Device for producing consumer assembled cigarettes
CA 2173575 C · Owner: Mercier, Jacques · Inventors: Mercier, Jacques
Overview
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A system to enable assembly of components to create a smokable cigarette at home by a consumer includes an empty cigarette tube, usually with an attached filter, tobacco product in rod-like form in a generally rod-shaped combiner device. The tobacco product is a supply of tobacco corresponding to the empty space in the cigarette tube with the tobacco wrapped in a disposable wrapper. Only the tobacco and not the wrapper is smoked. The rod-shaped combiner device is self-supporting on a surface such as a kitchen table in a position with its general axis extending upwardly from the table. A slider mechanism on the combiner device grasps the wrapper. In order to assemble the cigarette the smoker …
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- Filed April 4, 1996 and granted January 26, 1999. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended April 4, 2016.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by April 4, 2018.
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