A24C 5/46
Making paper tubes for cigarettes
Official title: Making paper tubes for cigarettes (making paper tubes in general B31C)
A24C5/46 (Making paper tubes for cigarettes) appears on 62 US grants and 67 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A24C- Granted patents
- 62
- Published applications
- 67
- Assignees
- 32
- Inventors
- 129
- Latest grant
- 14 Jul 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Cigar tobacco strips and a method for packaging the same14 Jul 2026US 12,677,861 B2
- Apparatus and method for automatically forming casings for smoking articles including a filter24 Feb 2026US 12,557,835 B2I,M.A. Industria Macchine Automatiche S.p.A.
- Machine and method for making a continuous tubular element with filling having a spacer and/or filter function4 Nov 2025US 12,458,058 B2G. D S.p.A.
- Cigarette tube, piano for a cigarette tube, method for forming a cigarette tube, and packaging for multiple cigarette tubes30 Sep 2025US 12,426,622 B2Miquel Y Costas & Miquel, S.A.
- Rolling paper pick and place apparatus23 Sep 2025US 12,419,342 B2Rollpros LLC
- Aerosol Generating Article for an Aerosol Generating Device and Associated Manufacturing Method1 Oct 2026US 2026/0293972 A1JT International SA
- Machine and method for producing smoking products10 Sep 2026US 2026/0262703 A1I,M.A. Industria Macchine Automatiche S.p.A.
- A consumable14 May 2026US 2026/0130411 A1Nicoventures Trading Limited
- Element for an aerosol generating article or smoking article7 May 2026US 2026/0123670 A1
- Article with tubular aerosol-forming substrate30 Apr 2026US 2026/0114493 A1Philip Morris Products S. A.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Cone wrapper for the consumption of smokable substances18US 7,377,281 B2BBK Tobacco & Foods, LLP · 2008
- Apparatus making thin laminate structures and forming the structures into lightweight, thin-walled tubes12US 5,169,481 APhilip Morris Incorporated · 1992
- Smoking article and method12US 9,125,435 B1Blunt Wrap U.S.A., Inc. · 2015
- Smoking article and method8US 8,393,335 B1Blunt Wrap U.S.A., Inc. · 2013
- Smoking product and method of making7US 9,113,658 B1Blunt Wrap U.S.A., Inc. · 2015