Patents by Inventor Dietmar Volgger
Dietmar Volgger has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20240122231Abstract: The invention relates to a wrapping paper for a smoking article, said wrapping paper comprising long-fibre pulp, short-fibre pulp, and inorganic filler, wherein: at least a portion of the long-fibre pulp is ground and the ground long-fibre pulp constitutes at least 15% and at most 70% of the mass of the wrapping paper, at least a portion of the short-fibre pulp is ground and the ground short-fibre pulp constitutes at least 5% and at most 80% of the mass of the wrapping paper, and the ground short-fibre pulp has a freeness value of at least 20° SR and at most 60° SR; the short-fibre pulp as a whole constitutes at least 10% and at most 80% of the mass of the wrapping paper, at least 5% and at most 45% of the mass of the wrapping paper is constituted by one or more inorganic fillers; the mass per unit area of the wrapping paper is at least 15 g/m2 and at most 45 g/m2; the diffusion capacity of the wrapping paper is at least 0.05 cm/s and at most 0.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2022Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventors: Roland ZITTURI, Dietmar VOLGGER
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Publication number: 20240021954Abstract: What is shown is a separator for an electrochemical element, wherein at least 70% and at most 95% of the mass of the separator is formed by fibrillated fibers of regenerated cellulose and at least 3% and at most 30 % of the mass of the separator is formed by cellulose having a high fines content, wherein at least 10%, based on number, of the fibrillated fibers of regenerated cellulose having a length of at least 1 mm have a branched structure, and wherein, in the cellulose having a high fines content, the proportion of fibers having a length of less than 0.2 mm is at least 70% based on the sum of the length of the fibers in the cellulose having a high fines content.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2021Publication date: January 18, 2024Inventors: Sven Plappert, Dietmar Volgger, Christian Mair
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Publication number: 20230337721Abstract: A wrapper paper is described that is suitable for use on aerosol-generating articles and which comprises pulp fibers and one or more polyphosphates, wherein the pulp fibers make up at least 55% and at most 95% of the mass of the wrapper paper and the polyphosphates are together contained in a concentration of at least 5% and at most 30% with respect to the mass of the wrapper paper. In this regard, the polyphosphates are compounds with the molecular formula Mn+2PnO3n+1 or Mn[H2POnO3n+1], wherein n is at least 2 and at most 100 and M is a monovalent metal or ammonium (NH4+).Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2021Publication date: October 26, 2023Inventors: Roland Zitturi, Dietmar Volgger
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Publication number: 20230284678Abstract: A filter material for manufacturing a segment of a smoking article is described, wherein the filter material comprises a hydro-entangled nonwoven and the nonwoven comprises fibers, wherein the fibers are selected from the group consisting of pulp fibers, fibers of regenerated cellulose and mixtures thereof, and these fibers are together contained in the nonwoven in an amount of at least 50% and at most 100% of the mass of the hydro-entangled nonwoven, and wherein the nonwoven is in the form of a web, has a longitudinal direction in the running direction of the web, a cross direction orthogonal thereto and lying in the plane of the web and a thickness direction orthogonal to longitudinal direction and the cross direction. The nonwoven is shaped such that it has a wave structure in the plane formed by the cross direction and the thickness direction with a wave height of at least 50 µm and at most 1000 µm, as well as a wave length (22, 32, 42) of at least 150 µm and at most 5000 µm.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2021Publication date: September 14, 2023Inventors: Dietmar Volgger, Stefan Bachmann
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Publication number: 20230250590Abstract: The invention concerns a wrapper paper which is suitable for use on aerosol-generating articles and which comprises pulp fibers and a char-former, wherein the pulp fibers make up at least 70% and at most 95% of the mass of the wrapper paper and the char-former is contained in a concentration of at least 5% and at most 20% with respect to the mass of the wrapper paper and is present in a concentration in the wrapper paper such that the quotient r=RT/Ro of the tensile strength Ro, measured in accordance with ISO 1924-2:2008 under the conditions of ISO 187:1990, and of the tensile strength RT, measured in accordance with ISO 1924-2:2008 under the conditions of ISO 187:1990 after the wrapper paper has been exposed to a temperature of 230° C. for one minute, is at least 0.20 and at most 0.90.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2021Publication date: August 10, 2023Inventors: Roland Zitturi, Dietmar Volgger
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Publication number: 20230016316Abstract: The invention relates to a filter material for a smoking product, comprising a nonwoven material, wherein the nonwoven material is hydro-entangled, the hydro-entangled nonwoven material contains min. 50% and max. 90% wood cellulose fibres, min. 10% and max. 50% fibres from regenerated cellulose and less than 30% non-natural polymers, in relation to the mass of the hydro-entangled nonwoven material, and together the amount of wood cellulose fibres and fibres from regenerated cellulose make up at least 70% of the mass of the hydro-entangled nonwoven material, and the hydro-entangled nonwoven material has a density of min 100 kg/m3 and max. 300 kg/m3 and a thickness of min. 100 ?m and max. 1000 ?m. The invention also relates to a segment with the filter material, a smoking product and a production method.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2019Publication date: January 19, 2023Inventors: Dietmar Volgger, Stefan Bachmann
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Patent number: 11083217Abstract: Disclosed herewith is a filter paper for manufacturing filters for smoking articles, in particular filter cigarettes, with the following properties the filter paper comprises fibers comprising pulp fibers, at least 80% by weight, preferably at least 90% by weight, particularly preferably at least 95% by weight and highly particularly preferably 100% by weight of the filter paper is formed by long-fiber pulp fibers, of the fibers, a proportion with respect to the number of the fibers of between 2% and 10%, preferably between 3% and 9% and particularly preferably between 4% and 8% has a length of less than 0.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2017Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: delfortgroup AGInventors: Stefan Bachmann, Christian Mair, Dietmar Volgger
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Publication number: 20210195939Abstract: A segment of a smoking article is shown, comprising a fiber-based web material and a wrapping material, which wraps the fiber-based web material, wherein the fiber-based web material comprises at least 40% pulp fibers and less than 10% non-natural polymers, respectively with respect to the mass of the web material, has a basis weight of at least 10 g/m2 and at most 70 g/m2, and has a thickness of at least 25 m and at most 400 ?m, wherein said web material in the segment has an area of at least 20 cm2 and at most 90 cm2 per cm3 volume of the segment, wherein the segment without the wrapping material has a density of at least 50 kg/m3 and at most 300 kg/m3, and wherein a parameter Z, which is defined by Z=?Web+5·?seg+12·AWeb, satisfies the inequality 1300?Z?2800, wherein ?Web is the density of the web material in kg/m3, ?Seg is the density of the segment without wrapping material in kg/m3, and AWeb is the area of the web material per volume of the segment in cm2/cm3.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2019Publication date: July 1, 2021Inventors: Dietmar Volgger, Stefan Bachmann
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Publication number: 20210015147Abstract: Disclosed herein is an aerosol-generating article comprising an aerosol-generating material, which is heated during intended use to release an aerosol, but is not burnt, and a wrapping material. Therein, the wrapping material has a thickness of at least 50 ?m and at most 350 ?m, a basis weight of at least 50 g/m2 and at most 200 g/m2, a specific density of at least 500 kg/m3 and at most 1300 kg/m3, and a bending stiffness of at least 0.15 Nmm and at most 1.50 Nmm. The wrapping material further comprises at least two layers, wherein the layers are connected to each other and wherein one layer is a paper layer, which has a thickness of at least 40 ?m and at most 70 ?m, a basis weight of at least 50 g/m2 and at most 80 g/m2, and a density of at least 700 kg/m3 and at most 1300 kg/m3, and a specific density that is higher than the specific density of any of the other layers of the wrapping material.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2019Publication date: January 21, 2021Applicant: delfortgroup AGInventors: Christian MAIR, Dietmar VOLGGER
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Patent number: 10405573Abstract: A wrapping paper for smoking articles has a basis weight of at least 10 g/m2 and at most 70 g/m2 and comprises a mixture of cellulosic pulp fibers comprising at least 90% of short-fiber cellulosic pulp fibers, based on the mass of the cellulosic pulp fibers in the cellulosic pulp mixture, or comprising at least 95% of short-fiber cellulosic pulp fibers, based on the number of cellulosic pulp fibers, with at least 10% of the short-fiber cellulosic pulp fibers being ground, based on the mass of the number of cellulosic pulp fibers of the cellulosic pulp fiber mixture, and with the wrapping paper having over more than 50% of its area, preferably at least 55% of its area and especially preferably at least 60% of its area, an air permeability of at least 30 cm3/(cm2,min-kPa), and where the wrapping paper comprises at least one burning salt.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2016Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: delfortgroup AGInventors: Kannika Pesendorfer, Karin Sjöström, Dietmar Volgger, Rainer Fantur
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Patent number: 10362801Abstract: The invention relates to a wrapping paper for smoking articles that contains pulp fibers and at least one acid-soluble filler, the content of acid-soluble filler being at least 10 wt % relative to the entire mass of the wrapping paper, and the wrapping paper having portions with a lower transparency and portions with a higher transparency.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2016Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Assignee: delfortgroup AGInventors: Roland Zitturi, Dietmar Volgger
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Patent number: 10349673Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition having two or three film-forming agents for applying to cigarette paper, wherein the molecular weight distributions of the film-forming agents are statistically significantly different from each other. The invention further relates to a cigarette paper on which the composition is applied to discrete regions, wherein the regions are characterized by a value for diffusivity, and to a cigarette comprising the cigarette paper, characterized by values for auto-selection. The present invention further relates to a method for producing the cigarette paper and the cigarette.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2010Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: Delfortgroup AGInventor: Dietmar Volgger
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Patent number: 10231481Abstract: A cigarette paper is disclosed that has at least one treated area to which a composition that contains filler particles or a mixture of filler particles is applied. The diffusion capacity thereby in the at least one treated area is less than in an untreated area of the cigarette paper, wherein at least 20% by weight, preferably at least 50% by weight and particularly preferably at least 70% by weight of the filler particles in the treated area are formed by a filler with a flaked shape or a filler with a cubic shape. Additionally or alternatively, a filler with a scalenohedral or rhombohedral crystal structure can be used, as long as the particle size distribution is selected appropriately.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2014Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: delfortgroup AGInventors: Dietmar Volgger, Roland Zitturi
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Publication number: 20190059443Abstract: Disclosed herewith is a filter paper for manufacturing filters for smoking articles, in particular filter cigarettes, with the following properties the filter paper comprises fibers comprising pulp fibers, at least 80% by weight, preferably at least 90% by weight, particularly preferably at least 95% by weight and highly particularly preferably 100% by weight of the filter paper is formed by long-fiber pulp fibers, of the fibers, a proportion with respect to the number of the fibers of between 2% and 10%, preferably between 3% and 9% and particularly preferably between 4% and 8% has a length of less than 0.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2017Publication date: February 28, 2019Inventors: Stefan Bachmann, Christian Mair, Dietmar Volgger
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Patent number: 10154687Abstract: A cigarette paper is disclosed that contains at least one burn additive the concentration c(x) of which varies along a direction x of the cigarette paper. For the position-dependent concentration c(x) over an interval of length L, for x over the interval [0,L], ƒ(x)??c?c(x)?ƒ(x)+?c. In this regard, 3 cm?L?11 cm, ƒ(x) is monotonic over the interval [0,L], but not a constant function over the entire interval, and ?c?1% by weight, preferably ?0.7% by weight and particularly preferably ?0.5% by weight, and especially preferably ?0.3% by weight and particularly preferably ?0.15% by weight and ?c>0% by weight, each with respect to the mass of the cigarette paper.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2014Date of Patent: December 18, 2018Assignee: delfortgroup AGInventors: Dietmar Volgger, Stefan Bachmann
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Publication number: 20180125114Abstract: The invention relates to a wrapping paper for smoking articles that contains pulp fibers and at least one acid-soluble filler, the content of acid-soluble filler being at least 10 wt % relative to the entire mass of the wrapping paper, and the wrapping paper having portions with a lower transparency and portions with a higher transparency.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 6, 2016Publication date: May 10, 2018Inventors: Roland Zitturi, Dietmar Volgger
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Publication number: 20180092397Abstract: A wrapping paper for smoking articles has a basis weight of at least 10 g/m2 and at most 70 g/m2 and comprises a mixture of cellulosic pulp fibers comprising at least 90% of short-fiber cellulosic pulp fibers, based on the mass of the cellulosic pulp fibers in the cellulosic pulp mixture, or comprising at least 95% of short-fiber cellulosic pulp fibers, based on the number of cellulosic pulp fibers, with at least 10% of the short-fiber cellulosic pulp fibers being ground, based on the mass of the number of cellulosic pulp fibers of the cellulosic pulp fiber mixture, and with the wrapping paper having over more than 50% of its area, preferably at least 55% of its area and especially preferably at least 60% of its area, an air permeability of at least 30 cm3/(cm2,min-kPa), and where the wrapping paper comprises at least one burning salt.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2016Publication date: April 5, 2018Inventors: Kannika Pesendorfer, Karin Sjöström, Dietmar Volgger, Rainer Fantur
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Patent number: 9775378Abstract: A cigarette paper contains pulp fibers and filler particles, whereby at least 20% of the filler particles, by mass or by particle number, have a flaked shape. The flaked filler particles have a length l, a width b and a thickness d, which correspond to the respective maximum extension in three mutually orthogonal spatial directions, whereby the length l as well as the width b are at least twice as large as the thickness d. The mass-specific median value d50 of the particle size distribution measured according to ISO 13317-3 is between 0.2 ?m and 4.0 ?m, and the flaked particles are formed by calcium carbonate.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2014Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: delfortgroup AGInventors: Dieter Möhring, Roland Zitturi, Dietmar Volgger
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Patent number: 9439451Abstract: What is presented is a paper for mixing into the smokeable material of a smoking article, particularly into the tobacco rod of a cigarette, wherein the paper contains a share of fibers, which comprises pulp fibers and tobacco particles.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2014Date of Patent: September 13, 2016Assignee: delfortgroup AGInventor: Dietmar Volgger
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Patent number: 9414626Abstract: A cigarette paper is disclosed which contains pulp fibres and filler material particles, wherein at least 50% by weight, preferably at least 70% by weight and particularly at least 90% by weight of the filler material has a particle size distribution measured in accordance with ISO 13320 for which for the distribution parameter p=d10+2·d30+2·d70-d90 holds: p?5.0 ?m, preferably p?4.0 ?m and particularly preferably p?3.5 ?m, and p??1.0 ?m, preferably p?0.0 ?m and particularly preferably p?1.0 ?m.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2013Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: delfortgroup AGInventors: Dieter Möhring, Roland Zitturi, Kannika Pesendorfer, Dietmar Volgger