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(11) EP 0 227 424 A3

(12) EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88) Date of publication A3:
10.02.1988 Bulletin 1988/06

(43) Date of publication A2:
01.07.1987 Bulletin 1987/27

(21) Application number: 86309841

(22) Date of filing: 17.12.1986
(84) Designated Contracting States:
AT BE CH DE ES FR GB GR IT LI LU NL SE

(30) Priority: 19.12.1985 GB 8531341

(71) Applicant: IMPERIAL TOBACCO LIMITED
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(72) Inventors:
  • Bale, Christopher Ralph
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  • Bryant, Raymond Allen
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  • Garrett, Stephen John
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  • Gill, Beresford Roy
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  • Jennings,Trevor Cecil
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(54) Improvements in or relating to smoking pipes


(57) There is provided a smoking pipe 10 to render smokeable an inherently unsmokeable preformed rod 30 of tobacco. The pipe comprises a ventilated tubular member consisting of a laminate 9 of an inner combustible permeable paper 12 with a ventilated incombustible layer 14. The laminate may further be wrapped in a ventilated incombustible foil 16. A filter 20 and a mouthpiece 22 may be provided.






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