Patent ID: 6645605
Filing Date: 2003-11-11
Classification: A24D,Y10T

Abstract:
A cigarette paper for making low ignition propensity cigarettes comprising a base paper with a plurality of regions of thermoplastic polymer aqueous suspension printed on a surface of the paper wherein the plurality of regions of the base paper have Coresta porosities of 0 to 14.9,wherein said thermoplastic polymer aqueous suspension has one or more thermoplastic polymers suspended in an aqueous medium and has at least one thermoplastic polymer at concentrations greater than 10% w/w suspended in the aqueous medium, wherein said thermoplastic polymer is selected from the group consisting of: methyl cellulose ether, ethyl hydroxyethyl cellulose, N-substituted acrylamides, poly(vinylmethylether), poly(ethylene oxide), poly(2-ethyl oxazoline), methyl cellulose ether, cellulose acetate, cellulose acetate phthalate and cellulose acetate butyrate wherein said methyl cellulose ether is methyl hydroxyethyl cellulose or methyl hydroxypropyl cellulose.