Starch-based adhesive
AssigneeReichhold Chemicals, Inc.
InventorsTheo W. Warmerdam, Henk G. Nolten, Edward W. Day, Joseph S. Hetzer, Anil B. Goel
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a starch-based adhesive composition for use in cigarette manufacture. The adhesive composition includes at least about 2 percent of a dispersible starch that thickens on heating to a temperature greater than about 50.degree. C.
Claims6
In a cigarette characterized by a rod of an amount of tobacco wrapped in a paper tube, the paper tube being glued along a longitudinal edge with an adhesive, the improvement comprising the use as the additive of an adhesive composition devoid of alkali and comprising a dispersible unmodified starch that heat thickens on heating to a temperature greater than about 50.degree. C.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.