Patents Assigned to British-American Tobacco
  • Apparatus and method for packing smoking articles
    Patent number: 7415812
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for making a hinged lid side-by-side vertically hinged cigarette pack (10) having a first bundle (22) and a second bundle (23) of cigarettes is described. The machinery includes a first machine (30) to form a first foil wrapped bundle surrounded by a first inner frame, a second machine (31) for forming a second foil wrapped bundle surrounded by a second inner frame and a third machine (32) for combining the first and second foil wrapped bundle into a single hinged lid side-by-side vertically hinged pack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2008
    Assignee: British American Tobacco (Investments) Limited
    Inventors: Andrew Jonathan Bray, Alan Douglas Tearle, Steven Holford
  • Pressure-conditioning method
    Patent number: 7387128
    Abstract: The invention relates to a continuous method for pressure-conditioning material for food and/or semi-luxury consumables, wherein said material (12) is introduced through an entrance (4) into a hyperbarically pressurized conditioning chamber (2), where it is treated with a conditioning agent, and extracted again from said conditioning chamber (2) at an exit (8), wherein the material (12) is conveyed continuously from said entrance (4) to said exit (8) in a conditioning chamber (2) inclined obliquely upwards, by means of a mixing conveyor, in particular a conveying screw (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2008
    Assignee: British American Tobacco (Germany) GmbH
    Inventors: Uwe Werner Ehling, Gerald Schmekel, Frank Plückhahn, Hans-Werner Fuchs, Matthias Link
  • Pressure-conditioning device
    Patent number: 7380554
    Abstract: The invention relates to a continuous method for pressure-conditioning material for food and/or semi-luxury consumables, wherein said material (12) is introduced through an entrance (4) into a hyperbarically pressurized conditioning chamber (2), where it is treated with a conditioning agent, and extracted again from said conditioning chamber (2) at an exit (8), wherein the material (12) is conveyed continuously from said entrance (4) to said exit (8) in a conditioning chamber (2) inclined obliquely upwards, by means of a mixing conveyor, in particular a conveying screw (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2008
    Assignee: British American Tobacco (Germany) GmbH
    Inventors: Uwe Werner Ehling, Gerald Schmekel, Frank Plückhahn, Hans-Werner Fuchs, Matthias Link
  • Pack for smoking articles
    Patent number: 7370756
    Abstract: This invention relates to a smoking article pack. The pack and the inner frame used in combination Therewith provide a substantially increased internal surface area for the printing of graphics and/or indicia in order to provide information to the consumer whilst not substantially increasing the surface area of the blank required to make the body of the pack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2008
    Assignee: British American Tobacco (Investments) Limited
    Inventors: Andrew Jonathan Bray, Roy Adrian Stewart-Cox, Alan Douglas Tearle, Steven Holford
  • Package For Smoking Articles And The Like
    Publication number: 20080087712
    Abstract: A packet comprises an outer shell (0) and an inner shell (I) connected by a spring member (12). The outer shell (0) defines a cavity for receiving the inner shell (I) and comprises a bottom wall (4B), a front wall (1) and two side walls (3R, 3L) upstanding from respective edges of the bottom wall. The inner shell (I) comprises a front wall (11), a rear wall (7) and two side walls (8R, 8L), the rear wall being connected to the bottom wall of the outer shell. The spring member (12) is hingedly connected by a first hinge (H 1) at a lower portion of the front wall (11) of the inner shell and is hingedly connected by a second hinge (H2) to the inner surface of the front wall of the outer shell. The inner shell (I) is hingedly connected to the outer shell (0) by a third hinge (H3) at the said bottom wall such that the inner shell moves with spring action between closed and open positions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2005
    Publication date: April 17, 2008
    Applicant: BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO (INVESTMENTS) LIMITED
    Inventors: Philip Hunt, Steven Holford
  • Tobacco smoke filter elements
    Patent number: 7249605
    Abstract: This invention relates to the provision in a cigarette filter element of a capsule containing a deodorizer. The capsule is resistant to the handling endured before and during smoking, yet ruptures to release or expose the deodorizer upon extinguishing of the smoked cigarette. The deodorizer may comprise neutralizing or masking agents, or mixtures of both.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2007
    Assignee: British American Tobacco (Investments) Ltd.
    Inventors: Kevin Gerard MacAdam, Rosemary Elizabeth O'Reilly, Nigel David Warren
  • Method and device for adjusting the selecting out of winnowings
    Patent number: 7159594
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for adjusting the selecting out of winnowings in the manufacture of smokable products, in particular cigarettes, wherein the current size distribution of a stream of tobacco particles passing a measuring point, per unit of time, is detected and compared with a settable nominal size distribution, and wherein an arrangement for separating the winnowings is continually adjusted, depending on the result of said comparison, and to a corresponding device comprising a sensor for detecting the current size distribution, an arrangement for inputting a nominal size distribution, an arrangement for comparing said current size distribution with said settable nominal size distribution, and lastly an adjusting arrangement for setting the arrangement for separating the winnowings, depending on the output signal of said comparing arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2007
    Assignee: British American Tobacco (Germany) GmbH
    Inventors: Volker Kuhl, Heinz-Werner Masurat, Thomas Müller, Bernd Rabenstein
  • Cigarette monitoring
    Patent number: 7100420
    Abstract: A cigarette monitoring device capable of monitoring individual smoking behaviour and particularly smoke deliveries and of communicating this and other information to a remote location and/or the consumer. The device comprises a cigarette monitoring means, fluid-flow pressure drop and smoke density detection means, data transmission means, data receiving and processing means, as well as means to display the processed data. Display means of the invention may display information that is of interest to the smoker and may offer a direct sales service to the consumer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2006
    Assignee: British American Tobacco (Investments) Limited)
    Inventors: Graham Albert Read, Nigel David Warren
  • Smoking articles and smokable filler materials therefor
    Publication number: 20060130862
    Abstract: The invention relates to a smoking article incorporating a smoking material comprising three main components, namely a non-combustible inorganic filler, an alginic binder and aerosol generating means. The smoking material is combined with tobacco material, which may be treated with additional humectant, to provide a smoking article that has an aerosol transfer efficiency ratio of greater than 4.0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2003
    Publication date: June 22, 2006
    Applicant: British American Tobacco
    Inventors: David Dittrich, Joseph Sutton, Steven Coburn, James Figlar
  • Filter tip cigarettes and method of manufacturing same
    Publication number: 20060102188
    Abstract: The invention relates to a filter-tip cigarette with a tobacco rod (1) wrapped in a cigarette paper and a filter (6) wrapped along its length in tipping paper (4) or other wrapper being other than plugwrap, and a strip of material (5) fully covering the tipping paper of the filter and the cigarette paper of the wrapped tobacco rod in the region of the abutment between tobacco rod and filter bonds together the filter and tobacco rod. In addition, the invention relates to a process for the manufacture of such a filter, which may also be employed for the manufacture of ‘double unit cigarettes’.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2003
    Publication date: May 18, 2006
    Applicant: British American Tobacco (Investments) Limited
    Inventor: Horst Grzonka
  • Smoking article package
    Patent number: 7000761
    Abstract: The invention relates to a soft-cup package (29) for smoking articles wherein the outer wrap material (10) is a paperboard or cardboard material having the ability to collapse along lines of weakening (26, 28) in the side panels (16, 20) as smoking articles are removed from the package (29). The invention also includes further means of collapse along lines of weakening (14.2, 18.2) in the base panel (14.1, 18.1). Retaining means may he provided by a collapsed side panel (20) and a dummy stamp or seal (34) across the top walls of the package (10) to hold captive the remaining exposed smoking articles (46).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2006
    Assignee: British American Tobacco (Investments) Ltd.
    Inventors: Pierre Radyn Swart, Hugh Dermot Roe
  • Cigarette pack
    Patent number: D519673
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2006
    Assignee: British American Tobacco (Investments) Limited
    Inventors: Andrew Jonathan Bray, Alan Douglas Tearle, Steven Holford, Adrian Roy Stewart-Cox
  • Cigarette pack
    Patent number: D520182
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2006
    Assignee: British American Tobacco (Investments) Limited
    Inventors: Andrew Jonathan Bray, Alan Douglas Tearle, Steven Holford, Adrian Roy Stewart-Cox
  • Cigarette dispenser
    Patent number: D522691
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2006
    Assignee: British-American Tobacco (Holdings) Limited
    Inventor: Chris Willis
  • Pack for smoking articles
    Patent number: D579325
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2008
    Assignee: British American Tobacco (Investments) Limited
    Inventors: Andrew Jonathan Bray, Adrian Roy Stewart-Cox, Alan Douglas Tearle, Steven Holford
  • Double slide pack
    Patent number: D581267
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2008
    Assignee: British American Tobacco (Investments) Limited
    Inventor: Alan Douglas Tearle
  • Cigarette packet
    Patent number: D586502
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2009
    Assignee: British American Tobacco (Investments) Limited
    Inventor: Alan Douglas Tearle
  • Cigarette pack with moist snuff container
    Patent number: D591898
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2009
    Assignee: British American Tobacco (Investments) Limited
    Inventors: Aaron McKenzie, Steve Dickason
  • Moist snuff container for use with cigarette pack
    Patent number: D591900
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2009
    Assignee: British American Tobacco (Investments) Limited
    Inventors: Aaron McKenzie, Steve Dickason
  • Smoking article packaging
    Patent number: D591902
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2009
    Assignee: British American Tobacco (Investments) Limited
    Inventors: Andrew Jonathan Bray, Alan Douglas Tearle, Paul Hodges