Tobacco inventions 06/06

20060137700 - Triacetin resistant hot melt adhesive: Hot melt adhesives comprising a polar tackifier are triacetin resistant and particularly advantageous for use as a plug wrap sealing adhesive. Particularly preferred for use in the practice of the invention are hot melt adhesives comprising a rosin ester tackifier....

20060137701 - Ceria/zirconia fiberes for use in cigarettes: Ceria/zirconia fibres are incorporated into a variety of smokable articles or their separate individual components, in particular, cigarette components such as a cigarette paper/wrapper, tobacco, and/or filter....

20060137702 - Anti-cigarette herbal formulation as an antidote to tobacco: The present invention provides a novel nicotine free anticigarette herbal formulation as an anti-dote to the poisoning effects of tobacco products such as Cigarettes, Gutka, Pan masala and other similar tobacco related products. Formulation(s) comprises of sterilized dried plant powder/extracts together with the conventional additives to form the oral dosage...

20060130854 - Product change method for a cigarette manufacturing machine: A product change method for a cigarette manufacturing machine, wherein an input hopper receives a first type of shredded tobacco from a supply header, and feeds it to at least one channel for forming, on a conveyor, a bead of tobacco, which is released onto a paper strip travelling along...

20060130855 - Smoking article with mercaptopropyl functionalized sorbent and method: Mercaptopropyl functionalized molecular sieves such as mesoporous SBA-15 silica molecular sieves can be prepared via incipient-wetness impregnation of (3-mercaptopropyl)triethoxysilane of up to a loading of about 15 mole %. The functionalized materials are more hydrophobic than parent material, and can be used as adsorbents to reduce the concentration of heavy...

20060130856 - Tobacco smoke filter: A tobacco smoke filter which gives acceptable vapour phase filtration and flavour delivery in the presence of volatile flavourant (e.g. menthol), the filter containing activated carbon in which (1) pores of under 2 nm pore diameter (micropores) provide a pore volume of at most 0.3 cm3/g (NZ); and (2) (a)...

20060130857 - Device, method, and composition for reducing the incidence of tobacco smoking: A device which facilitates the absorption of nicotine in order to reduce the incidence of tobacco smoking is disclosed. The device includes a tube defining an interior space. The tube has a first end with an opening and a second end. An inhalable, flowable liquid or gel composition is disposed...

20060130858 - Module for a machine and method for perforating rod-shaped articles of the tobacco industry: A module for a machine used in the tobacco processing industry for processing, assembling, and/or inspecting rod-shaped articles. The machine module includes a vertical conveyor....

20060130859 - Process for reducing nitrogen containing compounds and lignin in tobacco: A process for reducing lignin and nitrogenous content in tobacco lamina and tobacco fiber material, including whole leaf, stems, scraps, fines and lamina, as well as burley leaf and stem, in an extraction with a solution containing hydrogen peroxide and an alkali metal hydroxide. The treated tobacco may then be...

20060130860 - Method and device for analyzing cigarette smoking: A method for analysing cigarette smoking, which includes equipping a smoker with a portable assembly including a cigarette holder equipped with a detector to detect smoking-related parameters and a processor connected to the detectors. The processing module includes memory with date/time recording of the detected parameters and transfer devices for...

20060130861 - Flavor carrier for use in smoking articles: Flavor carriers, smoking articles, method of making flavor carriers, methods of making smoking articles, methods of flavoring gas streams such as mainstream tobacco smoke and methods of smoking are provided. The flavor carriers and smoking articles comprise a mesoporous molecular sieve and a flavor releasably disposed within the sieve....

20060130862 - Smoking articles and smokable filler materials therefor: The invention relates to a smoking article incorporating a smoking material comprising three main components, namely a non-combustible inorganic filler, an alginic binder and aerosol generating means. The smoking material is combined with tobacco material, which may be treated with additional humectant, to provide a smoking article that has an...

20060124142 - Method for dispersing powder materials in a cigarette rod: A system and method is provided for dispersing fine catalyst powders having nanoscale or microscale particles throughout the tobacco rod portion of a cigarette. A source of vacuum is connected to the filter end of a cigarette through a tube that is sealingly engaged with the filter end of the...

20060124143 - Tobacco flavor applicator: A system of applying liquid flavor to cut tobacco material includes a first tank of concentrated liquid flavor and a second tank of water. A venturi device is constructed and arranged to receive and meter concentrated liquid flavor and water from the first and second tanks and to discharge mixed...

20060124144 - Device to avoid auto-extinguishing of cigars: A device that sucks small quantities of air through a lit cigar in order to maintain sufficient oxygen flow to prevent the cigar from going out....

20060124145 - Filter element: The aim of the invention is to obtain filter tows or filtering materials for manufacturing filters for smoking products which make it possible to prevent or at least reduce health risks due to the release of the filter components and external contamination of cigarettes by filter components. According to the...

20060124146 - Wrapping materials for smoking articles: Smokable rods of cigarettes are manufactured using wrapping materials that incorporate at least one fibrous material (e.g., flax fibers, hardwood pulp fibers and/or softwood pulp fibers) at least one filler material (e.g., calcium carbonate in particulate form). The wrapping materials possess multi-layer coatings. The wrapping materials include coatings in the...

20060112963 - Vertical filter filling machine and process: Process and apparatus for the mass production of compound cigarette filters function to deposit granular filter material into the open ends of vertically oriented filter tubes. Predetermined amounts of diverse granular material are withdrawn by suction from sources of such material, and these amounts are deposited into the tubes. Solid...

20060112964 - Capsuled adsorbent flavored filter: A cigarette comprises a filter and a tobacco rod. The filter includes a capsule having opposite end walls with flavored adsorbent particles in the enclosure of the capsule. The end walls are perforated so that mainstream tobacco smoke passes through the capsule during the smoking process to thereby modify the...

20060112965 - Chewing tobacco substitute containing cotinine: The invention is a chewing tobacco substitute made from natural leaves and additives which simulate the taste and consistency of chewing tobacco to which a nicotine compound is added. The invention allows those addicted to chewing tobacco to chew and receive nicotine without incurring the other harmful side effects of...