Tobacco inventions 09/07

20070221234 - Butt refuse receptacle: The present invention is a receptacle for receiving cigar and cigarette butts and filters (the “butts”), consisting of a hollow base section for retaining discarded butts. The hollow section supports a grill section that provides a conduit for the butts to the base section while rejecting other refuse. The base... Agent: Don E. Erickson

20070221235 - Smoking article warning device: A material disposed in the tobacco burning path of a smoking article's ember at a pre-selected point, the material producing a visual and/or audible warning indication in response to encountering the ember for alerting the smoker that the ember is at or in close proximity to the pre-selected point. The... Agent: Thomas J. Tighe, Esq.

20070221236 - Cooling compositions including menthyl esters: This description provides cooling compositions that deliver a prolonged physiological cooling sensation to the skin or a mucous membrane. The cooling compositions may be present alone or in product such as a chewing gum or a confection. In some embodiments, the cooling compositions include menthyl glutarate and at least one... Agent: Hoffmann & Baron, LLP

20070215164 - Disposable hookah bowl: The present invention is directed to a disposable hookah bowl and hookah bowl product that are moisture-sealed. The hookah bowl includes a tobacco compartment, an ignitable product shelf, a heat inlet seal, and a particulate outlet seal. The hookah bowl product includes the hookah bowl and a combustible product, such... Agent: Blankenship Law, PLLC

20070215165 - Smoking table for supporting water pipes: A smoking table for supporting water pipes on a floor surface includes a hollowed support frame with an interior chamber to receive the water pipe and a pipe support device to steady the water pipe therein. The support frame includes horizontally disposed top and bottom panels interconnected in a vertically... Agent: Brian R. Rayve

20070215166 - Smoking articles and smoking materials: A smoking article such as a cigarette, or a smoke filter (3) or other component thereof, comprises a catalyst (3b) for the oxidation of carbon monoxide to carbon dioxide. The catalyst (3b) comprises gold, and an oxide of zinc or titanium. Titania and mixed oxides of zinc and copper or... Agent: Middleton & Reutlinger

20070215167 - Smoking article: A smoking article, such as a cigarette, comprises a lighting end and a mouth end. The smoking article possesses an aerosol-generation system that includes (i) a heat generation segment, and (ii) an aerosol-generating region or segment. A mouth end piece segment can be located at the mouth end of the... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070215168 - Smoking article: A smoking article, such as a cigarette, includes a carbonaceous heat source. A mouth end piece segment is located at the mouth end of the smoking article, and the mouth end piece segment allows the smoking article to be placed in the mouth of the smoker to be drawn upon.... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070209669 - Monitoring and quantification of smoking behaviors: The invention provides methods for characterizing a subject's overall smoking behavior and the subject's puff morphology in dependence on tidal volume information provided by ambulatory physiological monitoring. This invention also systems for executing the methods of this invention and computer-readable media having encoded the methods of this invention.... Agent: Winston & Strawn LLP Patent Department

20070209670 - Apparatus for inspecting ventilation of filter cigarettes: An apparatus for inspecting ventilation of filter cigarettes FT has a plate-like packing 18a. The packing 18a covers the opening of a movable cylinder 10 and is relatively pressed with the end face of a filter cigarette FT. The packing 18a includes a hole 18c positioned to coincide with the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070204868 - Tobacco smoking apparatus: The invention provides a tobacco smoking apparatus that enables a person to smoke, namely inhale and exhale smoke and other combustion products from burning tobacco, while isolating and protecting others from a substantial portion of the combustion products, including smoke, smoker's exhale and odor, that are produced from smoking tobacco.... Agent: Marjama & Bilinski LLP

20070204869 - Smoking article and apparatus and process for manufacturing a smoking article: A smoking article, and a method and apparatus for producing a smoking article, in which a web material containing an adsorbent material such as activated carbon and a stabilised flavourant such as menthol is positioned adjacent an interior surface of a cigarette wrapper to deliver flavour to a smoker with... Agent: Middleton & Reutlinger

20070204870 - Catalysts to reduce carbon monoxide such as in the mainstream smoke of a cigarette: Catalysts for the conversion, or oxidation, of carbon monoxide to carbon dioxide. Cigarettes with filters containing the catalysts have acceptable resistance to draw. Additionally, the catalysts can be used to reduce the concentration of carbon monoxide from a vehicle exhaust emission, a gas used in a CO2 laser, a gas... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC