CPC Main Group
A24C 5/00 Making cigarettes; Making tipping materials for, or attaching filters or mouthpieces to, cigars or cigarettes
20 direct subcodes
Child Classifications
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- A24C 5/01 Making cigarettes for simulated smoking devices
- A24C 5/02 Cigarette-filling machines
- A24C 5/08 Machines with aprons and tables for wrapping
- A24C 5/10 Machines with wrapping rollers
- A24C 5/12 Cutting the ends of filled and rolled cigarettes
- A24C 5/14 Machines of the continuous-rod type (tobacco feeding devices A24C5/39)
- A24C 5/32 Separating, ordering, counting or examining cigarettes (in relation to packaging B65B19/00); Regulating the feeding of tobacco according to rod or cigarette condition
- A24C 5/35 Adaptations of conveying apparatus for transporting cigarettes from making machine to packaging machine
- A24C 5/36 Removing papers or other parts from defective cigarettes
- A24C 5/38 Machines combined with printing devices
- A24C 5/39 Tobacco feeding devices (regulating feed according to rod or cigarette condition A24C5/34)
- A24C 5/40 Hand-driven apparatus for making cigarettes
- A24C 5/46 Making paper tubes for cigarettes (making paper tubes in general B31C)
- A24C 5/47 Attaching filters or mouthpieces to cigars or cigarettes, e.g. inserting filters into cigarettes or their mouthpieces (A24C5/52 takes precedence)
- A24C 5/52 Incorporating filters or mouthpieces into a cigarette rod or a tobacco rod
- A24C 5/54 Folding the ends of cigarette paper tubes after filling them with tobacco
- A24C 5/56 Making tipping materials, e.g. sheet cork for mouthpieces of cigars or cigarettes, by mechanical means
- A24C 5/60 Final treatment of cigarettes, e.g. marking, printing, branding, decorating
Top Applicants
Top 10 applicants by patent filingsfor class A24, 2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT
- PHILIP MORRIS PRODUCTS CH 13,994
- NICOVENTURES TRADING GB 7,744
- KT & G CORPORATION KR 4,857
- JAPAN TOBACCO JP 4,561
- JT INTERNATIONAL CH 3,946
- BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO (INVESTMENTS) GB 2,374
- ALTRIA CLIENT SERVICES US 2,122
- RAI STRATEGIC HOLDINGS US 2,061
- NICOVENTURES TRADING 1,940
- PHILIP MORRIS PRODUCTS 1,855