Abstract: An aerosol-generating device for heating an aerosol-generating article is provided, the device including: a housing having an opening; a chamber within the housing to receive at least a portion of the article through the opening; a heater assembly within the housing and including a heating element to heat at least a portion of the chamber; a mechanism including at least one member at or proximate to the opening and configured to move between a first position in which the article can be inserted into the chamber via the opening, and a second position in which the member has reduced a size of the opening relative to a size of the opening when the member is in the first position; and at least one guide track along which the member is configured to slide when the member moves between the first and the second positions.

Abstract: An aerosol-generating device for heating an aerosol-generating article is provided, the device including: a housing having an opening; a chamber disposed within the housing, and configured to receive at least a portion of the article through the opening; a heater assembly disposed within the housing and including a heating element configured to heat at least a portion of the chamber; and a holding mechanism including at least one holding member disposed at or proximate to the opening of the housing and configured to move between: a first position, in which the article can be inserted into the chamber via the opening, and a second position, in which the holding member has reduced a size of the opening relative to another size of the opening when the holding member is in the first position.

Abstract: The present invention relates to method for production of a slurry for homogenized tobacco material, said method comprising: Selecting tobacco of one or more tobacco types; Coarse grinding said tobacco; Blending said tobacco of one or more tobacco types; and Fine grinding said tobacco of one or more tobacco types.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the preparation of a homogenized tobacco material, said method comprising: —pulping and refining cellulose fibres to obtain fibres having a mean size comprised between about 0.2 millimetres and about 4 millimetres; —grinding a blend of tobacco of one or more tobacco types to a tobacco powder having a mean size comprised between about 0.03 millimetres and about 0.12 millimetres; —combining the pulp with the tobacco powder blend of different tobacco types and with a binder in an amount comprised between about 1 percent and about 5 percent in dry weight basis of the total weight of the homogenized tobacco material, so as to form a slurry; —homogenizing the slurry; and—forming the homogenized tobacco material from the slurry.

Abstract: An aerosol-generating device for heating an aerosol-generating article is provided, the device including: a housing having an opening; a chamber disposed within the housing, and configured to receive at least a portion of the article through the opening; a heater assembly disposed within the housing and including a heating element configured to heat at least a portion of the chamber; and a holding mechanism including at least one holding member disposed at or proximate to the opening of the housing and configured to move between: a first position, in which the article can be inserted into the chamber via the opening, and a second position, in which the holding member has reduced a size of the opening relative to another size of the opening when the holding member is in the first position.

Abstract: The present invention relates to method for production of a slurry for homogenized tobacco material, said method comprising: Selecting tobacco of one or more tobacco types; Coarse grinding said tobacco; Blending said tobacco of one or more tobacco types; and Fine grinding said tobacco of one or more tobacco types.

Abstract: The present invention relates to method for production of a slurry for homogenized tobacco material, said method comprising: —Selecting tobacco of one or more tobacco types; —Coarse grinding said tobacco; —Blending said tobacco of one or more tobacco types; and—Fine grinding said tobacco of one or more tobacco types.

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;

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of preparation of a slurry for the production of a homogenized tobacco material, said method comprising: —suspending a binder in an aerosol-former to form a suspension; —creating a cellulose pulp from cellulose fibers and water; —providing a tobacco powder blend; and —combining said suspension of binder in aerosol-former, said cellulose pulp and said tobacco powder blend to form said slurry.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the preparation of a homogenized tobacco material, said method comprising: —pulping and refining cellulose fibres to obtain fibres having a mean size comprised between about 0.2 millimetres and about 4 millimetres; —grinding a blend of tobacco of one or more tobacco types to a tobacco powder having a mean size comprised between about 0.03 millimetres and about 0.12 millimetres; —combining the pulp with the tobacco powder blend of different tobacco types and with a binder in an amount comprised between about 1 percent and about 5 percent in dry weight basis of the total weight of the homogenized tobacco material, so as to form a slurry; —homogenizing the slurry; and—forming the homogenized tobacco material from the slurry.

Abstract: The present invention relates to method for production of a slurry for homogenized tobacco material, said method comprising: —Selecting tobacco of one or more tobacco types; —Coarse grinding said tobacco; —Blending said tobacco of one or more tobacco types; and —Fine grinding said tobacco of one or more tobacco types.

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;

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of preparation of a slurry for the production of a homogenized tobacco material, said method comprising: —suspending a binder in an aerosol-former to form a suspension; —creating a cellulose pulp from cellulose fibers and water; —providing a tobacco powder blend; and —combining said suspension of binder in aerosol-former, said cellulose pulp and said tobacco powder blend to form said slurry.