US4146040A
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Cigarettes
Assignee: Individual
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Filing: 1977-03-17
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Granted: 1979-03-27
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Expires: 1997-03-17
Abstract
Abstract A fire resistant cigarette has a wrapper having a coating applied as a dual treatment comprising the separate steps of coating the wrapper with a solution of an alkali metal silicate and coating the wrapper with a pH lowering material wherein the pH lowering material lowers the pH of the alkali silicate. The dual treatment of the cigarette is such that when the cigarette is smoked it produces a smoke which has a pleasing taste and the cigarette is fire resistant.
Inventors
- 👤 Charles C. Cohn
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-11-03 16:46
CPC Classifications
D; D21; D21H; D21H5/00; D21H5/12; D21H5/14; D21H5/16; A; A24; A24D; A24D1/00; A24D1/02; A24D1/025
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 16
Claim 1
Independent Claim
120 words
A cigarette or the like comprising: a body of tobacco, a filtering section adjacent said body of tobacco, said filtering section including a long column of a gas filtering medium, a flammable wrapper surrounding said body of tobacco, a coating on said wrapper, said coating including a quantity of an alkali metal silicate applied as one treatment of the wrapper, and a quantity of pH lowering material applied as another treatment of the wrapper so as to lower the pH of the alkaline silicate said dual treatment coating containing quantities of said alkali metal silicate and said pH lowering material to make the cigarette fire resistant and to treat the combustion products of the cigarette to produce a pleasant smoke.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
120 words
A cigarette or the like comprising: a body of tobacco, a filtering section adjacent said body of tobacco, said filtering section including a long column of a gas filtering medium, a flammable wrapper surrounding said body of tobacco, a coating on said wrapper, said coating including a quantity of an alkali metal silicate applied as one treatment of the wrapper, and a quantity of pH lowering material applied as another treatment of the wrapper so as to lower the pH of the alkaline silicate said dual treatment coating containing quantities of said alkali metal silicate and said pH lowering material to make the cigarette fire resistant and to treat the combustion products of the cigarette to produce a pleasant smoke.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
22 words
A cigarette according to claim 1 wherein said filtering section includes a filter plug at each end of said gas filtering medium.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
34 words
A cigarette according to claim 2 wherein said filtering section extends for at least about one-third of the length of the cigarette and said cigarette is of a standard length of approximately 70-120 millimeters.
Claim 5
Independent Claim
67 words
A method of making a cigarette or the like comprising a body of tobacco surrounded by a flammable wrapper which method comprises: coating the wrapper in a dual treatment, said dual treatment coating including applying a solution of alkali metal silicate to the wrapper as one treatment and applying a solution of a pH lowering material as another treatment to lower the pH of the alkaline silicate.
Claim 6
Independent Claim
67 words
A method of making a cigarette or the like comprising a body of tobacco surrounded by a flammable wrapper which method comprises: coating the wrapper in a dual treatment, said dual treatment coating including applying a solution of alkali metal silicate to the wrapper as one treatment and applying a solution of a pH lowering material as another treatment to lower the pH of the alkaline silicate.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
33 words
The method of claim 4 in which said pH lowering material is applied in a quantity to lower the pH of the wrapper to a range of from about 9.0 to about 4.5.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
35 words
The method of claim 4 in which said metal alkali silicate is applied as a solution of "0" type silicate in which the ratio of SiO 2 : Na 2 O is 3.2 to 1.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
19 words
The method of claim 4 in which said pH lowering material is applied as a solution of diammonium phosphate.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
35 words
The method of claim 4 wherein said coating on said wrapper is applied over only a first portion of the length of the cigarette, said first portion extending from the tobacco end of the cigarette.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
34 words
A method cigarette according to claim 8 wherein the remainder of the wrapper of the cigarette extending from said first portion thereof toward the mouth end of the cigarette is treated to be non-burning.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
21 words
A method according to claim 9 wherein said first portion of said wrapper extends approximately one-half the length of the cigarette.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
45 words
A cigarette according to claim 8 wherein a band area extending circumferentially around the wrapper at a location adjacent said first portion of the wrapper is treated to be non-burning to provide a burning barrier adjacent the portion of the cigarette treated with said coating.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
24 words
A method according to claim 4 in which said acid producing material is applied as a phosphoric acid solution or a sulfuric acid solution.
Claim 15
Dependent Claim
20 words
The method according to claim 4 in which said acid producing material is applied as a solution of ammonium sulfate.
Claim 16
Dependent Claim
21 words
The method according to claim 4 in which said acid producing material is applied as an aqueous solution of a lignosulfonate.
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