Apparatus for applying a liquid medium to tobacco

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 6263881
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09404125

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The invention relates to an apparatus for applying a liquid medium, more particularly, a flavor or menthol, to tobacco in a cigarette maker equipped with a conduit for feeding the liquid medium, and provided at the end of the conduit with a nozzle orifice, disposed under the suction band of a cigarette former of the maker and, through its nozzle orifice, applies the liquid medium to the tobacco in contact with the tobacco carpet. The nozzle orifice sweeps past the surface of the tobacco and applies a fine continuous jet of the non-foamed liquid medium, or an aerosol jet of the liquid medium, onto the tobacco.

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R J REYNOLDS TOBACCO COMPANY401 NORTH MAIN STREET WINSTON-SALEM NC 27101-3804

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Jung, Thomas Bayreuth, DE 80 774
Kuhl, Volker Bayreuth, DE 5 3

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