Abstract: A smoking container system has an exterior face and an interior face and an upper end and a lower end; a rectangular rear panel with lateral tabs and fold lines there between; a rectangular front panel with lateral tabs and parallel score lines there between; a small rectangular bottom with closely spaced parallel fold lines coupling the front panel and the rear panel; an upper end tab coupled to the upper end of the front panel and with transverse score lines there between; a rectangular closure panel; a small rectangular top formed with closely spaced transverse fold lines coupling the rear panel and the flap panel; a rectangular tear away panel formed with transverse parallel perforations; and a small rectangular spacer formed with closely spaced transverse fold lines coupling the tear away panel and the closure panel.

Abstract: This invention relates to the process of manufacture of resin treated mercerized cellulose fibers and fibrous products prepared therefrom and is directed particularly to a method of improving permeability and bulking properties and reducing water retention value (WRV) of a conventional high permeability bulk pulp. The invention also includes the improved cellulose fibers, cellulosic sheet materials containing said fibers, and products therefrom (such as automotive oil and air filters).

Abstract: Significant improvements in papermaking control can be achieved by employing an array of sensors that are positioned underneath the wire of the machine to measure the conductivity of the aqueous wet stock. The conductivity of the wet stock is directly proportional to the total water weight within the wet stock; consequently, the sensor provides information which can be used to monitor and control the quality of the paper sheet produced. Because CD water weight profile is obtained practically instantaneously, the MD and CD variations are essentially decoupled. Quality improvements to the sheet fabricated will be achieved by providing fast control of the actuators on the machine and by tuning components on the machine to eliminate the sources of variations.

Abstract: In an automatic smoking machine for automatically attaching holders and tobacco rolls to smoking mouths of a smoking apparatus body by means of a robot apparatus, arranged in front of the smoking apparatus body, a holder tray supplying mechanism and a roll tray supplying mechanism are provided near an end portion of a rail of the robot apparatus. The holder tray supplying mechanism and the roll tray supplying mechanism hold a plurality of holder trays and roll trays, holding holders and tobacco rolls of the required numbers. The holder trays and roll trays are supplied one by one to an operation range of the robot body. As a result, a completely automatic operation can be continuously performed for a long period of time.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an ash tray, and more particularly to an ash tray which can sanitarily control as well as automatically extinguish a smoking cigarette butt when it is put in the ash tray. In accordance with the present invention, the ash tray comprises a tube body in which cigarette butts are received and a porous member is equipped to the inward lower; a cap covering the upper end of the tube body; and an aroma tube coupled to the lower of the tube body in which an aromatic is equipped therein.

Abstract: An apparatus and a process for controlling or regulating a web property profile of a paper or cardboard web produced in the manufacturing process of a paper or cardboard machine is disclosed. The apparatus incorporates information regarding the position of one or more devices of a plurality of adjustable devices for sectionally manipulating at least one web property for regulating or controlling the devices to manipulate at least one web property across the width of the machine. The process includes combing the regulating process or a regulator device for adjusting individual actuators that only act on a certain section of conventional systems with the adjustment of an actuator acting across the entire web width for achieving a certain web property, so that the sectionally-operating actuators are not located in an end-position, so that these sectional actuators continue to be able to adjust the web property.

Abstract: Disclosed is a process for washing or otherwise treating paper pulp. More specifically, a multi-stage paper pulp washing process including the use of a defoamer/emulsifier mixture which is adjusted at a paper manufacturing site for each stage. The same defoamer may be used in each washing stage. However, solubility is adjusted at the paper manufacturing site by adding a small amount of emulsifier to the defoamer as appropriate for the particular stage.

Abstract: A shower of tobacco particles is admitted into the inlet at the top of and descends by gravity and/or under the action of a driven cell wheel in a generally upright duct. The particles are moisturized prior to admission into the duct or due to contact with droplets of water in the inlet, and are thereupon caused to traverse an orbiting shower of steam, water and/or another conditioning medium in an intermediate portion of their path in the duct. Such treatment entails a swelling and thus increases the volume of the particles. The conditioning medium is discharged via orifices radially outwardly from at least one substantially horizontal conduit which is rotated about its axis and can be provided with external pins or analogous mechanical impellers serving to cause the particles of tobacco to orbit about the conduit prior to descending into the range of a dryer at a level below the intermediate portion of the path, e.g., at the outlet of the duct.

Abstract: A press-to-dryer apparatus is disclosed for pressing and drying a web of paper. The apparatus includes a press for pressing the web of paper and a dryer disposed downstream relative to the press for drying the web. The dryer includes an unfelted drying cylinder disposed immediately downstream relative to the press. The arrangement is such that the web extends from the press to and around the drying cylinder. The dryer also includes a heater which cooperates with the unfelted drying cylinder such that the web is disposed between the drying cylinder and the heater for heating and drying the web. The dryer also includes a single-tier drying section which is disposed downstream relative to the unfelted drying cylinder for completing the drying of the web.

Abstract: In a method and apparatus for damping contact oscillations of rotating rolls in a paper machine, but notably in a coater, the rolls being held endways in bearings and at least two rolls forming with each other a nip, the damping is carried out actively, the active stimulation (phase-shifted counteroscillation) acting from outside directly and/or indirectly on at least one bearing point of one of the rolls.

Abstract: An adjustable cigar ashtray having a body including a base and at least first and second, opposing, side walls, and a slidable bridge member mounted between the first and second side walls, wherein the bridge member is slidable along a predefined path substantially parallel to the first and second side walls.

Abstract: In a cigarette manufacturing machine, a device for compressive molding a stream of filler comprises a forming mold having a tongue and a shoe being integrally formed with each other, and a forming surface formed at a lower surface of the tongue, and a compression molding passage for the stream is defined between the forming surface and paper. The forming surface of the tongue has a movable surface formed of a part of an endless belt, and the movable surface moves in the same direction as a flow of the stream.

Abstract: A method of conveying bar-shaped articles on a filter-assembly machine, wherein first articles arranged in an orderly single succession are advanced crosswise with respect to a given traveling direction; the first articles are cut in half in a direction parallel to the traveling direction to form second articles; the second articles are rearranged to form a first and a second parallel, side by side succession of respective pairs of second articles; and the first and second successions of pairs of second articles are advanced in the traveling direction.

Abstract: A method of rolling cigarette portions, wherein a first succession of first pairs of cigarette portions and a second succession of second pairs of cigarette portions are advanced in a direction crosswise to the respective axes of the cigarette portions, each first pair being defined by a first and a second cigarette portion coaxial with and a given distance from each other, the second succession being parallel to the first succession, and each second pair being defined by a third and a fourth cigarette portion coaxial with and the aforementioned distance from each other; the first pairs and the second pairs are partially engaged combfashion in a relative position in which each third cigarette portion is partially inserted between two adjacent second cigarette portions; a double filter and a respective projecting band are inserted between the first and second cigarette portions and between the third and fourth cigarette portions to form respective groups; and the groups, arranged in the first and second succes

Abstract: A pump cleaning unit for a heater fixture of a smoking device includes a base member. The base member includes a cup having an open end and a closed end, and a pedestal including a top part disposed in the cup proximate the open end of the cup and a leg connecting the top part to the closed end of the cup. A peripheral edge of the top part and an interior wall of the cup define a circumferential gap. The unit further includes a cylinder having a lower chamber and an upper chamber separated by a wall, a port extending through the wall. The cylinder has a cylinder wall proximate the lower chamber that fits in the circumferential gap and permits axial movement of the cylinder relative to the cup. A holder is provided for holding the heater fixture in the upper chamber over the port such that a central opening of the heater fixture is in flow communication with the port.

Abstract: A hydrophobic filler material for neutral, alkaline and acidic papers is disclosed. The filler material comprises finely divided particles of an inorganic material, in admixture with a water miscible, butyl acrylate-acrylonitrile copolymer. A neutral or alkaline paper is disclosed. The neutral or alkaline paper comprises a hydrophobic filler material comprising inorganic material, in admixture with a water miscible, butyl acrylate-acrylonitrile copolymer. A method for improving sizing characteristics of neutral or alkaline paper is disclosed, comprising preparing a filler material and adding the same to cellulose fiber. The filler material is prepared by selecting particles of an inorganic material and admixing with a water miscible, butyl acrylate-acrylonitrile copolymer, forming a hydrophobic system.

Abstract: Significant improvements in papermaking control can be achieved by employing an array of sensors that are positioned underneath the wire of the machine to measure the conductivity of the aqueous wet stock. The conductivity of the wet stock is directly proportional to the total water weight within the wet stock; consequently, the sensor provides information which can be used to monitor and control the quality of the paper sheet produced. Because CD water weight profile is obtained practically instantaneously, the MD and CD variations are essentially decoupled. Quality improvements to the sheet fabricated will be achieved by providing fast control of the actuators on the machine and by tuning components on the machine to eliminate the sources of variations.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for recycling office waste paper and the like of the type having ink and laser print particles coated thereon. The waste paper is simultaneously pulped and ink particles dispersed by kneading the waste paper in the form of a high solids content aqueous mixture or sludge. After the simultaneous pulping and dispersing, no additional dispersion step is needed to form deinked paper stock. The high solids content aqueous mixture or sludge is diluted and forwarded to wet deinking separation devices such as a froth flotation unit or the like. The thus treated pulp is washed and results in the formation of a high quality pulp stock ready for bleaching and/or paper making procedures.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the production of paper from a suspension of cellulose containing fibres, and optional fillers, which comprises adding a water-soluble cationic or amphoteric branched acrylamide-based polymer and an anionic aluminium-containing silica sol to the suspension and forming and draining the suspension on a wire.

Abstract: Significant improvements in papermaking control can be achieved by employing an array of sensors that are positioned underneath the wire of the machine to measure the conductivity of the aqueous wet stock. The conductivity of the wet stock is directly proportional to the total water weight within the wet stock; consequently, the sensor provides information which can be used to monitor and control the quality of the paper sheet produced. Because CD water weight profile is obtained practically instantaneously, the MD and CD variations are essentially decoupled. Quality improvements to the sheet fabricated will be achieved by providing fast control of the actuators on the machine and by tuning components on the machine to eliminate the sources of variations.