Curtis D Mcgee

US Patent:

20070107743, May 17, 2007

Filed:

Jan 17, 2007

Appl. No.:

11/623870

Inventors:

Thomas Perfetti - Winston-Salem NC, US
Curtis McGee - Germanton NC, US
James Best - Winston-Salem NC, US
Paul Brinkley - Winston-Salem NC, US
Sharon Dunlap - Walnut Cove NC, US
Charles Risner - High Point NC, US

International Classification:

A24B 3/00

US Classification:

131300000, 131309000, 131310000

Abstract:

A reconstituted tobacco material incorporates an exogenous tocopherol or derivative thereof, such as in the amount of at least about 0.1 weight percent. A tobacco blend can be formed by combining reconstituted tobacco material incorporating such an additive with one or more additional tobacco materials, such as burley tobacco, Oriental tobacco, and flue-cured tobacco. A smoking article, such as a cigarette, contains such a reconstituted tobacco, as part of the smokable material, as part of tobacco paper wrapping material, or as part of a reconstituted tobacco-containing filter element. The invention also provides a method of forming reconstituted tobacco material wherein a tocopherol or derivative thereof is added to the tobacco material, either by adding the tocopherol to an aqueous extract or water insoluble pulp formed during the reconstituted tobacco process or by adding the tocopherol to the solid reconstituted tobacco sheet after the aqueous extract and pulp are recombined.

US Patent:

58294538, Nov 3, 1998

Filed:

Jun 9, 1995

Appl. No.:

8/489199

Inventors:

Jackie Lee White - Pfafftown NC
Barry Lynn Saintsing - Lexington NC
Thomas Albert Perfetti - Winston-Salem NC
Curtis Dillard McGee - Germanton NC
Milly Mee Lee Wong - Winston-Salem NC

Assignee:

R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company - Winston-Salem NC

International Classification:

A24B 1500

US Classification:

131359

Abstract:

A low-density filler material for cigarettes from either a low-density tobacco composition or an extruded grain or starch composition. The low-density tobacco composition and a method of making the low-density tobacco composition by extruding a mixture of tobacco and flour or tobacco and starch under conditions whereby the solvent in the extruded mixture flashes into vapor upon release from the extrusion head. The low-density tobacco composition is formed without the aid of an added binder. The low-density flour or starch material and a method of making it by extruding flour or starch with a filler material such as calcium carbonate under conditions whereby the solvent in the extruded mixture flashes into vapor upon extrusion through the orifice die. The extruded composition can then be cut and used in place of cut tobacco filler.

US Patent:

20040255965, Dec 23, 2004

Filed:

Jun 17, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/463211

Inventors:

Thomas Perfetti - Winston-Salem NC, US
Curtis McGee - Germanton NC, US
James Best - Winston-Salem NC, US
Paul Brinkley - Winston-Salem NC, US
Sharon Dunlap - Walnut Cove NC, US
Charles Risner - High Point NC, US

Assignee:

R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company

International Classification:

A24B015/00

US Classification:

131/353000, 131/352000

Abstract:

A reconstituted tobacco material incorporates an exogenous tocopherol or derivative thereof, such as in the amount of at least about 0.1 weight percent. A tobacco blend can be formed by combining reconstituted tobacco material incorporating such an additive with one or more additional tobacco materials, such as burley tobacco, Oriental tobacco, and flue-cured tobacco. A smoking article, such as a cigarette, contains such a reconstituted tobacco, as part of the smokable material, as part of tobacco paper wrapping material, or as part of a reconstituted tobacco-containing filter element. The invention also provides a method of forming reconstituted tobacco material wherein a tocopherol or derivative thereof is added to the tobacco material, either by adding the tocopherol to an aqueous extract or water insoluble pulp formed during the reconstituted tobacco process or by adding the tocopherol to the solid reconstituted tobacco sheet after the aqueous extract and pulp are recombined.