Patent Application
20220338531
The present disclosure relates to systems, components, and methodologies for making and using a cigar. In particular, the present disclosure relates to systems, components, and methodologies for making and using a modular cigar.
According to the present disclosure, a modular cigar is provided that uses no adhesive in assembly of an inner bound module with an outer wrapper and removable cap.
In accordance with at least one embodiment, the modular cigar includes a removable end cap, an inner bound module including a filler, and a outer wrapper leaf with a main vein extending longitudinally along a length of the wrapper leaf, wherein in the rolled position coupled to the inner bound module, the main vein extends in parallel to a longitudinal axis of the modular cigar to form an adhesive-free coupling to the inner bound module.
In accordance with some embodiments, the outer binder leaf is formed as a parallelogram, and the longitudinally extending main vein intersects only two ends of the parallelogram transverse to the length of the wrapper leaf. The outer binder leaf may be unrolled from the inner bound module and rolled around a different inner bound module. In some embodiments a removable end cap is coupled to one end of the modular cigar around the outer wrapper to maintain the outer wrapper means securely in the rolled position around the inner bound module.
Additional features of the present disclosure will become apparent to those skilled in the art upon consideration of illustrative embodiments exemplifying the best mode of carrying out the disclosure as presently perceived.
The detailed description particularly refers to the accompanying figures in which:
The figures and descriptions provided herein may have been simplified to illustrate aspects that are relevant for a clear understanding of the herein described devices, systems, and methods, while eliminating, for the purpose of clarity, other aspects that may be found in typical devices, systems, and methods. Those of ordinary skill may recognize that other elements and/or operations may be desirable and/or necessary to implement the devices, systems, and methods described herein. Because such elements and operations are well known in the art, and because they do not facilitate a better understanding of the present disclosure, a discussion of such elements and operations may not be provided herein. However, the present disclosure is deemed to inherently include all such elements, variations, and modifications to the described aspects that would be known to those of ordinary skill in the art.
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In a method of making the modular cigar 300 as disclosed in the above embodiments, an outer wrapper is created for the cigar 302. This outer wrapper is formed from a single leaf with a main vein. The leaf may be aged for 8 months to darken and thicken the leaf. The leaf may be selected from relatively thick leaves such as a Connecticut Broadleaf or an Ecuadorian Havana. The leaf is cut so that the main vein extends longitudinally along the length of the cut outer wrapper. The outer wrapper is cut to form parallelogram to bias the longitudinally extending sides of the wrapper to curl or curve towards each other while the main vein intersects only the transverse shorter ends of the parallelogram. By using a single leaf, this curling biase can be leveraged to roll the cigar and avoid the use of adhesive. The outer wrapper may be cut by hand and/or be cut using a stencil to form the parallelogram.
An inner bound module is created for the cigar 304 so that the filler that is formed of the smokeable component is contained. The smokeable component may be any loose smokeable filler including but not limited to tobacco. The binder may be selected from any tobacco leaves, which is relatively thinner compared to the outer wrapper leaf. The binder may bind the loose filler by being rolled to surround the loose filler. The binder leaf may be sealed around the loose filler using an adhesive to provide a mess-free inner bound module. For example, a Lieberman tool may be used to roll the wrapper around the filler.
A cigar body is created 306 by coupling the outer wrapper to the inner bound module. This may be done by moistening the wrapper to make it pliable and rolling the wrapper around the inner bound component, for example, by hand. Once the wrapper has been rolled around the inner bound component, the rolled body may be placed in a cigar mold, having a cylindrical shape to match the shape of the cigar body so that the wrapper rolled around the inner bound component will dry to and maintain a consistent cylindrical shape without the use of any adhesives. The cigar body may be placed in the mold so that one end of the cigar body extends outside of the mold. The length of the cigar extending outside the mold is less than 1.5 inches.
A removable cap is provided and applied to the dried stiffened cigar body 308. The cap may applied by rolling a cap leaf around end of the cigar exposed outside the mold and then twisting the free end of the cap leaf not touching the cigar body to enclose the end of the cap. The cap can be made from a leaf such as a Connecticut shade tobacco leaf. The fully assembled modular cigar may then be removed from the mold 310.
Although the disclosed modular cigar includes the removable endcap, it is also possible that other endcaps or bands may be used to maintain the integrity of the assembled cigar during packaging and transit. Further, it is possible that the particularly cut outer wrappers can be packaged decoupled from and/or along with a plurality of inner bound components as a kit to permit assembly of the cigar body by the consumer by rolling the biased outer wrappers.
Although certain embodiments have been described and illustrated in exemplary forms with a certain degree of particularity, it is noted that the description and illustrations have been made by way of example only. Numerous changes in the details of construction, combination, and arrangement of parts and operations may be made. Accordingly, such changes are intended to be included within the scope of the disclosure, the protected scope of which is defined by the claims.
