Tobacco inventions 05/07

20070119466 - Sleeve for a russian cigarette: The casing of the <<Russian>> cigarette has an empty mouthpiece (1) and a connected empty envelope (2), the length of the mouthpiece (1) not less than the length of the envelope (2), the envelope (2) overlaps the mouthpiece (1) with all its length, the mouthpiece (1) and the envelope (2)... Agent: Pauley Petersen & Erickson

20070119467 - Filter-tipped cigarette: A filter-tipped cigarette comprises tobacco core 1 contained in casing 3, and filter 2, the filter having first filtering member 4 connected by its one end to tobacco core 1, and a second filtering member provided within first filtering member 4. The second filtering member comprises a distributed system of... Agent: Houston Eliseeva

20070113863 - Cigarette filter and cigarette provided with the same: A cigarette filter includes a cigarette filter material to which 2-phenyl-4,4,5,5-tetramethylimidazoline-3-oxide-1-oxyl is added.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070113862 - Oxidant/catalyst nanoparticles to reduce tobacco smoke constituents such as carbon monoxide: Cut filler compositions, cigarettes, methods for making cigarettes and methods for smoking cigarettes are provided, which involve the use of nanoparticle additives capable of reducing amounts of at least one constituent from mainstream and/or sidestream tobacco smoke, the at least one constituent being selected from the group consisting of aldehyde,... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070107738 - Apparatus and methods for manufacturing cigarettes: An apparatus and method for manufacturing small quantities of cigarettes in a substantially simultaneous fashion while maintaining consistent quality between the cigarettes. The apparatus provides for arranging loose tobacco into tobacco charges and simultaneously inserting the charges into pre-formed tubular cigarette wrappers.... Agent: Kilpatrick Stockton LLP

20070107739 - Straight conveying device for vacuum: A working rod with a tip end extending into a vacuum process chamber and moving in the axial direction, two static-pressure gas bearings supporting the rod in the non-contact manner, and an internal moving body of a magnet coupling type driving mechanism driving the rod are housed in a rod... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070107740 - Machine for manufacturing composite filters: Composite filters are assembled initially by an upstream unit as groups of at least two plugs having different filtration properties. A single flow of the groups is directed from the assembling unit onto a pair of drums and divided into two flows, whereupon these are taken up by two pitch-adapting... Agent: Harbin King & Klima

20070107741 - Litter disposal device: A hand held litter disposal device for temporarily storing and containing cigarette ash, butts, and other litter. The litter disposal device includes a cap, a storage system, a pivot system adapted to permit the cap to move between the closed and open positions, and an extinguishing system containable within the... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070107742 - Hang-it-up-astray: The Hang-It-Up-Astray is in the shape of a box or cup but with a long back flap used to hang it up to any surface and be closed for portability. It is made of a flexible material which is non-breakable. This ashtray has a specially designed cigarette holder strip that... Agent: Diane Yoonne Rowe

20070107743 - Reconstituted tobaccos containing additive materials: A reconstituted tobacco material incorporates an exogenous tocopherol or derivative thereof, such as in the amount of at least about 0.1 weight percent. A tobacco blend can be formed by combining reconstituted tobacco material incorporating such an additive with one or more additional tobacco materials, such as burley tobacco, Oriental... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070102012 - On line formation of recessed cigarette filter: A process for the on line production of cigarette filters comprises the steps of conveying a continuous thin flexible substrate past a source of smoke altering particulate material, such as adsorbents, catalysts and flavorants. An electrostatic charge is applied onto the substrate upstream of the source of particulate material. A... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20070102013 - Electrical smoking system: A tobacco mass is heated to a temperature of about 150° to about 220° C. to release flavorful tobacco volatiles, which are entrained in air passing through the tobacco mass, and condensed to form an inhalable aerosol. The tobacco mass may have a rotationally symmetric shape, with at least part... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070102014 - Method and device for transferring, in particular, flavouring agents to cigarettes: (Liquid) flavoring agents and other substances are transferred to cigarettes immediately prior to or during the packaging operation of the cigarettes (12). An advantageous solution is that of the substances being transferred directly to free ends of the cigarettes (12) once cigarette groups (11) have been formed and during transportation... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070102015 - Machine for opening cigarette packs and inspecting cigarettes: The present invention refers to a machine for opening cigarette packs and inspecting cigarettes (1), used to recover cigarettes contained in soft cup type packs (72), comprising: cigarette pack accumulator (2); transfer channel (3); first drum (4); cigarette pack holding pouches (27); device for opening the flaps of the aluminum... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070102016 - Filter tip: A filter tip used by a cigarette has at least one screw-like tunnel. Adopting the above structure, under the premise of not increasing air clogging, the screw-like tunnel of the present cigarette filter increases path length of the smoke crossing the cigarette filter and enlarges adsorbing area of the cigarette... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20070102017 - Gravure-printed, branded cigarette paper: A cigarette and cigarette paper have a plurality of multilayer bands formed by printing a highly viscous aqueous film-forming composition. After heating the composition to lower its viscosity, the bands are applied to the cigarette paper by gravure printing the composition. The composition is quenched and gelatinized by contact with... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070095356 - Non-tobacco pouch product: A pouched non-tobacco product includes a lined pouch material of a web and a water-soluble liner adjacent the web and a non-tobacco flavorful component contained within the lined pouch material. The water-soluble liner is interposed between the web and the non-tobacco flavorful component. The liner preferably reduces staining of the... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070095357 - Smoking article with manually releasable odorant: A smoking article has an outer surface and a plurality of frangible microcapsules provided on the outer surface, wherein the microcapsules are capable of being manually ruptured by a consumer to release an odorant encapsulated therein. The smoking article preferably comprises a wrapped tobacco rod; and a filter attached to... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070095358 - Cigarette wrapper with printed catalyst: A wrapper for a smoking article includes a web; and a patterned deposit on at least a portion of one surface of the wrapper, wherein the patterned deposit comprises catalyst particles. The patterned deposit can include a nanoparticle catalyst that is capable of catalyzing the conversion of a constituent gas... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070095359 - Smoking article with removably secured additional wrapper and packaging for smoking article: A smoking article includes a tobacco column, a binder surrounding the tobacco column, a first wrapper surrounding the binder, and at least one additional removable wrapper which surrounds the first wrapper and is removably secured to a wrapper beneath the additional removable wrapper. Packaging for a smoking article involves a... Agent: Caesar, Rivise, Bernstein, Cohen & Pokotilow, Ltd.