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US 12,256,774 · App. 17/591,240 · Granted Mar 25, 2025

Rods for use in smoking articles

Inventor: Pierre-Yves Gindrat (Saxon, CH)
Assignee: Philip Morris Products S.A.
A24D1/20A24B3/14A24B15/12A24B15/16A24B15/165A24B15/30A24C5/18A24D1/002A24D1/22A24F40/20
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Patent No.
US 12,256,774
App. No.
17/591,240
Granted
Mar 25, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A smoking article is provided, including an aerosol-generating substrate, the aerosol-generating substrate being a rod including a gathered sheet of homogenised tobacco material circumscribed by a wrapper, the gathered sheet of homogenised tobacco material including one or more aerosol-formers and having an aerosol-former content of greater than 5% on a dry weight basis, and the rod having a length of between 5 mm and 20 mm.

Claims (20)

1. A smoking article comprising an aerosol-generating substrate,

wherein the aerosol-generating substrate is a rod comprising a gathered sheet of homogenised tobacco material circumscribed by a wrapper,

wherein the gathered sheet of homogenised tobacco material comprises one or more aerosol-formers and has an aerosol-former content of greater than 5% on a dry weight basis,

wherein the gathered sheet of homogenised tobacco material has a tobacco content of at least 70% by weight on a dry weight basis,

wherein the gathered sheet of homogenised tobacco material comprises between 1% and 5% non-tobacco fibers by weight on a dry weight basis,

wherein the rod has a length of between 5 mm and 20 mm, and

wherein the gathered sheet of homogenised tobacco material has a grammage of between 100 g/m 2 and 300 g/m 2 .

2. The smoking article according to claim 1 , wherein the gathered sheet of homogenised tobacco material has a thickness of at least 50 μm.

3. The smoking article according to claim 1 , wherein the gathered sheet of homogenised tobacco material has a thickness of between 120 μm and 260 μm.

4. The smoking article according to claim 1 , wherein the gathered sheet of homogenised tobacco material of has a width of at least about 25 mm.

5. The smoking article according to claim 1 , wherein the gathered sheet of homogenised tobacco material has a width of between 110 mm and 134 mm.

6. The smoking article according to claim 1 , wherein the gathered sheet of homogenised tobacco material is convoluted.

7. The smoking article according to claim 1 , wherein the gathered sheet of homogenised tobacco material is formed by a casting process.

8. The smoking article according to claim 1 , wherein the gathered sheet of homogenised tobacco material is formed by agglomerating particulate tobacco.

9. The smoking article according to claim 1 , wherein the smoking article is for an electrically heatable aerosol-generating system.

10. The smoking article according to claim 1 , wherein the aerosol-generating substrate further comprises a thread, yarn, tape, or filament to which one or more additives have been applied, the thread, yarn, tape, or filament being incorporated into the gathered sheet of homogenised tobacco material.

11. The smoking article according to claim 1 , wherein the one or more aerosol-formers comprises a polyhydric alcohol, an ester of a polyhydric alcohol, or an aliphatic ester of a mono-, di-, or poly-carboxylic acid.

12. The smoking article according to claim 1 , wherein the one or more aerosol-formers comprises an aerosol-former selected from the list consisting of triethylene glycol, 1,3-butanediol, glycerine, glycerol monoacetate, glycerol diacetate, glycerol triacetate, dimethyl dodecanedioate, and dimethyl tetradecanedioate.

13. The smoking article according to claim 1 , wherein the gathered sheet of homogenised tobacco material is formed by agglomerating particulate tobacco obtained by grinding or otherwise comminuting one or both of tobacco leaf lamina and tobacco leaf stems.

14. The smoking article according to claim 1 , wherein the gathered sheet of homogenised tobacco material has a grammage of between 167 g/m 2 and 300 g/m 2 .

Priority Claims (1)
EP 11250571 · May 31, 2011 · regional
Continuity (4)
Continuation 16841451 · Apr 6, 2020
Continuation 15900468 · Feb 20, 2018
Continuation 14123166
Related Publication 20220151286A1 · May 19, 2022
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