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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 29, 2008
Filed:
Oct. 09, 2003
Barry Smith Fagg, Winston-Salem, NC (US);
Vernon Brent Barnes, Advance, NC (US);
Sydney Keith Seymour, Clemmons, NC (US);
Lloyd Harmon Hancock, Walnut Cove, NC (US);
John Larkin Nelson, Lewisville, NC (US);
Carl Carlton Greene, Jr., Winston-Salem, NC (US);
Balager Ademe, Winston-Salem, NC (US);
Barry Smith Fagg, Winston-Salem, NC (US);
Vernon Brent Barnes, Advance, NC (US);
Sydney Keith Seymour, Clemmons, NC (US);
Lloyd Harmon Hancock, Walnut Cove, NC (US);
John Larkin Nelson, Lewisville, NC (US);
Carl Carlton Greene, Jr., Winston-Salem, NC (US);
Balager Ademe, Winston-Salem, NC (US);
R.J. Reynolds Tabacco Company, Winston-Salem, NC (US);
Abstract
Cigarettes can be manufactured using modified automated cigarette making apparatus. Those cigarettes can possess smokable rods having paper wrapping materials having additive materials applied thereto as patterns. The additive materials can have the forms of liquid or paste formulations. The formulation can be applied to the paper web using application apparatus possessing rollers. A radiant dryer can be used to dry the additive material applied to the paper web. Such a system provides a source of paper web, applies additive material to that web in a pattern, dries the paper web, and winds the treated paper web on to a bobbin. That bobbin can be later used to provide a source of paper web on a cigarette making machine, which unrolls that bobbin, receives the treated paper web from that bobbin, supplies tobacco filler and manufactures a cigarette rod from the paper web and tobacco filler.