Cigarette Components Limited

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John Charlton

Paul Francis Clarke

Paul Richard Clarke

Ichiro Atobe

Ernest B Hayes

Masanori Koborinai

Atsushi Tokida

Richard Karl Shepherd

A filter for a cigarette and a filter-tipped cigarette having a high degree of freedom in control of filtering-efficiency of smoke are provided. The filter has a core and a sheath made preferably of tow of cellulose acetate fibers. A plurality of axial passages is formed between the core and the sheath and extend continuously between both end faces of the filter.

Filter for a cigarette and a filter-tipped cigarette

A filter for a cigarette and a filter cigarette which make a smoking feeling much milder without the original cigarette taste and aroma being spoiled are provided. The cigarette filter has a filter rod having an air permeable peripheral surface, and to axial passages in the rod . These passages are distributed on a ring having a diameter of 50 to 70% of that of the rod and have a diameter of 0.1 to 0.7 mm. The wall of the axial passages have air permeability. In smoking, ventilation air introduced into the passages dilutes the smoke stream from the cigarette.

Filter for a cigarette and filter cigarette

The present invention provides a tobacco smoke filter or filter element having a longitudinally extending core (,) and a wrapper (,) engaged around the core (,), the wrapper (,) having particulate additive (,) adhered to one or more portion(s) of the radially inner face thereof with said wrapper (,) being free of additive around its circumference at one or both ends of the core.

Tobacco smoke filter

A smoke filter consists of substrate threads and/or strips each pre-coated with particulate sorbent (e.g. activated carbon granules), gathered together in solid or tubular rod form e.g. within a containing sleeve. When the gathered threads and/or strips form a tubular body, this may be provided with a core.

Particulate sorbent smoke filter

Concentric core filter

A filter having a longitudinal axis and having a tube formed by at least one strip [2] which is pre-coated with particulate smoke modifying additive [4] adhering thereto and which curves through at least 360.degree. about the longitudinal axis.

Smoke filter containing particulate smoke modifying additive

A ventilated smoker's mouthpiece, e.g. for a cigarette, in which the degree of ventilation is readily adjustable. The mouthpiece includes a ventilating outer sleeve around a buccal end core member and an adjacent upstream core member longitudinally aligned therewith. The buccal end core member bus, extending upstream from its exposed end, a portion which is movable longitudinally relative to the remainder thereof to move the adjacent upstream core member longitudinally relative to the sleeve to vary the extent of ventilation permitted through the outer sleeve. Thus, the outer sleeve may have one or more ventilating orifices, with longitudinal movement of the adjacent upstream core member under the action of the movable portion of the buccal end core member, bringing the upstream core member at least partially into or out of blocking registration with the ventilation orifice or orifices, or altering the extent of such blocking registration, with the amount of ventilation permitted varying accordingly.

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Washington, United Kingdom

John Charlton