IPC Main Group
A24C 5/00 Making cigarettes; Making tipping materials for, or attaching filters or mouthpieces to, cigars or cigarettes
Introduced: September 1968
Last revised: January 2020
Classification Context
- Section:
- HUMAN NECESSITIES
- Class:
- TOBACCO; CIGARS; CIGARETTES; SIMULATED SMOKING DEVICES; SMOKERS' REQUISITES
- Subclass:
- MACHINES FOR MAKING CIGARS OR CIGARETTES
Related Keywords
CIGARETTE(S) manufacturedispensing CIGARETTE(S)
18 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 5/1 Machines with wrapping rollers
- A24C 5/12 Cutting the ends of filled and rolled cigarettes
- A24C 5/14 Machines of the continuous-rod type
- A24C 5/32 Separating, ordering, counting or examining cigarettes; 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
- A24C 5/4 Hand-driven apparatus for making cigarettes
- A24C 5/46 Making paper tubes for cigarettes
- A24C 5/47 Attaching filters or mouthpieces to cigars or cigarettes, e.g. inserting filters into cigarettes or their mouthpieces
- 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 5/6 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 13,201
- NICOVENTURES TRADING GB 7,482
- KT & G CORPORATION KR 4,818
- JAPAN TOBACCO JP 4,636
- JT INTERNATIONAL CH 3,806
- CHINA TOBACCO YUNNAN INDUSTRIAL COMPANY 2,490
- CHINA TOBACCO HENAN INDUSTRIAL 2,453
- CHINA TOBACCO HUBEI INDUSTRIAL 2,344
- BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO (INVESTMENTS) GB 2,199
- SHENZHEN FIRST UNION TECHNOLOGY COMPANY 2,097