generally longitudinally extending grooves in the peripheral surface of a filter rod includes a hollow rotatable drum having a plurality of filter rod receiving channels formed in its outer peripheral surface for receiving filter r |
| 4867298 |
Conveyor system for planar panel |
September 19, 1989 |
| A conveyor system for conveying planar panels in single file. The conveyor system can be used for receiving panels from bulk storage to a workstation. The conveyor system includes a conveyor belt apparatus located to receive the panels at its upstream end from the bulk supply device. |
| 4865222 |
Adapter for a package dispensing machine |
September 12, 1989 |
| An adapter device for a cigarette package dispensing machine for modifying the dispensing machine to dispense thinner sized packages than the dispensing machine was originally designed to dispense. Typical cigarette package dispenser machines include column support magazines for containi |
| 4825885 |
Cigarette having circumferential grooves in the tobacco rod |
May 2, 1989 |
| A cigarette having a tobacco rod circumscribed by a combustible wrapper. The wrapped tobacco rod includes a plurality of circumferential grooves embedded in the wrapper and underlying tobacco rod. |
| 4825884 |
Process for forming flavor compounds in tobacco |
May 2, 1989 |
| A tobacco treating process for forming favorable flavor compounds in a moisturized tobacco including the steps of contacting the tobacco with citrus pectin, invert sugar, or diammonium phosphate, or a combination resulting in a tobacco having a pectin level and diammonium phosphate l |
| 4815592 |
Nested cigarette package spacer |
March 28, 1989 |
| Disclosed herein are package inserts for cigarette products which comprise mutually nestable package inserts having cut-out edges to facilitate the removal of tobacco products from a package and which interconnect with other packaging inserts having the same shape so as to permit the |
| 4793478 |
Cigarette package and the like |
December 27, 1988 |
| In one embodiment, a cigarette package includes a block section formed with a plurality of spaced apart, parallel bores open to the top of the block section. Each of the bores receives an individual cigarette which cigarette protrudes from the top of the block section. A cover is rem |
| 4773531 |
Cigarette carton with package separator and package spacer therefor |
September 27, 1988 |
| A cigarette carton and a cigarette carton spacer for spacing and protecting smaller than standard size cigarette packs in a standard size cigarette carton. A single or plurality of spacers can be used depending upon the size of the undersized packs to be installed in the standard size ca |
| 4771882 |
Cigarette package with spacer |
September 20, 1988 |
| A cigarette package includes a plurality of undersized cigarettes which do not entirely fill the cigarette package. The cigarettes are arranged in an orderly group such as, for example, two rows of ten cigarettes each. As is conventional practice, the group of cigarettes is bundled in a |
| 4765348 |
Non-combustible simulated cigarette device |
August 23, 1988 |
| A non-combustible simulated cigarette inhaler device includes a hollow cylindrical tube having an open air inlet end and an opposed open air outlet end to be placed in the mouth of a user. A first element of air permeable material is located within the hollow tube across a segment of |
| 4760854 |
Tobacco expansion process |
August 2, 1988 |
| An improved tobacco treating expansion process involving controlling the moisture content of tobacco and the pre-separator residence time thereof in a treatment of the moisture controlled tobacco under preselected pressures and temperatures so that the tobacco at exit from the drying |
| 4744375 |
Process for forming flavor compounds in tobacco |
May 17, 1988 |
| A tobacco treating process for forming favorable flavor compounds in a moisturized tobacco including the steps of introducing the moistened tobacco into a containing zone; introducing an ammonia source into the containing zone; heating the contained zone when substantially closed to |
| 4733796 |
Cigarette package |
March 29, 1988 |
| A cigarette package includes an open topped container for holding a plurality of cigarettes and a cover hinged to the back wall of the container for selectively closing the open top of the container. The top edge of the front wall of the container is lower than the top edge of the ba |
| 4708150 |
Cigarette filter |
November 24, 1987 |
| A filter for a cigarette includes a porous filter rod circumscribed by a substantially non-porous or air impermeable wrapper with selected air permeable areas, and ventilating air grooves embedded in the wrapped filter rod which extend from on end of the filter rod a preselected dist |
| 4706691 |
Tobacco treating process |
November 17, 1987 |
| An improved tobacco treating process for smoking articles including the steps of shredding the tobacco in a disc shredder, controlling the specific energy imparted to the tobacco being shredded to an empirically predetermined value, and processing the shredded tobacco under high humi |
| 4700722 |
Process for retaining alkaloids by treating with strong acids before drying |
October 20, 1987 |
| A method of treating tobacco with a strong acid to inhibit alkaloid loss during drying. The tobacco is then treated with weak base to neutralize the acid. The preferred strong acid is phosphoric. The preferred weak base is ammonium hydroxide. An added benefit of this treatment is burn |
| 4687007 |
Process for drying and expanding tobacco |
August 18, 1987 |
| An improved tobacco treating process for smoking articles including the steps of introducing tobacco to be dryed into a restricted pressure and flow controllable system to be entrained by pressurized stream for preselected residence time before disentrainment therefrom, the steam bei |
| 4685993 |
Apparatus for binding packages together |
August 11, 1987 |
| An apparatus for banding at least two stacked packages together in superimposed registered relationship by applying a band to two consecutive sides of the package stack concentric with the interface of the packages of the stack. The apparatus includes a turret having stacked package |
| 4681126 |
Process for manufacturing reconstituted tobacco |
July 21, 1987 |
| A process for manufacturing reconstituted tobacco from tobacco stems and tobacco fines includes treating the tobacco stems to a fibrous form, and mixing the fibrous tobacco stems with tobacco lamina fines. The mixture is then deposited on a moving mesh screen whereon it is formed into a |
| 4681125 |
Mouthpiece for tobacco smoke article |
July 21, 1987 |
| A tobacco smoke mouthpiece including a smoke impervious plug member having an upstream smoke inlet end and a downstream smoke outlet or mouth end with groove(s) in the periphery of the plug member extending from the inlet end to the mouth end, the plug member being blocked adjacent the |
| 4677996 |
Smoking article mouthpieces |
July 7, 1987 |
| A cigarette filter element comprising at least one duct extending from one end to the other of the element, which element is operated on by a heated former moving relatively to it in a rotary fashion. The heated former serves to provide a cavity or annular groove through filtration mater |
| 4677994 |
Process for treating, drying and expanding tobacco |
July 7, 1987 |
| An improved tobacco treating process for smoking articles including the steps of applying an ammonia source to tobacco to be dryed, passing the ammonia treated tobacco in a restricted pressure and flow controllable system to be entrained by pressurized steam for a preselected residence |
| 4669611 |
Package group |
June 2, 1987 |
| A package group comprising at least two individual packages fastened together in stacked, registered superimposed relationship by a wrap around band. The wrap around band is adhesively attached to two adjacent sides of the package group symmetrically with the interface between the two |
| 4655736 |
Method of manufacturing a tobacco smoke filter |
April 7, 1987 |
| A method of manufacturing tobacco smoke filter of filamentous material with at least one end thereof having a preselected fused area embedded in and over at least a portion of the cross-sectional area thereof having a preselected fused area extending over at least a portion of the cr |
| 4649943 |
Cigarette filter and method of making the same |
March 17, 1987 |
| A filter for a cigarette includes a porous filter rod circumscribed by an air impermeable wrapper and ventilation grooves embedded in the wrapped filter rod which extend from one end of the filter rod a preselected distance generally longitudinally thereof. A plurality of ventilation air |
| 4648858 |
Apparatus for manufacturing a cigarette filter tow |
March 10, 1987 |
| An apparatus for manufacturing a filter rod having a hollow tube extending longitudinally through the filter rod. The apparatus includes a supply reel of hollow tubing, a supply of filter material web, and a garniture funnel into which the filter material web and hollow tubing are co |
| 4646762 |
Cigarette having a mouthpiece |
March 3, 1987 |
| A smoking article, such as a cigarette, includes, in one advantageous embodiment, a generally cylindrical, hollow tubular mouth section located in coaxial abutment to one end of the tobacco column of the cigarette. The wall of the mouth section is fabricated of an impermeable material. A |
| 4643206 |
Cigarette filter |
February 17, 1987 |
| A filter for a cigarette includes a porous filter rod having a capillary smoke passageway extending coaxially therethrough. The filter rod is circumscribed by a non-porous wrapper and the filter rod with the non-porous wrapper therearound is provided with at least one groove extendin |
| 4641748 |
Package for cigarettes and the like |
February 10, 1987 |
| A package for cigarettes and the like includes an article container box having an open top through which the cigarettes are removed from the container box. The package further includes two side box sections having facing open sides. The two side box sections symmetrically enclose the |
| 4637410 |
Cigarettes |
January 20, 1987 |
| A cigarette comprises a tobacco rod of tobacco filler wrapped in a paper wrapper, the circumference of the rod being within a range of 10 mm to 19 mm and the free burn rate of the rod being within a range of 25 to 45 mg min.sup.-1. The cigarette may comprise considerably less tobacco tha |
| 4636183 |
Apparatus for making grooves in cigarette filters |
January 13, 1987 |
| An apparatus for, in one advantageous embodiment, concurrently forming a plurality of generally longitudinally extending grooves in a filter rod, and in another advantageous embodiment, for making small apertures in the grooves as the grooves are being formed in the filter rod. The appar |
| 4622875 |
System and process for sorting and opening packages |
November 18, 1986 |
| A system and process for sorting and opening packages particularly suitable for reclaiming reusable, returned goods. The system and process separates unusable returned goods from reusable returned goods, and gathers information and data on the goods which information can be of benefit to |
| 4620557 |
Cigarette having a mouthpiece and method of making same |
November 4, 1986 |
| A cigarette has a cylindrical impermeable mouthpiece located in coaxial abutment to one end of a tobacco column of the cigarette. The mouthpiece includes an annular groove in its peripheral surface and a plurality of longitudinally extending grooves formed in its peripheral surface e |
| 4617946 |
Tobacco smoke mouthpiece and method of making same |
October 21, 1986 |
| A tobacco smoke mouthpiece and method of manufacture therefor, the mouthpiece including a formed rod having spaced, opposed, axially aligned, open-ended tobacco smoke inlet and outlet chambers and at least one apertured mixing chamber therebetween, the rod being surrounded by apertur |
| 4611607 |
Cigarette filter |
September 16, 1986 |
| A filter for a cigarette includes a porous filter rod circumscribed by a non-porous wrapper provided with at least one groove embedded into the periphery of the filter rod extending from the mouth end thereof a preselected distance longitudinally therealong less than the entire length |
| 4608999 |
Cigarette filter |
September 2, 1986 |
| A filter for a cigarette includes a porous filter rod circumscribed by a non-porous wrapper and a tipping material having selected openings therein for allowing ventilating air to pass therethrough. Spacing members are disposed between the non-porous wrapper and tipping material to form |
| 4585015 |
Cigarette filter |
April 29, 1986 |
| A filter for a cigarette has a porous filter rod with a channel extending longitudinally through the filter rod. The end of the filter at the tobacco column of the cigarette includes a partition having an orifice therethrough of a smaller cross-sectional area than the cross-sectional |
