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Cigarette for electrical smoking system

US5499636A · kind A · utility

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8Claims
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Filing dateApr 20, 1995
Grant dateMar 19, 1996
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Expiry dateApr 20, 2015

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
  • CPC primaryA24D1/20
  • WIPO fieldOther consumer goods
  • WIPO sectorOther fields

Abstract

A novel cigarette adapted for use in an electrical cigarette system comprising a tobacco rod having filled and untilled tobacco rod portions and being arranged so that electrical heater elements may overlap the filled and untilled tobacco rod portions. The tobacco rod includes a tobacco web rolled into tubular form. The tobacco web is constructed in accordance with a novel process comprising the steps of converting tobacco feedstock into a continuous sheet of tobacco web and converting the continuous sheet of tobacco web into one or more bobbins of tobacco web suitable for automated manufacture of cigarettes.

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