Philip Morris Inc.

Courtaulds Fibres (holdings) Ltd.

Navin Gautam

Robert M Rogers

Sheryl D Baldwin

Kenneth S Houghton

Judith L Ryder

Edward B Sanders

Kenneth A Newman

Gordon H Bokelman

Harry V Lanzillotti

William B Edwards, Iii

Edwin L Cutright

James L Myracle

Calvin Roger Woodings

Jon R Butt, Sr

Donald E Laslie

Tyrone W Murray

Ronald L Edwards

D Anh Phan

David J Kraske

Jeffery L Allen

Paul N Gauvin

H Edmund Clark

Thomas E Dougherty

Thomas L Fillio

Phillip L Ursery

Vladimir Hampl, Jr

A method and apparatus of manufacturing a web which is striped with add-on material, comprising: a first arrangement which establishes a sheet of base web from a first slurry and moves the established sheet along a first path; a second arrangement for preparing a second slurry; a moving orifice applicator operative so as to repetitively discharge the second slurry upon the moving sheet of base web, the moving orifice applicator comprising: a chamber box arranged to establish a reservoir of the second slurry across the first path; an endless belt having an orifice, the endless belt received through the chamber box; a drive arrangement operative upon the endless belt to continuously move the orifice along an endless path and repetitively through the chamber box, the orifice when communicated with the reservoir being operative to discharge the second slurry from the reservoir through the orifice; a flow distribution system for introducing the second slurry into the chamber box at spaced-apart feed locations along the chamber box; a flow monitoring system for reading fluid pressure at spaced-apart locations along the chamber box; and a controller arranged to identify which of the feed ports is operatively adjacent a monitored location of highest pressure variation, the controller selectively adjusting output of the flow distribution system at the identified feed location counteractively to the highest pressure variation, the controller adjusting output of a remainder of the feed locations counteractively to the output adjustment at the identified feed location.

Method and apparatus for applying a material to a web

Filter materials

This invention refers to a paper having crossdirectional regions having increased basis weight. The paper of this invention is especially useful as a wrapping material for a smoking article. The paper may be produced by depositing additional material onto a moving base web in a papermaking machine. The additional material is deposited by means of a rotating drum containing a plurality of slits through which the additional material passes.

Paper having crossdirectional regions of variable basis weight

This invention relates to the control of the burn rate of a cigarette. The burn rate is controlled by the use of a paper wrapper to which regions of cellulosic material is applied and bonded. The cellulosic material is applied during a manufacturing step for the base paper wrapper, either off or on-line of the paper wrapper-forming machine.

Smoking article wrapper for controlling burn rate and method for making

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Richmond, VA, United States of America

Navin Gautam