Banded papers, smoking articles and methods

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 11547140
APP PUB NO 20180295876A1
SERIAL NO

15995599

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Wrapper for cigarette manufacture includes transversely extending band regions applied by a printing technique, such as gravure printing. The band regions comprise starch, an anti-wrinkling agent such as 1,2 propylene glycol or glycerin, and optionally calcium carbonate. Any suitable printing technique can be used to apply the aqueous solution to the banded regions. The pattern of banded regions may be bands, stripes, two-dimensional arrays, undulated regions, and the like along and/or around the tobacco rod. The pattern can be applied in one or more layers. The pattern may be configured so that when a smoking article is placed on a substrate, at least two longitudinal locations along the length of the tobacco rod have film-forming compound located only on sides of the smoking article not in contact with the substrate.

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PHILIP MORRIS USA INCRICHMOND VA

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Baren, Randall E Glen Allen, US 16 207
Garg, Rajesh K Richmond, US 21 210
Li, Ping Glen Allen, US 464 4732
Lipowicz, Peter J Midlothian, US 43 2906
Miser, Donald E Chesterfield, US 21 1511
Parrish, Milton E Midlothian, US 21 299
Phan, Tony A Richmond, US 16 210
Rasouli, Firooz Midlothian, US 74 980
Rose, Marc W Mechanicsville, US 21 229
Sherwood, Timothy S Midlothian, US 43 691
Yang, Szu-Sung Midlothian, US 29 313

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