CN112263016A

CN112263016A - Solid gel cigarette rod, preparation method thereof and cigarette comprising solid gel cigarette rod

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Publication number: CN112263016A
Application number: CN202011287158.3A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 何沛; 司晓喜; 刘春波; 杨晨; 向能军; 唐石云; 张凤梅; 李振杰
Original assignee: China Tobacco Yunnan Industrial Co Ltd
Current assignee: China Tobacco Yunnan Industrial Co Ltd
Priority date: 2020-11-17
Filing date: 2020-11-17
Publication date: 2021-01-26
Also published as: JP2022080266A; KR20220067479A; JP7219318B2

Abstract

The invention belongs to the technical field of heating non-combustible cigarettes, and particularly relates to a solid gel cigarette rod, a preparation method of the solid gel cigarette rod and a cigarette comprising the solid gel cigarette rod. The cigarette rod is of a rod-shaped structure with an outer wall and a core, the outer wall of the cigarette rod is beewax, and the core of the cigarette rod is gel containing a smoke agent. The invention fills the smoking bar formed by the gel surrounded by the outer wall into the smoking section of the heating non-combustion cigarette for the first time. The solid gel smoking rod is not a reconstituted tobacco sheet, so that the adding amount of the smoking agent and the essence perfume in the smoking section is not limited, and the total amount of the smoking agent and the essence perfume added in the smoking section is 5-7 times of that in the reconstituted tobacco sheet under the same weight, so that the problem of insufficient adding amount of the smoking agent and the essence perfume caused by the limitation of processing strength in the reconstituted tobacco sheet can be perfectly solved.

Description

Solid gel cigarette rod, preparation method thereof and cigarette comprising solid gel cigarette rod

Technical Field

The invention belongs to the technical field of heating non-combustible cigarettes, and particularly relates to a solid gel cigarette rod, a preparation method of the solid gel cigarette rod and a cigarette comprising the solid gel cigarette rod.

Background

With the improvement of living standard, people pay more and more attention to their health problems, and in recent years, the attention on the health problems of smoking is high. In order to meet the changing consumption requirements of various large enterprises at home and abroad, various completely hollow tobacco products for replacing the traditional cigarettes are developed in a dispute. Among these growing fully hollow tobacco products, electronic cigarettes and heat-not-combusted cigarettes are superior.

The electronic cigarette serving as an electronic product is expanded and applied in the tobacco industry, and has the advantages that the smoking variability is strong, the smoke smoking taste can be randomly regulated and controlled by adjusting components of tobacco tar, but the taste, particularly the heat sensation, of the smoke is generated mainly through an electronic atomizer, and is still different from the traditional cigarette which generates smoke through heating, so that the acceptance of old smokers is poor.

The heating non-combustion cigarette is characterized in that the smoking section of the heating cigarette generates smoke, the acceptance of the smoke taste is good, the smoking section of the existing heating non-combustion cigarette is a reconstituted tobacco sheet filled in an unordered manner, and the cigarette has the problem of insufficient smoke in the smoking process. The insufficient amount of flue gas is mainly due to the following reasons: (1) the reconstituted tobacco lamina used as the smoking segment requires a certain processing strength during the filling process, and also results in a small amount of added flavors and smoke agents; (2) the reconstituted tobacco sheets added with the spices and the smoke agents also need to be subjected to multiple high-temperature treatment procedures, so that the added spices and the smoke agents are seriously volatilized; (3) because the reconstituted tobacco sheets are closely arranged in the smoking section, smoke generated at the front end of the smoking section far away from the filter section can be greatly intercepted at the rear end.

In addition, because the central heating type heating non-combustible cigarette needs to adopt a mode of orderly arranging tobacco shreds in order to meet the requirement of inserting a central heating rod, the normal cigarette heated in the circumferential direction cannot be used on a smoking set heated in the center; the cigarette is not burnt by heating in the circumferential direction, and the burnt flavor of the cigarette paper in the smoke is prominent because the cigarette is directly heated on the cigarette paper.

The present invention has been made to solve the above problems.

Disclosure of Invention

The present invention is proposed in order to solve at least one of the above-mentioned problems.

The invention provides a solid gel smoking rod, which is a rod-shaped structure with an outer wall and a core part, wherein the outer wall of the smoking rod is beewax, and the core part of the smoking rod is gel containing a smoking agent.

Preferably, the gel further comprises a fragrance material, the beeswax wall having a thickness of 1-2 mm.

Preferably, the smoking rod is a cylinder.

The smoke agent can be selected from propylene glycol, glycerin, etc.

In a second aspect, the invention provides a tobacco rod comprising a solid gel smoking rod according to any one of the first aspects.

Preferably, the cigarette comprises a smoking section, the smoking rod being disposed within the smoking section.

The smoking section is of a hollow cylinder structure, the inner diameter of the smoking section is equal to or slightly larger than the outer diameter of the smoking rod, the length of the smoking section is equal to or slightly larger than the length of the smoking rod, and the smoking rod can be installed and fixed in the smoking section.

Preferably, the smoking segment is a hollow paper tube segment, the side wall of the smoking segment comprises an outer layer and an inner layer, the outer layer is a paper layer, and the inner layer is a metal foil layer.

The metal foil layer may be selected from an aluminum foil layer or a tin foil layer.

Preferably, the upstream end of the paper tube section is sealed or open and the downstream end is open.

The outer layer of the sealing layer at the upstream end part of the paper tube section is a paper layer, and the inner layer of the sealing layer is a metal foil layer. The sealing mode is as follows: the material of the paper tube section can be used directly as a sealing layer.

When the upstream end of the paper pipe section is sealed, the solid gel smoking rod in the paper pipe section can be prevented from flowing out of cigarettes after being heated and melted to pollute smoking sets. When a central heating mode is adopted, the sealing layer at the upstream end part of the paper tube section and the outer wall of the cigarette rod are poked through the heating piece and inserted into the cigarette rod.

Preferably, a hollow supporting section is abutted to the downstream of the paper tube section, the inner diameter of the hollow supporting section is smaller than the outer diameter of the smoking rod, and the hollow supporting section limits the position of the smoking rod and prevents the smoking rod from moving downstream.

Preferably, the lateral wall of cigarette props up and is provided with the ventilation hole, the ventilation hole is located the downstream of smoking stick, and the air gets into in the cigarette from the ventilation hole during the suction, and the smog that receives the heat production of upstream smoking stick mixes in hollow support section.

Preferably, the ventilation holes are provided in the side wall of the hollow support section.

Preferably, the length of the hollow supporting section is 5-10mm, and a vent hole is formed in the position 3-5mm away from the downstream end of the paper pipe section. The inner diameter of the hollow supporting section is 2mm smaller than that of the paper tube section.

Preferably, the downstream of the hollow support section is abutted with a filter section, and the filter section can be a filter for conventional heating non-combustion cigarette, can be PLA tows, and can also be acetate tows with small suction resistance.

In a third aspect, the present invention provides a method of making a solid gel smoking rod comprising the steps of:

(1) making beeswax into a barrel-shaped container with one open end;

(2) injecting the gel into the barrel-shaped container obtained in the step (1);

(3) and (3) sealing the barrel-shaped container filled with the gel obtained in the step (2) by using beeswax, and cooling to obtain the solid gel smoking stick.

The present invention will be described with the flow direction of smoke within a cigarette as from upstream to downstream.

The technical scheme can be freely combined on the premise of no contradiction.

The invention has the following beneficial effects:

1. in the existing cigarette which is not combusted by heating, a reconstituted tobacco sheet is generally filled in a smoking section. The invention fills the smoking bar formed by the gel surrounded by the outer wall into the smoking section of the heating non-combustion cigarette for the first time. The solid gel smoking rod is not a reconstituted tobacco sheet, so that the adding amount of the smoking agent and the essence perfume in the smoking section is not limited, and the total amount of the smoking agent and the essence perfume added in the smoking section is 5-7 times of that in the reconstituted tobacco sheet under the same weight, so that the problem of insufficient adding amount of the smoking agent and the essence perfume caused by the limitation of processing strength in the reconstituted tobacco sheet can be perfectly solved. Meanwhile, the solid gel smoking rod prepared by the invention can be directly used for manufacturing cigarettes without multiple high-temperature treatment processes, so that the problems that the added spices and smoking agents are seriously volatilized and the loss of volatile components is little are avoided.

2. The preparation method of the solid gel smoking rod adopts a melting and curing method or a compression molding method, so that the loss in the manufacturing process is low, and the preparation method is simple. After heating, the gel core and at least part of the beeswax outer wall are melted and vaporized to generate smoke, the central airflow channel is smooth, and the smoke generation section has no substances for obviously intercepting the smoke. Therefore, the smoke amount is larger than that of the reconstituted tobacco sheet smoking section. The beeswax outer wall also provides a certain fragrance atmosphere.

3. When the cigarette containing the solid gel cigarette rod is sucked, air serving as carrier gas enters from the rear end of atomization, namely the rear end of the cigarette rod, and does not pass through the heating process of the front section, so that the cooling effect of external air on smoke is better.

4. The smoke agent and the essence and spice in the solid gel smoke rod exist in a gel state, and the smoke agent and the essence and spice are not added on the prepared reconstituted tobacco sheet in the prior art, so that the perfuming process is simpler and more uniform, the difficulty can be greatly reduced, and the design cost can be reduced. And the volatilization waste in the process of adding the smoke agent and the essence perfume on the reconstituted tobacco sheet is avoided to the maximum extent.

5. The cigarette containing the solid gel smoking rod can be sucked by adopting two heating modes of center and circumference, and is not limited by smoking tools.

6. Compared with the heating non-combustion cigarette in the prior art, the cigarette rod and the cigarette comprising the same have the advantages that the smoke volume is remarkably increased, the satisfaction is improved, the burning sensation of the smoke is remarkably reduced, the aroma volume is remarkably increased, and no foreign gas is generated no matter the cigarette rod is used for central heating or circumferential heating of a smoking set.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of the structure of a cigarette comprising the solid gel smoking rod of example 1.

Figure 2 is a schematic of the structure of the solid gel smoking bar of example 1.

Figure 3 is a schematic view of the smoke flow when the cigarettes of example 1 are heated.

Reference numerals:

1-smoking section, 11-smoking rod, 2-hollow supporting section, 21-vent hole, 3-filter section, 4-outer wall, 5-core, 6-air flow, 7-gel atomization airflow, 67-mixed airflow, and 8-final flue gas flow.

Detailed Description

The present invention will be further described with reference to the following embodiments.

Example 1

The solid gel smoking bar 11 of the embodiment is of a cylindrical structure, the outer wall 4 is beeswax, the middle core part 5 is gel mixed with a mixture of a smoking agent and essence, and the thickness of the beeswax wall is 1 mm.

The preparation method of the solid gel cigarette rod 11 of the embodiment comprises the following steps:

(1) preparing beeswax into a barrel-shaped container with one open end by adopting a melting and solidifying method;

(2) injecting the prepared mixture of the smoke agent, the essence and the spice gel into the barrel-shaped beewax container obtained in the step (1);

(3) sealing the barrel-shaped container filled with the gel mixture obtained in the step (2) with beeswax, and cooling to obtain a single solid gel smoking stick 11.

A cigarette comprising the solid gel smoking rod 11 described above: the cigarette comprises a smoking section 1, a hollow supporting section 2 and a filter tip section 3 which are sequentially abutted from upstream to downstream, and the smoking rod 11 is arranged in the smoking section 1.

The smoking section 1 is a hollow cylinder structure, the inner diameter of the smoking section is equal to the outer diameter of the smoking rod 11, the length of the smoking section is equal to the length of the smoking rod 11, and the smoking rod 11 can be installed and fixed in the smoking section. The smoking section 1 is a hollow paper tube section, the side wall of the smoking section comprises an outer layer and an inner layer, the outer layer is a paper layer, and the inner layer is an aluminum foil layer. The upstream end of the paper tube segment is sealed, and the downstream end of the paper tube segment is open.

The inner diameter of the hollow support section 2 is smaller than the outer diameter of the cigarette rod 11, and the hollow support section 2 limits the position of the cigarette rod 11 and prevents the cigarette rod from moving downstream.

The lateral wall of hollow support section 2 is provided with 2 symmetrical ventilation holes 21, and air gets into in the cigarette from ventilation hole 21 during the suction, mixes in hollow support section 2 with the smog that upstream smoking stick 11 heated production. The length of the hollow supporting section 2 is 5mm, and a vent hole 21 is formed in a position 3mm away from the downstream end of the paper tube section. The inner diameter of the hollow supporting section 2 is 2mm smaller than that of the paper pipe section.

The filter section 3 adopts acetate fiber tows.

The preparation method of the cigarette containing the solid gel cigarette rod 11 comprises the following steps:

the solid gel cigarette rod 11 of the present embodiment is inserted into the paper tube section from the downstream end portion thereof, and then the paper tube section, the hollow support section 2, and the filter section 3 are combined and joined in abutment from upstream to downstream in this order to form a cigarette sample 1 which is a heat non-combustible cigarette.

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of the cigarette structure comprising the solid gel cigarette rod 11 of example 1. Figure 2 is a schematic diagram of the structure of the solid gel smoking rod 11 of example 1. Figure 3 is a schematic view of the smoke flow when the cigarettes of example 1 are heated. When the cigarette is heated, the outer wall 4 and the core part 5 of the solid gel cigarette rod 11 are melted and vaporized to generate a gel atomized air flow 7, when a user sucks the cigarette, the outside air flow 6 enters the cigarette from the vent holes 2121, the outside air flow 6 and the gel atomized air flow 7 are mixed in the hollow supporting section 22 to form a mixed air flow 67, then the air flow enters the filter tip section 33 to be further cooled and filtered, and a final smoke flow 8 is formed and sucked by the user.

Example 2

The solid gel smoking stick 11 of the embodiment 2 has a cylindrical structure, the outer wall 4 of the solid gel smoking stick is beeswax, gel mixed with a mixture of a smoking agent and essence and spice is stored in the middle of the solid gel smoking stick as a core part 5, and the thickness of the beeswax wall is 2 mm.

(1) preparing beeswax into a barrel-shaped container with one open end by adopting a compression molding method;

The solid gel cigarette rod 11 of this example 2 was combined with a paper tube section, a hollow support section 2, and a filter section 3 to manufacture a heat non-combustible cigarette rod, referred to as a cigarette sample 2, according to the cigarette manufacturing method of example 1.

Wherein, the inlayer of the paper pipe section of cigarette sample 2 is the aluminium foil layer, and the length of cavity support section 2 is 10mm, is equipped with 2 symmetrical ventilation holes 21 in the department of apart from paper pipe section 5mm, and its internal diameter is 2mm less than the internal diameter of paper pipe section.

Example 3

The solid gel smoking bar 11 of the embodiment 3 has a cylindrical structure, the outer wall 4 of the solid gel smoking bar is beeswax, gel mixed with a mixture of a smoking agent and essence and spice is stored in the middle of the solid gel smoking bar as a core part 5, and the thickness of the beeswax wall is 1.5 mm.

The solid gel smoking rod 11 of the present embodiment is fabricated in combination with a paper tube section, a hollow support section 2, and a filter section 3 into a heat non-combustible cigarette rod, referred to as a cigarette sample 3.

Wherein, the inner layer of the paper tube section is a tin foil layer; the length of the hollow supporting section 2 is 7mm, 2 symmetrical vent holes 21 are formed in the position 4mm away from the paper tube section, and the inner diameter of the hollow supporting section 2 is 2mm smaller than that of the paper tube section.

Example 4

The solid gel smoking stick 11 of the embodiment 4 has a cylindrical structure, the outer wall 4 of the solid gel smoking stick is beeswax, the gel mixed with the mixture of the smoking agent and the essence and the spice is stored in the middle of the solid gel smoking stick as the core part 5, and the thickness of the beeswax wall is 1.7 mm.

The solid gel smoking rod 11 of this example 4 was combined with a paper tube section, a hollow support section 2, and a filter section 3 to manufacture a heat non-combustible cigarette rod, referred to as a cigarette sample 4.

Wherein, the inner layer of the paper tube section is a tin foil layer; the length of the hollow support section 2 is 8mm, 2 symmetrical vent holes 21 are formed in the position 3.5mm away from the paper tube section, and the inner diameter of the hollow support section 2 is 2mm smaller than that of the paper tube section.

The

cigarette samples

1, 2, 3 and 4 have the same conditions and parameters except for the clearly written differences.

Selecting conventional heating non-burning cigarette cigarettes with the same size as the cigarette sample 1, the cigarette sample 2, the cigarette sample 3 and the cigarette sample 4 as a cigarette comparison sample, and filling the smoking section 1 of the cigarette comparison sample with a reconstituted tobacco sheet.

TABLE 1 sensory evaluation results of different cigarette samples in a centrally heated smoking set

TABLE 2 sensory evaluation results of different cigarette samples in circumferential heating smoking set

Respectively plugging a cigarette reference sample, a cigarette sample 1, a cigarette sample 2, a cigarette sample 3 and a cigarette sample 4 into a center with matched size and a heating non-combustion cigarette smoking set with a circumferential heating mode for smoking. According to national standard of sensory technical requirement (GB5606.4-2005), a plurality of sensory evaluation personnel perform sensory evaluation on the cigarette, and mainly investigate 4 indexes of the smoke quantity, the burning sensation of smoke, miscellaneous gas and the fragrance quantity of the cigarette, wherein the smoke quantity, the burning sensation of smoke and the fragrance quantity are performed in a scoring mode and respectively comprise the following steps: smoke amount is 0-10 minutes, smoke burning sensation is 0-10 minutes, and fragrance amount is 0-10 minutes, wherein the higher the score is, the stronger the evaluation index feeling in the smoking process is; miscellaneous gases were evaluated in the manner described. Sensory evaluation of five different cigarette samples is shown in tables 1 and 2.

As can be seen from tables 1 and 2, the smoking rod 11 and the cigarette comprising the smoking rod 11 of the present invention have significantly increased smoke volume, increased satisfaction, significantly reduced smoke burning sensation, significantly increased fragrance volume, and no offensive odor compared to the non-combustible heated cigarette in the prior art, whether used for central heating or circumferential heating of the smoking set.

The above description is only for the specific embodiments of the present invention, but the scope of the present invention is not limited thereto, and any person skilled in the art can easily conceive of the changes or substitutions within the technical scope of the present invention, and all the changes or substitutions should be covered within the scope of the present invention. Therefore, the protection scope of the present invention shall be subject to the protection scope of the claims.

Claims

1. The solid gel smoking rod is characterized in that the smoking rod is of a rod-shaped structure with an outer wall and a core part, the outer wall of the smoking rod is beewax, and the core part of the smoking rod is gel containing a smoking agent.

2. The solid gel smoking bar of claim 1, wherein the gel further comprises a flavoring substance, and the beeswax wall has a thickness of 1-2 mm.

3. A tobacco rod comprising the solid gel smoking rod of any one of claims 1-2.

4. The tobacco rod of claim 3, wherein the tobacco rod includes a smoking section, and the smoking rod is disposed within the smoking section.

5. A tobacco rod according to claim 4 wherein the smoking section is a hollow paper tube section, the side wall of which comprises an outer layer and an inner layer, the outer layer being a paper layer and the inner layer being a metal foil layer.

6. A rod according to claim 4, wherein the paper tube section is sealed or open at an upstream end and open at a downstream end.

7. The cigarette of claim 4, wherein a hollow support section is abutted downstream from the paper tube section, and the inner diameter of the hollow support section is smaller than the outer diameter of the smoking rod.

8. A rod according to claim 4, characterised in that the side walls of the rod are provided with ventilation holes, the ventilation holes being located downstream of the rod.

9. A rod according to claim 4, characterised in that the ventilation holes are provided in the side walls of the hollow support section.

10. The method of making a solid gel smoking rod according to claim 1, comprising the steps of:

(1) making beeswax into a barrel-shaped container with one open end;