Tobacco inventions 06/07

20070144541 - Unit for conveying tobacco products: Filter plugs or sticks are directed from a filter maker onto a pair of conveyor rollers counter-rotating substantially in contact one with another at a point of tangency and furnished with equispaced peripheral flutes by which the single sticks are taken up and transferred from an infeed position to a... Agent: Harbin King & Klima

20070144542 - System for monitoring and controlling machines used in the manufacture of tobacco products: Tobacco products (2), typically cigarettes, are manufactured on a line (1) including a cigarette maker (3) and a filter tip attachment machine (4), both equipped with a number of production devices and units connected to respective master control units (82, 83) and visual display units (84). Key characteristics of sample... Agent: Harbin King & Klima

20070144543 - Object securing fire-ignition devices to cigarette packages: The Invention provides an improved device for storing a fire-ignition device and attaching such device to a cigarette package. The Invention is comprised of a large Fabric Band, which attaches securely to a cigarette package, a Small Fabric Loop which attaches securely to a fire-ignition device, and a tether which... Agent: Justin Simon

20070144544 - Oral composition and method for stress reduction associated with smoking cessation: A confectionary composition is used in a method of reducing stress and the urge to smoke in abstaining tobacco users. The confectionary composition includes at least one of a sugar or a sugar alcohol and an effective amount of stress-reducing flavoring agent. Where the confectionary composition is a chewing gum,... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070144545 - Optical data capture and quality assurance: A method and system for capturing and analyzing an image of a moving web of cigarette paper having a plurality of transverse banded regions. The captured images of the moving web of cigarette paper are analyzed to determine various characteristics of a population of cigarettes made with the cigarette paper.... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070144546 - Method of making a brand change on an automatic production system for processing tobacco articles: A method of making a brand change, on an automatic production system for processing tobacco articles and which produces a first product from first materials; the method has the steps of: stopping the automatic production system once production of the first product is completed; feeding second materials onto the automatic... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070137658 - Cigarette smoker's accessory: A smoker's accessory comprising a cigarette case for removable receipt of a pack of cigarettes, the case comprising an open-topped ovular cylinder attached to a side, a recession and pen well for a pen, and a custom pen with removable cap. The invention further comprises a more basic example that... Agent: Crossley Patent Law

20070137659 - Portable promotional ashtray: The present invention, provides a portable promotional ashtray and methods of manufacturing. According to one embodiment, a compact, portable ashtray assembly is disclosed comprising: a cylindrical outer housing having a first aperture along a longitudinal side; a cylindrical inner housing rotatably contained in the cylindrical outer housing having a second... Agent: Jennifer Meredith Empire State Building

20070137660 - Quick mounting ashtray holder and ashtray: A quick mounting ashtray holder that can be rapidly and reversibly mounted in a car. The invented ashtray holder secures an ashtray such that neither the ashtray nor the holder rattles, even when the car is on a rough road. The ashtray holder has a bracket with a platform portion,... Agent: Clements Walker

20070137661 - Optical monitoring of products of the tobacco-processing industry: Method of optically monitoring a tobacco-processing industry product with a gradient-index lens and device for optically monitoring tobacco-processing industry products. The device includes an image-recording device comprising at least one gradient-index lens. A method of optically monitoring a product in a machine for making or processing tobacco-processing industry products is... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070137662 - Device and procedure for the batch transfer of tobacco products: Cigarettes are transferred in batches adopting a procedure that includes the steps of feeding loose cigarettes en masse into a hopper with a back wall and two side walls delimiting a top inlet and a bottom outlet, also a shutter by which the bottom outlet is opened or closed, and... Agent: Harbin King & Klima

20070137663 - Method of extracting sucrose esters from oriental tobacco: The invention provides a method of extracting sucrose esters from Oriental tobacco, the method comprising: providing a Oriental tobacco material; contacting the solid Oriental tobacco material with a supercritical fluid, such as supercritical carbon dioxide, for a time and under conditions sufficient to extract sucrose esters from the Oriental tobacco... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070137664 - Process for reducing the level of harmful substances in tobacco leaves: The process for reducing the level of harmful substances in tobacco leaves comprises the following steps: steeping the leaves in a water bath at a temperature of between 13° C. and 25° C. for between 4 and 12 hours, cooling the leaves to a temperature not higher than −35° C.;... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070137665 - Method of treating tobacco extract solution to eliminate magnesium ions, method of manufacturing regenerated tobacco material, and regenerated tobacco material: A method of treating a tobacco extract solution includes bringing an extract solution, which is obtained by extracting a natural tobacco material with an aqueous extracting solvent, into contact with a polymer containing, in its side chain, a functional group which traps metal ions including at least magnesium, thereby obtaining... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070137666 - Incorporation of ammonia-release compounds in smoking articles: A tobacco smoking mixture including an ammonia-release compound adapted to be formed into a lit-end cigarette is provided. The ammonia-release compound is incorporated in or on tobacco cut filler in an amount effective to reduce the cytotoxicity, and/or selective smoke constituents of cigarette smoke. Exemplary ammonia-release compounds include ammonium acetate,... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070137667 - Smoking article with coaxial tobacco rod: A smoking article having a cylindrical tube of smokable material having an outer wrapper, a concentric rod of smokable material coaxially positioned within the cylindrical tube of a smokable material, and an inner wrapper separating the cylindrical tube and the concentric rod. A filter attaches to the tobacco rod with... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070137668 - Smoking articles and wrapping materials therefor: A smoking article possesses a smokable rod manufactured using a paper wrapping material having an additive material applied thereto as a pattern. The additive material is applied as aqueous coating formulation incorporating pullulan as a film-forming component.... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070131233 - Method and device for producing a cigarette packet: A method and device for producing a cigarette packet having an inner wrapping, which is defined by a sheet of heat-seal material folded about a group of cigarettes, and has an opening closed by an adhesive patch; the correct position of the patch is determined after the patch is applied... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20070131234 - Outdoor smoking system: An outdoor smoking system including a smoking device coupled to a cooking vessel. The smoking device includes a feed chute for continuously supplying fuel to a burning chamber without user intervention. The feed chute is positioned above the burning chamber to gravity feed the fuel into the burning chamber. A... Agent: Schwartz Cooper CharteredIPDepartment

20070131235 - Method and apparatus for making filter element, including multi-characteristic filter element: Method and apparatus are provided for making a filter element by spinning fibers from one or more dies onto a collector, including designated combinations providing designated filter characteristics.... Agent: Andrus, Sceales, Starke & Sawall, LLP

20070125393 - Apparatus for conditioning of organic materials: Present invention relates to the apparatus for conditioning of organic materials, for example tobacco, comprising inlet gate (1a), conditioning chamber (0) and outlet gate (1b). The conditioning chamber (0) comprises a set of nozzles (12, 13) and sieves (3) supplying thermodynamic medium, and immobilizing means (5, 6) for immobilizing organic... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070125394 - Apparatus for conditioning of organic materials: Apparatus for conditioning of organic materials comprising supplying channel (6) connected with an inlet gate (1a) leading to the spreader (2) placed in the conditioning chamber (8). The conditioning chamber (8) is connected with outlet gate (1b). Further the conditioning chamber (8) is provided with channels (4, 5) supplying thermodynamic... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070125395 - Method and apparatus for conditioning of cellular materials, in particular organic materials: Method for conditioning of cellular materials, in particular organic materials, wherein the conditioned material is exposed to the thermodynamic medium. Further into the stream of the thermodynamic medium flowing in the channel (1, 6, 8, 9, 10), using the adjustable diaphragms (4, 5, 7) there are introduced turbulences increasing relative... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC