Gravure printed banded wrapper paper
AssigneeAltria Client Services LLC
InventorsTimothy S. SHERWOOD, Jonathan L. DALTON
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Abstract
A smoking article includes a tobacco rod includes a column of filler and a wrapper surrounding the column of filler. The wrapper includes a base web having parallel first and second side edges extending in a longitudinal direction and two ends extending in a circumferential direction. The base web includes at least one circumferentially extending banded region of fibrous crystalline cellulosic material thereon. The fibrous crystalline cellulosic material is in a condition of having been gravure printed on the base web as a fibrous crystalline cellulosic.
Claims20
A method of making a banded wrapper paper for smoking articles, the method comprising:
- contacting a base web with a patterned gravure roller having a fibrous crystalline cellulosic slurry applied thereto to apply a band of the fibrous crystalline cellulosic slurry on the base web, the fibrous crystalline cellulosic slurry including water, crystalline cellulose, and chalk and having a solids content of about 10% or less by weight of the fibrous crystalline cellulosic slurry.
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