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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:
Sep. 08, 1992
Filed:
May. 15, 1991
Applicant:
Inventor:
Everett W Southwick, Richmond, VA (US);
Assignees:
Philip Morris Incorporated, New York, NY (US);
Philip Morris Products Inc., Richmond, VA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A24B / ; A24D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
131276 ; 131365 ;
Abstract
This invention provides smoking compositions which contain a vanillin carboxylate type flavorant-release additive. Under cigarette smoking conditions, a combustible filler and/or paper wrapper additive such as 5-carboxyethylvanillin pyrolyzes and releases ethylvanillin as a volatile flavorant component of the cigarette smoke.