Making of smoking articles
CA 2019680 C · Owner: Case, Paul David · Inventors: Luke, John Anthony; Case, Paul David; Hemsley, Stephen Ross
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
Smoking article rod is made by extruding a tobacco/binder mixture, with the addition of water, to provide a rod form extrudate, under conditions such that the extrudate is of a cross-section greater than that of the die orifice. The extrudate is drawn down by, for example passing the extrudate, about two driven and peripherally grooved draw down drums.
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Listed from its CIPO record in Patent Yard's archive of Canadian patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the CIPO record and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.
Why it's free to use
- Filed June 22, 1990 and granted September 17, 1996. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended June 22, 2010.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by June 22, 2012.
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