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US 5,121,758 AGranted
Glue and method for its production
AssigneeB.A.T. Cigarettenfabriken GmbH
InventorsGerald Schmekel, Wilfried Stiller, Meinhard Meyer, Knut Moller
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Abstract
A glue for sealing the side seams of smokable articles contains 5 to 40 percent by weight dry substance pectin in an aqueous dispersion; to produce this glue the aqueous dispersion of the pectin is prepared by charging the pectin portion-wise into heated, demineralized water, stirring the corresponding mixture and executing a chain decomposition of the pectin.
Claims4
A smokable article comprising:
- a rod portion of tobacco material,
- a wrapper encircling the rod portion, and
- a glue layer for sealing the side seam of the wrapper,
- wherein a glue made of pectin forms the glue layer.
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A cigarette comprising:
- a rod portion of tobacco material,
- a paper wrapper encircling the rod portion, and
- a glue sealing the side seam of the paper wrapper,
- wherein the glue is made of citrus of apple pectin, and the pectin has an esterification degree of 50 to 65%.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.