CN1314116A

CN1314116A - Cigarette filter tip

Info

Publication number: CN1314116A
Application number: CN 00103977
Authority: CN
Inventors: 刘安德
Original assignee: Centre Of Biological Products And Immunity Tech Application And Research Dando
Current assignee: Centre Of Biological Products And Immunity Tech Application And Research Dando
Priority date: 2000-03-18
Filing date: 2000-03-18
Publication date: 2001-09-26
Also published as: CN1202761C; WO2001070053A1; AU2001250245A1; CN1418065A

Abstract

The cigarette filter tip consists of filtering two bar to filter off harmful matter from smoke, inner coil paper layer to wrap the two bar and outer China cypress paper layer to wraper the coil paper layer. The cigarette filter tip of the present invention features the filtering two bar made of chitin and its derivative tow, and the filtering two bar can not only filter off harmful matter, but also meet the requirement of smoker in smoking fragrance and the requirement for environment protection. The chitin and its derivative fiber is the best filtering material for cigarette filter tip.

Description

Cigarette filter

The present invention relates to cigarette filter with a kind of fibre bundle filter stick material.

Cigarette filter is made up of the obbbin that is used for filtering the filter stick of the harmful material of flue gas and being used for the wraparound filter stick, yew paper etc.In the prior art, the fibre bundle filter stick is mainly made by diacetate fiber tow or polypropylene fibre strand material.Its filter effect depends on their the chemical molecular structure and the physicochemical properties of organic compound.Wherein the weak point of acetate silk filter stick is: the acetate silk filter material, owing to lacked the restriction of active group, the segment polarity structure that contains, can only be to containing the stronger material of polarity of oxygen atom in the flue gas compound, aldehyde ketone and lactones in the picture carboxyl compound, heterocyclic compound such as furans and aldehydes matter have certain affinity, and the certain selectivity filtration is arranged; And lower to the low pole compound and the minor metallic element adsorption capacity of aromatic hydrocarbon such as carbon radicals harmful in the burning smoke product and propylene class, to the cut-off filter rate of the maximum tar of harm wherein about 35%; The acetate silk filter material has negative electrical charge, and many particles also have negative electrical charge in the flue gas, have 2 * 10 approximately in every milliliter of flue gas ⁹Individual negative electrical charge particle, because the repulsive interaction of identical charges, this filter tip mainly deposits the granule phase substance matter of holding back in the flue gas with mechanical stop and diffusion; Its raw material are timber, do not have fibrillation, and strainability is restricted; The acetate silk filter material easily absorbs tobacco moisture and spices and the generation musty that goes mouldy.Polypropylene fibre tow filter material is the saturated alkane compound of HMW, and with the stable compound of any elecrtonegativity group, because molecular structure stabilized, its physicochemical properties do not show as inertia, molecular structure utmost point torpescence; It contains hydrophobic grouping is non-polar structure, and the polar structure of high affinity is not arranged with the polarity flue gas composition, therefore low to flue gas Semi-polarity material molecule cut-off filter rate; Lack the ability of selective filter flue gas polar compound, the variation of pressure drop does not influence the selective filter effect to the flue gas polar compound; To the assorted odoring substance molecule cut-off filter poor performance of the low and lower pungent stimulation of cigarette smell mid-boiling point, the assorted flavor of pungent stimulation obviously; The polypropylene fibre tow does not have suitable manufacturing methods and curing agent when manufacturing filter stick, therefore adopt organic solvent adhesive, and not only curing rate is slow, easily is stained with adhesive on the thread delivering roller, and makes filter stick have solvent odor; Polypropylene filaments beam intensity ambassador's cutting blade and former serious wear, the incompatibility high-energy-rate forming machine, device efficiency is low, causes man-hour and energy consumption to increase; Polypropylene fiber tow filter rods hardness is lower, causes the tipping rate low, and substandard products increase, and cost improves.

The disease of histoorgans such as harmful substance and breathing, digestion, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular, endocrine is closely related in the cigarette smoke.A large amount of smokings can make low-density lipoprotein in the blood (LDL) be easy to oxidation, and cause carbon monoxide (CO) concentration rising in the blood, thereby cause the blood vessel endothelium hypoxic damage; Cigarette contains a kind of glycoprotein, can activate plasma thromboplastin antecedent and certain mutagenic matter, and the latter can cause film smooth muscle cell proliferation in the vascular wall.Smoking can make catecholamine concentration rising in platelet aggregation enhancing and the blood, but unrighted acid and hdl level are reduced.These all help atherosclerotic generation.

The object of the present invention is to provide a kind of effectively, and can satisfy the jealous cigarette filter of cigarette, to alleviate murder by poisoning to the smoker to harmful substance cut-off filter in the flue gas.

The method of diacetate fiber fiber tow filter rods and polypropylene fibre tow filter stick reaches in the alternative prior art of filter stick that the objective of the invention is to prepare by application chitin and derivant fiber tow thereof.Promptly by the fiber tow filter rods that is used for the harmful material of cut-off filter flue gas and be used for the internal layer obbbin of wraparound fiber tow filter rods and the cigarette filter that the outer yew paper of wraparound on obbbin is formed, it is characterized in that filter stick made by chitin and derivant fiber tow thereof.

The chrysomelid again chitin of chitin (chitin).Chitin is to be made up of the linear bipolymer of 2-acetylaminohydroxyphenylarsonic acid 2-deoxidation-β-D-pyrans glucan that β-1,4 glycosidic bond links.It extensively is present in the cell membrane of microorganism, yeast, mushroom, in the mollusk skeleton such as the epidermis of insect, shell.Especially the crust of shrimp, crab is rich in the chitin of 25-35%.Shitosan is the chitin deacetylase based products.Contain ehter bond, hydroxyl, amino, acetyl group etc. in chitin, the chitosan molecule, can carry out multi-functional basic chemical reaction.Big molecular weight, changeable ligancy can form metal complex, macroion compound, the series derivates of different performances such as affine compound.Chitin, shitosan and derivative thereof are found up to now unique cationic tunicins, and chitin just exists with the microfibre form in biological living tissue, is embedded in the protein matrix.Because the strong hydrogen bonding effect between chitin molecule, molecule easily forms molecular beam closely, makes it have the fine tendency of good one-tenth, has spinnability.At present, preparation chitin and derivant fiber method thereof have sulfonation method, and Halogen solvent method and acid amides-lithium chloride method etc. produce chitin fiber, chitin/chitosan fat fiber, and chitin ether fibers etc. can be used to make fiber tow filter rods, are used for cigarette filter.

The invention has the advantages that, chitin and derivant fiber tow filter material thereof are the polar structure that contains the various active group, wherein the kind analogy cellulose diacetate polyamino and the acetyl group of active group, and the quantity of hydroxyl is also many, these active groups, can high affinity be arranged with flue gas Semi-polarity molecule, flue gas Semi-polarity material molecule is had very high cut-off filter rate, reach more than 50% as cut-off filter rate to tar; Contain a large amount of free-NH in this filter material molecule ₂, and-NH ₂The ortho position is-OH, can borrow hydrogen bond, also can borrow sat linkage and metal ion formation complex compound, harmful metal ion in the flue gas held back removed; This filter material molecular structure can carry out multiple molecular modification, as carboxy methylation, acyl groupization, alkylation, sulfuric acid and phosphatization, and grafting and crosslinked etc.Therefore, modified product has selective filter effect widely to the flue gas harmful substance, holds back and remove the low pole compound of aromatic hydrocarbon such as carbon radicals harmful in the burning smoke product and propylene class; This filter material is found up to now unique cationic tunicin, have positive charge, can adsorb particulate matter electronegative in the flue gas in a large number, harmful substance in the flue gas is had mechanical stop, the diffusion deposition, multiple cut-off filter effects such as absorption, absorption, infiltration, selective filter; Chitin can produce some fragrance matters when high temperature pyrolysis, as pyrazine etc., increase the natural flavor of cigarette, plays the effect of fragrance enriching substance; This filter material can suppress growth of microorganism effectively, prevents that filter tip from absorbing tobacco moisture and spices and go mouldy, and keeps the pure fragrance of cigarette when suction; It can adsorb the coloring matter in the cigarette smell, reduces the murder by poisoning of pigment to human body; Smoking has the oxidation of the blood plasma low-density lipoprotein (LDL) of promotion, and VLDL (VLDL) and triglyceride (TG) concentration raise, and cause that fat metabolism is not normal, cause the atherosclerotic effect.And chitin and derivant fiber tow filter material thereof can adsorb effectively and cause the LDL oxidation in the flue gas, the harmful substance that VLDL and TG raise, cause the high 50-80% of material absorption interception of blood plasma LDL oxidation than acetate silk filter material, to the high 70-150% of material absorption interception that causes blood plasma VLDL to raise, to the high 50-100% of material absorption interception that causes plasma TG to raise, thereby prevent the atherosclerotic that smoking causes effectively and the cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease that takes place; This filter material can improve the cut-off filter amount to low boiling organic compound in the flue gas, can eliminate and reduce cilium in a large number and hinder material, and radioactive substance in the absorption flue gas improves gasification degree and affinity; The selective filter of this filter material has the change with its pressure drop to produce marked change, chitin that pressure drop is high and derivant fiber tow filter thereof, the increase of the filter material amount in the radius volume, the quantity of the activated filter film point in the filter tip is increased, these activated filter film points can interact with the polar substances of half volatile in the flue gas, improve selective filter efficient; In nature river, river, lake, sea, land animals and plants, grow on trees chitin enzyme, chitosan enzyme, lysozyme can participate in the circulation of carbon nitrogen living things system with chitin, shitosan complete biodegradable, and discarded object can decompose fully, can not cause environmental pollution; Chitin is very abundant at the occurring in nature growing amount, and is widely distributed, be can shoot proliferation regenerated resources because its source is wide, cost is low, is used for substituting acetate fiber, can reduce the timber use amount, the vegetation of preserving our planet reduces material inlet, saves foreign exchange.In a word; chitin and derivant fiber tow filter material cigarette filter thereof are than existing acetate silk filter tip; polypropylene fibre tow filter tip; more effectively selectivity is eliminated the special harmful substance relevant with health problem; in harmful substance contents such as reduction tar; also can satisfy the jealous requirement of cigarette, its discarded object can decompose under natural environment fast, meets environmental protection requirement.

Following accompanying drawing has been described embodiments of the invention

Fig. 1 is a structural representation of the present invention

Fig. 2, Fig. 3 are fibre bundle filter material monofilament cross section structure schematic diagram

Fig. 4 is the composite filter tip structural representation

Below in conjunction with accompanying drawing the present invention is described in more detail.Cigarette filter of the present invention, its structure is identical with existing cigarette filter, partly is made up of fiber tow filter rods 1. obbbins 2. yew paper 3. grades.Principal character of the present invention is to adopt chitin and derivant fiber tow thereof as the material of making fiber tow filter rods.Studies show that in a large number chitin and derivative thereof are the optimal materials of making cigarette filter stick.No matter be cut-off filter effect to harmful substance, the suction taste, environmental protection and economic benefit aspect all obviously are better than existing diacetate fiber tow and polypropylene fibre tow, and manufacturing process all be existing textile industry and cigarette industry general technology.Chitin and derivant fiber fibroin technology thereof are: commercially available chitin and derivative thereof are mixed with the spinning slurry that concentration is 2-10%, after handling with vacuum defoamation after filtration, being transported to the spinning cap with measuring pump extrudes, tow after extruding enters in the solidification liquid, and the limit stretches, solidify on the limit, curl in the limit.Existing commercially available chitin and derivant fiber goods thereof, its monofilament cross section design has only circle, for being fit to make cigarette filter, design spinning cap makes the monofilament cross section fan-shaped or the like for semicircle, square, rectangle, triangle, pentagon, hexagon, trapezoidal, triangle, long-pending with enlarged surface, improve filter effect.Filature cap hole directly is the 50-600 micron, and hole count is the 60-1000 hole, the wide 50-200 micron of trilobal cross spinneret micropore leaf, and the long 300-600 micron of leaf, length-width ratio 3-4 is advisable.Filament number is 0.5-5dtex, dry strength 1.0-3.0CN/dtex.Monofilament linear density 1.67-11.11dtex, the best uses model figure to be 2.22-8.89dtex.Total linear density is 2.78-6.67Ktex, tow scope 3.3-4.44Ktex commonly used.Crispation number is 10-50/25mm, and best crispation number is 18-25/25mm.It is curling to make tow form waveform with crimping machine, and makes the network structure between the tow formation monofilament, curls to make each monofilament form the tow of mutual winding, gathers together and handles easily and bale packing; Fibre bundle is kept in filter stick and axially be bordering on plumbness, improve pressure and fall, make filter tip full and solid.The tow of extruding from the spinning cap promptly can be used for cigarette and already makes filter stick through solidifying, curl, delivering to the banding machine bale packing after the drying.The manufacturing process of fiber tow filter rods is: carry out shredding by fibre bundle processor pair chitin and derivant fiber tow thereof and handle, make fine heap tow orientation, stent makes every fiber keep suitable crimpness, reaches bigger loosening degree; Apply plasticizer then, plasticizer is a kind of fiber dissolved adhesive, adopts lithium chloride-acetamide-acetic acid mixed liquor, and consumption is the 5-20% of tow total amount, can make chitin and derivant fiber thereof dissolving, bonding and plastic.Deliver to the make-up machine moulding, bonding internal layer wraparound paper is obbbin, cuts into the fiber tow filter rods of tep reel ply of paper.The last fiber tow filter rods that will have obbbin on cigarette machine yew paper 3. wraparounds, the while docks with the tobacco section that is surrounded by air-permeable paper and is integral.

As one embodiment of the present of invention, the monofilament shape of cross section of chitin and derivant fiber tow thereof is a three-lobed structure, as shown in Figure 2.In the multiple shape of cross section that is exemplified in front, the tow surface area minimum of circular cross section, and the tow surface area maximum of triangular cross section, under similarity condition, the former is big more than 50% for the latter's surface area ratio.And cross section be three-lobed structure fibre bundle surface area ratio cross-sectional triangle also want big more than 50%, can increase substantially the fibre bundle surface area, improve filter effect, can also increase the intensity of fibre bundle, save raw material, reduce cost.

Be further to enlarge the surface area of fibre bundle filter stick, present embodiment is made convex and concave teeth wheel shape or zigzag structure as shown in Figure 3 with the sideline of above-mentioned trilobal monofilament cross section.Increase many scraggly wrinkles so again on the fibre single thread surface, increase surface area, it is big more than 50% that its surface area ratio trilobal is also wanted.The monofilament shape of cross section also can be designed to approach circular R shape, Y shape, X-shaped, I shape, C shape etc., but they are all not as trilobal.

Present embodiment is a kind of compound cigarette filter.A large amount of evidences, be combined into compound cigarette filter between chitin fiber fiber tow filter rods and the different types of chitin derivativ fibre bundle filter stick, the filter material that chitin and derivant fiber fiber tow filter rods thereof and active loft filter stick, acetate silk filter stick, polypropylene fibre tow filter stick etc. have difference in functionality is combined into compound cigarette filter, bring into play the speciality of various filter materials, play the effect of learning from other's strong points to offset one's weaknesses, the effect that can obtain.Be the compound cigarette filter that chitin and derivant fiber fiber tow filter rods 1 thereof and active carbon filter stick 4 constitute below, as shown in Figure 4, active carbon filter stick 4 places between fiber tow filter rods 1 and the cigarette tobacco 5, and by yew paper 3 their wraparounds is integral.Active carbon has good filtration to the harmful components in the flue gas, and is particularly effective to vapor phase material cut-off filter, thereby improves the effect of filter tip.

Claims

1. cigarette filter, form by fiber tow filter rods that is used for the harmful material of cut-off filter flue gas (1) and the internal layer obbbin (2) and the outer yew paper (3) of wraparound on obbbin (2) that are used for wraparound fiber tow filter rods (1), it is characterized in that described fiber tow filter rods (1) is to make with chitin and derivant fiber tow thereof.

2. cigarette filter according to claim 1 is characterized in that forming the chitin of filter stick (1) and the monofilament shape of cross section of derivant fiber tow is a three-lobed structure.

3. according to the described cigarette filter of claim (2), it is characterized in that convex and concave teeth wheel shape or zigzag structure are made in the sideline of described trilobal monofilament cross section.

4. according to claim 1 or 2 or 3 described cigarette filters, it is characterized in that described fiber tow filter rods (1) and active carbon filter stick (4) constitute compound cigarette filter, active carbon filter stick (4) places between fiber tow filter rods (1) and the cigarette tobacco, and is integral by yew paper (3) wraparound.