Tobacco inventions 02/08

20080047569 - Cigarette making apparatus: A cigarette making apparatus comprises an application nozzle for applying a flavoring material to a wrapping-paper web supplied continuously to a wrapping machine, a pump for supplying the flavoring material to the application nozzle, and a pump control device for controlling the pump driving speed depending on the wrapping machine... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080047570 - Tobacco taster: A tobacco taster comprising an inner tube and an outer tube, the inner tube having a slightly smaller diameter than the outer tube, so that inner tube slides into outer tube with a frictional fit, inner tube having a hole, a basket shaped screen having a lip, the screen fitting... Agent: Lewis, Brisbois, Bisgaard & Smith LLP

20080047571 - Smoking article with plate impactor: A smoking article includes a filter system having an upstream plug of filtering material, an impaction filter, and a downstream plug of filtering material. The impaction filter includes at least one plate having at least one orifice.... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080035162 - Smoking article with single piece restrictor and chamber: A smoking article having a filter segment that establishes both a desired resistance to draw and a mixing of mainstream smoke with ventilation air. The filter segment includes a fluted portion, a frusto-conical portion and axially extending orifices establishing fluid communication between the frusto-conical portion and voids between one or... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080035163 - Magnetic advanced cigarette filtration system: The current invention is a magnetic Cigarette Filter and system of use. It is a filter which has a filter mouth piece with a cellulose filter, an air tube and a cigarette holder with an air hole in a magnetic plate to which magnets are held. The mouth piece and... Agent: Furr Law Firm

20080029106 - Immobilized additive inserts: Delivery of additives in a smoking article is provided through thermally degradable, robust immobilized additive inserts. Additives can be immobilized in an elongated device or an insert, wherein the elongated device or the insert is sufficiently robust to allow the elongated device or the insert to be manually or machine... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080029107 - Smoke conditioning and filtration system and method therefor: A smoke conditioning and filtration system is disclosed. The system mixes smoke created from a burnable substance, such as tobacco or other herbal substances, with liquid vapor. This causes expanding of the inherent hot gases and moisturizing and cooling of the smoke, thereby creating a more pleasurable smoking experience. The... Agent: Weiss & Moy PC

20080029108 - Smoking waste receptacle: A receptacle for receiving smoking waste includes a canister and a cap disposed on the canister. The cap includes a flow-inhibiting surface for affecting gas flow into the canister and a container member forming a containing area disposed horizontally inward of the flow-inhibiting surface for receiving smoke rising from the... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080029109 - Smoking cessation and relapse prevention system: A computer-based system for monitoring and improving a user's compliance with a smoking cessation and relapse prevention program by providing the user with multiple forms of feedback designed to encourage adherence to the program. The system “calls” the user on the telephone at the end of each day and prompts... Agent: Clausen Miller, P.c

20080029110 - Smokeless tobacco composition: A smokeless tobacco product configured for insertion into the mouth of a user of the product is provided, the tobacco product including a water-permeable pouch containing a tobacco formulation, the tobacco formulation including a tobacco material and a plurality of microcapsules dispersed within the tobacco material, the plurality of microcapsules... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080029111 - Filtered cigarette possessing tipping material: A filtered cigarette possesses a smokable rod and a filter element. The smokable rod is secured to the filter element using tipping material. The cigarette possesses more than one layer of tipping material. An outer layer of tipping material can overlie at least a portion of an underlying inner layer... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080029112 - Cigarette filters: Fibrous material suitable for incorporation into filter elements of smoking articles such as cigarettes are impregnated with additives and agents such as flavorants, flavorant-enhancers and/or free radical scavengers. The fibrous material is contacted with the additive dispersed in a high pressure gas or supercritical fluid (SCF) held at elevated pressures.... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080029113 - Low sidestream smoke cigarette with combustible paper having a modified ash: A low sidestream smoke cigarette comprises a conventional tobacco rod, and a combustible treatment paper having a sidestream smoke treatment composition. The treatment composition comprises in combination, an oxygen storage and donor metal oxide oxidation catalyst and an essentially non-combustible particulate adjunct for said catalyst. Improvements are made in the... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20080029114 - Multi-component filter providing multiple flavour enhancement: A multi-component filter for a smoking article comprises: a mouth end segment; a first flavour release segment comprising plant leaf upstream of the mouth end segment; and a second flavour release segment comprising filtration material and a flavourant upstream of the first flavour release segment. The resistance to draw of... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080029115 - Method of production of a cigarette filter: A filter for a cigarette has an organic filtering portion defined by granules or fibres of active carbon and housed inside a cylindrical shell of plastic material; the shell is located between a portion of cellulose acetate, which is engaged orally by a user, and a cigarette portion, and has... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20080029116 - Smokeless tobacco: A smokeless tobacco formulation includes particles or pieces of tobacco, and may include other ingredients, such as salts, sweeteners, binders, colorants, pH adjusters, fillers, flavoring agents, disintegration aids, antioxidants, humectants, and preservatives. The moisture content of the particles of the tobacco may vary. Certain smokeless tobacco products have the form... Agent: Middleton & Reutlinger

20080029117 - Smokeless tobacco: A smokeless tobacco formulation includes particles or pieces of tobacco, and may include other ingredients, such as salts, sweeteners, binders, colorants, pH adjusters, fillers, flavoring agents, disintegration aids, antioxidants, humectants, and preservatives. The moisture content of the particles of the tobacco may vary. Certain smokeless tobacco products have the form... Agent: Middleton & Reutlinger

20080029118 - Equipment and associated method for insertion of material into cigarette filters: Filter rods for use in the manufacture of cigarette filter elements are provided, with each rod having a longitudinal axis and incorporating a generally longitudinally extending filter material and a generally longitudinally extending strand within that filter material. A filter making unit receives a continuous supply of a filter material,... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP