Tobacco Sheet Formed From Wet Ground Or Wet Beaten Tobacco Patents (Class 131/357)
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Patent number: 11957160Abstract: An aerosol generating material is disclosed containing a blend of at least two plant fibers or aerosol generating materials. The reconstituted material can contain at least one of extracted cannabis fibers and extracted cocoa husk fibers, in combination with at least one of extracted tobacco fibers, tobacco materials, extracted herbal plant fibers, and aerosol generating herbal plant materials. The reconstituted plant fiber material is capable of generating an aerosol, such as a smoke, that has a very mild and neutral or natural taste without any harsh components. The reconstituted plant fiber material contains no nicotine, low or no amounts of other active compounds, such as THC, and contains low to no amounts of harsh combustible compounds, such as tar.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2020Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Mativ Holdings, Inc.Inventors: Cedric Rousseau, Cedric Jardin, Doriane Bigot
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Patent number: 11793230Abstract: The disclosure provides products configured for oral use, the products including compositions comprising a filler component including negatively charged groups and an active ingredient including positively charged groups. The active ingredient can be retained by the filler component at least in part through bonding between the negatively charged groups and the positively charged groups such that active ingredient may be release from the product when positioned within an oral cavity of a consumer.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2019Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: NICOVENTURES TRADING LIMITEDInventors: Anthony Richard Gerardi, Dwayne William Beeson, Ronald K. Hutchens, Christopher Keller, Thomas H. Poole, Andries Don Sebastian, Frank Kelley St. Charles
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Patent number: 9027567Abstract: An oral pouch product includes a dual layer pouch wrapper and an inner botanical filling material contained within the pouch wrapper. The pouch wrapper includes an inner web, an outer web and a coating, such as a water soluble flavorant containing coating therebetween.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2010Date of Patent: May 12, 2015Assignee: Philip Morris USA Inc.Inventors: Diane L. Gee, Gregory J. Griscik, Mark S. North, Robley Eugene Pitts, Jr., Yahaira R. Ramos
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Patent number: 8637731Abstract: The present invention features Nicotiana nucleic acid sequences such as sequences encoding constitutive, or ethylene or senescence induced polypeptides, in particular cytochrome p450 enzymes, in Nicotiana plants and methods for using these nucleic acid sequences and plants to alter desirable traits, for example by using breeding protocols.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2010Date of Patent: January 28, 2014Assignee: U.S. Smokeless Tobacco CompanyInventors: Dongmei Xu, Mark T. Nielsen
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Publication number: 20110236442Abstract: A solid oral sensorial product includes at least one botanical material and at least one phosphate containing stain inhibitor. The botanical material is selected from the group consisting of tobacco, tea, coffee, cocoa, and combinations thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2010Publication date: September 29, 2011Applicant: Philip Morris USA Inc.Inventors: Donald E. Miser, William R. Sweeney, Qinglin Li, Jerome A. Merski
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Patent number: 8007637Abstract: This invention relates to a production process of tobacco sheet by papermaking. The technical arrangement of this invention are: (a). to immerge and to extract tobacco stem and leaf scrap respectively by water-soluble solvents to respectively obtain solid tobacco stem and solid leaf scrap, and tobacco stem extract and leaf scrap extract via solid/liquid separation; (b). to defibrilate solid tobacco stem and solid leaf scrap respectively, to mix the obtained tobacco stem fiber and leaf scrap fiber and combined with dust to prepare fiber base; (c). to wholly or partly abnegate the tobacco stem extract obtained by Step (a), and to evaporated and to concentrate other extracts that then are sprayed or immerged to coat the formed fiber base that is then dried, threshed and shaped. The tobacco sheet production process offered by this invention has improved the tobacco sheet's filling capacity and its sensory quality.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2006Date of Patent: August 30, 2011Assignee: China Tomacco Hunan Industrial Co. Ltd.Inventors: Jianfu Liu, Xinliang Tan, Jianshan Fu, Dafeng Yin, Changjian Deng, Gang Chen
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Patent number: 7987858Abstract: A tobacco product is formed by rolling a sheet of material supplied by a roll or rolls (e.g. moistened tobacco leaves) and/or homogenized sheet tobacco about a slit mandrel to form a shaped tube. The shaped tube is then packaged for shipment to an end user or consumer. The shaped tube remains in the rolled, shaped tube form inside the package. After the shaped tube is removed from the package, a consumer can fill the tube with crushed tobacco leaves or other tobacco filler material of a favorite blend, thereby eliminating some steps in the making of a “roll-your-own” tobacco product. A liquid can be added to the sheet or to the finished tube to moisturize same. The liquid can include flavoring. The tubes are unfilled when packaged and sent to a consumer/end user in tube form so that they have a “memory” that helps hold a tubular cigar shape after they are filled with selected tobacco fill material.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2009Date of Patent: August 2, 2011Assignee: Blunt Wrap U.S.A., Inc.Inventor: Daniel S. Sinclair, Jr.
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Publication number: 20110036364Abstract: In a process of manufacturing smokeless tobacco articles on a rod-making device, an endless tobacco web (1a), the filler web, is shaped into an endless rod (1b), preferably by use of a funnel-like formatting device (4). Another endless web (5a), the wrapper web, is provided as a wrapper and wrapped around the endless rod (1b). The endless wrapped rod is cut into individual cylindrical portions (11).Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2008Publication date: February 17, 2011Applicant: REEMTSMA CIGARETTENFABRIKEN GMBHInventors: Thomas Pienemann, Henning Seidel
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Patent number: 7836896Abstract: A nontoxic, tobacco-less and flavored material for smoking, and a method of making the same. In one aspect, the invention is a tobacco-less material for smoking comprising: a shredded cellulosic paper having a weight; and a mixture of a humectant and a flavoring agent, the mixture having a weight and absorbed into the shredded cellulosic paper.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2007Date of Patent: November 23, 2010Assignee: Social Smoke, Inc.Inventors: Abrahim Nadimi, Ali Seyed Nadimi, Sayyid Abdolmajid Nadimi
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Patent number: 7308898Abstract: A bandcast tobacco sheet for use in a cigarette includes from about 5 to 15% by weight of wood pulp, from about 15 to 40% by weight of binder and from about 15 to 40% by weight of tobacco. A humectant may be included up to 30% by weight and an additive, such as menthol, may be added to up about 30% by weight. A bandcast tobacco sheet is used in elongated strips along the outer surface of a tobacco rod between the tobacco rod and an inner surface of an outer wrap of cigarette paper.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2004Date of Patent: December 18, 2007Assignee: R.J. Reynolds Tobacco CompanyInventors: Luis Monsalud, Jr., Joseph T. Wanna, Douglas R. Hicks
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Publication number: 20040177856Abstract: A bandcast tobacco sheet for use in a cigarette includes from about 5 to 15% by weight of wood pulp, from about 15 to 40% by weight of binder and from about 15 to 40% by weight of tobacco. A humectant may be included up to 30% by weight and an additive, such as menthol, may be added to up about 30% by weight. A bandcast tobacco sheet is used in elongated strips along the outer surface of a tobacco rod between the tobacco rod and an inner surface of an outer wrap of cigarette paper.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2004Publication date: September 16, 2004Inventors: Luis Monsalud, Joseph T. Wanna, Douglas R. Hicks
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Patent number: 6637439Abstract: A tobacco smoking mixture is provided that includes tobacco and at least one inorganic particulate material. The at least one inorganic particulate material is effective to reduce the temperature of a burning portion of the tobacco smoking mixture upon combustion/pyrolysis thereof. The at least one inorganic particulate material can be an inorganic carbonate, an inorganic hydrate, an inorganic oxide, an inorganic phosphate, a carbon material or combinations thereof.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2001Date of Patent: October 28, 2003Assignee: Philip Morris IncorporatedInventors: Mohammad R. Hajaligol, A. Clifton Lilly, Jr.
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Patent number: 6408856Abstract: The invention relates to a smokable filler material which attempts to mimic tobacco leaf in its simplest components in order to provide a simpler smoke to the smoker. The smokable filler material comprises aerosol generating means, a substantially non-combustible inorganic filler, a binder and an extract from a flavorful fuel source material. It may also comprise a biopolymer.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 1998Date of Patent: June 25, 2002Assignee: British-American Tobacco (Investments) LimitedInventor: Kevin Gerard McAdam
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Patent number: 6397852Abstract: A smokeable filler material which includes casing material as a fuel material, along with an inorganic filler, a binder and an aerosol generating source. This material has good taste and flavour characteristics and contains relatively little tobacco material.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 1998Date of Patent: June 4, 2002Assignee: British-American Tobacco (Investments) LimitedInventor: Kevin Gerard McAdam
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Patent number: 6109272Abstract: A tobacco flavor-tasting article is manufactured by preparing a heat-irreversibly coagulated glucan sheet containing a tobacco extract. The glucan sheet is prepared by preparing a sheet-like material from a high viscosity aqueous dispersion containing the extract obtained by an extraction treatment of a leaf tobacco, together with a heat-irreversibly coagulating glucan, and heating the sheet-like material to coagulate the glucan. This sheet is cut or pulverized to prepare a tobacco flavor-generating material. On the other hand, a tobacco flavor-adjusting material is prepared by preparing a sheet-like material from a leaf tobacco fibrous residue, which is the residue after the extraction, and cutting the sheet-like material. These tobacco flavor-generating material and tobacco flavor-adjusting material are used in combination to produce a cigarette-like article.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 1998Date of Patent: August 29, 2000Assignee: Japan Tobacco Inc.Inventors: Yutaka Saito, Yuriko Anzai
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Patent number: 5988176Abstract: A novel cigarette adapted for use in an electrical cigarette system comprising a tobacco rod having filled and unfilled tobacco rod portions and being arranged so that electrical heater elements may overlap the filled and unfilled tobacco rod portions. The tobacco rod includes a tobacco web rolled into tubular form. The tobacco web is constructed in accordance with a novel process comprising the steps of converting tobacco feedstock into a continuous sheet of tobacco web and converting the continuous sheet of tobacco web into one or more bobbins of tobacco web suitable for automated manufacture of cigarettes.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 1997Date of Patent: November 23, 1999Assignee: Philip Morris IncorporatedInventors: James D. Baggett, Jr., David A. Clark, Patrick C. Cowling, Richard G. Uhl, Susan E. Wrenn
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Patent number: 5947128Abstract: A process to improve the smoke quality and mechanical properties of reconstituted tobacco is accomplished by adding tobacco materials to an aqueous solution containing ammonium salts and urea. The resulting first tobacco slurry is then pressurized under steam pressure to at least 60 psi for a period of from 1 to 5 minutes then depressurized rapidly to ambient. The depressurized tobacco is then formed into a second tobacco slurry wherein the soluble components within the tobacco is removed. The resulting tobacco residue is then prepared into a reconstituted tobacco sheet and the extract is then concentrated to a solids level of at least 30 percent by weight of solids which is added back to the reconstituted tobacco sheet for further processing into smoking articles.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 1997Date of Patent: September 7, 1999Assignee: Brown & Williamson Tobacco CorporationInventor: Jide Adedeji
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Patent number: 5908034Abstract: A process for improving smoke quality and mechanical properties of a cast reconstituted tobacco sheet is accomplished by adding tobacco materials to an aqueous solution containing ammonium salts and ammonium hydroxide. The resulting first tobacco slurry is then pressurized under steam pressure to at least 60 psi for a period of from about 1 to 5 minutes then depressurized rapidly to ambient. The depressurized tobacco is then formed into a second tobacco slurry. The resulting tobacco residue is then cast into a reconstituted tobacco sheet for further processing into smoking articles.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 1997Date of Patent: June 1, 1999Assignee: Brown & Williamson Tobacco CorporationInventor: Jide Adedeji
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Patent number: 5715844Abstract: The process of the present invention involves extracting components from a tobacco material or other plant material using a solvent having an aqueous character to provide separately an aqueous tobacco extract and a water insoluble tobacco portion. The insoluble tobacco portion is refined and a slurry is produced. The slurry is formed into a predetermined shape, e.g., a formed web. The formed web can be pressed to reduce the moisture content. The tobacco material preferably has a moisture content of at least about 50 percent by weight. The material is contacted with an aqueous mixture of an aerosol precursor material. The ratio of liquid having an aqueous character to aerosol precursor material is typically from about 25 to 75 percent by weight. Immediately after the introduction of the aerosol precursor material, the web is dried at a preselected temperature so that the aerosol precursor material is dispersed evenly throughout the web.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 1995Date of Patent: February 10, 1998Assignee: R. J. Reynolds Tobacco CompanyInventors: Harvey James Young, Thomas Wayne Brown, Sara Williams Devine, Thomas Albert Perfetti
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Patent number: 5203354Abstract: An apparatus and method for manufacturing reconstituted tobacco sheet in which a tobacco containing slurry is metered on to the outer surface of a rotating heated cylindrical dryer and then, after sufficient drying, is removed from the cylindrical dryer.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 1991Date of Patent: April 20, 1993Assignee: Philip Morris IncorporatedInventor: John N. Hickle
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Patent number: 5078156Abstract: A sheet tobacco producing apparatus comprises a mixer, a kneader, a crusher, and a shaping machine. The mixer mixes tobacco chips with auxiliary substances including water, to produce wet round pieces. The kneader has a pair of rollers for kneading the wet round pieces to form a sheet intermediate. The crusher crushes the sheet intermediate to form crushed wet round pieces. The shaping machine has a pair of rollers for forming a final sheet product from the crushed pieces. Since the tobacco raw material is deformed from the sheet intermediate which is obtained after once kneaded, to round pieces again, it is easy to take the material iinto the gap between the rollers of the shaping machine, whicn increases the manufacturing speed of the apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 1991Date of Patent: January 7, 1992Assignee: Japan Tobacco Inc.Inventors: Norio Furuya, Shinji Kaneda, Masaaki Kobayashi, Kenichi Nomura
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Patent number: 4972854Abstract: An apparatus and method for manufacturing tobacco sheet material comprising the steps of acoustic mixing with ultrasonic vibration a slurry containing tobacco components and forming sheets of tobacco material by casting the slurry after acoustic mixing. Additionally, the slurry is mixed with subsonic vibration and low shear mixing before the slurry is acoustic mixed. The slurry may include sized tobacco stems, sized tobacco dust and extract solution.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 1989Date of Patent: November 27, 1990Assignee: Philip Morris IncorporatedInventors: Bernard C. Kiernan, Bernard A. Semp, John M. Whitman
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Patent number: 4333482Abstract: A method for increasing the filling power of sheet or shredded reconstituted tobacco which is normally not susceptible to conventional expansion techniques is provided. In the practice of the method reconstituted tobacco having a uniform moisture content of 15-50 weight percent is heated to a temperature above about 90.degree. C. for a period of time beyond that required to drive off substantially all moisture and then is reordered. Heating may be effected in a convection or microwave oven or a drying tower. By means of the method, the tobacco is stiffened whereby a substantially irreversible filling power increase is effected.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 1980Date of Patent: June 8, 1982Assignee: Philip Morris IncorporatedInventor: Joseph L. Banyasz
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Patent number: 4306578Abstract: Tobacco sheet is prepared from high solids aqueous slurries incorporating a reinforcing agent constituted by unrefined short cellulose fiber, having an average length of less than 2.0 mm.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 1980Date of Patent: December 22, 1981Assignee: AMF IncorporatedInventors: Otto K. Schmidt, William H. Hoge