Tobacco inventions 10/08

20080257364 - Device for filling cigarette tubes with tobacco: A device for filling cigarette tubes with tobacco, wherein the device comprises at least one separating means adapted to detach a tobacco portion from a tobacco block and at least one portioning means adapted to portion the tobacco block, at least one transport means adapted to transport the tobacco block... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080257365 - Object-retaining device for golfers: The present invention is directed to devices for securely holding elongated objects, such as cigars, above the ground. Generally, a device in accordance with the present invention includes an elongated shaft with ground-piercing means, and a cradle which resembles a golf club head coupled to the upper end of the... Agent: Mark J. Rosen P.C.

20080257366 - Intermediate wrapper and method of making: A tobacco product is formed by perforated cigar or shell, the shell comprising a sheet of material with an intermediate sheet, the sheet comprising tobacco leaves and/or homogenized tobacco paper. The cigar or shell is packaged for shipment to an end user or consumer. The cigar or shell remains in... Agent: Garvey Smith Nehrbass & North, LLC

20080257367 - Electronic evaporable substance delivery device and method: An improved electronic evaporable substance delivery device delivers nicotine-containing vapor to a user from a smoking device. The smoking device comprises a case having therein a power source, microprocessor, heating element and nicotine-containing cartridge. Microprocessor-controlled heating of the heating element causes air passing thereover to be heated. Passage of the... Agent: Weiss & Moy PC

20080257368 - Testing of smoking articles: A smoking machine is disclosed for the automatic smoking of a smoking article. The smoking machine (10) includes a flexible seal (30) for occluding holes (40) in the smoking article (28) while the smoking article is smoked. This can allow “intensive” smoking tests to be carried out by occluding filter... Agent: Woodard, Emhardt, Moriarty, Mcnett & Henry LLP

20080257364 - Device for filling cigarette tubes with tobacco: A device for filling cigarette tubes with tobacco, wherein the device comprises at least one separating means adapted to detach a tobacco portion from a tobacco block and at least one portioning means adapted to portion the tobacco block, at least one transport means adapted to transport the tobacco block... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080257365 - Object-retaining device for golfers: The present invention is directed to devices for securely holding elongated objects, such as cigars, above the ground. Generally, a device in accordance with the present invention includes an elongated shaft with ground-piercing means, and a cradle which resembles a golf club head coupled to the upper end of the... Agent: Mark J. Rosen P.C.

20080257366 - Intermediate wrapper and method of making: A tobacco product is formed by perforated cigar or shell, the shell comprising a sheet of material with an intermediate sheet, the sheet comprising tobacco leaves and/or homogenized tobacco paper. The cigar or shell is packaged for shipment to an end user or consumer. The cigar or shell remains in... Agent: Garvey Smith Nehrbass & North, LLC

20080257367 - Electronic evaporable substance delivery device and method: An improved electronic evaporable substance delivery device delivers nicotine-containing vapor to a user from a smoking device. The smoking device comprises a case having therein a power source, microprocessor, heating element and nicotine-containing cartridge. Microprocessor-controlled heating of the heating element causes air passing thereover to be heated. Passage of the... Agent: Weiss & Moy PC

20080257368 - Testing of smoking articles: A smoking machine is disclosed for the automatic smoking of a smoking article. The smoking machine (10) includes a flexible seal (30) for occluding holes (40) in the smoking article (28) while the smoking article is smoked. This can allow “intensive” smoking tests to be carried out by occluding filter... Agent: Woodard, Emhardt, Moriarty, Mcnett & Henry LLP

20080251089 - Paperboard container for extinguishing and disposal of lighted cigarettes: A lightweight paperboard container for the disposal of a lighted cigarette includes (a) an open-top drawer with a lid at one end that receives a lighted cigarette in a longitudinal channel in close-fitting relation; and (b) an open-ended case or box that receives the drawer in close-fitting sliding relation and,... Agent: Abelman, Frayne & Schwab

20080251090 - Processing unit for processing at least one filter tow strip, and an apparatus comprising at least two such processing units: A processing unit for processing at least one filter tow strip to produce filters for rod-shaped smoking articles includes at least one tow guidance section along which the filter tow strip is moved in a direction of a longitudinal extension of the filter tow strip. The tow guidance section includes... Agent: Venable LLP

20080251091 - Tobacco smoking filter or filter element with a content of adjuncts: A tobacco smoking filter is disclosed, with adjunets on the surface in the form of fibres filaments or films and whereby the drawing resistance of the tobacco smoking filter and the mass of the adjuncts in the tobacco smoking filter meet the following equation (I) Mad/Δp>1 mg/daPA (I), where Δp... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080245376 - Process for making filter tow: A method of preparing a crimped tow of cellulose acetate filaments comprising the steps of: a) providing cellulose acetate dope b) forming filaments (23) from the dope c) applying at least one additive to the filaments d) crimping the filaments to form a crimped tow wherein the at least one... Agent: Hammer & Associates, P.C.

20080245377 - Cigarette comprising dark-cured tobacco: A cigarette is provided that includes a rod of smokable material circumscribed by an outer wrapping material and a filter element, which may include an adsorbent material such as activated carbon, attached to one end of the rod of smokable material. The smokable material includes at least about 5 percent... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080245378 - method for producing flue-cured type tobacco sheet by papermaking process: This invention relates to a production process of tobacco sheet by papermaking. The technical arrangement of this invention are: (a). to immerge and to extract tobacco stem and leaf scrap respectively by water-soluble solvents to respectively obtain solid tobacco stem and solid leaf scrap, and tobacco stem extract and leaf... Agent: Beem Patent Law Firm

20080245379 - Method and equipment for adding tobacco dust into papermaking tobacco sheet: This invention discloses a method for adding tobacco dust in production process of the papermaking tobacco sheet and its equipment. The tobacco dust is added in 5-30% weight at four process points such as the pipeline from the slurry stabilization box to the slurry flow box, the long-net of the... Agent: Beem Patent Law Firm

20080236602 - Method of making a smoking composition: The present invention relates to smoking articles such as cigarettes, and in particular to catalytic systems containing metallic or carbonaceous particles that reduce the content of certain harmful or carcinogenic substances, including polyaromatic hydrocarbons, tobacco-specific nitrosamines, carbazole, phenol, and catechol, in mainstream cigarette smoke and in side stream cigarette smoke.... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP