US3455308A

US3455308A - Cigarette

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Publication number: US3455308A
Application number: US659719A
Authority: US
Inventors: Louise J Eliasz
Original assignee: LOUISE J ELIASZ
Current assignee: LOUISE J ELIASZ
Priority date: 1967-08-10
Filing date: 1967-08-10
Publication date: 1969-07-15
Anticipated expiration: 1986-07-15

Description

y 1969 L.. J. ELIASZ 3,455,308

CIGARETTE Filed Aug. 10, 1967 'INVENTOR.

LOU/5E J. ELIASZ A TTOR/VEYS United States Patent O 3,455,308 CIGARETTE Louise J. Eliasz, 1257 Silverado St., La Jolla, Calif. 92037 Filed Aug. 10, 1967, Scr. No. 659,719 Int. Cl. A24d 1/04; A24f 7 U.S. Cl. 13110.5 8 Claims ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE The object of the invention is to provide a filter-cigarette having a tapering mouthpiece end portion wherein the tapered portion extends from the middle portion of the length of the filter to the mouthpiece end thereof and having an air space between the mouthpiece end of the cigarette and the downstream end of the filter.

Other features and the advantages of the present invention will be apparent from the following description, reference being had to the accompanying drawing wherein a preferred embodiment of the invention is illustrated.

In the drawing:

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of the improved cigarette;

FIG. 2 is a side view of the cigarette;

FIG. 3 is a longitudinal sectional view of the cigarette; and

FIGS. 4 and 5 are front and rear views looking, respectively, in the direction of arrows 44 and 55 of FIG. 2.

Referring more in detail to the drawing, which shows a cigarette 20 including an integral wrapper formed of standard cigarette paper. The tobacco 22 and the wad of filter material 24 are confined in the wrapper. While not limited thereto, the tobacco area is 2% inches and extends from the right end of the cigarette, as viewed in FIGS. 2 and 3. One end of the filter 24 abuts the left end of the tobacco. It has a length of approximately inch; it terminating approximately 7 inch from the left end of the cigarette, thus providing an air space 26 at the left end of that length.

The left portion of the cigarette 20 is tapered from approximately midway of the longitudinal length of the filter and increases progressively in its major axis and decreases continually progressively in its minor axis to the extreme left end where the mouthpiece will be almost fiat, as more clearly shown in FIG. 1.

While I have shown the lip end of the cigarette somewhat wider in cross section, the wrapper can be designed so that when tapered, the extreme left end will have approximately the same perimeter in section, as the right end.

It has been found, by actual test of several individuals over a period of time, that when any one of the standard brands of cigarettes is provided with a filter and air space and with a taper as herein shown, throat irritation and coughing were materially reduced. The theory is not understood.

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While the form of embodiment herein shown and described, constitutes preferred form, it is to be understood that other forms may be adopted falling within the scope of the claims that follow.

I claim:

1. A cigarette comprising in combination:

(A) an elongated integral wrapper formed of standard cigarette paper;

(B) cigarette tobacco being encased in the wrapper from one end throughout a major portion of the wrapper;

(C) an elongated wad or filter material having one end abutting the inner end of the tobacco, the other end of the wad being spaced from the opposite end of the wrapper to provide an air space between the wad and said opposite end of the wrapper, the wrapper and the wad being tapered from an area intermediate the longitudinal length of the wad to said opposite end of the wrapper to form a mouthpiece which is narrow and elongated transversely of the elongated wrapper, the remainder of the wad and the wrapper having constant transverse dimensions.

2. A cigarette as defined in claim 1, characterized in that the wad is approximately inch in length.

3. A cigarette as defined in claim 1, characterized in that the air space is approximately inch in length.

4. A cigarette as defined in claim 1, characterized in that the wad is approximately inch in length and the air space is approximately inch in length.

5. A cigarette as defined in claim 1, characterized in that the wad is approximately 7 inch in length and that the length of the tobacco area is approximately 2% inches.

6. A cigarette as defined in claim 1, characterized in that the air space is approximately "7 inch in length and that the length of the tobacco area is approximately 2% inches.

7. A cigarette as defined in claim 5, characterized in that the air space is approximately inch in length and that the length of the tobacco area is approximately 2% inches.

8. A cigarette as defined in claim 1, characterized in that the tapered portion is elliptical in cross section with the major axis increasing progressively and the minor axis decreasing progressively to the said opposite end of the wrapper.

References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS 59,485 11/1866 Van Dyeck 13110 92,423 7/1869 Clark 13111 1,750,503 3/1930 Blossom 13l229 X 1,865,780 7/1932 Naimaster 131-229 2,169,310 8/ 1939 Wertheimer 131-227 X 3,179,112 4/1965 Siegenheim '13110.5 3,310,056 3/1967 Rieder 13110.5

FOREIGN PATENTS 24,645 1901 Great Britain.

JOSEPH S. REICH, Primary Examiner U.S. Cl. X.R. 13l11, 229