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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:
Feb. 28, 1989
Filed:
Apr. 18, 1988
William H Langley, Winston-Salem, NC (US);
Roy E Yeatts, Winston-Salem, NC (US);
Carl C Hein, III, Winston-Salem, NC (US);
Matthew S Koschak, Pfafftown, NC (US);
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Winston-Salem, NC (US);
Abstract
The invention is directed to a packaging composite for barrier sealed cigarette or other smoking article packages. The composite includes a foil layer, exterior and interior skin layers of heat-sealable thermoplastic polymer, first and second biaxially oriented polypropylene homopolymer layers located between the exterior skin layers and the foil layers, and first and second adhesive layers coupling the polypropylene layers to the foil layer on each side thereof. The package laminate has a thickness of between 1.5 and 2.5 mils.