Plugged Cigarette, Cigarette Shell and Method of Producing a Plugged Cigarette

Abstract

A cigarette including a first rolling material of a first area density that is between about 50 and 100 g/m.sup.2 and a hollow body with a support tip arranged inside of a proximal end of the hollow body. The hollow body is loaded with a smokeable material. The cigarette is plugged at a distal end of the body using a second rolling paper with a lower area density compared to the first rolling material. Various other features are disclosed, including a filter tip arranged inside of a proximal end of the hollow body. The cigarette shell includes a second rolling paper with a lower area density compared to the first rolling material, forming a sleeve of which a first portion extends within the body and of which a second portion projects from the body out from a distal end thereof in a longitudinal direction of the body.

Claims

1. A cigarette, such as a blunt or a cigar, comprising a first rolling material, such as paper, dried leaves or flower petals, of a first area density that is about 50-100 g/m.sup.2, a hollow body, wherein the hollow body comprises a support tip arranged inside of a proximal end of the hollow body, and wherein the body is loaded with a smokeable material, characterized in that, the cigarette is plugged at a distal end of the body, using a second rolling paper with a lower area density compared to the first rolling material.

2. The cigarette according to claim 1, wherein the second rolling paper forms a sleeve of which a first portion extends within the body and of which a second portion projects from the body out from the distal end in a longitudinal direction of the said body, and wherein the second portion comprises a physical deformation such that the sleeve is closed.

3. The cigarette according to claim 2, wherein the smokeable material extends from the tip to the physical deformation, beyond the distal end of the hollow body formed by the first rolling material.

4. The cigarette according to claim 2, wherein the physical deformation is a closed twist in the paper, such as provided by pinching the second portion between two fingers and rotating the body with respect to the pinched portion around the longitudinal axis of the cigarette.

5. The cigarette according to claim 2, characterized in that, the second rolling paper has an area density of about 10-40 g/m.sup.2, wherein the second rolling paper is attached, such as glued, to the inner surface of the first rolling material such that the outer circumference of the sleeve and inner circumference of the body are the same.

6. The cigarette according to any one of claim 1, wherein the second rolling paper in an only extends between about 2-0.5 cm into the body.

7. The cigarette according to claim 1, wherein the second rolling paper only projects between about 2.5-1.0 cm from the body.

8. The cigarette according to claim 1, wherein the first rolling material is, in its unrolled form, is shaped as an isosceles trapezoid, and wherein the body is frustoconical.

9. The cigarette according to claim 8, wherein the second rolling paper, in its unrolled form, is also shaped as an isosceles trapezoid.

10. The cigarette according to claim 1, wherein the smokeable material comprises cannabis, or a blend of tobacco and cannabis or marijuana.

11. A cigarette shell comprising a first rolling material of a first area density that is about 50-100 g/m.sup.2, a hollow body, wherein the hollow body comprises a filter tip arranged inside of a proximal end of the hollow body, characterized in that, the cigarette shell comprises a second rolling paper with a lower area density compared to the first rolling material, and wherein the second rolling paper forms a sleeve of which a first portion extends within the body and of which a second portion projects from the body out from a distal end thereof in a longitudinal direction of the said body.

12. A method of making a cigarette comprising the steps of: providing a shell according to claim 11; loading the shell with a smokeable material, beyond the distal end of the body; applying a physical deformation to the second portion where it projects from the body, such that the smokeable material is prevented from falling out of the shell at the distal end.

13. The method according to claim 12, wherein the step of applying a physical deformation comprises pinching the second portion, such as between two fingers, and rotating the body with respect to the pinched portion around the longitudinal axis of the cigarette such that a closed twist is formed in the second portion.

14. The cigarette according to claim 3, wherein the physical deformation is a closed twist in the paper, such as provided by pinching the second portion between two fingers and rotating the body with respect to the pinched portion around the longitudinal axis of the cigarette.

15. The cigarette according to claim 14, characterized in that, the second rolling paper has an area density of about 10-40 g/m2, wherein the second rolling paper is attached, such as glued, to the inner surface of the first rolling material such that the outer circumference of the sleeve and inner circumference of the body are the same.

Description

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE SEVERAL VIEWS OF THE DRAWINGS

[0019] The accompanying drawings, which are incorporated into and form a part of the specification, illustrate one or more embodiments of the present invention and, together with the description, serve to explain the principles of the invention. The drawings are only for the purpose of illustrating one or more embodiments of the invention and are not to be construed as limiting the invention. In the drawings:

[0020] FIG. 1 is a series of schematic diagrams showing a method of creating a cigarette according to an embodiment of the present invention.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0021] FIG. 1 shows a method for creating a cigarette 1 according to the invention. The progress of creation is shown from left to right.

[0022] On the left it can be seen that the cigarette 1 starts out having a second rolling paper 3.1 connected to a first rolling material 2, here a rolling paper having an area density of about 60 g/m.sup.2. The second rolling paper is glued to the first rolling paper along its width and has an area density of about 18 g/m.sup.2. The glue is a food grade glue G. A supporting tip 2.2 also is part of the cigarette and is here merely exemplary folded, see arrow R1, from a piece of paper to be a cylinder or hollow frustoconical curled supporting tip. The tip 2.2 is provided at the proximal end 2.3 of what will be the body 2.1 formed by the first paper after jointly rolling the components 2, 2.2 and 3.1 into a cone. The distal end here is the end that is intended for being held to the lips of a user. The second paper being attached near the distal end 2.5 by the glue G.

[0023] The rolling of components 2, 2.2 and 3.1 into a cone, more specifically into a frustoconincal shape, creates a shell; see arrow R2. This is an example of the shell according to the invention. The act of rolling also turns the second rolling paper into a sleeve. A first portion 4.1 extends about 1 cm into the body 2.1, and a second portion 4.2 projects about 1.5 cm from the body.

[0024] The body can be loaded, arrow F, with smokeable material A through said sleeve into the body 2.1. Filling can occur by machine.

[0025] The smokeable material is filled up to the edge of the distal end 2.5 of the body 2.1. In this example the body 2.1 is filled until about 0.1 mm above the edge of the distal end 2.5.

[0026] The second portion 4.2 is pinched by a worker with a first hand, and the body is cigarette is held by the worked with a second hand, whereafter the worker rotates the pinched part or the body around the longitudinal axis of the cigarette, such that helical twist closes the cigarette.

[0027] Embodiments of the present invention can include every combination of features that are disclosed herein independently from each other. Although the invention has been discussed in the foregoing with reference to an exemplary embodiment of the apparatus of the invention, the invention is not restricted to this particular embodiment which can be varied in many ways without departing from the invention. The discussed exemplary embodiment shall therefore not be used to construe the appended claims strictly in accordance therewith. On the contrary the embodiment is merely intended to explain the wording of the appended claims without intent to limit the claims to this exemplary embodiment. The scope of protection of the invention shall therefore be construed in accordance with the appended claims only, wherein a possible ambiguity in the wording of the claims shall be resolved using this exemplary embodiment. Variations and modifications of the present invention will be obvious to those skilled in the art and it is intended to cover in the appended claims all such modifications and equivalents. The entire disclosures of all references, applications, patents, and publications cited above are hereby incorporated by reference. Unless specifically stated as being essential above, none of the various components or the interrelationship thereof are essential to the operation of the invention. Rather, desirable results can be achieved by substituting various components and/or reconfiguration of their relationships with one another. The terms, a, an, the, and said mean one or more unless context explicitly dictates otherwise. Note that in the specification and claims, about or approximately means within twenty percent (20%) of the numerical amount cited.