Packaging smoking articles
AssigneeBritish American Tobacco (Investments) Limited
InventorDavid John Dittrich
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Abstract
A method of packaging smoking articles, such as cigarettes, includes applying a volatile flavourant to the surface of a pack or an insert for the pack immediately prior to the pack being assembled about a smoking article bundle. The volatile flavourant can migrate within the fully assembled pack from the surface to which it was applied to the smoking articles.
Claims15
A method of packaging smoking articles including:
- providing a pack blank;
- providing an assemblage of smoking articles;
- placing said pack blank on a smoking article packaging machine for assembly;
- providing a surface;
- including said surface with said pack blank during said assembly of said pack blank;
- applying a volatile smoking article flavourant to said surface during said assembly of said pack blank about said assemblage of smoking articles;
- completing assembly of said pack blank about said assemblage of smoking articles on a smoking article packaging machine in an elapsed time short enough to prevent loss of said applied smoking article flavourant by volatization before completing assembly of said pack;
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- allowing said volatile smoking article flavourant to migrate from said surface to said smoking articles in said assembled pack.
In combination, a smoking article packaging machine and a volatile flavourant application means, said smoking article packaging machine being operable to assemble a pack blank about an assemblage of smoking articles;
- said volatile flavourant application means including nozzle means and means to supply a volatile flavourant through said nozzle means to a surface of said pack blank during assembly of said pack blank and prior to a full assembly of said pack blank about said assemblage of smoking articles, said surface being a surface within a fully assembled pack, said fully assembled pack including said pack blank, said assemblage of smoking articles and said surface, said smoking article packaging machine and said volatile flavourant application means being operable in combination whereby an elapsed time between an application of said volatile flavourant to said surface and said assembly of said pack blank is short enough to prevent loss of said applied volatile flavourant by volatilization prior to said full assembly of said fully assembled pack.
A method of packaging smoking articles including:
- providing a pack blank;
- providing an assemblage of smoking artricles;
- placing said pack blank on a smoking article packaging machine for assembly;
- providing a surface on said pack blank, said surface being an inner surface of a fully assembled pack;
- applying a volatile smoking article flavourant to said surface prior to commencement of the assembly of said pack blank about said assemblage of smoking articles;
- completing assembly of said pack blank about said assemblage of smoking articles on a smoking article packaging machine in an elapsed time short enough to prevent loss of said applied smoking article flavourant by volatization before said pack is fully assembled;
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- allowing said volatile smoking article flavourant to migrate from said surface to said smoking articles in said assembled pack.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.