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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 03, 2013
Filed:
Jan. 26, 2009
Brent Walker Carter, High Point, NC (US);
John Larkin Nelson, Lewisville, NC (US);
Rebecca Anne Rogers, Pinnacle, NC (US);
Brent Walker Carter, High Point, NC (US);
John Larkin Nelson, Lewisville, NC (US);
Rebecca Anne Rogers, Pinnacle, NC (US);
R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Winston-Salem, NC (US);
Abstract
An apparatus for customizing a cigarette package is provided, wherein the cigarette package is configured to receive a plurality of as-formed cigarettes therein. Such an apparatus comprises a feeder unit configured to feed one of a plurality of cigarette packages to a register position. An imprinting unit is configured to interact with the cigarette package in the register position so as to imprint at least one of an alphanumeric character and a graphical character thereon. An associated method is also provided.