Tobacco inventions

20080168997 - Cigarette filter for reducing tar and decreasing toxicity and equipment for producing it: A cigarette filter for reducing tar and decreasing toxicity and equipment for producing the filter are provided in tobacco field. The rod core is made from staple fiber, specially natural plant fiber, specially wood fiber, more specially short wood pile fiber. The cigarette filter can be the complex filter, or... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20080168998 - Slim cigarette: A filter cigarette comprising a tobacco rod which is circumscribed by a cigarette paper and a filter, said filter comprising a tobacco-side filter element and a mouth-side filter element, said filter cigarette having a diameter of about 4 mm to about 7 mm, yielding a smoke yield of 1 mg... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080163877 - Smoking article with concentric hollow core in tobacco rod and capsule containing flavorant and aerosol forming agents in the filter system: A smoking article having a cylinder of smoking material and a central tube within the cylinder of the smoking material wherein heat is convectively transferred with smoke from a lit end of the cylinder of smoking material through the central tube to a mouth end of the cylinder of smoking... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080163878 - Ash tray for use with disposable ash collection vessel: An ash tray for use with disposable ash collection vessels that receive and collect cigarette and/or cigar ashes and butts. The vessels may be inserted and removed from the ash tray to provide for ash and butt collection and disposal. In an exemplary embodiment, the vessels comprise previously used beverage... Agent: CourseyIPLaw, P.C.

20080163879 - Smoking article: A smoking article comprising discrete segments of smokable material having an encapsulated flavourant contained within a component of the smokable material to provide a stable release of flavourant at different points during smoking, and in particular in the final puffs. The encapsulated flavourant is incorporated within a reconstituted tobacco material... Agent: Middleton & Reutlinger

20080156335 - Apparatus for inserting tobacco into a cigarette tube: The invention concerns an apparatus for inserting tobacco into an empty cigarette tube. The apparatus comprises a sleeve (15) designed to be inserted into the empty cigarette tube (63); means for retaining the empty cigarette tube (63) in place; a fixed blade (19) and a movable blade (18) facing each... Agent: Goudreau Gage Dubuc

20080156336 - Smoking article with encapsulated flavourant: A filter cigarette comprises a tobacco rod and a filter attached to the tobacco rod by a band of tipping paper. The surface of the band of tipping paper is coated with a solution of cells having at least one flavourant encapsulated therein. In use, when the filter cigarette is... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney Pc

20080156337 - Filter component cutting system: A filter component cutting system comprises a supply hopper of elongate filter rods and a cutting drum with spaced apart flutes on an exterior surface of the drum for receiving the elongate filler rods. A transfer mechanism receives the elongate filter rods from the supply hopper and delivers the rods... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20080156338 - Sterilized moist snuff and method: Sterilized moist tobacco products and methods for sterilizing moist tobacco products are provided. The moist tobacco is subjected to a thermal stabilization treatment after it has been packaged in its final, consumer-ready container. Such thermal stabilization pasteurizes, sterilizes or otherwise treats the finished moist tobacco so that the concentration of... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney Pc

20080149118 - Device for vaporising vaporisable matter: A device (1) for producing an aerosol from vaporisable constituents of tobacco comprises a vaporising chamber (24) within which the tobacco is placed. A main housing (9) which forms a portion of the vaporising chamber also forms a combustion chamber (18) within which a gas catalytic combustion element (19) is... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080149119 - Smoking articles enhanced to deliver additives incorporated within electrospun microfibers and nonofibers, and related methods: A large variety of electrospun fibers can be produced to encapsulate a large variety of additives within the subcompartments or substructures of the manufactured electrospun fiber. Furthermore, the manufactured electrospun fibers can be electrostatically arranged within a filter component of a smoking article during the manufacturing process. By modifying the... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney Pc

20080149120 - Cigarette filter incorporating nanofibers: A cigarette is equipped with a filter incorporating nanofibers. The nanofibers can be used either alone or in conjunction with other filtering media such as larger fibers, paper, activated charcoal, etc. With a nanofiber filter, the filter need not be as dense as the molecules of the smoke become attracted... Agent: The Hecker Law Group

20080149121 - Dissolvable tobacco film strips and method of making the same: A consumable tobacco film strip adapted to dissolve in the oral cavity includes a tobacco component, a binder, a humectant, and optionally a flavorant. The tobacco component can include ground or powdered tobacco and/or a tobacco extract. Tobacco flavoring can be incorporated in the film strip by casting or extruding... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney Pc