WO2005089576A1 - Cigarette divisible conçue pour etre separee en deux moities avant d'etre allumee et procede de fabrication correspondant - Google Patents

Cigarette divisible conçue pour etre separee en deux moities avant d'etre allumee et procede de fabrication correspondant Download PDF

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WO2005089576A1
WO2005089576A1 PCT/IT2004/000142 IT2004000142W WO2005089576A1 WO 2005089576 A1 WO2005089576 A1 WO 2005089576A1 IT 2004000142 W IT2004000142 W IT 2004000142W WO 2005089576 A1 WO2005089576 A1 WO 2005089576A1
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Matteo Maida
Giancarlo Molinari
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Giancarlo Molinari
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A24—TOBACCO; CIGARS; CIGARETTES; SIMULATED SMOKING DEVICES; SMOKERS' REQUISITES
    • A24D—CIGARS; CIGARETTES; TOBACCO SMOKE FILTERS; MOUTHPIECES FOR CIGARS OR CIGARETTES; MANUFACTURE OF TOBACCO SMOKE FILTERS OR MOUTHPIECES
    • A24D1/00—Cigars; Cigarettes
    • A24D1/008—Cigars; Cigarettes dividable
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A24—TOBACCO; CIGARS; CIGARETTES; SIMULATED SMOKING DEVICES; SMOKERS' REQUISITES
    • A24C—MACHINES FOR MAKING CIGARS OR CIGARETTES
    • A24C5/00—Making cigarettes; Making tipping materials for, or attaching filters or mouthpieces to, cigars or cigarettes
    • A24C5/47—Attaching filters or mouthpieces to cigars or cigarettes, e.g. inserting filters into cigarettes or their mouthpieces
    • A24C5/471—Attaching filters or mouthpieces to cigars or cigarettes, e.g. inserting filters into cigarettes or their mouthpieces by means of a connecting band

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  • Divisible cigarette to be halved before lighting it, and method of manufacturing it
  • This invention relates to a divisible cigarette to be halved before lighting it. Further, it concerns a method of manufacturing this divisible cigarette.
  • slim cigarettes are manufactured whose cross-section diameter is about 5 mm, while the diameter of a traditional cigarette is about 8 mm.
  • the slim cigarettes are not broadly accepted by smokers, who probably do not get used to pressing their lips on a thin rod as well as to having a different sensation in sucking the smoke compared to a traditional cigarette.
  • a slim cigarette has a tobacco content that is generally a half of a traditional cigarette, this tobacco is paid almost at double price with respect to the last one.
  • an alternative to slim cigarettes is to throw away the cigarette after the first few puffs.
  • Another alternative is to break off a portion of the cigarette before lighting it.
  • Both said alternatives are punitive, the one as a renunciation, the other as a self castration with the addition of a damage to the cigarette.
  • a smoker is financially damaged as if he/she bought slim cigarettes.
  • An object of the present invention is to half the tobacco smoked for each cigarette, and then the risk for the smoker and people near him/her.
  • Another object of the present invention is to reduce the amount of smoke inhaled without losing the enjoyment to light a cigarette and take the first puffs, which are the most pleasant.
  • a further object of the invention is to make more efficient the action of the filter- tip than in the traditional cigarette.
  • Yet another object of the present invention is to reduce the cost for the smoker due to his/her bad habit, without any waste. Yet a further object of the invention is to make the smoker responsible, giving him/her the possibility of halving the amount of tobacco smoked and bringing him/her to give up smoking.
  • a divisible cigarette to be halved before lighting it comprising two filter cigarettes that are connected in alignment one to other through their distinct filter mouthpieces by means of a sole uniting band of tipping paper wrapped round on the filter mouthpieces.
  • a divisible cigarette according to the invention can be industrially manufactured in several ways, also through known machines, e.g. used to manufacture filter cigarettes from plain cigarettes of double unit length.
  • the patent US-4,825,883 discloses such a machine, whose purpose is to increase the normal productive capacity of traditional filter cigarettes.
  • a method of manufacturing divisible cigarettes comprising the steps of: - forming a continuous cigarette; - severing the continuous cigarette to yield cigarette rods being shorter in length than a cigarette rod of double length unit;
  • each uniting band extending over the plain cigarettes of each pair of aligned plain cigarettes, to thus convert them into a divisible cigarette wherein the uniting band connects the pair of aligned plain cigarettes with the pair of filter mouthpieces aligned in abutment one to other;
  • Figure 1 is a plan view of a cigarette rod
  • Figure 2 is a plan view of the cigarette rod in Figure 1, which is subdivided into two aligned halves;
  • Figure 3 is a plan view of the two aligned halves of cigarette rod in Figure 2, which are separated one from other;
  • Figure 4 is a plan view of the two separated halves of the cigarette rod in Figure 3 with a pair of filter mouthpieces introduced between the two separated halves of the cigarette rod;
  • Figure 5 is a plan view of a uniting band of tipping paper, developed as a plane surface, for the pair of filter mouthpieces in Figure 4;
  • Figure 6 is a plan view of a divisible cigarette according to the invention
  • Figure 7 is a plan view of the divisible cigarette in Figure 6, which is almost halved.
  • FIGs 1 to 5 there are shown what needs to manufacture a divisible cigarette shown in Figure 6, that is adapted to be halved as shown in Figure 7.
  • the divisible cigarette according to the invention can be manufactured in many ways.
  • a continuous cigarette (not shown in the drawing) is formed from a continuous tobacco rod surrounded by cigarette paper.
  • the continuous cigarette is severed into cigarette rods such that shown in Figure 1 and indicated as 1.
  • the cigarette rod 1 is shorter in length than a cigarette rod of double length unit in a traditional filter cigarette. It is known that the most common cigarettes are 70 mm (regular size), 85 mm (king size) and, respectively, 100 mm (imperial size) long. Reference can be made below to a regular size cigarette as a filter cigarette of unit length, but it should be evident that this is a not limiting indication.
  • Cigarette rods as those in Figure 1 are advanced in a machine in parallel in a predetermined direction to be subdivided into pairs of aligned plain cigarettes shown in Figure 2.
  • the cigarettes of each pair of aligned plain cigarettes are indicated as 2 and 3, respectively. Since the cigarette rod 1 is shorter in length than the tobacco rod of double length unit in a filter cigarette, each plain cigarette 2, 3 is shorter in length than a cigarette rod of unit length in a traditional cigarette.
  • a cut 4 is shown in the middle of the cigarette rod 1. However, the cut 4 can fall in a position different from the middle to achieve a plain cigarette 2 that is longer or smaller than the plain cigarette 3.
  • the filter mouthpieces 5, 6 such as small cylinders of filtering material, are generally abutted in contact each with other.
  • Each filter mouthpiece can be chosen of any suitable type, also in more pieces and different materials.
  • a source of supply of a web of tipping paper of a double unit width is established. Adhesive is applied to one side of the web of tipping paper. The web of tipping paper is drawn from the source.
  • the withdrawn tipping paper web is subdivided into a plurality of discrete uniting bands, such as that shown in Figure 5 and indicated as 7.
  • the uniting band 7 is wrapped round said pair of filter mouthpieces 5, 6 of unit length. As the uniting band 7 is wider of the length covered by two filter mouthpieces 5, 6, it is extended over the plain cigarettes 2, 3 by its opposite edges 8, 9. The opposite edges 8, 9 of the uniting band 7 surround the contiguous ends of the plain cigarettes 2, 3.
  • the uniting band 7 is attacked by its adhesive to both the plain cigarettes 2, 3 and the filter mouthpieces 5, 6. Thus a divisible cigarette is obtained, wherein the uniting band 7 connects the pair of aligned plain cigarettes 2, 3 with the pair of aligned filter mouthpieces 5, 6 in abutment one to other.
  • a pre-cut line 10 symmetrically and centrally in the uniting band 7 of tipping paper.
  • Such a pre-cut line 10 can be obtained through a plurality of small through holes 11 in succession along a boundary line designed to lie on the contact plane between one filter mouthpiece and the other.
  • the small through holes 11 of the pre-cut line are equidistant.
  • a plurality of the small through holes 11 can be replaced by a slit 12 adapted to start the fracture.
  • the slits 12 extends to cover a determined arc of circumference.
  • such an arc can be about 90 degrees.
  • the product obtained by the method of the invention is a divisible cigarette 13 comprising two filter cigarettes 14, 15 that are connected in alignment one to other through their filter mouthpieces 5, 6 by means of the uniting band 7 of tipping paper.
  • the uniting band 7 is provided with a pre-cut line 10 lying on the contact plane of the two connected cigarettes 14, 15.
  • the divisible cigarettes 13 can be packed directly in a suitable container, preferably an horizontally extending box (not shown). It should be clear that the cigarette 13 cannot be smoked because the filter mouthpieces 5, 6 are not at the ends of the cigarette.
  • a smoker Before lighting it, a smoker has to subdivide it along the pre-cut line 10, preferably by bending the cigarettes 14, 15 the one toward the other in such a direction to that the slit 12 becomes wider than before. Since the two cigarette are fastened together only by connecting teeth delimiting the through holes 11 of the pre-cut line 10, the two cigarettes can be easily separated. The dimensions of the connecting teeth are chosen so that the smoker is not irritated by them. In order to completely avoid this drawback, it can be provided, according to a modified embodiment of the invention, to use a particularly thin tipping paper adapted to be torn with a clean cut. In this case, a pre-cut line in the tipping paper as above described could be useless.
  • the filter cigarettes 14, 15, which form the divisible cigarette 13, are individually shorter than a traditional cigarette of unit length. Both of them can be of the same length, as shown in the figures, if the cut 4 is performed in the middle of the cigarette rod 1. Otherwise the cigarettes 14, 15 are longer or shorter, respectively, and vice versa. In such a way, the smoker may decide how much to smoke by choosing the appropriate cigarette 14, 15, after halving the divisible cigarette 13.
  • the divisible cigarette 13 can also be obtained according to a method different from the above method that starts from a plain cigarette of double unit length.
  • a method of manufacturing a divisible cigarette could start from a pair of plain cigarettes manufactured the one separately from the other.
  • Tobacco smoked per each cigarette is halved.
  • the amount of smoke inhaled is reduced, but the pleasure of smoking is the same.
  • the action of the filter mouthpiece is enhanced because, differently from slim cigarette, while the tobacco is reduced, the dimensions of the filter mouthpiece are the same.
  • the cost for a smoker due his/her bad habit is reduced, and the smoker becomes aware of his/her responsibility in relation with the danger connected to smoking.
  • the pre-cut line on the uniting band of tipper paper can be made differently from above described. Said pre-cut line can be also avoided.

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Une cigarette divisible (13), conçue pour être séparée en deux moitiés avant d'être allumée, comprend deux cigarettes avec filtre (14, 15) reliées de façon alignée par leurs embouts à filtres distincts (5, 6), au moyen d'une bande de connexion unique (7) de papier support enroulé autour des embouts à filtres. L'invention concerne également un procédé de fabrication de ladite cigarette divisible (13).
PCT/IT2004/000142 2004-03-22 2004-03-22 Cigarette divisible conçue pour etre separee en deux moities avant d'etre allumee et procede de fabrication correspondant WO2005089576A1 (fr)

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WO2010143034A1 (fr) * 2009-06-08 2010-12-16 Stephen John Quinlan Cigarette séparable et procédé de fabrication de celle-ci
WO2010143036A1 (fr) * 2009-06-08 2010-12-16 Stephen John Quinlan Emballage pour cigarettes
CH701402A1 (de) * 2009-07-02 2011-01-14 Ruedi Zimmermann Kurze Pausenzigaretten.
CN112369689A (zh) * 2020-11-27 2021-02-19 云南中烟工业有限责任公司 一种可两向抽吸的气溶胶产生装置

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DE1798158U (de) * 1957-12-24 1959-10-15 Hauni Werke Koerber & Co Kg Teilbare filterzigarette.
DE1105330B (de) * 1958-08-13 1961-04-20 Hauni Werke Koerber & Co Kg Teilbare Filterzigarette
FR2567724A1 (fr) * 1984-07-10 1986-01-24 Kavos Stephane Cigarette a filtre median partageable et son procede de fabrication
DE4414604A1 (de) * 1993-07-22 1995-01-26 Peter Rogge Zigarette
DE10211672A1 (de) * 2001-03-19 2003-01-23 Andreas Scholz Zigarette

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DE1798158U (de) * 1957-12-24 1959-10-15 Hauni Werke Koerber & Co Kg Teilbare filterzigarette.
DE1105330B (de) * 1958-08-13 1961-04-20 Hauni Werke Koerber & Co Kg Teilbare Filterzigarette
FR2567724A1 (fr) * 1984-07-10 1986-01-24 Kavos Stephane Cigarette a filtre median partageable et son procede de fabrication
DE4414604A1 (de) * 1993-07-22 1995-01-26 Peter Rogge Zigarette
DE10211672A1 (de) * 2001-03-19 2003-01-23 Andreas Scholz Zigarette

Cited By (4)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
WO2010143034A1 (fr) * 2009-06-08 2010-12-16 Stephen John Quinlan Cigarette séparable et procédé de fabrication de celle-ci
WO2010143036A1 (fr) * 2009-06-08 2010-12-16 Stephen John Quinlan Emballage pour cigarettes
CH701402A1 (de) * 2009-07-02 2011-01-14 Ruedi Zimmermann Kurze Pausenzigaretten.
CN112369689A (zh) * 2020-11-27 2021-02-19 云南中烟工业有限责任公司 一种可两向抽吸的气溶胶产生装置

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