A24C 5/00
Making cigarettes
Official title: Making cigarettes; Making tipping materials for, or attaching filters or mouthpieces to, cigars or cigarettes
A24C5/00 (Making cigarettes) appears on 2,668 US grants and 2,110 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A24C- Granted patents
- 2,668
- Published applications
- 2,110
- Assignees
- 435
- Inventors
- 3,507
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 55 | 0 |
| 1977 | 69 | 0 |
| 1978 | 49 | 0 |
| 1979 | 29 | 0 |
| 1980 | 65 | 0 |
| 1981 | 71 | 0 |
| 1982 | 51 | 0 |
| 1983 | 54 | 0 |
| 1984 | 60 | 0 |
| 1985 | 66 | 0 |
| 1986 | 76 | 0 |
| 1987 | 71 | 0 |
| 1988 | 62 | 0 |
| 1989 | 76 | 0 |
| 1990 | 58 | 0 |
| 1991 | 64 | 0 |
| 1992 | 58 | 0 |
| 1993 | 55 | 0 |
| 1994 | 46 | 0 |
| 1995 | 46 | 0 |
| 1996 | 56 | 0 |
| 1997 | 51 | 0 |
| 1998 | 37 | 0 |
| 1999 | 16 | 0 |
| 2000 | 36 | 0 |
| 2001 | 30 | 15 |
| 2002 | 34 | 34 |
| 2003 | 32 | 42 |
| 2004 | 34 | 87 |
| 2005 | 25 | 82 |
| 2006 | 30 | 59 |
| 2007 | 40 | 58 |
| 2008 | 19 | 49 |
| 2009 | 23 | 33 |
| 2010 | 31 | 25 |
| 2011 | 28 | 38 |
| 2012 | 29 | 41 |
| 2013 | 29 | 59 |
| 2014 | 29 | 50 |
| 2015 | 46 | 73 |
| 2016 | 42 | 65 |
| 2017 | 35 | 71 |
| 2018 | 55 | 85 |
| 2019 | 69 | 98 |
| 2020 | 72 | 136 |
| 2021 | 70 | 162 |
| 2022 | 93 | 166 |
| 2023 | 99 | 180 |
| 2024 | 125 | 177 |
| 2025 | 109 | 115 |
| 2026 | 63 | 110 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- A24C 5/32Separating, ordering, counting or examining cigarettes756
- A24C 5/14Machines of the continuous-rod type576
- A24C 5/47Attaching filters or mouthpieces to cigars or cigarettes316
- A24C 5/35Adaptations of conveying apparatus for transporting cigarettes from making machine to packaging293
- A24C 5/01Making cigarettes for simulated smoking devices244
- A24C 5/40Hand-driven apparatus for making cigarettes228
- A24C 5/39Tobacco feeding devices203
- A24C 5/60Final treatment of cigarettes137
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- A24C 5/005Treatment of cigarette paper129
- A24C 5/02Cigarette-filling machines112
- A24C 5/46Making paper tubes for cigarettes62
- A24C 5/36Removing papers or other parts from defective cigarettes47
- A24C 5/56Making tipping materials35
- A24C 5/10Machines with wrapping rollers29
- A24C 5/54Folding the ends of cigarette paper tubes after filling them with tobacco28
- A24C 5/002Feeding arrangements for individual paper wrappers24
- A24C 5/12Cutting the ends of filled and rolled cigarettes19
- A24C 5/52Incorporating filters or mouthpieces into a cigarette rod or a tobacco rod17
- A24C 5/38Machines combined with printing devices14
- A24C 5/08Machines with aprons and tables for wrapping6
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Electrical smoking system and method446US 6,688,313 B2Philip Morris Incorporated · 2004
- Smoking article with an enclosed heat conductive capsule containing an aerosol forming substance416US 5,019,122 AR. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company · 1991
- Cigarette for electrical smoking system330US 5,499,636 APhilip Morris Incorporated · 1996
- Carbon heat source289US 5,076,296 APhilip Morris Incorporated · 1991
- Cigarette for electrical smoking system259US 5,692,526 APhilip Morris Incorporated · 1997