141 |
SMOKING ARTICLE WITH COLOUR CHANGE SEGMENT |
US14355635 |
2012-10-29 |
US20140290678A1 |
2014-10-02 |
Clement Besso; Alexandre Camus; Dorothy Tritz; Charles Kuersteiner |
The present invention relates to a smoking article (9) comprising a mouthpiece (1), a colour change segment and a rupturable, fluid-containing capsule (5). The colour change segment is adapted to interact with the fluid from the rupturable fluid-containing capsule such that, upon interaction, the colour change segment shows a colour change when the capsule is ruptured. The smoking article comprises a permeable outer wrapper which is in a first region covered with an impermeable coating such that the first region is impermeable, wherein a second region, which is not covered by the impermeable coating, is permeable. |
142 |
Banded papers, smoking articles and methods |
US13212058 |
2011-08-17 |
US08844540B2 |
2014-09-30 |
Ping Li; Firooz Rasouli; Rajesh K. Garg; Randall E. Baren; Marc W. Rose; Peter J. Lipowicz; Tony A. Phan; Timothy S. Sherwood; Szu-Sung Yang; Donald E. Miser; Milton E. Parrish |
Wrapper for cigarette manufacture includes transversely extending band regions applied by a printing technique, such as gravure printing. The band regions comprise starch, an anti-wrinkling agent such as 1,2 propylene glycol or glycerin, and optionally calcium carbonate. Any suitable printing technique can be used to apply the aqueous solution to the banded regions. The pattern of banded regions may be bands, stripes, two-dimensional arrays, undulated regions, and the like along and/or around the tobacco rod. The pattern can be applied in one or more layers. The pattern may be configured so that when a smoking article is placed on a substrate, at least two longitudinal locations along the length of the tobacco rod have film-forming compound located only on sides of the smoking article not in contact with the substrate. |
143 |
Banded papers, smoking articles and methods |
US13212064 |
2011-08-17 |
US08833377B2 |
2014-09-16 |
Ping Li; Firooz Rasouli; Rajesh K. Garg; Randall E. Baren; Marc W. Rose; Peter J. Lipowicz; Tony A. Phan; Timothy S. Sherwood; Szu-Sung Yang; Donald E. Miser; Milton E. Parrish |
Wrapper for cigarette manufacture includes transversely extending band regions applied by a printing technique, such as gravure printing. The band regions comprise starch, an anti-wrinkling agent such as 1,2 propylene glycol or glycerin, and optionally calcium carbonate. Any suitable printing technique can be used to apply the aqueous solution to the banded regions. The pattern of banded regions may be bands, stripes, two-dimensional arrays, undulated regions, and the like along and/or around the tobacco rod. The pattern can be applied in one or more layers. The pattern may be configured so that when a smoking article is placed on a substrate, at least two longitudinal locations along the length of the tobacco rod have film-forming compound located only on sides of the smoking article not in contact with the substrate. |
144 |
GRAVURE-PRINTED, BANDED CIGARETTE PAPER |
US14176423 |
2014-02-10 |
US20140150811A1 |
2014-06-05 |
TIMOTHY S. SHERWOOD; Firooz Rasouli; Ping Li; Don E. Miser; Joe Yousef Mohajer; Bruce E. Waymack; Tony A. Phan; Tracy L. Madison; John R. Tilley; Yezdi B. Pithawalla |
A cigarette and cigarette paper have a plurality of multilayer bands formed by printing a highly viscous aqueous film-forming composition. After heating the composition to lower its viscosity, the bands are applied to the cigarette paper by gravure printing the composition. The composition is quenched and gelatinized by contact with the cool cigarette paper reducing absorption of water by the paper and reducing wrinkling, cockling, and waviness. Multiple gravure printed layers may be used to form the bands. |
145 |
Banded papers, smoking articles and methods |
US13212095 |
2011-08-17 |
US08733370B2 |
2014-05-27 |
Ping Li; Firooz Rasouli; Rajesh K. Garg; Randall E. Baren; Marc W. Rose; Peter J. Lipowicz; Tony A. Phan; Timothy S. Sherwood; Szu-Sung Yang; Donald E. Miser; Milton E. Parrish |
Wrapper for cigarette manufacture includes transversely extending band regions applied by a printing technique, such as gravure printing. The band regions comprise starch, an anti-wrinkling agent such as 1,2 propylene glycol or glycerin, and optionally calcium carbonate. Any suitable printing technique can be used to apply the aqueous solution to the banded regions. The pattern of banded regions may be bands, stripes, two-dimensional arrays, undulated regions, and the like along and/or around the tobacco rod. The pattern can be applied in one or more layers. The pattern may be configured so that when a smoking article is placed on a substrate, at least two longitudinal locations along the length of the tobacco rod have film-forming compound located only on sides of the smoking article not in contact with the substrate. |
146 |
Banded papers, smoking articles and methods |
US13040617 |
2011-03-04 |
US08707967B2 |
2014-04-29 |
Ping Li; Firooz Rasouli; Rajesh K. Garg; Randall E. Baren; Marc W. Rose; Peter J. Lipowicz; Tony A. Phan; Timothy S. Sherwood; Szu-Sung Yang; Donald E. Miser; Milton E. Parrish |
Wrapper for cigarette manufacture includes transversely extending band regions applied by a printing technique, such as gravure printing. The band regions comprise starch, an anti-wrinkling agent such as 1,2 propylene glycol or glycerin, and optionally calcium carbonate. Any suitable printing technique can be used to apply the aqueous solution to the banded regions. The pattern of banded regions may be bands, stripes, two-dimensional arrays, undulated regions, and the like along and/or around the tobacco rod. The pattern can be applied in one or more layers. The pattern may be configured so that when a smoking article is placed on a substrate, at least two longitudinal locations along the length of the tobacco rod have film-forming compound located only on sides of the smoking article not in contact with the substrate. |
147 |
Banded paper, smoking article and method |
US12512580 |
2009-07-30 |
US08701682B2 |
2014-04-22 |
Timothy S. Sherwood; Marc W. Rose |
A cigarette wrapper includes transversely extending banded regions applied by a printing technique, such as gravure printing. The banded regions are applied in a single application of an aqueous starch solution also containing an anti-wrinkling agent such as propylene glycol, and calcium carbonate. The pattern of banded regions may be bands or stripes and the like along and/or around the tobacco rod. The banded regions may be solid or contain any number of cross-web and/or longitudinal discontinuities. The pattern may be configured so that when a smoking article is placed on a substrate, at least two longitudinal locations along the length of the tobacco rod have film-forming compound located only on sides of the smoking article not in contact with the substrate. |
148 |
DRYING DEVICE AND CIGARETTE WRAPPING PAPER MANUFACTURING MACHINE USING THE DRYING DEVICE |
US14133207 |
2013-12-18 |
US20140101960A1 |
2014-04-17 |
Shinzo KIDA; Masaaki FUKAYA |
A drying device has a travel path (2) along which a web (W) of paper travels, a plurality of drying ovens (10) arranged side by side along the travel path (2), a plurality of conveyor rolls (23) provided in each of the drying ovens (10) to convey the web (W) along the travel path (2), a plurality of roll units (28a to 28c) each constituted by one or more of the conveyor rolls (23) and separated from each other along the travel path (2), and a plurality of conveyor motors (29) connected to the respective roll units (28a to 28c) to rotate the conveyor rolls (23), wherein a downstream one of the roll units with respect to the travel path is rotated at a lower rotating speed than an upstream one of the roll units. |
149 |
CIGARETTE WRAPPER WITH NOVEL PATTERN |
US13896068 |
2013-05-16 |
US20130306088A1 |
2013-11-21 |
Marc Rose; Timothy S. Sherwood; Robert N. Smith |
A wrapper for a smoking article has a base web and a plurality of elements each having at least a pair of patch areas where diffusivity is in the range of 0 to about 0.2 cm/sec. Patches of adjacent elements are circumferentially offset from one another along the axis of a smoking article. The add-on material can be applied by gravure printing in a single pass in a chevron pattern such that an apex of the element is co-linear with substantially symmetrically spaced points on a trailing, outer edge of an adjacent element. Testing elements may be simultaneously printed with the add-on material to monitor diffusivity and/or presence of add-on material. |
150 |
Paper for smoking article having low ignition propensity properties |
US13111884 |
2011-05-19 |
US08580081B2 |
2013-11-12 |
Jocelyne Dumas; Joel Malachie; Arnaud Ruffin; Julie Jeanrot |
The invention concerns a paper for smoking article, in particular for a cigarette, comprising areas treated with a coating formulation adapted to reduce the ignition propensity of said treated areas which comprises nanoparticles of cellulose having a median dimension (d50) equal to or less than five micrometers. |
151 |
Low ignition propensity wrapping paper and method and machine of manufacturing same |
US13479727 |
2012-05-24 |
US08568896B2 |
2013-10-29 |
Shinzo Kida; Takafumi Izumiya; Keisuke Towatari |
A low ignition propensity wrapping paper includes a paper web and bands arranged on the web at predetermined intervals in a longitudinal direction of the web. These bands are formed by applying a combustion-inhibition liquid onto the web. The combustion-inhibiting liquid contains a solvent and a combustion inhibitor that is sodium alginate or pectin dissolved in the solvent. The solvent is treated water obtained by substantially removing at least calcium ions and magnesium ions from raw water of a water supply or a well. |
152 |
BANDED PAPERS, SMOKING ARTICLES AND METHODS |
US13828802 |
2013-03-14 |
US20130199552A1 |
2013-08-08 |
PING LI; Firooz Rasouli; Rajesh K. Garg; Randall E. Baren; Marc W. Rose; Peter J. Lipowicz; Tony A. Phan; Timothy S. Sherwood; Szu-Sung Yang; Donald E. Miser; Milton E. Parrish |
Wrapper for cigarette manufacture includes transversely extending band regions applied by a printing technique, such as gravure printing. The band regions comprise starch, an anti-wrinkling agent such as 1,2 propylene glycol or glycerin, and optionally calcium carbonate. Any suitable printing technique can be used to apply the aqueous solution to the banded regions. The pattern of banded regions may be bands, stripes, two-dimensional arrays, undulated regions, and the like along and/or around the tobacco rod. The pattern can be applied in one or more layers. The pattern may be configured so that when a smoking article is placed on a substrate, at least two longitudinal locations along the length of the tobacco rod have film-forming compound located only on sides of the smoking article not in contact with the substrate. |
153 |
Method for Manufacturing Smoking Articles and Smoking Articles |
US13642457 |
2011-03-31 |
US20130118510A1 |
2013-05-16 |
Karl Kaljura; Leonardo Nappi; Richard Fiebelkorn |
The present invention relates to a method for making smoking articles, smoking articles, and more particularly to a method for manufacturing smoking articles having a reduced ignition propensity. A method of manufacturing a smoking article includes the steps of providing a filter element (40) and at least one rod (30) of smokeable material surrounded by a wrapper, wrapping a section of tipping paper (12A) around the filter element and a portion of the at least one wrapped rod and applying one or more patches (12B1, 12B2) of material to the outer surface of the wrapper. The patches can be arranged to reduce the ignition propensity of the smoking article and are applied to the outside of the wrapper, such that this can occur online during manufacture of the wrapped rod. |
154 |
COATED PAPER MAKING APPARATUS AND METHOD |
US13594117 |
2012-08-24 |
US20120328772A1 |
2012-12-27 |
Shinzo KIDA; Keisuke TOWATARI |
Apparatus for making coated paper serving as lower ignition propensity paper for cigarettes has a transport path (L) for a web (W), a coating unit (10) arranged on the path (L) to apply a combustion inhibition material to the web (W), a pre-dryer (16) for drying the web (W) with the material applied, a gravure roller (22) arranged downstream of the pre-dryer (16) to apply water to the web (W), a drying roller (34) arranged downstream of the roller (22) to post-dry the web (W), a smoothing roller (32) arranged between the roller (22) and the roller (34) to flatten wrinkles in the web (W) passing around the roller (32), a displacement sensor (42) for measuring wrinkles in the web (W) having passed around the roller (34), and a controller (44) for controlling tension in the web (W) on the basis of measurements received from the sensor (42). |
155 |
Phase Transition Compositions Used to Impart Reduced Ignition Propensity to Smoking Articles |
US13415728 |
2012-03-08 |
US20120298126A1 |
2012-11-29 |
Alexander J. Dyakonov; Steven E. Brown; Luis A. Sanchez |
A composition for imparting reduced ignition propensity properties to a smoking article by treating the smoking article wrapper. The composition comprising at least one phase transition substance which, upon being subjected to the heat of the smoking article burning firecone, physically transforms and at least partially fills the pores of the smoking article wrapper to reduce the permeability of the wrapper in the vicinity of the burning firecone. The reduced permeability of the wrapper in the vicinity of the firecone will permit sufficient air flow to sustain free burn, but, when the smoking article is placed on a substrate, the reduced permeability of the wrapper imparts reduced ignition propensity such that there is insufficient air flow to sustain combustion of the firecone or insufficient air flow to sustain an intensity of the burning firecone necessary to ignite the substrate. |
156 |
REGISTERED BANDED CIGARETTE PAPER, CIGARETTES, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE |
US13447914 |
2012-04-16 |
US20120298122A1 |
2012-11-29 |
Timothy S. Sherwood; John F. Cunningham |
Registered banded wrapper, cigarettes using that wrapper paper, and methods of making cigarettes with that banded paper result in banded regions of cigarette paper which begin at substantially the same location on each cigarette. With the banded region positioned at a preferred predetermined distance from the end of the cigarette, cigarettes made with such paper exhibit an improved ignition propensity compared with random or quasi-randomly positioned banded regions. |
157 |
PROCESS OF PREPARING PRINTING SOLUTION AND MAKING PATTERNED CIGARETTE WRAPPERS |
US13324747 |
2011-12-13 |
US20120285477A1 |
2012-11-15 |
Timothy S. Sherwood; Robert N. Smith; Marc W. Rose |
A process for making patterned cigarette wrapper includes the steps of: preparing a printing solution including the steps of: mixing at least water and a starch to form a starch mixture, heating the starch mixture to a temperature of at least about 180° F. preferably for at least about 30 minutes to release amylopectin and amylose, adding propylene glycol to the starch mixture, and mixing the starch mixture and propylene glycol to form a printing solution, wherein the solution is maintained and applied at elevated temperature (120° F. to 150° F.). The process also includes providing a base web of wrapper and applying the printing solution to the wrapper in a predetermined pattern. |
158 |
Low ignition propensity cigarette paper |
US12687480 |
2010-01-14 |
US08302612B2 |
2012-11-06 |
Takashi Kominami |
A cigarette paper of the present invention includes a base cigarette paper and a plurality of combustion-suppressing regions provided, spaced apart from each other, on one surface of the base cigarette paper, the combustion-suppressing regions being formed by applying a polyvinyl alcohol having a degree of polymerization of 900 or more, or a polyvinyl alcohol whose 3% by weight aqueous solution exhibits a viscosity of 5 to 30 mPa·s as measured at 20° C. |
159 |
SMOKING ARTICLES AND WRAPPING MATERIALS THEREFOR |
US13045037 |
2011-03-10 |
US20120227754A1 |
2012-09-13 |
Alan B. Norman; Paul S. Chapman; Robert L. Oglesby; Evon L. Crooks |
A smoking article includes a smokable rod manufactured using a paper wrapping material having an additive material applied thereto as a pattern. The additive material is applied as coating formulation (e.g., an aqueous coating formulation) incorporating a film-forming agent such as alginate, starch, or another polymer. The wrapping material includes at least one coated region with a porosity of less than about 20 CORESTA and a diffusion capacity no greater than about 0.2 cm/sec, where the coated region is on a base sheet with a porosity of greater than about 120 CORESTA and a diffusion capacity of at least 1.7 cm/sec. |
160 |
Method and apparatus for manufacturing cigarette wrapping paper |
US13336040 |
2011-12-23 |
US08241460B2 |
2012-08-14 |
Shinzo Kida; Takafumi Izumiya; Yuzuru Sakuma |
Web to be formed into wrapping paper is applied with combustion inhibitor and then dried. Water is applied onto the entire surface of the opposite side to the combustion-inhibitor applied side of the web. The web applied with water is dried while pinched between drying and pressing rollers and stretched in a width direction. In this way, unwrinkled high-quality cigarette wrapping paper having a low ignition propensity can be stably and inexpensively manufactured. As the pressing roller, a heat-resistant rubber roller provided in its surface with a soft portion in a helical way is utilized. |