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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:
May. 27, 1997
Filed:
Dec. 01, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
Roger G Hayworth, High Point, NC (US);
Jackie L White, Pfafftown, NC (US);
Assignee:
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Winston-Salem, NC (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A24D / ; A24D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
131360 ; 131353 ; 131358 ; 131364 ; 131365 ;
Abstract
A smoking article and methods of making the article are described in which a sheet of reconstituted tobacco having an area less than about 100 cm.sup.2 is manually or machine folded into a substantially flat strip of tobacco for smoking. The reconstituted tobacco sheet may be folded about other folded or unfolded strips of tobacco sheet and compressed into a substantially flat smoking article.