Tobacco inventions

20090277465 - Flavor capsule for enhanced flavor delivery in cigarettes: Improved delivery of additive materials to cigarettes is provided through the use of one or more capsules containing additive materials, such as flavor components, in the filter section of a cigarette. The sealed capsule or capsules are subjected to an external force, such as squeezing, by a smoker prior to... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090277466 - Method and apparatus for making slit-banded wrapper using moving orifices: A method and apparatus of manufacturing a web which is striped with add-on material, comprising: a first slurry supply which forms a sheet of base web and moves the sheet along a first path; a second slurry supply; and a moving orifice applicator operative so as to repetitively discharge the... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090272389 - Concentric core tobacco rod maker with air transporter: The present invention is directed at various apparatus, systems and methods for forming a sealed concentric or sealed concentric hollow core tobacco rod. The methods of the invention at least comprise passing a trimmed column of metered tobacco and paper between a tongue and garniture to form a concentric shaped... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz, LLP

20090272390 - Device for coupling with a beverage container: An assembly of a beverage container, preferably a bottle or beverage can, and a device couplable therewith, wherein the device comprises at least one circumferential edge and engaging elements, wherein the engaging elements at least partly correspond with a circumference of the beverage container near an upper part of the... Agent: Hoffmann & Baron, LLP

20090272391 - Adsorbents for smoking articles comprising a non-volatile organic compound applied using a supercritical fluid: A surface-modified adsorbent and a process for making a surface-modified adsorbent are provided. The process involves providing an adsorbent and a non-volatile organic compound to a vessel, adjusting the temperature and/or pressure to provide supercritical conditions for a supercritical fluid, and introducing the supercritical fluid into the vessel. The supercritical... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090272392 - Cigarette filter capable of removing harmful substance: [MEANS FOR SOLVING PROBLEMS] The cigarette filter comprising a filter fiber bundle body which cigarette smoke passes through; a fine powder with a high surface area ratio that are mixed and scattered in the filter fiber bundle body; and a double-stranded DNA molecule attached to the outer surface of the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090266370 - Discreet packing system: A discreet packing system for containing and compacting finely chopped tobacco product having a shallow cylindrical body and a lid detachably secured thereto. A flexible wall is secured at a fixed end to the interior surface of the body. The flexible inner wall generally coextends the interior surface of the... Agent: Todd B. Murrah, Esq.

20090266371 - Smoking product wrapping material having improved smouldering properties: Described is a smoking article wrapping material comprising a base wrapping material to which has been applied, at least in discrete zones, a composition comprising a mechanically fragmented, chemically crosslinked polysaccharide having a particle size (weighted average) in the range from 1 to 1000 μm for the dry product; a... Agent: Breiner & Breiner, L.L.C.

20090260640 - Unit and a method for wrapping tobacco products: Tobacco products are wrapped by a unit equipped with a rotating drum carrying a set of holder mechanisms around the periphery, each rotatable about an axis parallel to the axis of the drum, by which single products are supported and carried through an assembly station together with leaves of wrapping... Agent: Shuttleworth & Ingersoll, P.L.C

20090260641 - Method and system for vaporization of a substance: A smoking device for generating and releasing smoking vapor free from contamination into the mouth of a user comprising a mouthpiece for providing vapor for inhalation to a user including a tubular casing containing a heater for heating a smoking substance at a substantially constant low temperature by regulating the... Agent: Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati

20090260642 - Method and system for vaporization of a substance: A smoking device for generating and releasing smoking vapor free from contamination into the mouth of a user comprising a mouthpiece for providing vapor for inhalation to a user including a tubular casing containing a heater for heating a smoking substance at a substantially constant low temperature by regulating the... Agent: Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati

20090260643 - Filter making apparatus: The invention concerns a filter making apparatus comprising: a filter material converging device, a flavor element positioning device comprising a passage element, the passage element comprising a passageway, a first inlet, a second inlet, and an outlet, the first inlet and second inlet being in fluid communication with the passageway,... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090260644 - Process for preparing a tobacco blend: In a process for preparing a tobacco blend, at least two different types of tobacco are thermally treated and blended so as to form the tobacco blend. Thermal treatment as well as blending of the different types of tobacco is performed by introducing the different types of tobacco into a... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090260645 - Method for neutralization, adsorption, and absorption of hazardous or otherwise undesired compounds in a tobacco product: A tobacco product comprising nanocrystalline particles and methods of reducing the levels of undesirable compounds in tobacco smoke are provided. The nanocrystalline particles are effective sorbents of numerous toxic compounds released by burning tobacco and may be incorporated into the tobacco itself, incorporated into a filter element, or incorporated into... Agent: Hovey Williams LLP