Banded papers, smoking articles and methods

Abstract

Wrapper for cigarette manufacture includes transversely extending band regions applied by a printing technique, such as gravure printing. The band regions comprise starch, an anti-wrinkling agent such as 1,2 propylene glycol or glycerin, and optionally calcium carbonate. Any suitable printing technique can be used to apply the aqueous solution to the banded regions. The pattern of banded regions may be bands, stripes, two-dimensional arrays, undulated regions, and the like along and/or around the tobacco rod. The pattern can be applied in one or more layers. The pattern may be configured so that when a smoking article is placed on a substrate, at least two longitudinal locations along the length of the tobacco rod have film-forming compound located only on sides of the smoking article not in contact with the substrate.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A wrapper for a smoking article comprising a tobacco rod having a longitudinal axis and a length, the wrapper configured to surround the tobacco rod when incorporated into the smoking article, the wrapper comprising paper and a pattern of film-forming compound disposed on the paper and providing a plurality of discrete shapes, each of which extends over only a portion of the length;
 wherein at each of a plurality of longitudinal locations along the wrapper only a first and second discrete shape intersects a plane perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the wrapper and wherein the first shape is configured to be located only on a first side of the tobacco rod and the second shape is configured to be located only on a second side opposite the first side of the tobacco rod.