| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 4583657 |
Adapter for a package dispensing machine |
April 22, 1986 |
| An adapter device for a cigarette package dispensing machine for modifying the dispensing machine to contain and dispense smaller sized packages than the dispensing machine was originally designed to contain and dispense. Typical cigarette dispensing machines include a plurality of packa |
| 4582072 |
Cigarette filter |
April 15, 1986 |
| A filter for a cigarette includes a porous filter rod having a capillary smoke passageway extending coaxially therethrough and a hollow, generally cylindrical mouthpiece coaxially located with the filter rod at the mouth end of the filter rod. The filter rod is circumscribed by a non-por |
| 4582070 |
Tobacco treating process |
April 15, 1986 |
| An improved tobacco treating process for smoking articles including the steps of moistening and shredding tobacco stems at a preselected temperature range and drying such shredded stems under high humidity conditions controlled to obtain unexpectedly high fill values. |
| 4580584 |
Cigarette filter |
April 8, 1986 |
| 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 |
| 4566468 |
Process and system for making a blended tobacco product |
January 28, 1986 |
| A process and apparatus for producing a smoking tobacco having a low nitrate content includes at least one stage through which a tobacco having a relatively high nitrate content, for example burley tobacco, continuously passes for continuous nitrate removal by dissolution. In the nit |
| 4557281 |
Filtered cigarette |
December 10, 1985 |
| A smoking article, such as a cigarette, includes an air impermeable generally cylindrically shaped plug located in coaxial abutment to one end of the tobacco column of the cigarette and a generally cylindrically shaped filter rod located in coaxial abutment with the plug. The plug is |
| 4557280 |
Process for reduction of nitrate and nicotine content of tobacco by microbial treatment |
December 10, 1985 |
| A process for the reduction of the nitrate and nicotine contents of tobacco by microbial treatment is disclosed wherein tobacco materials are subjected, under controlled conditions, to the action of a microorganism effective to degrade nitrates and alkaloids (nicotine) through a bioc |
| 4556073 |
Process for reduction of nitrate content of tobacco by microbial treatment |
December 3, 1985 |
| A process for the reduction of the nitrate content of tobacco materials by microbial treatment is disclosed wherein tobacco materials are subjected, under controlled conditions, to the action of a microorganism effective to degrade nitrates through a biochemical reaction. Tobacco materia |
| 4550740 |
Mouthpiece for a cigarette and a cigarette having same |
November 5, 1985 |
| A mouthpiece adapted to be attached to a smoking article, such as a cigarette, includes, in one advantageous embodiment, an air impermeable core member of smaller diameter than the tobacco column to which it is to be coaxially located and a generally cylindrically shaped hollow sleeve |
| 4547253 |
Device for making grooves in cigarette filters |
October 15, 1985 |
| A device for concurrently forming a plurality of generally longitudinally extending grooves in a filter rod includes at least one pair of groove forming rollers located in a common plane, with their axes of rotation generally parallel and with their peripheries spaced apart. A plurality |
| 4545391 |
Cigarette filter |
October 8, 1985 |
| A filter for a cigarette includes a smoke impermeable core of generally cylindrical shape and a smoke permeable material overlaying at least a portion of the periphery of the core. The core with the overlaying permeable material is circumscribed by an air pervious tipping material to |
| 4542754 |
Filtered cigarette |
September 24, 1985 |
| A smoking article, such as a cigarette, includes generally cylindrically shaped, hollow tubular section located in coaxial abutment to one end of the tobacco column of the cigarette and a generally cylindrically shaped filter rod located in coaxial abutment with the tubular section. The |
| 4540005 |
Cigarette having a mouthpiece |
September 10, 1985 |
| A smoking article, such as a cigarette, has a mouth section which includes a generally cylindrical, impermeable, plug member located in coaxial abutment to one end of the tobacco column of the cigarette. A plurality of smoke flow capillaries are formed through the plug member. A generall |
| 4536149 |
Apparatus for making grooves in cigarette filters |
August 20, 1985 |
| 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 |
| 4535793 |
Smoking article filters |
August 20, 1985 |
| A ventilated filter element comprising a fibrous filter element wherein a plurality of equiangularly spaced apart grooves extend in a parallel fashion along the longitudinal axis of the filter element from the mouth end of the element for a distance less than the total length of the |
| 4533427 |
Device for making grooves in cigarette filters |
August 6, 1985 |
| An apparatus for forming grooves in the peripheral surface of a filter rod includes an endless conveyor device having a generally horizontal top conveyor flight which intermittently moves the filter rods through the apparatus. The endless conveyor device has a plurality of filter rod |
| 4528995 |
Sealed pneumatic tobacco conveying and treating apparatus |
July 16, 1985 |
| An apparatus for treating a tobacco as it is conveyed through the apparatus includes a heater for heating the treating and conveying gas, a tobacco-gas separator device for separating the treated tobacco from the treating and conveying gas, a duct fluidity interconnecting the heater |
| 4528994 |
Tobacco treating process |
July 16, 1985 |
| An improved tobacco treating process wherein fill value improvement can be obtained with less energy and less carbon dioxide requirements comprising mixing tobacco with finely divided solid CO.sub.2 at controlled preselected parts by weight, impregnating the mixture with carbon dioxide |
| 4527572 |
Tobacco smoke filters |
July 9, 1985 |
| A filter for a smoking article such as a cigarette, comprising several grooves of varying depth between a shallow inlet end and a deep outlet end thereof, the outlet end face being air permeable to an extent greater than are the floor or the sides of each groove. A tipping enwrapping the |
| 4527570 |
Device for manufacturing a mouthpiece and attaching mouthpieces to cigarette tobacco columns |
July 9, 1985 |
| A device for attaching two axially aligned cigarette tobacco columns to an intermediately disposed double length rigid mouthpiece, hereinafter referred to as a cigarette group, by wrapping a sheet of tipping material around the double length rigid mouthpiece and a portion of each tobacco |
| 4517996 |
Ventilated filter and smoke dispersing mouthpiece |
May 21, 1985 |
| A filter device for a cigarette includes a porous filter rod and a smoke impermeable mouthpiece located at the smoke outlet end of the filter rod. The mouthpiece is formed with a converging nozzle open to the smoke outlet end of the filter rod, and a diverging nozzle, in flow communicati |
| 4517992 |
Tobacco conditioning apparatus |
May 21, 1985 |
| A tobacco treating apparatus including an outer, rotatable, hollow drum having a tobacco inlet at one end and a tobacco outlet at the opposite end with an inner, hollow drum extending through the tobacco inlet end, generally coaxial with the outer drum and extending a distance longit |
| 4517046 |
Device for making grooves in cigarette filters |
May 14, 1985 |
| An apparatus for sequentially forming a plurality of generally longitudinally extending grooves in the peripheral surface of a filter rod includes a rotatable drum having a plurality of filter rod receiving channels formed in its outer peripheral surface for receiving filter rods to |
| 4515518 |
Towable, hydraulically powered lifting and transport trailer |
May 7, 1985 |
| An improved transport assembly including a carriage and container arrangement which provides for moving a plurality of containers into several recesses of a moveable carriage frame and lifting the carriage frame for mass movement of the containers by the carriage frame. |
| 4515170 |
Ventilated mouthpiece for a smoking article |
May 7, 1985 |
| A ventilated mouthpiece adapted to be attached to a smoking article, such as a cigarette, includes a generally cylindrical core member of smoke and air impermeable material having a smoke inlet end and a mouth end. The smoke inlet end is to be placed in juxtaposition to one end of the to |
| 4514249 |
Device for making grooves in cigarette filters |
April 30, 1985 |
| An apparatus for forming grooves in the peripheral surface of a filter rod includes two endless conveyor devices located such that one conveyor flight of a first one of the endless conveyor devices is generally parallel to and spaced from one conveyor flight of the second one of the |
| 4514180 |
Method of making filter for a cigarette product |
April 30, 1985 |
| A filter for a cigarette product has a cylindrical filter plug or element surrounded by a filter wrapping material. The overlapping edges of the filter wrap are secured together by a line of adhesive along and between the overlapping edges. The filter wrap is anchored to the filter plug |
| 4506683 |
Ventilated mouthpiece for a smoking article |
March 26, 1985 |
| A ventilated mouthpiece adapted to be attached to a smoking article, such as a cigarette, includes a generally cylindrical core member of smoke and air impermeable material having a smoke inlet end and a mouth end. The smoke inlet end is to be placed in juxtaposition to one end of the to |
| 4503869 |
Cigarette mouthpiece |
March 12, 1985 |
| A cigarette mouthpiece of substantially cylindrical configuration assembled of two identical semi-cylindrical sections disposed in mutual concavely facing relationship with each longitudinal edge of one section in abuttment with a different one of the longitudinal edges of the other |
| 4498488 |
Cigarette filter |
February 12, 1985 |
| A cigarette filter includes a porous filter element attached to a cigarette, the element circumscribed by ventilating air ducts with an impermeable barrier therebetween so that smoke travels down the filter element and ventilating air travels down the ducts during use. The size of th |
| 4497276 |
Apparatus and method for applying plasticizers to fibrous filter material |
February 5, 1985 |
| A filter rod making machine is provided with an apparatus for applying plasticizer to a band of fibrous filter material wherein the application rate of the plasticizer is independent of the filter tow weight or width of the band passing through the apparatus. The plasticizer is added to |
| 4494556 |
Pneumatic conveying tobacco drying apparatus |
January 22, 1985 |
| An apparatus for drying tobacco includes a heater for heating a drying and conveying gas to a predetermined temperature sufficient to dry the tobacco to a predetermined moisture content, a tobacco-gas separator device of the short residence type located downstream of the heater, a first |
| 4493331 |
Cigarette filter |
January 15, 1985 |
| A filter for a cigarette which includes a protrusion of smoke permeable material integral with and coaxially projecting from the mouth end of the filter rod. The mouth end of the filter rod surrounding the protrusion is smoke impermeable so that as the cigarette to which the filter is at |
| 4480982 |
Apparatus for making grooves in cigarette filters |
November 6, 1984 |
| 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 |
| 4478229 |
Smoke filters |
October 23, 1984 |
| A smoke filter for a smoking article (e.g. a cigarette) comprises a filter plug having ducts extending partway along the plug from the mouth end thereof, and opening in register with inlets through wrapping means around the plug to provide segregated peripheral venting of the filter.Furt |
| 4476882 |
Tobacco smoke filters |
October 16, 1984 |
| A smoke filter for a smoking article (e.g. a cigarette) comprises a filter plug having an airflow duct whose floor extends along the filter plug from the mouth end of the plug such that the end of the duct remote from the mouth end is deeper than the end of the duct at the mouth end, wit |
| 4476881 |
Microbial digestion of tobacco materials using mixed cultures |
October 16, 1984 |
| A mixed complementary culture of bacteria and fungi are used to degrade pectin and cellulose components of tobacco materials. |
| 4474192 |
Cigarettes |
October 2, 1984 |
| A cigarette comprises a cigarette rod of smokable material enwrapped in a cigarette wrapper and a filter tip attached at one end of said rod by means of a tipping wrapper, which tip comprises smoke-filtration means and is provided at its periphery with at least one groove extending to th |
| 4468912 |
Apparatus for depositing coupons on cartons |
September 4, 1984 |
| An apparatus for placing coupons, and the like, on cartons includes a supply source of coupons in the form of a web of coupons, a coupon advance drum for moving the coupon web from the supply source to the location of the cartons upon which the coupons are to be deposited, a knife device |
| 4457319 |
Cigarette filter |
July 3, 1984 |
| A filter for a cigarette which includes a centrally disposed generally conical baffle at the mouth end thereof with its conically shaped wall diverging in the general direction of the flow of smoke through the filter to divert the smoke exiting from the center of the filter when in use. |
| 4452260 |
Tobacco paste cigarette additive and cigarette having same |
June 5, 1984 |
| A processed expandable tobacco paste as an additive to a cigarette, and a cigarette having the tobacco paste is disclosed. The tobacco paste provides a cigarette with the physical properties of firmness of tobacco, even tobacco burning, draw resistance, cigarette end stability and coal |
| 4446878 |
Cigarette filter |
May 8, 1984 |
| A filter for a cigarette which includes means at the mouth end thereof to divert the exiting smoke in a lateral direction. |
| 4438776 |
Cigarette filter |
March 27, 1984 |
| A filter for a cigarette includes a generally cylindrical permeable filter rod circumscribed by an air permeable tipping material with a plurality of blind-end channels formed in the filter rod, each of the channels being open at one end to the upstream end of the filter rod and extendin |
| 4424819 |
Cigarette filter |
January 10, 1984 |
| A filter for a cigarette includes a porous filter rod circumscribed by a non-porous or air impermeable wrapper, and ventilating air grooves embedded in the wrapped filter rod which extend from one end of the filter rod a preselected distance generally longitudinally thereof. The ends of |
| 4414841 |
Method and apparatus for determining percent solids in a slurry |
November 15, 1983 |
| A method for determining the percent of solids in a solid-liquid mixture or slurry by heating the slurry, removing vapor formed by heating the slurry, passing an ultrasonic signal through the heated slurry, and measuring the velocity and alteration of the ultrasonic signal in the slurry. |
| 4406295 |
Cigarette filter |
September 27, 1983 |
| A filter for a cigarette includes a porous filter rod circumscribed by a non-porous or air impermeable wrapper, and ventilating air grooves embedded in the wrapped filter rod which extend from one end of the filter rod a preselected distance generally longitudinally of the filter rod. An |
| 4406294 |
Cigarette filter |
September 27, 1983 |
| A filter for a cigarette includes a porous filter rod circumscribed by a porous or air permeable wrapper, and ventilating air grooves embedded in the wrapped filter rod which extend from one end of the filter rod a preselected distance generally longitudinally thereof. The wall of each o |
| 4393885 |
Cigarette filter |
July 19, 1983 |
| A filter for a cigarette has a porous filter rod with a channel extending longitudinally through the filter rod. The end of the channel at the tobacco column of the cigarette is closed by a smoke impervious wall having an orifice therein of a smaller cross-sectional area than the cro |
| 4392501 |
Method of processing fresh tobacco leaves |
July 12, 1983 |
| Freshly cut tobacco leaves are processed wherein the processing includes particle size reduction and drying immediately upon harvesting. |
| 4387728 |
Cigarette filter |
June 14, 1983 |
| A filter for a cigarette includes a porous filter rod circumscribed by a non-porous wrapper wherein the filter rod with the non-porous wrapper therearound is provided with grooves extending from one end thereof a preselected distance longitudinally therealong. The grooves are open to |
