US Patent Class 131
TOBACCO




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  DF  CLASS NOTES
270  DF  ANTISMOKING PRODUCT OR DEVICE, I.E., DETERENT
271  DF  .~ No smoke to user
272  DF  .~ Smoke to air ratio controlled
273  DF  .~ Smoking simulator
274  DF  PRODUCT OR DEVICE HAVING IDENTIFIABLE CONSTITUENT TO FLAVOR OR ENHANCE FLAVOR
275  DF  .~ Naturally occurring or synthetic duplicate
276  DF  .~ Organic compound
277  DF  .~.~ Heterocyclic
278  DF  .~.~.~ Containing nitrogen as hetro atom
279  DF  .~.~ Containing a sulphor atom
280  DF  CIGAR OR CIGARETTE MAKING
281  DF  .~ Including perforating
282  DF  .~ Including arranging, collecting, or delivering
283  DF  .~.~ And packing
284  DF  .~ With coating or printing
285  DF  .~ Including fingerlike member which alternately engages and releases product
286  DF  .~ With cleaning away unwanted product component, e.g., gum or adhesive
287  DF  .~.~ By pneumatic means
288  DF  .~.~ By liquid means
289  DF  .~.~ By scraping, wiping, etc.
27.1  DF  .~ Including cooperating surfaces to induce rolling
28  DF  .~.~ Combined
29  DF  .~.~.~ With tip or mouthpiece applier or former
30  DF  .~.~.~.~ With stationary smoother
31  DF  .~.~.~ With tobacco treatment
32  DF  .~.~.~ With subsequent wrapping or forming operations
33  DF  .~.~.~ With wrapper cutter
34  DF  .~.~.~.~ Continuous wrapper
35  DF  .~.~.~.~ With adhesive supply or applier
36  DF  .~.~.~ With pre-cut wrapper feed and/or holder or smoother
37  DF  .~.~.~ With adhesive supply or applier
38  DF  .~.~.~ With filler tobacco or bunch feeder
39  DF  .~.~.~.~ With plural feed
40  DF  .~.~.~.~ With bunch separator
41  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ With bunch pre-compressor
42  DF  .~.~.~.~.~.~ Ribbon feed
43  DF  .~.~.~.~.~.~ Table mold
44  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ With hopper discharger
45  DF  .~.~.~ With bunch pre-compressor
46  DF  .~.~.~ With end trimmer or completed article cutter
47  DF  .~.~ Apron type
48  DF  .~.~.~ With moving table
49  DF  .~.~.~.~ Rotating or oscillating table
50  DF  .~.~.~ With stationary table
51  DF  .~.~.~.~ With movable roll type member
52  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ Swinging roll support
53  DF  .~.~.~.~.~.~ Vertical axis
54  DF  .~.~.~ Aprons
55  DF  .~.~ Belt type
56  DF  .~.~ Roller type
57  DF  .~.~ Roller
57.5  DF  .~.~ Drum and concave surfaces
58  DF  .~ Wrapping devices
59  DF  .~.~ Spirally wound continuous wrapper
60  DF  .~.~ Longitudinally fed continuous wrapper
61.1  DF  .~.~.~ With tip or mouthpiece applier or former
62  DF  .~.~.~ With tobacco treatment
63  DF  .~.~.~.~ With completed article cutter
64.1  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ With tobacco rod preshaper
64.2  DF  .~.~.~.~.~.~ With transverse or longitudinal compression
65  DF  .~.~.~ With completed article cutter
66.1  DF  .~.~.~ With tobacco rod preshaper
66.2  DF  .~.~.~.~ With transverse or longitudinal compression
67  DF  .~.~.~ With wrapper sealing
68  DF  .~.~.~.~ With heating means
69  DF  .~.~.~.~ With adhesive supply or applier
70  DF  .~.~ Tube filling type
71  DF  .~.~.~ With tip or mouthpiece applier or former
72  DF  .~.~.~.~ Plug inserting
73  DF  .~.~.~ With tube making
74  DF  .~.~.~ With hopper feed of tubes
75  DF  .~.~.~ Mold with encircling wrapper tube
76  DF  .~.~ With tip or mouthpiece applier or former
77  DF  .~ Molding or forming
78  DF  .~.~ Combined
79  DF  .~.~.~ With tobacco treatment
80  DF  .~.~.~ With plural molding or forming
81.1  DF  .~.~.~ With tobacco or bunch feed
82  DF  .~.~.~ With bunch remover and/or transfer
83.1  DF  .~.~.~ With trimmer, perforator or slitter
84.1  DF  .~.~ Continuous rod or ribbon former
84.2  DF  .~.~.~ With transverse compression
84.3  DF  .~.~.~ With pneumatic assist for tobacco movement
84.4  DF  .~.~.~ With trimmer for rod or ribbon
85  DF  .~.~ Molds
86  DF  .~.~.~ Plural
87  DF  .~.~.~.~ Rotary or endless carrier
88  DF  .~ Tip or mouthpiece applying or forming
89  DF  .~.~ End tucker, folder, crimper, smoother
90  DF  .~.~.~ With adhesive supply or applier
91  DF  .~.~.~ With cutter or trimmer
92  DF  .~.~.~ With heater and/or end punch
93  DF  .~.~.~ Rotating type
94  DF  .~.~ Plug attaching or inserting
95  DF  .~.~ Sheet material tip
96  DF  .~ Recovery of tobacco from cigarettes and cigars
105  DF  .~ Wrappers holders and carriers
106  DF  .~ Cigar tagging or labeling
107  DF  .~ Bundling
108  DF  .~ Tobacco feeding
109.1  DF  .~.~ With brushing, carding, or picking means
109.2  DF  .~.~.~ With separator for tobacco dust, stems or foreign material
109.3  DF  .~.~.~ With vibrating tamper or rake
110  DF  .~.~ With separator or suction device
111  DF  PLUG OR COMPRESSED SHAPE MAKING
112  DF  .~ Packing or bundling
113  DF  .~.~ Tagging or labeling
114  DF  .~.~.~ With tag or label making
115  DF  .~ Turret type
116  DF  .~ Continuous sheet type
117  DF  .~.~ With cutting
118  DF  .~ With cutting
119  DF  .~ Molds
290  DF  TOBACCO TREATMENT
291  DF  .~ Puffing
292  DF  .~.~ Including freeze drying
293  DF  .~.~ By chemical reaction
294  DF  .~.~ By radiant energy
295  DF  .~.~ By high frequency field
296  DF  .~.~ By contact with hot gaseous medium
297  DF  .~ Extraction of component, other than moisture, by contact with diverse medium
298  DF  .~.~ By organic solvent
299  DF  .~ With electrical or radiant energy
300  DF  .~ With fluid or fluent material
301  DF  .~.~ Including means to create a vacuum
302  DF  .~.~ Including means to circulate fluid
303  DF  .~.~.~ And temperature or humidity control of fluid
304  DF  .~.~.~ Including means to convey tobacco
305  DF  .~.~ Within rotary drum-type apparatus
306  DF  .~.~ Including means to convey tobacco
307  DF  .~.~.~ Including expressing rolls
308  DF  .~.~ Containing enzymes to cause fermentation
309  DF  .~.~ Other than water, steam, or air
310  DF  .~.~.~ Organic
311  DF  .~ Including leaf disintegration
312  DF  .~.~ And separation of fibers of different character
313  DF  .~ Leaf stemming
314  DF  .~.~ With stem cleaning
315  DF  .~.~ And straightening, smoothing, flattening, or cleaning
316  DF  .~.~.~ Booking
317  DF  .~.~.~.~ Stemmed by rotary or endless cutter
318  DF  .~.~ By fluid current
319  DF  .~.~ By tearing
320  DF  .~.~.~ Including transverse stem cutting
321  DF  .~.~.~ Card clothing type
322  DF  .~.~ By cutting
323  DF  .~.~.~ Stem die type
324  DF  .~ Leaf straightening, brushing, smoothing, rolling, corrugating, or flattening with or without stem crushing
325  DF  .~.~ And cleaning
326  DF  .~.~ Booking
327  DF  .~ Leaf associating or disassociating
328  DF  MAKING OR USING TOBACCO USERS' APPLIANCE
329  DF  TOBACCO USERS' APPLIANCE
330  DF  .~ Device used for smoking
173  DF  .~.~ Smoke washing type
174  DF  .~.~ Wind or ash guarding or ash receiving
175  DF  .~.~.~ Cigar or cigarette holders
176  DF  .~.~.~ Pipe covers
177  DF  .~.~.~.~ With tamper or tamper type
178  DF  .~.~ Combined or convertible
179  DF  .~.~.~ Plural smoking devices
180  DF  .~.~.~ With storage means, feeder, and/or plural bowl
181  DF  .~.~.~.~ Follower
182  DF  .~.~.~ With ejector
183  DF  .~.~.~.~ Tobacco support type
184.1  DF  .~.~.~ With cleaner, stirrer, or tamper
184.2  DF  .~.~.~.~ Pipe bowl type
184.3  DF  .~.~.~.~ With cleaner extending or operable through external passage
185  DF  .~.~.~ With igniter and/or match scratcher
186  DF  .~.~.~ With support
187  DF  .~.~ Cigar and cigarette holders
188  DF  .~.~.~ With piercing device
189  DF  .~.~.~.~ Smoke conducting
190  DF  .~.~.~ With movable gripper or holder
191  DF  .~.~ Tubes
192  DF  .~.~ Foldable or collapsible
193  DF  .~.~ Base burner type
194  DF  .~.~ Heat exchanging and/or insulating
195  DF  .~.~.~ Cooling air passages
196  DF  .~.~.~ Spaced inner bowl
197  DF  .~.~.~.~ Plural reversely extending passages
198.1  DF  .~.~ Supplemental or substitute air inlet
198.2  DF  .~.~.~ Adjustable air inlet type
199  DF  .~.~ Longitudinally divided
200  DF  .~.~ Smoke treating
201  DF  .~.~.~ Material separator and trap
202  DF  .~.~.~.~ Filter and/or absorber
203  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ Absorber only (no filtering)
204  DF  .~.~.~.~.~.~ Lined or coated bowls or stems
205  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ Tobacco supports
206  DF  .~.~.~.~.~.~ With valve or external passage closure
207  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ Absorbent or particulate
209  DF  .~.~.~.~ Spiral passage
210  DF  .~.~.~.~ Serial checks or baffles
211  DF  .~.~.~.~ Chamber enclosed tubes or nipples
212.1  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ Smoke direction changing
212.2  DF  .~.~.~.~.~.~ Concentric ducts
213  DF  .~.~.~.~ Plural reversely extending passages
214  DF  .~.~.~.~ Bowl detachable from neck cup
215.1  DF  .~.~.~.~ With valve in smoke path or removable, external passage closure
215.2  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ With filter
215.3  DF  .~.~.~.~.~ Valve
216  DF  .~.~ Special smoke passages
217  DF  .~.~.~ Spiral passage
218  DF  .~.~.~ Plural reversely extending
219  DF  .~.~ Lined or coated
220  DF  .~.~.~ Bowl
221  DF  .~.~ Reversible bowl
222  DF  .~.~ Bowl detachable from neck cup
223  DF  .~.~ With valve or external passage closure
224  DF  .~.~ Tobacco supports
225  DF  .~.~ Joints and connections
226  DF  .~.~ Bowls
227  DF  .~.~ Stems, bits or tips
228  DF  .~.~.~ With sleeve or cap
229  DF  .~.~.~ Outlet end shapes and orifices
230  DF  .~.~ Materials and compositions
231  DF  .~ With ash receiver
232  DF  .~.~ Smoking device cleaner
233  DF  .~.~ Tip cutter, perforator or slitter
234  DF  .~.~ Igniter or scratching surface
235.1  DF  .~.~ Extinguisher
236  DF  .~.~.~ Liquid type
237  DF  .~.~.~ Movable extinguishing member
237.5  DF  .~.~.~ Split tube type
238  DF  .~.~ And devices for other use
239  DF  .~.~.~ Match holder
240.1  DF  .~.~ Cigar, cigarette, or smoking device rest or holder
241  DF  .~.~.~ With special receiver support
242  DF  .~.~.~ With closure or covered compartment
242.5  DF  .~.~.~ With cigar or cigarette ejector, dumper, or advancer
242.6  DF  .~.~.~ With grid or grille
*  DD  .~ Smoking device cleaners
243  DF  .~.~ Combined or compound
244  DF  .~.~ Fluid type
245  DF  .~.~ Stem
246  DF  .~.~ Bowl
247  DF  .~ Pipe tampers
248  DF  .~ Cigar and cigarette end cutters, combined
249  DF  .~.~ With igniter or scratching surface
250  DF  .~.~ With receptacle or holder
250.1  DF  .~.~.~ Dispensing type
251  DF  .~.~.~ Match receptacle
252  DF  .~.~ With perforator or slitter
253  DF  .~ Cigar tip perforators or slitters
254  DF  .~.~ Pin or drill
255  DF  .~.~ Punch
256  DF  .~ Cigar or cigarette extinquishers
257  DF  .~ Supports
258  DF  .~.~ Finger ring type
259  DF  .~.~ Staff type
260  DF  .~.~ Smoking device
331  DF  SMOKE SEPARATOR OR TREATER
332  DF  .~ Having a polymer
333  DF  .~ By electric, magnetic, or radioactive action
334  DF  .~ By chemical reaction, e.g., ion-exchange, chelating, catalytic, etc.
335  DF  .~ By adding constituent to smoke stream
336  DF  .~.~ Air
337  DF  .~.~ Having destructible, fusible, soluble, or deformable container for treatment material
338  DF  .~ Having means to vary smoke flow rate
339  DF  .~ Interior surface causes particular flow characteristic
340  DF  .~.~ By use of specific filter mass
341  DF  .~ Plural diverse elements
342  DF  .~.~ Including particulate material
343  DF  .~.~ Plasticizer or adhesive coating
344  DF  .~.~ Occupying plural, separate, distinct zones
345  DF  .~ Including a cellulose ester or ether
346  DF  .~ With indicator or inspection means
347  DF  TOBACCO OR TOBACCO SUBSTITUTE PRODUCT OR COMPONENT PART THEREOF
348  DF  .~ Pipe cartridges
349  DF  .~ With ash retainer or means to prevent or retard burning
350  DF  .~ With means to pierce or protect cigar end structure
351  DF  .~ With means to facilitate ignition
352  DF  .~ Compositions, e.g., smoking or chewing mixture or medium
353  DF  .~.~ Reconstituted tobacco
354  DF  .~.~.~ Material coated with tobacco dust or particle
355  DF  .~.~.~ Tobacco particles bonded by nontobacco adhesive
356  DF  .~.~.~ Having tobacco extracts or tobacco paste
357  DF  .~.~.~ Tobacco sheet formed from wet ground or wet beaten tobacco
358  DF  .~.~.~ Wrapper
359  DF  .~.~ Tobacco substitute, i.e., nontobacco
360  DF  .~ Cigar or cigarette
361  DF  .~.~ End structure
362  DF  .~.~.~ Coated or impregnated
363  DF  .~.~.~ Filler penetrating
364  DF  .~.~ Blank or filler
365  DF  .~.~ Wrapper or binder
366  DF  .~ Plug tobacco
367  DF  .~.~ Having specific shape
368  DF  .~.~ With indentification, marking, label, or tag
369  DF  METHOD OR APPARATUS FOR MAKING TOBACCO SUBSTITUTE
370  DF  METHOD OR APPARATUS FOR MAKING RECONSTITUTED TOBACCO
371  DF  .~ Dust impingement
372  DF  .~ Slurry
373  DF  .~ Impregnation of web
374  DF  .~ Paper process
375  DF  .~ Extrusion
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CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS
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900  DF  LIQUIFIED GAS EMPLOYED IN PUFFING TOBACCO
901  DF  ORGANIC LIQUID EMPLOYED IN PUFFING TOBACCO
902  DF  INORGANIC CHEMICAL AGENTS EMPLOYED IN PUFFING TOBACCO
903  DF  FIXING THE PRODUCT AFTER PUFFING
904  DF  PNEUMATIC MEANS FOR SENSING CONDITION OR CHARACTERISTIC
905  DF  RADIATION SOURCE FOR SENSING CONDITION OR CHARACTERISTIC
906  DF  SENSING CONDITION OR CHARACTERISTIC OF CONTINUOUS TOBACCO ROD
907  DF  EJECTION OR REJECTION OF FINISHED ARTICLE DUE TO DETECTED OR SENSED CONDITION
908  DF  SENSING UNIQUE CHARACTERISTIC OR SPECIFIC CONDITION OF FINISHED PRODUCT
909  DF  SENSING CONDITION IN FEED HOPPER FOR CIGAR OR CIGARETTE MAKING
910  DF  SENSING OR DETECTING MALFUNCTION IN CIGAR OR CIGARETTE MAKER
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