Tobacco – Tobacco users' appliance
Patent
1987-11-16
1989-08-22
Millin, V.
Tobacco
Tobacco users' appliance
73 38, 738656, A24C 560
Patent
active
048586285
ABSTRACT:
A method and apparatus for automated smoking to replicate a predetermined draw profile of a smoking article is disclosed. In preferred embodiments, the smoking apparatus is digitally controlled and includes simulated flexible lips which are closed during puff phases of a recorded draw profile and which are open during smolder phases of a recorded draw profile. The apparatus can also include an automatically acting lighter and an improved control system for a human mimic smoking machine.
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Griffith, Jr. David W.
Holt Dewey L.
Norman Alan B.
Reynolds, IV John H.
Sears Stephen B.
Bodenheimer, Jr. Stephen M.
Millin V.
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
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