A24D 3/0204
Preliminary operations before the filter rod forming process
Official title: {Preliminary operations before the filter rod forming process, e.g. crimping, blooming (A24D3/0275 takes precedence)}
A24D3/0204 (Preliminary operations before the filter rod forming process) appears on 343 US grants and 448 published applications in this corpus.
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- Production of tobacco smoke filters149US 4,281,671 AAmerican Filtrona Corporation · 1981
- Biodegradable polyvinyl alcohol tobacco smoke filters, tobacco smoke products incorporating such filters, and methods and apparatus for making same134US 5,911,224 AFiltrona International Limited · 1999
- Rods containing pelletized material109US 4,862,905 AR. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company · 1989
- Method and apparatus for incorporating objects into cigarette filters103US 7,115,085 B2R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company · 2006
- Menthol cigarette99US 8,157,918 B2Philip Morris USA Inc. · 2012