US PATENT SUBCLASS 131 / 280
CIGAR OR CIGARETTE MAKING

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280CIGAR OR CIGARETTE MAKING {14}
281  DF  .~> Including perforating
282  DF  .~> Including arranging, collecting, or delivering {1}
284  DF  .~> With coating or printing
285  DF  .~> Including fingerlike member which alternately engages and releases product
286  DF  .~> With cleaning away unwanted product component, e.g., gum or adhesive {3}
27.1  DF  .~> Including cooperating surfaces to induce rolling {6}
58  DF  .~> Wrapping devices {4}
77  DF  .~> Molding or forming {3}
88  DF  .~> Tip or mouthpiece applying or forming {3}
96  DF  .~> Recovery of tobacco from cigarettes and cigars
105  DF  .~> Wrappers holders and carriers
106  DF  .~> Cigar tagging or labeling
107  DF  .~> Bundling
108  DF  .~> Tobacco feeding {2}

DEFINITION

Classification: 131/280

CIGAR OR CIGARETTE MAKING:

(under the class definition) Process or apparatus relating to the manufacture of smoking products commonly known as cigars or cigarettes, or like tobacco or tobacco substitute products, and subcombinations thereof not elsewhere provided for.

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290, for the treatment of finished tobacco products.

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53, Package Making, for methods and apparatus for encompassing or encasing goods or materials with a separate cover or band which serves as means for identifying, protecting, or unit handling of the goods so packaged. See particularly

396+, and 582+ for band type and casing.

73, Measuring and Testing, appropriate subclasses for methods and apparatus for measuring or testing cigars, cigarettes, or like tobacco products.

177, Weighing Scales, appropriate subclasses for devices which weigh tobacco or tobacco products. 209, Classifying, Separating, and Assorting Solids, for devices of that class relating to cigars or cigarettes.

222, Dispensing, for tobacco dispensing or feeding devices, per se.