CPC Definition - Subclass A24B
This place covers:
- Manufacture or preparation of tobacco for smoking or chewing
- Tobacco
- Snuff
This place covers:
Preparation of harvested tobacco on the plantation.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Harvesters for tobacco |
This place covers:
Primary treatment and preparation of the tobacco in the factory.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Containers for packaging contents in moist condition |
This place does not cover:
Delustering |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Tobacco or cigarette paper |
In this place, the following terms or expressions are used with the meaning indicated:
Puffing | expanding tobacco |
This place covers:
Separation of the tobacco lamina from the stem or rib.
In this place, the following terms or expressions are used with the meaning indicated:
Stem | the main vein of the tobacco leaf |
Leaf part or lamina | the leaf blade, leaf tissue that has been separated from the midrib or stem |
This place covers:
Cutting tobacco material, e.g. for forming the filler of a cigarette rod.
This place covers:
Control of the moisture content of the tobacco products (in the factory).
This place does not cover:
Devices for use by the smokers for controlling the moisture content of tobacco products |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Final drying of cigars | |
Final drying of cigarettes |
This place covers:
Machines for making twist or spun tobacco.
This place covers:
Tobacco per se, for pipes, cigars or cigarettes.
Chewing tobacco
Snuff
This place does not cover:
Reconstituted tobacco products |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Mechanical treatment | |
Chemical features or treatment of tobacco |
This place covers:
Chemical features of tobacco, smoking or smokeless tobacco as well as reconstituted tobacco, including chemical treatments, modifying tobacco by chemical agents, e.g. flavourants. This main group also includes biochemical treatments of tobacco and physical treatments such as wave energy, irradiation and electrical treatments.
This place does not cover:
Preparing tobacco in the factory, e.g. steaming, drying, curing, puffing, thermal treatments |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Selection of materials, other than tobacco, suitable for smoking | |
Simulated smoking devices, e.g. imitation cigarettes with chemical heating means | |
Medicinal preparations containing nicotine | |
Essential oils per se |
Chemical features of cigarette wrappers, including indirect addition of an additive in the wrapper or tipping paper are classified in A24D 1/02.
In this place, the following terms or expressions are used with the meaning indicated:
Organic solvent | Carbon containing solvent except carbon dioxide. |
Tobacco substitute | This definition encompasses both non-tobacco plants suitable for smoking or as replacer for cigarette and substitute of cigarettes comprising tobacco extracts, e.g. flavours and possibly nicotine |
This place covers:
Tobacco substitutes, this group contains both non-tobacco plants suitable for smoking or as replacer for cigarette and substitute of cigarettes comprising tobacco extracts, e.g. flavours and possibly nicotine.
Tobacco substitutes comprising as heat source a carbon fuel or an oxydized or thermally degraded carbonaceous fuel, e.g. carbohydrates, cellulosic material. Documents are classified here when the invention concerns chemical aspect of the carbonaceous fuel element, the aerosol generating element or the envelope (special wrappers).
Sterilization, preservation or biological decontamination by any means, e.g. by heating, by chemical, physical, or biological treatment.
Treatment of tobacco by inorganic chemical substances only.