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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 27, 2007
Filed:
Dec. 20, 2002
Lloyd Harmon Hancock, Walnut Cove, NC (US);
Sydney Keith Seymour, Clemmons, NC (US);
Balager Ademe, Winston-Salem, NC (US);
Travis Eugene Howard, Clemmons, NC (US);
Lloyd Harmon Hancock, Walnut Cove, NC (US);
Sydney Keith Seymour, Clemmons, NC (US);
Balager Ademe, Winston-Salem, NC (US);
Travis Eugene Howard, Clemmons, NC (US);
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Winston-Salem, NC (US);
Abstract
Cigarettes are manufactured using modified automated cigarette making apparatus. Those cigarettes possess smokable rods having paper wrapping materials having additive materials applied thereto as patterns. The additive materials, are applied to a continuous paper web on the cigarette making apparatus. The formulation can be applied to the paper web using application apparatus possessing rollers, and one of those rollers has a series of pockets in its roll face to receive additive formulation from a reservoir and to define the pattern of the formulation on the paper. The automated cigarette making apparatus can comprise multiple components. A first component of the assembly provides a source of paper web, applies additive material to that web in a pattern and dries the paper web; while a second component receives the paper web, supplies tobacco filler and manufactures a cigarette rod from the paper web and tobacco filler.