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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 19, 2003
Filed:
Mar. 27, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Evon Llewellyn Crooks, Winston-Salem, NC (US);
Joanne Naomi Taylor, Germanton, NC (US);
Assignee:
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Winston-Salem, NC (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A24D 1/00 ; A24D 1/02 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A24D 1/00 ; A24D 1/02 ;
Abstract
The invention provides an easy to manufacture smoking article having a reduced ignition propensity and an increased puff count. The smoking article of the invention comprises a rod of smokable material disposed within a wrapper having a strip of paper material forming a region having at least two paper layers aligned substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis of the smoking article. One of the paper layers of the region may be tobacco paper, and preferably has a porosity between 0 and 20 Coresta units.