Philip Morris USA Inc.

Philip Morris Products S.a.

John R Tilley

Firooz Rasouli

Yezdi B Pithawalla

Timothy Scott Sherwood

Ping Li

Tony A Phan

Bruce Waymack

Bruce E Waymack

Nathaniel Hull

Adam Lisbeth

William Sammler

Don E Miser

Joe Yousef Mohajer

Tracy L Madison

Joe Mohajer

Certain embodiments include a screen assembly of a vessel, where the screen assembly includes a plurality of fixed elements and a retainer, and the retainer includes a ring, a plurality of wedges disposed about the ring, and a plurality of keyholes at spaced locations about the ring. Each keyhole includes a bore and a slot extending from the bore into an adjacent wedge of the plurality of wedges, the slots have a width less than the bores, and the retainer may receive the fixed elements through the bores and may be rotated in a relation with the plurality of fixed elements to bring the plurality of fixed elements into simultaneous engagement with the wedges.

Vessel screen retaining system and method

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.

Gravure-printed, banded cigarette paper

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Chesterfield, VA, United States of America

John R Tilley