Classifications

• • 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
  • A24D1/00—Cigars; Cigarettes
• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A24—TOBACCO; CIGARS; CIGARETTES; SIMULATED SMOKING DEVICES; SMOKERS' REQUISITES
  • A24B—MANUFACTURE OR PREPARATION OF TOBACCO FOR SMOKING OR CHEWING; TOBACCO; SNUFF
  • A24B15/00—Chemical features or treatment of tobacco; Tobacco substitutes, e.g. in liquid form
  • A24B15/18—Treatment of tobacco products or tobacco substitutes
  • A24B15/28—Treatment of tobacco products or tobacco substitutes by chemical substances
  • A24B15/30—Treatment of tobacco products or tobacco substitutes by chemical substances by organic substances
• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A24—TOBACCO; CIGARS; CIGARETTES; SIMULATED SMOKING DEVICES; SMOKERS' REQUISITES
  • A24B—MANUFACTURE OR PREPARATION OF TOBACCO FOR SMOKING OR CHEWING; TOBACCO; SNUFF
  • A24B15/00—Chemical features or treatment of tobacco; Tobacco substitutes, e.g. in liquid form
  • A24B15/18—Treatment of tobacco products or tobacco substitutes
  • A24B15/28—Treatment of tobacco products or tobacco substitutes by chemical substances
  • A24B15/42—Treatment of tobacco products or tobacco substitutes by chemical substances by organic and inorganic substances

Definitions

• the invention the subject of this application relates to cigarettes and similar smoking articles.
• the subject invention provides a smoking article comprising a tobacco rod, which rod comprises cut tobacco and a paper wrapper circumscribing said tobacco, a major portion at least of said tobacco having been treated with a humectant to provide a loading level of said humectant of 4% to 15% by weight.
• the loading level of the humectant on the tobacco is not less than 5% and does not exceed 12%. More suitably, the loading level is in the range of 7 - 10%, 9% for example.
• the humectant is suitably one or more of glycerol, propylene glycol, sorbitol and diethylene glycol.
• the humectant is applied to the tobacco prior to the tobacco being subjected to an expansion process.
• the loading level of the humectant on the tobacco prior to expansion may be in a range of about 5% to about 20% in order to result in a post expansion level of 4% to 15%.
• the humectant is applied to the tobacco by being sprayed thereon, advantageously in aqueous solution.
• the humectant should, before the tobacco is subjected to the expansion process, be distributed of the tobacco with a significant degree of uniformity, which objective may be furthered by tumbling the tobacco and/or allowing the tobacco to stand in bulk for a sufficient time after the application of the humectant.
• Tobacco of smoking articles according to the subject invention which is to be subjected to an expansion process is suitably pre-conditioned to a moisture content in a range of 22% to 30% and preferably to a moisture content in a range of 26% to 30%.
• Tobacco of smoking articles according to the subject invention which is subjected to an expansion process may be lamina and/or stem tobacco.
• the expanded tobacco advantageously comprises a lamina tobacco the product of a tobacco expansion process which is effective to provide a high degree of expansion in tobacco subjected to the process.
• High expansion processes are disclosed, for example, in the specification of United States Reissue Patent No. 30,693 and in United Kingdom Patent Specifications Nos. 1,570,270 and 2 160 408A.
• tobacco expansion values in terms of filling value increase, of from about, typically, 75% and even up to about 125% may be obtained.
• Tobacco which has been subjected to a high expansion process may have a bulk density of, for example, from about 100 mg/cc to about 200 mg/cc, and preferably not less than 150 mg/cc, as measured using a Borgwaldt Densimeter.
• a minor proportion of the smoking material of smoking articles according to the subject invention may take the form of reconstituted tobacco and/or tobacco substitute material.
• the smoking material should be wholly natural cut tobacco. It is also preferable that the whole or a substantial proportion of the cut tobacco of smoking articles according to the subject invention should be expanded tobacco and that the whole of this expanded tobacco should have been treated with humectant prior to being expanded.
• at least 65% of the tobacco is treated expanded tobacco, and more suitably 70% is treated expanded tobacco.
• the weight of the smoking material in a cigarette according to the subject invention is suitably in a range of 500 to 800 mg.
• the packing density of the smoking material of smoking articles according to the subject invention does not exceed 210 mg/cc.
• the value obtained includes a proportion of the humectant. It may thus be of interest to express particulate matter delivery on a water, nicotine and humectant free basis (PMWNHF).
• PMWNHF to nicotine delivery ratio of smoking articles according to the subject invention is not more than 8 to 1 and is preferably in the region of 6 to 1, and more preferably in the region of about 5 to 1
• the humectant in the mainstream smoke of cigarettes according to the subject invention preferably forms not less than 15%, and more preferably not less than 20%, of the mainstream PMWNF. Yet more preferably the mainstream smoke humectant forms approximately 25% of the mainstream PMWNF.
• the mainstream smoke humectant may also be in the range 24% to 26%, 24% for example.
• a burn retardant may be used in smoking articles in accordance with the subject invention.
• the burn retardant may be, for example, magnesium chloride, sodium chloride, ammonium sulphate, ammonium lactate, or mixtures thereof, applied to the smoking material.
• the subject invention provides a tobacco treatment comprising the application of a humectant to tobacco and, subsequent to said application, the expanding of said tobacco, the application level of said humectants to said tobacco before the expansion step being such that the loading level of said humectant after said tobacco has been expanded is in a range of 4% to 15% by weight.
• glycerol at a 10% loading level and magnesium chloride at a 1% loading level.
• the blend was conditioned to 25% moisture content, the blend being thereafter subjected to a high level expansion process.
• the glycerol loading on the expanded tobacco was about 6%.
• Each cigarette comprised a 64 mm long tobacco rod consisting of 100% of the expanded tobacco and of wrapper of a standard commercial cigarette paper.
• the packing density of the tobacco in the tobacco rods was about 145 mg/cc.
• a tipping wrapper To each of the tobacco rods there was attached, by a tipping wrapper, a 20 mm long cellulose acetate filter plug. The cigarettes were laser ventilated at the filters to provide a ventilation value of 55%.
• the PMWNHF to nicotine ratio was 4.8. It may also be observed that the glycerol delivery represented 31% of the PMWNF delivery.
• glycerol at a 6% loading level and ammonium lactate at a 2% loading level.
• the blend was conditioned to a 30% moisture content, the blend being thereafter subjected to the high level DIET expansion process.
• the glycerol loading level on the expanded tobacco was 4.4%.
• a second cut tobacco blend comprised 50% burley lamina and 50% sun cured oriental lamina.
• the second blend was not subjected to an expansion process.
• the first and second blends were combined in the proportions 70% first to 30% second and to the thus obtained combined blend was added propylene glycol at a 1.5% loading level.
• the total loading level of humectant, glycerol plus propylene glycol was 4.6%.
• each cigarette comprised a 59 mm long tobacco rod and a standard commercial cigarette paper.
• the packing density of the tobacco in the rods was 190 mg/cc.
• the cigarettes were laser ventilated at the cellulose acetate sections of the filters to provide a ventilation of 60%.
• a commercially available cigarette of similar delivery namely Camel Lights (Trade Mark) was found to have a mainstream glycerol delivery of 0.39 mg, this representing 8% of the PMWNF delivery.
• the PMWNHF to nicotine ratio of Camel Lights was 9.7.
• a cut tobacco blend comprised 25% burley lamina, 40% flue cured lamina, 25% water treated stem and 10% sun cured oriental lamina.
• To this blend was added glycerol at a 10% loading level and magnesium chloride at a 1% loading level. The blend was thereafter subjected to a high level expansion process. The glycerol loading level on the expanded tobacco was 8%.

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