Abstract: There is provided a smoking article that includes a plurality of elements, including a front-plug and an aerosol-forming substrate, assembled in contact with a cigarette paper to form a rod. The front-plug is located upstream from the aerosol-forming substrate. In use, a heating element is inserted into the smoking article and the aerosol-forming substrate is heated to generate an aerosol. When the heating element is subsequently withdrawn from the smoking article, the front-plug acts to retain the aerosol-forming substrate within the rod.

Abstract: An atomizer and an electronic cigarette having same include an atomizing sleeve with a liquid storage chamber formed therein; a mouthpiece is disposed at a top end of the atomizing sleeve; an air passage pipe is disposed at a center of the atomizing sleeve; a supporter with two ends opened is disposed at a bottom end of the air passage pipe; a hollow heating element is disposed in the supporter longitudinally; a side wall of the supporter has at least one liquid inlet hole communicated with the liquid storage chamber and configured for allowing radial infiltration of the tobacco liquid to the heating element; a sealing component is disposed between the heating element and the supporter to encircle the heating element and configured for avoiding leakage of the tobacco liquid along a longitudinal direction of the heating element.

Abstract: An intelligent control system and method of thin plate dryer for cut tobacco are provided. The system includes a factor searching and screening unit, a control unit, an early warning unit. The control unit adopts a dual-model control method and establishes a process parameter control model and an energy balance model, the control unit calculates the moisture discharge opening value in real time according to the dual-model; the early warning unit is configured to connected with the control unit, and send out an alarm information based on early warning signal. The present disclosure is designed to transform the traditional control into intelligent precision control, improve product quality, reduce product differences between batches and build an intelligent early warning function.

Abstract: Some embodiments of a smokeless tobacco system include one or more silicone smokeless tobacco products configured to generally retain their shape during processing, shipping, and consumer handling. In particular embodiments, each silicone smokeless tobacco product can comprise a moist smokeless tobacco in combination with a silicone binder such that the final product has tobacco exposed along an exterior surface and is configured to have material properties providing improved handling, an improved mouth feel, and a satisfying flavor profile.

Abstract: A cigarette assembly machine that accepts loose shredded plant material (“SPM”) and cigarette blanks that include a filter and an empty SPM holding portion and produces cigarettes. The machine has an SPM slug forming mechanism, adapted to accept loose SPM and form it into a slug of SPM in the shape of the SPM holding portion and a cigarette blank accepting and holding mechanism, adapted to hold the cigarette blank. Further, a shaft and a two-stroke shaft moving assembly is adapted to push the SPM slug into the holding portion. Finally, the shaft includes a solid distal push tip, an intermediate brush, and a proximal shaft, whereby as the shaft is moved through its strokes, the intermediate brush scrubs the SPM slug forming mechanism.

Abstract: A piston device for loading material into a tube or other implement. In an example, the material is a smoking material loaded into a smoking implement. An example piston device includes a cylinder and a piston. The piston is removed from a first end of the cylinder and inserted into a second end of the cylinder. A cap slip locks onto the second end of the cylinder to provide a surface on which to compress the material against. Withdrawing the piston from the second end of the cylinder draws the smoking material into a chamber of the cylinder through an opening in the first end of the cylinder. Pressing the piston into the second end of the cylinder compresses the smoking material within the chamber of the cylinder, and then releases the smoking material from the chamber of the cylinder into the smoking implement.

Abstract: A rod is provided, formed from a first sheet including a tobacco material and a second sheet including a non-tobacco flavourant, the first and second sheets being gathered together and circumscribed by a wrapper. The rod may be used as a component part of an aerosol-generating article.

Abstract: A power supply unit for an aerosol inhaler, which causes an aerosol generated from an aerosol source to pass through a flavor source to add a flavor component of the flavor source to the aerosol, includes: a power supply configured to be dischargeable to a first load configured to heat the aerosol source and dischargeable to a second load configured to heat the flavor source; and a processing device. The processing device determines whether the second load can heat the flavor source. When it is determined that the second load can heat the flavor source, the processing device starts or continues discharging from the power supply to the second load as second discharging before starting discharging from the power supply to the first load as first discharging.

Abstract: An aerosol generation device includes a case into which a cigarette is to be inserted; a protrusion pipe of a hollow shape protruding from one end portion of the case and having an opening; a heater installed in the case such that an end portion thereof is positioned inside the protrusion pipe, and configured to generate heat when an electric signal is applied thereto; and a heater fixing portion installed inside the protrusion pipe to support the heater and comprising a round surface that extends from an inner side surface of the protrusion pipe.

Abstract: Use of a nicotine-cellulose combination for the preparation of a snuff composition for achievement of a fast onset of action of nicotine after application of the snuff composition to the oral cavity of a subject, wherein the composition has a high release rate so that when subjected to an in vitro dissolution test about 45% or more of the total content of nicotine is released within 30 minutes. Moreover, the invention relates to an improved snuff composition for application to the oral cavity.

Abstract: There is provided a heated aerosol-generating article for producing an inhalable aerosol, the heated aerosol-generating article including: an aerosol-forming substrate that is a homogenized tobacco material including tobacco, a fat having a melting point between 20° C. and 50° C., and one or more aerosol-formers, the homogenized tobacco material containing at least 60% tobacco on a dry weight basis. A homogenized tobacco material is also provided.

Abstract: An oral pouch product having a soft edge includes an inner filling material enclosed inwardly of at least one seam between opposed layers of porous pouch wrapper. The at least one seam is separated from the periphery of the porous pouch wrapper by an unbonded area of the opposed layers so as to form a soft edge of the pouch wrapper.

Abstract: A system includes a container housing an aerosol generating substrate and a product identifying compound associated with the container. The system further includes an electronic article configured to receive the container. The electronic article includes a sensor configured to detect the product identifying compound.

Abstract: There is provided a smoking article that includes a plurality of elements, including a front-plug and an aerosol-forming substrate, assembled in contact with a cigarette paper to form a rod. The front-plug is located upstream from the aerosol-forming substrate. In use, a heating element is inserted into the smoking article and the aerosol-forming substrate is heated to generate an aerosol. When the heating element is subsequently withdrawn from the smoking article, the front-plug acts to retain the aerosol-forming substrate within the rod.

Abstract: Control device for aerosol inhalation device, includes operational amplifier including output terminal configured to generate voltage according to voltage applied to load configured to heat aerosol source and having correlation between temperature and electrical resistance value, control unit including input terminal and configured to perform processing based on voltage applied to the input terminal, and voltage dividing circuit configured to electrically connect the output terminal of the operational amplifier and the input terminal of the control unit. Power supply voltage of the operational amplifier is higher than power supply voltage of the control unit, and equals voltage applied to aerosol generation circuit including the load, and one of inverting input terminal and noninverting input terminal of the operational amplifier is electrically connected to the aerosol generation circuit.

Abstract: Tobacco products suitable for oral ingestion are provided. The tobacco products include a tobacco composition and at least one edible film. The edible film can include one or more of (i) a fruit or vegetable puree and (ii) a denatured protein. A multi-layer tobacco product is provided that includes a tobacco composition in the form of a compressed sheet layer and at least one edible film adjacent to the tobacco composition layer, wherein the edible film includes a puree of at least one fruit, vegetable, or a combination thereof. A process for preparing a tobacco product is also provided, such as a process that includes receiving a tobacco composition and an edible film; applying the edible film to the tobacco composition; and compressing the edible film and tobacco composition together to form a multi-layer tobacco product.

Abstract: Exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a smoking article having a burn portion and a mouth portion. The burn portion includes a smoking rod filled with a smokeable filler material formed almost exclusively of cellulose material. The mouth portion includes either a filter portion with or without an interface or a tip with an interface. The mouth end may include an orthonasal property and the interface may store an additive.

Abstract: A tobacco preparation method, where a tobacco material is prepared through at least one extrusion process including compressing the material with an increase in pressure and temperature and mechanically processing and abruptly flash drying the material at an extruder outlet, where the tobacco material includes a tobacco lamina material, where a tobacco preparation device includes a dosing conveyor and an extruder which compresses a tobacco material with an increase in pressure and temperature and mechanically process and abruptly flash dries the material at the extruder outlet, where the components are designated as a unit which can be modularly delimited for processing a tobacco material including a tobacco lamina material, where an arrangement of several tobacco preparation devices and a smoking article or cigarette manufacturing device includes such a device or such a device arrangement which is connected upstream of a cigarette maker or a secondary unit as a tobacco preparation module.

Abstract: A cigarette tube or cone filling device includes a tray for holding a supply of, tobacco, smokable herbs or other material, with an outlet opening, and a cartridge for holding a cigarette tube or cone in a vertical orientation with the cigarette having an open end beneath the outlet opening. A cap can be fit over the cartridge and above the open end of the cigarette tube or cone with a nozzle for fitting into the open end to hold the open end open during filling. The tray has a slide retainer that receives horizontal top flanges or plates of the cartridge and the cap to hold both cartridge and cap tightly together and tightly to the tray, with the nozzle in registry with the outlet opening.

Abstract: An aerosol-generating system is provided, including an air inlet and an air outlet; a liquid storage portion having a liquid outlet and being configured to hold a liquid aerosol-forming substrate; an air flow passage from the air inlet to the air outlet past the liquid outlet, wherein the air flow passage is shaped such that there is a pressure drop within the air flow passage at the liquid outlet when air flows from the air inlet to the air outlet through the air flow passage; and a heating element disposed within the air flow passage between the liquid outlet and the air outlet. There is also provide a cartridge for an aerosol-generating system and a method of generating aerosol from a liquid aerosol-forming substrate.