Altria Client Services LLC

Philip Morris Inc.

Navin Gautam

Tyrone W. Murray

Harry V. Lanzillotti

Thomas E. Dougherty

Thomas L. Fillio

Jon R., Sr. Butt

Ronald L. Edwards

D. Anh Phan

Phillip L. Ursery

Vladimir Jr. Hampl

Edwin L. Cutright

H. Edmund Clark

Tyrone W Murray

Robert N Smith

Timothy Scott Sherwood

Marc Rose

Harry V Lanzillotti

Edwin L Cutright

Jon R Butt, Sr

Ronald L Edwards

D Anh Phan

H Edmund Clark

Thomas E Dougherty

Thomas L Fillio

Phillip L Ursery

Vladimir Hampl, Jr

Vladimir Jr Hampl

Sr Butt Jon R

A cigarette wrapper includes transversely extending banded regions applied by a printing technique, such as gravure printing. The banded regions may be applied in a one or more application of a printing composition that may be 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.

Alternating patterns in cigarette wrapper, smoking article and method

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

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Midlothian, VA, United States of America

Tyrone W Murray