R.j. Reynolds Tobacco Company

Other

Japan Tobacco Inc.

Vernon Brent Barnes

John Larkin Nelson

Timothy Frederick Thomas

Lloyd Harmon Hancock

Michael Francis Dube

Robert William Benford

Carl Carlton Greene, Jr

Travis Eugene Howard

Balager Ademe

Brent Walker Carter

Cynthia Stewart Stokes

Sydney Keith Seymour

Donald R Wilkinson

Kenneth Wayne Smith

Louis John Read, Jr

Stephen Thomas Matthews

Billy Tyrone Conner

William Robert Collett

Robert L Meiring

James Richard Stone

Robert Leonard Meiring

Andries Don Sebastian

Charles Jacob Novak, Iii

Jackie L White

Chandra K Banerjee

Timothy Brian Nestor

Evon Llewellyn Crooks

Jerry Wayne Pipes

Barry Smith Fagg

Quentin Paul Guenther, Jr

Yi-Ping Chang

David Neil McClanahan

Werner Hinz

Siegfried Schlisio

August Joseph Borschke

Alvaro Gonzalez-Parra

Erwin Oesterling

Carolyn Rierson Carpenter

Margarette Elisa Lovette

Ford Mitchell Shore

John Fitzgerald

Jeffrey Kane Rogers

Donald Ross Wilkinson

Russell Dean Barnes

Carl Carlton Greene

Jack F Clearman

Gary R Shelar

Philip Andrew Deal

Michael D Shannon

Calvin Wayne Henderson

Robert Leslie Oglesby

Gary Lee Wood

Douglas C Clark

Max N Baker

Gerhard Hensgen

Darrell Thomas Dixon

Larry McCann

Franklin Forrest Brantley

Ronnie G Huff

Alfred Schubert

Keith Stanley Moser

Max Warren Cole

Gregory J Roberts

John W Shore

Jackie Lee White

Chandra Kumar Banerjee

Charles Jacob Iii Novak

John Nelson

Larry Dean McCann

An apparatus is provided for forming a cigarette filter rod member defining a longitudinal axis. A rod-forming unit is configured to form a continuous supply of a filter material into a continuous cylindrical rod member. An insertion unit configured to insert a carrier carrying a plurality of frangible microcapsule objects into the rod member. Associated apparatuses and methods are also provided.

Apparatus for inserting microcapsule objects into a filter element of a smoking article, and associated method

Apparatuses are provided for manufacturing a rod member for a cigarette filter element. Each rod member defines a longitudinal axis and includes a generally longitudinally-extending filter material and a plurality of objects disposed therein along the longitudinal axis. Such an apparatus comprises a rod-forming unit configured to form a continuous supply of a filter material into a continuous cylindrical rod member. An object insertion unit is configured to introduce a plurality of objects into engagement with the rod member. A rod-dividing unit is configured to divide the rod member into a plurality of rod portions such that each rod portion includes a plurality of the objects. Associated methods are also provided.

Apparatus for inserting objects into a filter component of a smoking article and associated method

A filtered cigarette possesses at least one breakable capsule in its filter element. The filter element can possess a central cavity extending from the cigarette tobacco rod towards the middle of the filter element. The central cavity may be defined by an inner filter portion. The inner filter portion can be surrounded by an outer filter portion comprised of filter tow material that is generally permeable to the smoke generated by the cigarette. At least one breakable capsule is disposed in the central cavity of the filter element. The breakable capsules are spherical in shape, and are composed of a gelatin outer shell that encloses a payload of triglycerides and flavoring agents. The breakable capsules are adapted to rupture in response to pressure applied by the smoker to the outside region of the filter element.

Filtered cigarette incorporating a breakable capsule

Filter rods for use in the manufacture of cigarette filter elements are provided, with each rod having a longitudinal axis and incorporating a generally longitudinally extending filter material and a generally longitudinally extending strand within that filter material. A filter making unit receives a continuous supply of a filter material, and forms the filter material into a gathered composite having a continuous cylindrical shape. A continuous supply of a strand (e.g., colored thread) is provided and is introduced into the filter material gathered composite in the tongue of the filter making unit. The filter material and continuous strand positioned therein are formed into a continuous rod having the strand material laterally positioned within that rod, and the continuous rod is subdivided at pre-determined longitudinal intervals to provide a plurality of rod portions.

Equipment and associated method for insertion of material into cigarette filters

An apparatus and associated method is provided for forming a rod for use in the manufacture of cigarette filter elements. A continuous supply of a filter material is formed into a continuous filter rod by a rod-forming unit. An object insertion unit is configured to insert a plurality of first objects and a plurality of second objects into the continuous filter rod. A rod-dividing unit is configured to subdivide the continuous filter rod, at predetermined intervals along the longitudinal axis thereof, into a plurality of filter rod portions such that each filter rod portion includes at least one first object and at least one second object disposed therein, with the first objects being different from the second objects.

Apparatus for inserting objects into a filter component of a smoking article

A cigarette includes lighting and mouth ends. It may include a smokable segment disposed at the lighting end. It also includes a mouth-end segment; an aerosol-generation system disposed between the lighting and mouth ends, which includes (i) a heat-generation segment adjacent the smokable segment, including a heat source and an insulation layer and (ii) an aerosol-generating segment including a substrate, which may include tobacco pellets and aerosol-forming material disposed in a substrate cavity between the heat generation segment and the mouth end; a piece of outer wrapping material that provides an overwrap around at least a portion of the aerosol-generating segment, the heat-generation segment, and at least a portion of the smokable segment and includes a foil strip laminated thereon; those segments being connected together by the overwrap to provide a cigarette rod; that is connected to the mouth-end segment using tipping material.

Segmented smoking article with substrate cavity

A method of modifying the moisture content of fuel elements used in making smoking articles. The method may include overwrapped fuel elements, smoking article components, and/or assembled smoking articles being subjected to drying by flowed ambient air. Unheated air is flowed over the fuel components to adjust and maintain a desired moisture content of the fuel components to a level that permits cutting of the fuel components without chipping or cracking. After the fuel components are cut into individual or two-up fuel elements and combined with smoking article components that may include up to an entire filtered or unfiltered smoking article, they may have more ambient air flowed over them to further reduce the moisture content to a desired level.

Method for preparing smoking articles

Method of forming a rod for use in the manufacture of cigarette filters

Apparatus for inserting objects into a filter component of a smoking article, and associated method

Method for insertion of material into cigarette filters

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Advance, NC, United States of America

Vernon Brent Barnes