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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:
Nov. 06, 2001
Filed:
May. 11, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
David John Dittrich, Southampton, GB;
Richard Thomas Fiebelkorn, Southampton, GB;
Assignee:
British-American Tobacco Company Limited, Middlesex, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A24B 1/500 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A24B 1/500 ;
Abstract
The invention relates to low delivery cigarettes, usually having a mainstream particulate matter delivery of about 9 mg or less. An embodiment has a rod of tobacco material and a filter element. The filter element is an alkali filter material section having a loading level of less than 12% by weight of the section. The characteristics of the cigarettes are arranged so that, when smoked, the alkaline filter material is exposed to an amount of smoke acceptable to achieve an increased perception of smoke impact.