Patent ID: 11918035
Assignee: FILTRONA FILTER PRODUCTS DEVELOPMENT CO. PTE. LTD.
Field: Other consumer goods (Other fields)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 0:
1. A method of forming a filtered smoking product, the method comprising:
providing a longitudinally extending core of tobacco smoke filtering material having a wrapper circumscribed around the longitudinally extending core of tobacco smoke filtering material;
providing a smoking article;
unfurling the wrapper from around the longitudinally extending core of tobacco smoke filtering material and placing an end of the smoking article adjacent to an end of the longitudinally extending core of tobacco smoke filtering material;
re-engaging the wrapper so as to fully encircle and surround both the longitudinally extending core of tobacco smoke filtering material and the end of the smoking article adjacent to the end of the longitudinally extending core of tobacco smoke filtering material; and
fixing the wrapper via fixing means to the end of the smoking article adjacent to the end of the longitudinally extending core of tobacco smoke filtering material to thereby hold the wrapper in place around the longitudinally extending core of tobacco smoke filtering material in register with the smoking article to thereby form the filtered smoking product;
wherein the wrapper is paper of basis weight from 30 to 80 g/m2; and
wherein the smoking article has a circumference of 16 to 17 MM.