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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 01, 2005
Filed:
Feb. 28, 2003
Satoshi Kitao, Yokohama, JP;
Keigo Miura, Yokohama, JP;
Takaaki Matsufuji, Yokohama, JP;
Takeo Tsutsumi, Yokohama, JP;
Fumio Sashide, Tokyo, JP;
Sadayoshi Matsuura, Tokyo, JP;
Satoshi Kitao, Yokohama, JP;
Keigo Miura, Yokohama, JP;
Takaaki Matsufuji, Yokohama, JP;
Takeo Tsutsumi, Yokohama, JP;
Fumio Sashide, Tokyo, JP;
Sadayoshi Matsuura, Tokyo, JP;
Japan Tobacco Inc., Toyko, JP;
Abstract
A smoking article is manufactured through supplying a tobacco filler material onto a tobacco wrapping paper sheet that is transferred, wrapping the tobacco filler material supplied onto the tobacco wrapping paper sheet with the tobacco wrapping paper sheet so as to prepare a rod body, and cutting the rod body into a plurality of tobacco rods each having a prescribed length. The tobacco filler material contains at least 20% by weight of expanded tobacco material. The tobacco wrapping paper sheet is coated with the burn adjusting agent during transfer of the tobacco wrapping paper sheet.