Method for producing a reduced ignition propensity smoking article
OwnerLloyd Harmon Hancock, Vernon Brent Barnes +2inventors
InventorsLloyd Harmon Hancock, Vernon Brent Barnes, Carl Carlton Greene, Jr., Robert Leslie Oglesby
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Abstract
The present invention provides a smoking article having a reduced ignition propensity by reason of one or more cross-directional bands of an adhesive applied to the paper wrapper of the smoking article. The adhesive may be one of a cigarette seam adhesive, a filter plug wrap adhesive or a tipping paper adhesive conventionally used in the manufacture of cigarettes. A cigarette maker is modified to include the adhesive applicator apparatus of the invention which applies the adhesive bands to the paper wrapper in an in line process.
Claims9
A method of making a cigarette smoking article having reduced ignition propensity comprising the steps of providing a cigarette maker having a garniture and a bobbin for paying out a paper wrapper to the garniture for wrapping about a rod of smokable material to form a cigarette rod, applying cross-directional bands of adhesive to the paper wrapper as it is payed out from the bobbin to the garniture, the adhesive being applied in sufficient amounts to reduce the porosity of the paper wrapper to less than 20 Coresta units in a region where the adhesive band is applied to the paper wrapper, and wrapping the paper wrapper about a rod of smokable material with the adhesive bands disposed over the smokable material.
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