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US 5,595,196 AGranted
Method of producing a filter cigarette with tipping paper having lip release properties
AssigneeEnso-Gutzeit Oy
InventorsHannu Salonen, Helena Kanervo
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Abstract
A method for producing a filter cigarette with tipping paper having improved lip release properties. Lip release chemicals are applied to one side of a base tipping paper during its manufacture in a papermaking process by surface coating, followed by manufacture of the cigarette using otherwise conventional apparatus and materials according to known procedures.
Claims6
A method of producing a filter cigarette having a filter section joined to a tobacco section by a tipping paper having improved lip release properties, comprising:
- placing a tobacco section and a filter section in longitudinal axial relationship;
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- joining said filter section and tobacco section together by wrapping a tipping paper around said filter section and an adjoining portion of said tobacco section, said tipping paper possessing lip release properties which were imparted thereto by applying a surface coating containing a lip release chemical to only one side of a base tipping paper during a stage of a papermaking process for manufacturing the base tipping paper.
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