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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 13, 1998
Filed:
Oct. 25, 1995
Vernon Brent Barnes, Clemmons, NC (US);
Donald Ross Wilkinson, Clemmons, NC (US);
Lloyd Harmon Hancock, Walnut Cove, NC (US);
Erwin Oesterling, Glinde, DE;
Siegfried Schlisio, Geesthacht, DE;
Werner Hinz, Lauenburg, DE;
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Winston-Salem, NC (US);
Abstract
Cigarettes and methods of making them, in which an insulated fuel element is combined with a substrate assembly comprising a substrate within a tube, combining a roll of tobacco with a plug of tobacco paper, combining the fuel element/substrate assembly with the tobacco/tobacco paper assembly, and combining the resulting combination with a filter element to produce filter cigarettes. Methods of constructing the various and preferred subassemblies are also disclosed.