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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 09, 1986
Filed:
Feb. 25, 1985
Applicant:
Inventors:
Roger D Kamm, Watertown, MA (US);
Louis Fine, Oak Park, IL (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A24F / ; A24F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
131187 ; 131273 ; 73 38 ;
Abstract
A tobacco smoke article holder for a testing machine and a method of mounting a tobacco smoke article in the holder to simulate the human smoking process including an inflatably lined flow-through conduit having a depth substantially equal to the average width of a human lip and a cross-section in liner-relaxed state approximating the cross-section of the tobacco smoke article to accommodate normal insertion depth of the tobacco smoke article.