Abstract: An automatically extinguishable cigarette includes: a tobacco section in which tobacco is rolled up; a filter section; and an extinguishing member consisting of a cylindrical member provided between the tobacco section and the filter section and formed of a flame-resistant material. The front and rear openings of the cylindrical member are sealed by members formed of a material which is gas permeable but not water permeable. Further, the cylindrical member contains water or a fibrous material impregnated with water, thereby enabling the cigarette to go out by itself if left unextinguished.

Abstract: A smoking inhibitor ring for placement on a cigarette to limit the length of available cigarette to smoke has concentric aluminum cylindrical, uniformly spaced apart inner and outer walls joined at each end by closures, the insulation space between the inner and outer walls being unfilled and the inner wall having an inner diameter substantially the same as a cigarette. A method of using the inhibitor ring includes placing one and then increasing numbers of the rings on a cigarette to gradually decrease the length of cigarette available to smoke.

Abstract: A smoking article includes a fuel rod coaxially aligned with and circumscribing two insulating tubes of different heat transfer coefficients wherein the inner most insulating tube is filled with an aerosol generating composition including flavor vaporizing materials therein.

Abstract: This invention relates to the control of the burn rate of a cigarette. The burn rate is controlled by the use of a paper wrapper to which regions of cellulosic material is applied and bonded. The cellulosic material is applied during a manufacturing step for the base paper wrapper, either off or on-line of the paper wrapper-forming machine.

Abstract: A cigarette includes a cigarette portion, a filter portion and a fire extinguishing portion installed therebetween. The fire extinguishing portion has a doughnut shape cross-section and includes a thinner outer peripheral wall and a thicker inner peripheral wall which are radially spaced from each other to form a water storage therebetween. When a smoker wants to extinguish the light after smoking and presses the fire extinguishing portion by applying thereto a force with his fingers, the outer peripheral wall will be broken and then the stored water will fall over the outer surface of a combustible wrapper material of the cigarette portion towards the lower end of the cigarette so that the light of the cigarette can be timely put out by wetting the end portion of the lit cigarette.

Abstract: There is provided a smoking article having a mouthpiece 9 and a rod of smoking material 12 wrapped in a wrapper 14. A rod 15 constructed of for example activated carbon is provided within the smoking material 12. Between puffs the smoking material extinguishes leaving the rod 15 smouldering. During each puff the smoking material is reignited by the rod 15.

Abstract: An automatic cigarette extinguishing apparatus includes a tank portion located at an arbitrary position inside tobacco and made of a material having a melting point lower than a combustion temperature of the tobacco, and an extinguishing agent stored in the tank portion. The tank portion is arranged to supply the extinguishing agent inside the tobacco upon combustion of the tobacco.

Abstract: There is disclosed a cigarette which extinguishes rapidly wherein the tobacco in the cigarette is surrounded by a casing of cigarette paper having areas with lesser and greater air permeability in the form of patterned annular zones.

Abstract: A cigarette comprising a thin sheet for holding tobacco. The thin sheet is formed of a ceramic sheet by thermal decomposition of a woven or nonwoven fabric of ceramic fiber at a high temperature which produces no harmful organic substance with heat occurring with smoking of the cigarette.

Abstract: A cigarette making apparatus for making self-extinguishing cigarettes including an electromagnetically actuated spray nozzle for directing a solution of sodium silicate onto a stream of tobacco at predetermined intervals such that when the stream of tobacco is formed into a continuous cigarette rod and the rod is cut into individual cigarettes, the sodium silicate treated portion of the tobacco stream will fall at the midpoint of each finished cigarette.

Abstract: Smoking articles, such as cigarettes and little cigars, having self-extinguishing properties when laid on a flat surface yet will not extinguish when held in the hand or placed in an ashtray, are disclosed. The tobacco filler composition of the smoking articles is modified by the addition thereto of a moisture stable alkali metal silicate, the preferred moisture stable alkali metal silicate being borate stabilized sodium silicate.

Abstract: Wrappers for smoking articles providing reduced ignition proclivity or self-extinguishing properties to the resultant smoking articles. The wrapper materials contain band areas of low inherent BMI in the range from about 0 to about 4 cm.sup.-1. Preferred embodiments include wrappers wherein bands of paper material with reduced filler content are provided to produce a BMI in the range of from about 0 to about 2 cm.sup.-1 in the band areas and the resulting smoking articles are self-extinguishing in the banded zones. The width of the bands may be in the range of from about 2 to about 20 millimeters and, for self-extinguishing properties, are preferably at least about 6 millimeters. The resulting smoking articles are also within the scope of the present invention.

Abstract: A lightweight cylindrical body is provided constructed of heat resistant and medium heat conducting material such as tetrafluoroethylene and the body is slightly longer than a companion cigarette having the ignited end thereof frictionally telescoped into one end of the body to a position with the ignited end spaced inward of the second end of the tubular body and the end of the cigarette remote from the ignited end projecting outward of the aforementioned one end of the tubular body. The second end of the tubular body includes radial bores spaced circumferentially thereabout and longitudinally therealong.

Abstract: The core of a cigarette is covered with a sheath made of material which does not generate any appreciable amount of smoke when the cigarette is sucked but burns when the cigarette is sucked. The material is made of starch, agar, gelatin or a mixture thereof.

Abstract: A cigar or cigarette holder capable of receiving a cigar or cigarette and for filtering smoke generated from the cigar or cigarette. The holder has three chambers. The first chamber defined by the space between a perforated tubular member, concentrically situated around a perforated inner tubular member, and the inner tubular member. The first chamber is substantially filled with a filter material. The second and third chambers are within the inner tubular member, substantially coaxially aligned and separated by a wall having an aperture to transfer ash from the second chamber to the third chamber.

Abstract: A cigarette made of cut tobacco rolled in a paper having a refractory layer with a predetermined pattern bonded to or imprinted upon the interior surface of the paper. The pattern is formed outside of rows and columns of what eventually become elongated slots when the paper burns away. The slots are arranged in lengthwise rows and also are arranged in columns. Each row has a slot midpoint which lies midway between slots in each adjacent row.

Abstract: For decreasing a side stream smoke generated from a lighted tobacco product, a hollow main body made of non-combustive material and having a through hole is provided to accommodate the product therein. The main body permits continuous combustion of the product but limits the quantity of oxygen supplied to a burning point, thereby preventing generation of the side stream smoke while the lighted tobacco product is not inhaled.

Abstract: A self igniting cigar stored in a tubular cartridge which is divided in three sections. The sections are secured through a sealed tape. When the sealed tape is removed the upper section can be pulled up from the middle section exposing the mouth piece of the cigar, allowing a smoker to grip the cigar to pull the cigar out of the remaining cartridge. This will ignite an igniting unit installed inside the cigar in the form of a flammable tube in which a piston is inserted attached to a string. The other end of string is anchored to the bottom surface of the cartridge. Therefore, when the cigar is pulled out of the cartridge, the piston is pulled out of the igniting tube, thereby igniting flammable substance in the igniting unit which ignites the cigar. The middle section is separated so that it can slide over the cigar to protect fingertips of smoker and to extinguish the butt.

Abstract: A check valve type cigarette mouthpiece, which can be used with a non-filter cigarette or be incorporated into the filter tip portion of a filter cigarette, incorporates a valving structure which opens automatically under a slight pressure differential created by a vacuum or draw from the smoker and is otherwise closed prohibiting the passage of gases or smoke when the cigarette is not being actively smoked.

Abstract: A system for providing fire safety from burning ends of cigarettes includes a perforate tube with end caps, one of which has for receiving a cigarette there-through an aperture with a plurality of slits radiating from it; a cigarette so-received is held with burning end located in the perforate tube by a plurality of longitudinal ribs integrally protrusive along the perforate tube interior wall; the perforate tube perforations are arrayed in a plurality of circumferential rows; row to row spacing helps determine burning time of an unpuffed cigarette, which is extinguished after a short interval if unpuffed.

Abstract: A holder system for providing fire-safety of a cigarette being smoked and automatic extinguishment of it after a predetermined time includes a perforate tube with a spaced succession of internal rings that fit closely around a burning cigarette; in the absence of a puff on the cigarette within a predetermined time the burning end of the cigarette is extinguished as it reaches the nearest internal ring; the holder opens to receive a cigarette between identical halves separated along a longitudinal plane; an end cap and stud-in-hole structures provide for detachably securing the halves together.

Abstract: A cigarette has a front tobacco-containing part composed of a tubular member of cigarette paper and a tobacco filler, a rear part extending rearwardly from the front part and having a filter, and a tubular coating extending around at least one fourth of the length of the front part from the rear end of the latter, so as to extinguish the cigarette when the flame reaches this region and prevent smoking of the cigarette in this region. The tubular coating is formed of one piece with a tubular connector which connects the filter with the tobacco-containing part of the cigarette.

Abstract: This invention concerns the use of specific coatings that are applied to the paper wrapper that encloses the cigarette's smoking medium for limiting in a predictable manner the free burning time of the treated cigarette, or controlling the lapsed time prior to self-extinguishment after being lit and left unattended. The coating materials are generally identified as hydrophylic colloids or aqueous-soluble polymers, that are deposited singly or as mixtures from aqueous media, and are represented by locust bean gum, pectin, sodium carboxymethylcellulose, and guar gum, forming adherent, non-tacky, flexible coatings on the paper housing substrates, and significantly altering the burning characteristic of the resultant cigarettes. Comparable behaviors are obtained, for equivalent weight percentages of the deposited solids, by either precoating the portion of paper wrapper that subsequently encloses the charge of tobacco or by post-treatment of the external surface of the assembled cigarette.

Abstract: Cigarette coating comprises a fireproof coating made from clay or ceramic applied on the inside of the cigarette paper divided in sections to prevent glowing tobacco from penetrating to the outside but allows air circulation through cracks created when heat makes contact with the coating.

Abstract: This invention relates to smoking articles having reduced free burn time, including cigarettes, cigars and little cigars. The smoking article comprises tobacco wrapped in a paper having at least one circumferential band printed between the ends of the smoking article; preferably at about the center of the smoking article. The band contains a substance which will cause the smoking article to extinguish in about 2-5 minutes under free burn conditions after the cone reaches the banded area if it is not puffed. The band is typically about 2-10 mm wide containing a substance which is a liquid in the temperature range of about 100.degree. C. to 200.degree. C. and which as the burning cone comes in contact with it provides a fluid film on the paper, without substantially penetrating through the surface of the paper, which film is substantially impervious to air and decomposes and/or distills endothermically from about 140.degree. C. to 300.degree. C.

Abstract: In a preferred embodiment, a filter-tip cigarette having embodied within the filter-tip and extending into the compacted tobacco of the smoking-portion of the cigarette, a compressible enclosed vessel having a spout ending in a small wax-plugged hole from which hole the plugging-wax is ejectable by pressurized contents within enclosed space of the enclosed vessel pressurized by either or both decomposed carbonic acid by resulting carbon dioxide gas and compacting pressure on the exterior walls of the enclosed vessel resulting from compressing pressure applied to exterior walls of the filter-tip such as by compressing the filter tip between the teeth or pressing the same by stepping on it thus wetting and extinguishing the burning tobacco.

Abstract: An improved smoking article, such as a cigarette or cigar, having means for controlling quickly, accurately and selectively the extent of consumption of the smoking article, to assist a habitual smoker in voluntarily curtailing or terminating his smoking habit. The control means comprises a generally tubular outer wrapping on the article on which are marked, printed, or otherwise imposed, spaced indicia in the nature of a scale, extending longitudinally of the article, and an annular control indicator mounted telescopically on the article and slidable axially relative thereto. The indicia may be accompanied by contrasting designs or markings, to provide quick, accurate and carefully selected voluntary control by the smoker of the extent of consumption of the smoking article. The annular control indicator contrasts visually relative to the smoking article.

Abstract: This invention concerns the use of a class of coatings that are applied to the paper wrapper that encloses the cigarette's smoking medium, for limiting in a predictable manner the free burning time of the treated cigarette, or controlling the lapsed time prior to self-extinguishment after being lit and left unattended. The coating materials are generally identified as polymeric chlorine-containing film-forming latexes that cure at ambient temperature, forming flexible, water-resistant, flame-retardant deposits. Comparable results are obtained, for equivalent weight percentages of the deposited latex solids, by either pre-coating the portion of paper wrapper that encloses the charge of tobacco or smoking medium or by post-treatment of the external surface of the assembled cigarette. For cigarettes having paper wrappers coated to contain 19.+-.