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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 21, 2023
Filed:
Jun. 06, 2016
Preciflex SA, Neuchâtel, CH;
Lucien Vouillamoz, Feusisberg, CH;
Alain Jaccard, Ste-Croix, CH;
Other;
Abstract
An analysis and/or treatment device () for at least one smoking article (). comprising a closable receptacle () for receiving the at least one smoking article () therein; a reservoir () for a fluid treatment material (); a hollow injection needle. () interiorly insertable into the smoking article () received in the receptacle () and operably connected to the reservoir (); means () for moving the treatment material () from the reservoir () through the needle () into the interior of the smoking article (); and at least one sensor means () provided in the receptacle () for detecting at least one parameter characterizing a property of the smoking article () and/or characterizing the treatment conditions in the receptacle (). A method for applying a treatment to a smoking article (), wherein the smoking article () is enclosed by a receptacle (), and a treatment material () is inserted into the receptacle () and directly into the interior of the smoking article () as a function of parameters measured by sensor means (), said parameters being indicative of at least one of the temperature and the humidity in the receptacle () and the smoking article ().