US 12,453,367 B2
Alternating patterns in cigarette wrapper, smoking article and method
Timothy S. Sherwood, Midlothian, VA (US); Robert N. Smith, Glen Allen, VA (US); Marc W. Rose, Mechanicsville, VA (US); and Tyrone W. Murray, Midlothian, VA (US)
Assigned to Altria Client Services LLC, Richmond, VA (US)
Filed by Altria Client Services LLC, Richmond, VA (US)
Filed on Dec. 30, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/137,962.
Application 17/137,962 is a division of application No. 13/473,007, filed on May 16, 2012, granted, now 10,905,154.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/486,431, filed on May 16, 2011.
Prior Publication US 2021/0112849 A1, Apr. 22, 2021
Int. Cl. A24C 5/00 (2020.01); A24D 1/02 (2006.01)
CPC A24C 5/005 (2013.01) [A24D 1/025 (2013.01)] 30 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for making wrapper paper for a smoking article, the method comprising:
supplying a base web;
preparing a printing composition;
applying the printing composition to the base web with alternating first and second pattern elements, the first pattern element including a first geometrical pattern, the second pattern element including a second geometrical pattern, the second geometrical pattern being different from the first geometrical pattern;
forming the first pattern element with a first desired application of the printing composition; and
forming the second pattern element with a second desired application of the printing composition, the second desired application of the printing composition being different from the first desired application of the printing composition.