EP0057201A1 - Ventilated filter tip cigarette - Google Patents
Ventilated filter tip cigaretteInfo
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- EP0057201A1 EP0057201A1 EP81902105A EP81902105A EP0057201A1 EP 0057201 A1 EP0057201 A1 EP 0057201A1 EP 81902105 A EP81902105 A EP 81902105A EP 81902105 A EP81902105 A EP 81902105A EP 0057201 A1 EP0057201 A1 EP 0057201A1
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- Prior art keywords
- filter material
- filter
- wrap
- tobacco
- perforations
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A24—TOBACCO; CIGARS; CIGARETTES; SIMULATED SMOKING DEVICES; SMOKERS' REQUISITES
- A24D—CIGARS; CIGARETTES; TOBACCO SMOKE FILTERS; MOUTHPIECES FOR CIGARS OR CIGARETTES; MANUFACTURE OF TOBACCO SMOKE FILTERS OR MOUTHPIECES
- A24D3/00—Tobacco smoke filters, e.g. filter-tips, filtering inserts; Filters specially adapted for simulated smoking devices; Mouthpieces for cigars or cigarettes
- A24D3/04—Tobacco smoke filters characterised by their shape or structure
- A24D3/043—Tobacco smoke filters characterised by their shape or structure with ventilation means, e.g. air dilution
Abstract
Un produit de tabac (10, 10a, 100) tel qu'une cigarette ayant une colonne de tabac enveloppee (16) et un filtre (14, 14a, 14b) en un materiau filtrant place en bout a bout avec la colonne de tabac pour filtrer les constituants du flux principal de fumee. Des moyens (Figs. 1, 2, 3) pour assurer la dilution du flux principal de la fumee sensiblement de 25 a 100%, sont prevus pour maintenir le materiau filtrant dans une configuration de baguettes cylindriques. Un gainage externe (20) qui entoure le filtre s'etend depuis une extremite vers l'autre et une bande de papier formant un second gainage externe (18) unit le filtre coaxialement avec la colonne de tabac. Les gainages externes sont sensiblement non poreux et d'une longueur axiale par rapport a la longueur du filtre telle que la surface des moyens de maintien exposes soit comprise entre 25mm2 environ et750mm2 environ. Les moyens de maintien peuvent consister en un gainage interne (22) de papier, avec (Fig. 3) ou sans (Fig. 2) perforation, ayant une porosite uniforme de l'ordre de 300 a 50000cc/min/cm2 environ a une pression equivalente a 10cm d'eau (unites Coresta).A tobacco product (10, 10a, 100) such as a cigarette having a wrapped tobacco column (16) and a filter (14, 14a, 14b) made of filter material placed end to end with the tobacco column for filter the constituents of the main smoke stream. Means (Figs. 1, 2, 3) for ensuring the dilution of the main flow of smoke substantially from 25 to 100%, are provided to keep the filtering material in a configuration of cylindrical rods. An external cladding (20) which surrounds the filter extends from one end towards the other and a strip of paper forming a second external cladding (18) unites the filter coaxially with the tobacco column. The external sheaths are substantially non-porous and of an axial length relative to the length of the filter such that the surface of the exposed holding means is between approximately 25 mm 2 and approximately 750 mm 2. The holding means may consist of an internal sheathing (22) of paper, with (Fig. 3) or without (Fig. 2) perforation, having a uniform porosity of the order of 300 to 50,000 cc / min / cm 2 at approximately pressure equivalent to 10cm of water (Coresta units).
Description
Description
Ventilated Filter Tip Cigarette
Technical Field
The present invention relates to tobacco products and more particularly, to cigarettes, cigars, and other similar products including a tobacco column within an outer wrap formed of combusible material and a filter member mounted coaxially at one end of the tobacco column for filtering the mainstream smoke as the tobacco product is burned.
Background Art
Tobacco products of the types considered herein including a filter member are known to be prior art. To th Iis end, it has been known for many years that certain ingredients normally found in the mainstream smoke of a burning tobacco column may be filtered by means of a filter and filter material mounted at one end of the tobacco column. The filter, thus, provides a barrier to those ingredients prior to entering the mouth of the user. It is also known in the prior art that a secondary flow of air may be introduced to the mainstream smoke for purposes of diluting the mainstream smoke. The secondary flow of air for diluting the mainstream smoke, and at the same time providing a cooling effect, may enter by a plurality of perforations formed in and along the combustible wrap of the tobacco column. The perforations, also, may be located within the filter. In this connection, the filter in the form of a body of filter material is surrounded by a composite wrap including an inner layer, or plug wrap of porous paper and an outer coextensive wrap comprising a wrap of non-porous tipping paper having a perforated area. Typical of a filter of this type, is the filter disclosed in Davis patent No. 3,797,975.
The prior art also includes a form of filter including a body of filter material surrounded by a composite wrap including an inner layer, or plug wrap of porous paper and an outer wrap of non-porous tipping paper extending from one end of the filter, the end which is entered into the mouth of the user, along only a length of the plug wrap to expose an area of the inner wrap. Typical of a filter of this type, is the filter disclosed in Tucker patent No. 3,410,275.
Filters of either the aforementioned types would probably deliver mainstream smoke with "tar" levels of a normal range (15-25mg. per cigarette). However, the industry now seeks to provide a tobacco product which delivers mainstream smoke with appreciably lower levels of "tar".
Disclosure of the Invention
The present invention is directed to a tobacco product including cigarettes, cigars and similar smoking articles having a tobacco column supported by an outer combustible wrap and a filter of a design whereby free and controllable levels of flow of ambient air, comprising a secondary flow, may be drawn into the filter and the mainstream smoke to reduce the degree of puff, dilute and cool the mainstream smoke. The particular design of the filter is such that restrictions to the air flow may be substantially obviated. The result is to maintain the effectiveness of the filter. Further, the filter is of a construction suitable for use in the fabrication of a cigarette in accordance with generally recognized manufacturing procedures, as well as with apparatus for that purpose, and the filter of the present invention is constructed in a manner such that the cigarette may deliver a desired level of "tar" by a variation in makeup of what may be characterized as "maintenance means" for supporting the filter material in the form of a cylindrical
rod-like body. Such variation, as will be discussed, includes variation in the porosity of the inner wrap or plug wrap and/or the area of the maintenance means which is exposed to ambient air and/or the inclusion of a plurality of perforations within the exposed area.
According to the invention, a filter for a tobacco product or the like comprises a body of filter material having a first end adapted to be placed in the mouth of the user and a second end adapted to be disposed coaxially at one end of the column of the tobacco product or the like. Means are provided for maintaining the filter material in the cylindrical rod-like form, and for permitting an ingress of ambient air into the filter material so as to provide mainstream smoke dilution on the order of 25 to essentially 100%. Air from the secondary flow mixes with the mainstream smoke entering the filter material from the tobacco column to dilute and cool the mainstream smoke as it moves toward the first end of the filter. A wrap of paper, or tipping wrap forms an outer wrap that surrounds the maintenance means at the first end and along a length of the body of filter material. The tipping wrap serves to ensure lip release for the smoker. The tipping wrap, preferably, is formed of a substantially non-porous material to prevent or deter ingress of air into the filter material except through that portion of the maintenance means which is exposed, as previously discussed.
The invention contemplates several forms of maintenance means. Thus, the maintenance means may comprise an inner wrap or plug wrap having a uniform porosity. The plug wrap, additionally, may be provided with a plurality of perforations located in at least the area not surrounded by an outer or tipping wrap. It is also contemplated that the filter material may be selfsupporting. As such the need for the aforementioned inner wrap or plug wrap is obviated. To this end, the filter
material may be formed of polyurethane or other polymer as an open cell foam, or the filter material may be formed of cellulose acetate tow whose integrity in the rodlike form is maintained by a bonding agent, such as a plasticizer. The maintenance means provides a porous outer surface permitting dilution of the mainstream smoke up to essentially 100%.
The present invention also envisions a cigarette including a tobacco column and a filter member of the type previously discussed. A further band of paper is utilized to join the filter and the tobacco column. The band of paper, as the aforementioned outer wrap, may be non-porous to prevent or deter ingress of air into the tobacco column and the filter material, and may be of any reasonable width to support the tobacco column. Thus, a variation of width of the paper band, assuming the width of tipping wrap remains constant, will serve to vary the exposed area of maintenance means around the circumference of the body of filter material. The exposed area may have an axial width of between about 1 mm and about 30 mm or more.
Brief Description of the Drawing
Fig. 1 is a view in elevation of a cigarette including a wrapped tobacco column and a filter member mounted at one end of the column;
Fig. 2 is a view in elevation of a cigarette including a wrapped tobacco column and a filter member mounted at one end of the column wherein the body of filter material is wrapped by an inner wrap of a porous paper; and
Fig. 3 is a view similar to Fig. 2 wherein the inner wrap, of porous paper includes a plurality of perforations.
Best Mode for Carrying Out the Invention
The present invention relates to a tobacco product
10, such as a cigarette including a column of tobacco 12 and a filter 14. Both the filter and the tobacco column are of rod-like form and a combustible wrap 16, as conventional, supports the tobacco column.
The filter includes a body of filter material which may be any one of cellulose acetate, paper, a polyolefin, a polyurethane or other polymeric foam, or other filter material, as desired. In the form of the invention wherein the filter material comprises a polyurethane foam, the foam preferably will be an open cell foam, and preferably it will be extruded or otherwise formed to the rod-like form. Preferably, however, the filter material is cellulose acetate.
The filter 14 and the tobacco column 16 are located in abutting end-to-end disposition and a band 18 is used to connect the units. Thus, the band will encircle one end of each of the filter and tobacco column so that the mainstream smoke from the burning end of the tobacco column may pass into the filter material to filter certain particulate matter, such as tars, from the mainstream smoke which enters the mouth of the user. A second band 20 may be received around the other end of the filter that is, the mouth end, to ensure lip release for the smoker.
The bands 18, 20 may be formed of conventional non-porous tipping paper or may be formed of a paper having porous characteristics or formed of non-woven material having suitable characteristics.
In the form of the invention illustrated in Fig. 1, the body of filter material which may be cellulose acetate is self-supporting in a rod-like configuration. The self-supporting characteristic of the filter material is derived through setting of the bonding agent, such as a plasticizer used during the manufacturing process. The plasticizer may be glycerol triacetate, tri (ethyleneglycol) diacetate or other plasticizer of similar nature.
Glycerol triacetate is preferred and the plasticizer is used in an amount sufficient to ensure the self-supporting integrity of the filter material.
Fig. 2 represents a form of the invention wherein an inner wrap 22 is disposed around the filter material.
The inner wrap or plug wrap may be paper or non-woven material. Preferably, the inner wrap is characterized by a paper having a porosity of from about 300 to about 50,000 cc/min/cm2 at a pressure equal to 10 cm water
(Coresta units) to permit the ingress of air to provide mainstream smoke dilution on the order of 25 to essentially 100%. The tobacco product 10a, like the tobacco product of Fig. 1, includes a tobacco column 12, a combustible wrap 16 for the tobacco column and a filter 14a. The bands 18, 20 of Fig. 1, may be employed to mount the filter to the tobacco column and to provide a tipping to ensure lip release for the smoker, respectively.. In a third form of the invention, see Fig. 3, a tobacco product 10b similarly includes a tobacco column 12, a combustible wrap 16 for the tobacco column and a filter 14b. The filter includes a body of filter material and an inner wrap 22 surrounds the filter material. In this form of the invention, a plurality of perforations 24 are provided in the inner wrap, at least within the region between bands 18, 20 which comprises an exposed area "A" (see Figs. 1, 2 and 3). The perforations may be arranged in any particular pattern in the inner wrap, as for example in one or more circular rings. Preferably, each perforation is equidistantly spaced from adjacent perforations around each ring. The area of each perforation may be within the range of about 0.01 mm2 to about 0.50 mm2 to provide a path of ingress of air of the secondary flow which.offers substantially less resistance than the resistance to flow offered by the inner wrap throughout the non-perforated region. The perforations may be provided mechanically, electrostatically, by means
of a laser process, by combinations of processes and others as may be conventional. According to the invention, the exposed area "A" extends entirely about the body of filter material and throughout the axial length between the edges of the tipping bands 18, 20. The length of the body of the filter material may be about 20 to 50 mm and band 20 may extend throughout a length of about 10 mm to about 20 mm toward band 22. To this end, the axial length of the exposed area may be about 1 mm to about 30 mm or more and have a surface area of about 25 mm to about
750 mm2. In this discussion, the term "maintenance means" is to be interpreted as including the usual plasticizer employed in the process of supporting the filter material in rod-like form, the polyurethane or other self-supporting polymeric foam of open cell type and the inner wrap of plug wrap either of Fig. 2 or Fig. 3. Further, the total area of perforations may be between about 0.1 mm to about 100 mm whereby about 25 to about 100% of the secondary flow will enter the filter material through the perforations.
Practice of the invention will become more apparent from the following examples.
Examples 1-7 A series of seven lots of filter rods were manufactured with a standard cellulose acetate filter tow, 8 denier per filament/35, 000 total denier, utilizing maintenance means or plug wrap varying in porosity from essentially impermeable to 36,000 Coresta units (cc/min/ cm2). The 100 mm filter rods were made at a pressure drop of 11 cm of water as measured on an absolute type pressure drop instrument with total encasement of the filter rods.
Filter tips were attached to tobacco columns, consisting of a standard cigarette tobacco blend and
standard cigarette paper, with a band of paper employed to attach the filter tip to the tobacco column. A wrap of paper tipping was applied at the mouth end to ensure lip release for the smoker as previously disclosed.
Examples 1-6 in the following table were tested for "tar" delivery in accordance with the standard procedure of the Federal Trade Commission. Twenty cigarettes in groups of 5 from each example were smoked by passing 35 cc of air per puff through the tobacco column at the rate of one puff of 2 seconds duration once a minute. The cigarettes were burned to a 33 mm butt length.
With reference to Examples 4 and 5, there is demonstrated that "tar" delivery may be varied by keeping the porosity of the inner wrap constant and varying the width of the exposed area.
In Example 7, since the "tar" delivery is too low to be measured accurately by the standard methods, a spectrophotometric procedure based on that published by Sloan, C.H. and J.G. Curran, Research Laboratories (Tennessee Eastman Company, Publication No. FTR-62
(1980) was used,
Claims
1.A filter for a tobacco product or the like comprising a) a body of filter material having a first end adapted to enter the mouth of the user and a second end adapted to be disposed both juxtaposed to and coaxially with a column of tobacco, b) means for maintaining said filter material in a cylindrical rod-like form and for permitting ingress of ambient air into said body of filter material at a rate to provide dilution of mainstream smoke from 25 to essentially 100%, and c) a wrap of paper forming an outer wrap to surround said maintenance means, said outer wrap extending along said body from said first end toward said second end, and said outer wrap being substantially non-porous thereby preventing said ingress of ambient air except as shall enter said body throughout the region of said maintenance means not surrounded by said outer wrap.
2. The filter of claim 1 wherein said filter material is a cellulose acetate tow and said means for maintaining said filter material in rod-like form comprises a plasticizer selected from the group consisting of glycerol triacetate and tri(ethylene glycol) diacetate which stabilizes at least the outer portion of said filter material and maintains a level of uniform porosity for said ingress of ambient air.
3. The filter of claim 1 wherein said filter material is a cellulose acetate tow and said means for main
taining said body of filter material in rod-like form comprises an inner wrap having substantially a uniform porosity.
4. The filter of claim 3 wherein said inner wrap is paper and includes a plurality of perforations located at least throughout the length of and around said exposed surface area whereby ambient air enters said filter material through said perforations as well as through the adjacent porous, non-perforated area.
5. The filter of claim 4 wherein said perforations are located at equidistant circumferential spacing in at least one ring about said inner wrap,
6. The filter of claim 5 wherein the total area of said perforations is between about 0.1 mm2 to about 100 mm .
7. The filter of claim 1 wherein said means for maintaining said body of filter material in rodlike form comprises an inner wrap of paper having a uniform porosity in the range of about 3 00 to 50,0 00 cc/min/cm2 at a pressure equivalent to 10 cm of water (Coresta units).
8. The filter of any one of claims 1-7 wherein said body of filter material is of a length of about 20 to 50 mm and said outer wrap extends from said first end of said body throughout a length of about 10 mm to about 20 mm toward said second end.
A tobacco product or the like comprising
a) a tobacco column, b) a wrap for said tobacco column, c) a filter means for filtering mainstream smoke from said tobacco column, said filter means comprising
(1) a body of filter material having a first end adapted to be placed in the mouth of the user and a second end adapted to be located juxtaposed to and coaxially with said tobacco column,
(2) means for maintaining said filter material in a cylindrical rod-like outline substantially concentric to that of said tobacco column and for permitting an ingress of ambient air into said body of filter material so as to dilute the mainstream smoke from about 25 to essentially 100%, and
(3) a wrap of paper forming an outer wrap to surround said maintenance means, said outer wrap extending along said body from said first end toward said second end, and said outer wrap being substantially non- porous thereby preventing said ingress of ambient air except as shall enter said body of filter material throughout the region of said maintenance means not surrounded by said outer wrap, and d) a band of paper forming a second outer wrap for connecting said body of filter material and said tobacco column, said band of paper being non porous and together with said outer wrap limiting said surface area of exposed maintenance means to between about 25 mm and about 750 mmº .
10. The tobacco product of claim 9 wherein said filter material is a cellulose acetate tow and said means for maintaining said filter material in rod-like form comprises a plasticizer selected from the group consisting of glycerol triacetate and tri(ethyleneglycol) diacetate which stabilizes at least the outer portion of said filter material and maintains a level of uniform porosity for said ingress of ambient air.
11. The tobacco product of claim 9 wherein said filter material is a cellulose acetate tow and said means for maintaining said body of filter material in rod-like form comprises an inner wrap having a substantially uniform porosity.
12. The tobacco product of claim 11 wherein said inner wrap is paper and includes a plurality of perforations located at least throughout the length of and around said exposed surface area whereby ambient air enters said filter material through said perforations as well as through the adjacent porous, non-perforated area.
13. The tobacco product of claim 12 wherein said perforations are located at equidistant circumferential spacing in at least one ring about said inner wrap.
14. The tobacco product of claim 13 wherein the total area of said perforations is between about 0.1 mm2 and about 100 mm2 whereby about 25 to about 100 percent of said ambient air enters said filter material through said perforations.
15. The tobacco product of claim 9 wherein said means for maintaining said body of filter material in rod-like form comprises an inner wrap of paper having a uniform porosity in the range of about 300 to 50,000 cc/min/cm2 (Coresta units).
16. The tobacco product of any one of claims 9-15 wherein said body of filter material is of a length of about 20 to 50.mm and said outer wrap extends from said first end of said body throughout a length of about 10 mm to about 20 mm toward said second end.
Applications Claiming Priority (2)
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| US17414580A | 1980-07-31 | 1980-07-31 | |
| US174145 | 1998-10-16 |
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| EP0057201A1 true EP0057201A1 (en) | 1982-08-11 |
| EP0057201A4 EP0057201A4 (en) | 1982-12-09 |
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| EP19810902105 Ceased EP0057201A4 (en) | 1980-07-31 | 1981-06-30 | Ventilated filter tip cigarette. |
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| GB2175187B (en) * | 1985-04-22 | 1989-02-01 | Cigarette Components Ltd | Ventilated tobacco smoke filter |
| GB0724408D0 (en) * | 2007-12-14 | 2008-01-30 | British American Tobacco Co | Recessed ventilation for smoking articles |
| DE202016005424U1 (en) | 2016-08-30 | 2016-09-26 | Murat Yilmaz | Smoking product for odor cleaning of smoke during exhalation |
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| US3046994A (en) * | 1959-07-02 | 1962-07-31 | Olin Mathieson | Ventilated cigarette |
| US3410275A (en) * | 1965-03-30 | 1968-11-12 | Irwin W. Tucker | Cigarette filter |
| USRE26604E (en) * | 1967-06-20 | 1969-06-10 | Cigarette filter plug and process and apparatus for making same | |
| FR2206663A5 (en) * | 1972-11-14 | 1974-06-07 | Extel Corp | Ventilated filter-tip for cigarettes - for reducing harmful prods by dilution of smoke |
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- 1981-06-30 EP EP19810902105 patent/EP0057201A4/en not_active Ceased
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