Emmerich Sackers

Title: Emmerich Sackers and a Disintegratable Cigarette Filter

Introduction

Emmerich Sackers is an inventor associated with Freiburg, Germany, and Rhodia Acetow GmbH. His patent work addresses the performance and environmental disintegration of cigarette filters made from cellulose ester fibers or filaments.

Latest Patents

Sackers is credited with 1 patent: “Disintegratable Cigarette Filter.” The invention describes a high-performance cigarette filter designed to retain useful filtration characteristics while being mechanically disintegratable and more readily disintegrating under environmental conditions than comparable products.

The patent specifies criteria for the filter’s fiber weight relative to draw resistance and filament titer, residual crimping, maximum fiber weight per filter length, and hardness. Together, these requirements define a filter intended to balance performance with improved disintegratability.

Career Highlights

Sackers’s listed patent connects his inventive work with Rhodia Acetow GmbH and the development of cellulose ester fiber filter materials. The available information identifies his contribution in cigarette-filter technology but does not provide further details about his career history.

Collaborations

Eberhard Teufel and Günter Maurer are identified as Sackers’s coworkers. The supplied information does not specify their roles in the patent or the nature of their collaboration.

Conclusion

Emmerich Sackers’s patent focuses on combining cigarette-filter performance with improved disintegration under environmental conditions, reflecting a practical innovation in cellulose ester filter design.