Abstract: An insert system including a flavor releasing mechanism held within a compressible polymer holder disposed between two filter elements is provided. The insert system may be used as a mouthpiece with any type of suitable smokable, including, but not limited to, a blunt, a cigar, a cigarette, a cone, a pre-roll, an empty cone, any other type of smokable, and any combinations thereof. The insert system may be squeezed to activate the flavor releasing mechanism to release flavor into the smoke passing through the insert system to enhance the smoking experience. In one example, the insert system is coupled with one or more Cordia leaves to form a blunt smokable.

Abstract: A method of preparing a whitened tobacco material for use in a smokeless tobacco product is provided, including: (i) extracting a tobacco material with an extraction solution to provide a tobacco solids material and a tobacco extract; (ii) cooking the tobacco solids material in an alkaline sulfite cooking liquor including sulfite ions and having a pH of greater than 7 to form a tobacco pulp; (iii) bleaching the tobacco pulp with a bleaching solution to provide a bleached tobacco material; and (iv) drying the bleached tobacco material to provide the whitened tobacco material.

Abstract: An insert system for use with a smokable (e.g., such as a pre-rolled or empty cone) including an internal partition for securing one or more flavor releasing mechanisms (e.g., flavored “click balls”) within a flavor mechanism holder and for use with a smokable item (e.g., a pre-roll cone, an empty cone, a pre-rolled or hand-rolled cigarette, etc.) is provided. The insert system is formed by rolling a section of suitable material to form an elongate member with an internal volume with a longitudinal partition. The longitudinal partition forms a compartment to receive and secure a flavor releasing mechanism held within a tubular holder. The insert system may then be coupled with a smokable to serve as the smokable's mouthpiece.

Abstract: A shisha, heat-not-burn, or combustion product casing with or without an active ingredient, a shisha, heat-not-burn, or a combustion product including a casing or a method of making the same are disclose herein.

Abstract: A shisha, heat-not-burn, or combustion product casing including an active ingredient, a shisha, heat-not-burn, or a combustion product including a casing with an active ingredient, or a method of making the same are disclose herein.

Abstract: The present invention provides a pulp product (e.g., paper) comprising cellulose and nanocellulose, wherein the nanocellulose is derived from the cellulose in a mechanical and/or chemical step that is separate from the main pulping process. The pulping process may be thermomechanical pulping or hydrothermal-mechanical pulping, for example. The pulp product is stronger and smoother with the presence of the nanocellulose. The nanocellulose further can function as a retention aid, for a step of forming the pulp product (e.g., in a paper machine). Other embodiments provide a corrugated medium pulp composition comprising cellulose pulp and nanocellulose, wherein the nanocellulose includes cellulose nanofibrils and/or cellulose nanocrystals and the nanocellulose may be hydrophobic. The nanocellulose improves the strength properties of the corrugated medium. In some embodiments, the cellulose pulp is a GreenBox+® pulp and the nanocellulose is derived from the AVAP® process.

Abstract: A filter assembly has an outer housing having an open first end and an open second end. An inner filter housing is within the outer housing adjacent the second end, and a gasket is provided at the first end of the outer housing. An internal chamber is provided between the first end of the outer housing and the inner filter housing, where during use, fluid from the within the internal chamber is drawn out the second end of the outer housing by way of the inner filter housing. A filter is provided within the inner filter housing. The gasket forms a gasketed opening smaller than the open first end of the outer housing. The gasket may extend axially adjacent a wall of the outer housing and abut the inner filter housing, such that the internal chamber is defined by the gasket and the inner filter housing.

Abstract: A personal vapor inhaling unit is disclosed. An electronic flameless vapor inhaler unit that may simulate a cigarette has a cavity that receives a cartridge in the distal end of the inhaler unit. The cartridge brings a substance to be vaporized in contact with a wick. When the unit is activated, and the user provides suction, the substance to be vaporized is drawn out of the cartridge, through the wick, and is atomized by the wick into a cavity containing a heating element. The heating element vaporizes the atomized substance. The vapors then continue to be pulled by the user through a mouthpiece and mouthpiece cover where they may be inhaled.

Abstract: An atomizing liquid gel with reversible phase transition characteristics includes: a sugar-based gelling agent, 0.1-3.0 wt %; an atomizing liquid, 97.0-99.9 wt %; a molecule of the sugar-based gelling agent is a sugar molecule introduced with an amide group and/or an aryl group, and the sugar molecule optionally further includes at least one hydrophobic structural part selected from —CxHy, —O—CxHy and and x>2 and y>2. The atomizing liquid gel has characteristics of thermal reversible phase transition and/or shear reversible phase transition, a temperature of gel-sol phase transition is 100° C.-248° C., and a critical shear stress of the gel-sol phase transition is 40-800 Pa. Under heating and/or oscillation, the atomizing liquid gel converts from the gel state to a sol state, and the atomizing agent fixed in the gel releases to form an inhalable aerosol.

Abstract: A surface treatment composition for paper, board or other fibrous webs. The composition of the invention comprises particles which comprise an active material and a supporting material. The active material comprises a salt of a multivalent metal, such as a divalent or trivalent metal. In accordance with the invention, the supporting material is adapted to release the active material from the particles when subjected to heat and/or pressure and/or a change in pH. Consequently, the active material's adverse effects on the rheology of the composition are avoided while its desired effects on the surface characteristics are retained or enhanced.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention is to provide a sheet containing ultrafine cellulose fibers, which is excellent in transparency and water resistance. The present invention relates to a sheet including cellulose fibers having a fiber width of 1000 nm or less, and polyamine polyamide epihalohydrin, wherein the haze of the sheet is 6% or less.

Abstract: The present invention relates to paper products, inter alia, smoking paper products, stably enriched with aroma and/or flavor compounds. More particularly, the invention relates to paper products enriched with a terpene profile, mimicking flavor and/or aroma of a cannabis plant.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a bio-based polyelectrolyte complex (PEC) composition suitable as a binder for fiber based materials, textiles, woven and nonwoven materials. The PEC composition comprises cationic biopolymer, anionic biopolymer acid and a polymer, and is further characterized in that the net charge of the PEC is cationic, the charge ratio of the anionic polymer and the cationic polymer is ?1, the cationic biopolymer is chitosan, wherein the concentration of cation is 0.005-30%, the anionic biopolymer is polyanions derived from nature, the acid is a Brønsted acid and/or a Lewis acid, wherein the Brønsted acid is selected from any organic and/or inorganic acids, wherein the Lewis acid is selected from any cationic mono- or multivalent atom, the weight ratio between cation and anion is 1:0.1 to 1:20, the weight ratio between the cation and acid is 1:0.01 to 1:30, chitosan has a degree of deacetylation being 66-100%, and the pH is less than 7.

Abstract: A device for burning smoking material and inhaling the resulting smoke is disclosed. The device can include a tubular member formed from a dried leaf having an internal elongated cavity extending from an open end to a closed end. The elongated cavity can be configured to receive a smoking material. The smoking accessory can include a filter disposed within dried leaf and defining the closed end. The filter can have a recess formed in a surface of the cylindrical body along a curved face extending from the first end to the second end, the recess extending radially into the cylindrical body. The smoking accessory can include a capsule containing a flavoring agent disposed within the recess.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for vacuum forming a meat tray using a slurry. The slurry comprises: a moisture barrier comprising AKD in the range of about 4% by weight; a fiber base comprising bagasse; and an oil barrier comprising a water-based emulsion in the range of about 1.5% by weight.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method to produce a homogenized tobacco material for use in a heat-not-burn aerosol-generating article, comprising the steps of: selecting a first target value for a first tobacco characteristic, said first tobacco characteristic being reducing sugars and the first target value being comprised between about 8 percent and about 18 percent in dry weight basis of a total amount of tobacco present within the homogenized tobacco material; selecting a second target value of a second tobacco characteristic, wherein the second tobacco characteristic is one of total ammonia and total alkaloids; blending graded tobacco types so as to form the tobacco blend, each graded tobacco type comprising a predetermined amount of the first and second tobacco characteristics, so that the first and second target values of said first and second tobacco characteristics are obtained in said blend within a predetermined tolerance range; grinding said tobacco blend into a blended tobacco powder; form

Abstract: Provided herein are liquid polymer (LP) compositions comprising an acrylamide (co)polymer, as well as methods for preparing inverted polymer solutions by inverting these LP compositions in an aqueous fluid. The resulting inverted polymer solutions can have a concentration of acrylamide (co)polymer of from about 50 to about 15,000 ppm, and a filter ratio of 1.5 or less at 15 psi using a 1.2 ?m filter. Also provided are methods of using these inverted polymer solutions in dewatering, clarification, flocculation and/or thickening applications, and the like.

Abstract: A paperboard structure that includes a paperboard substrate which includes a first major side and a second major side along with at least one barrier coating layer on the first major side. The barrier coating layer(s) may include a binder and a pigment, wherein the binder has a glass transition temperature of at least 20° C., wherein a ratio of the binder to the pigment is at least about 1:2 by weight.

Abstract: An aerosol generating article (10) comprises: an aerosol generating substrate (12); a filter (14) in axial alignment with the aerosol generating substrate, the filter (14) comprising at least one water dispersible filter component (16), wherein the filter component is water dispersible under the test conditions of EN 14987:2006; and a tipping wrapper (20) wrapped around the filter (14) and at least a portion of the aerosol generating substrate (12).

Abstract: A system, apparatus and method for forming a smoke filter including a forming nozzle through which a fibrous bundle material passes. The forming nozzle includes a converging passage, at least one first internal cavity in fluid connection with a first working fluid source, and a plurality of first holes fluidly connecting the at least one first internal cavity with a working surface of the forming nozzle. The plurality of first holes are further positioned and directed such that in passing through the plurality of first holes, the first working fluid conveys the fibrous bundle material through the forming nozzle in a transport direction. A guide pin is disposed along a central axis of the converging passage, the guide pin including an elongated body which tapers in the transport direction. A bobbin disposed downstream of the forming nozzle.