EP1489928B1 - Low sidestream smoke cigarette with combustible paper having modified ash characteristics - Google Patents

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EP1489928B1
EP1489928B1 EP03744282.9A EP03744282A EP1489928B1 EP 1489928 B1 EP1489928 B1 EP 1489928B1 EP 03744282 A EP03744282 A EP 03744282A EP 1489928 B1 EP1489928 B1 EP 1489928B1
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  • the invention relates to sidestream smoke reduction in burning cigarettes and other smoking products. More particularly, the invention relates to cigarette paper, cigarette wrapper, or a wrapper for a cigar or other like tobacco products for reducing visible sidestream smoke while providing a modified ash.
  • U. S. Patents 2,755, 207,4 , 108,151 and 4,225, 636 EP patent applications 0 740 907 and 0 251 254 ; and WO 97/27831 and WO 99/53778 .
  • U. S. Patent 2,755, 207 describes a low sidestream smoke cigarette paper.
  • the cigarette paper on burning yields a smoke substantially free of obnoxious components.
  • the cigarette paper is cellulosic material in fibre form. It has intimately associated therewith a finely divided mineral type siliceous catalyst material.
  • Suitable siliceous catalysts include acid-treated clays, heat-treated montmorillonite and natural and synthetic silicates containing some hydrogen atoms which are relatively mobile.
  • Suitable mixed silica oxides include silica oxides with alumina, zirconia, titania, chromium oxide and magnesium oxide.
  • Other silicas include the oxides of silicon and aluminum in a weight ratio of 9:1 of silica to alumina.
  • U.S. Patent 4,108,151 describes the use of a gamma alumina filler for cigarette paper which selectively reduces the organic vapor phase constituents in tobacco smoke. There is at least 50% by weight of alumina filler in the cigarette paper for reducing the organic vapor phase constituents, in a tobacco smoke. As a result there is a reduction in the visible sidestream smoke eminating from a burning cigarette.
  • the gamma alumina is most commonly known as activated alumina which is finely pulverized to pass through a 300-mesh screen.
  • U.S. Patent 4,225,636 describes the use of carbon in the cigarette paper to reduce organic vapour phase components and total particulate matter found in sidestream smoke. In addition, the carbon results in a substantial reduction in visible sidestream smoke emitting from a burning cigarette. Activated carbon is preferred as the carbon source. The use of the activated carbon results in a slight drop in visible sidestream smoke. Up to 50% of the cigarette paper may be finely divided carbon. The carbon-coated papers may be used as the inner wrap for the tobacco rod in combination with a conventional cigarette.
  • European patent application 0 740 907 published November 6, 1996 describes the use of zeolites in the tobacco of the cigarette to alter the characteristics of the mainstream smoke and in particular remove various components from the mainstream smoke such as some of the tars.
  • the zeolite as provided in the tobacco also apparently change the characteristics of the sidestream smoke.
  • the zeolites used were of a particle size between 0.5 mm to 1.2 mm.
  • European application 0 251 254 describes the use of a high superficial surface area filler in cigarette paper.
  • the fillers are generally crystals and solids having surface areas of at least 20 m 2 /g.
  • the fillers are preferably, peroxides, carbonates, phosphates, sulphates, aluminates and silicates. It is taught that porous fillers such as zeolites are not preferred in cigarette paper and are taught as functioning similarly to conventional chalk.
  • Non-combustible sheet of treatment material for reducing sidestream smoke emissions.
  • the sheet is used as a wrap and is applied over conventional cigarette paper of a conventional cigarette.
  • the wrap has a very high porosity to allow the cigarette to burn at or close to conventional free-burn rates while at the same time reduce visible sidestream smoke emissions.
  • the non-combustible wrap includes non-combustible ceramic fibres, non-combustible activated carbon fibres as well as other standard materials used in making the wrap.
  • the wrap also includes zeolites or other similar sorptive materials and an oxygen donor/oxygen storage metal oxide oxidation catalyst.
  • the non-combustible wrap provides an acceptable degree of sidestream smoke control, however, due to the non-combustible nature of the wrap, a charred tube remains.
  • U.S. Patents 4,433,697 and 4,915,117 describe the incorporation of ceramic fibres in a cigarette paper manufacture.
  • U.S. Patent 4,433,697 describes at least 1% by weight of certain ceramic fibres in the paper furnish in combination with magnesium oxide and/or magnesium hydroxide fillers to reduce visible sidestream smoke emanating from the burning cigarette.
  • the furnish of fibre pulp, ceramic fibres and fillers are used to make a paper sheet on conventional paper making machines.
  • the ceramic fibres may be selected from the group of polycrystalline alumina, aluminum-silicate and amorphous alumina.
  • a filler of magnesium hydroxide or magnesium oxide is used and is coated on or applied to the fibres of the sheet.
  • U.S. Patent 4,915,117 describes a non-combustible sheet for holding tobacco.
  • the thin sheet is formed from ceramic materials which upon burning produces no smoke.
  • the ceramic sheet comprises a woven or non-woven fabric of ceramic fibre or a mixture of paper and ceramics thermally decomposed at high temperature.
  • the ceramic fibre may be selected from inorganic fibres such as silica fibre, silica-alumina fibre, alumina fibre, zirconia fibre, or alumino borosilicate and glass fibre.
  • the ceramic sheet is formed by binding these materials by inorganic binders such as silica gel or alumina gel.
  • the fibres are preferably 1 to 10 micrometers in diameter.
  • the ceramic filler which is incorporated in the cigarette wrapper using a binder has particle size in range of 2-90 ⁇ m.
  • the ceramic filler is of a predefined shape which is spherical or substantially spherical, oval or substantially oval or another irregular shape approximating thereto.
  • the ceramic filler may be alumina, silica, an alumino-silicate, silicon carbide, stabilised or un-stabilised zirconium oxide, zircon, garnet, feldspar and the like.
  • the ceramic filler is provided in the cigarette wrapper at greater than 40% by weight of the dry materials in the slurry that is used to produce the wrapper.
  • the binder may be an alginate, a gum, cellulose, pectin, starch or Group I or II metal salts of these binders.
  • the resultant wrapper has a porosity usually less than 200 Coresta Units and is preferably in the range of 2-100 Coresta Units.
  • the wrapper has a density of 0.5-3.0 g/cm 3 .
  • the wrapper is preferably used as an overwrap for a porous non-smokeable plugwrap tobacco rod having porosities of about 12,000 Coresta Units.
  • Sol gels have been applied to conventional cigarette paper in order to reduce sidestream smoke, particularly sol gels made from a magnesium aluminate, calcium aluminate, titania, zirconia and aluminum oxide, as described in Canadian Patent 1,180,968 and Canadian Patent application 2,010,575 .
  • Canadian Patent 1,180,968 describes the application of magnesium hydroxide in the form of an amorphous gel as a cigarette paper filler component to improve ash appearance and sidestream smoke reduction.
  • the magnesium hydroxide gel is coated on or applied to the fibres of the sheet of the cigarette paper.
  • Canadian patent application 2,010,575 describes the use of gels produced by a solution gelation or sol-gel process for controlling the combustion of wrappers for smoking articles.
  • the gels may be applied as coatings to paper fibres before the paper is formed into wrappers.
  • the wrappers are useful for reducing visible sidestream smoke.
  • the metal oxides for the sol gels may be oxides of aluminum, titanium, zirconium, sodium, potassium or calcium.
  • Catalysts have also been directly applied to cigarette paper, such as described in Canadian Patent 604,895 and U.S. Patent 5,386,838 .
  • Canadian Patent 604,895 describes the use of platinum, osmium, iridium, palladium, rhodium and rhuthenium in the cigarette paper. These metals function as oxidation catalysts to treat vapours arising from combustion of the paper wrapper. Optimum catalytic effect has been provided by the metal palladium.
  • the metal particles in a suitable medium are dispersed onto the face of a paper wrapper before it is applied to the cigarette.
  • U.S. Patent 5,386,838 describes the use of a sol solution comprising a mixture of iron and magnesium as a smoke suppressive composition.
  • the smoke suppressive composition is made by co-precipitating iron and magnesium from an aqueous solution in the presence of a base.
  • the iron magnesium composition demonstrates high surface area of approximately 100 m 2 /g to approximately 225 m 2 /g when heated to a temperature between 100°C and approximately 500°C.
  • the iron magnesium composition may be added to paper pulp which is used to make smoke suppressive cigarette paper.
  • the iron magnesium composition apparently functions as an oxidation catalyst and reduces the amount of smoke produced by the burning cigarette.
  • the catalyst may also be applied to the tobacco, for example, as described in U.S.
  • Patent 4,248,251 palladium, either in metallic form or as a salt, may be applied to the tobacco.
  • the presence of palladium in tobacco reduces the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in the mainstream smoke.
  • Palladium is used in combination with an inorganic salt or nitric or nitrous acid.
  • Such nitrates include lithium, sodium, potassium, rubidium, cesium, magnesium, calcium, strontium, lanthanum, cerium, neodymium, samarium, europium, gadolinium, terbium, dysprosium, erbium, scandium, manganese, iron, rhodium, palladium, copper, zinc, aluminum, gallium, tin, bismuth, hydrates thereof and mixtures thereof.
  • Catalysts have also been used in tubes to reduce sidestream smoke such as described in published PCT application WO 98/16125 .
  • Catalytic materials have been used in aerosol types of cigarettes which do not produce sidestream or mainstream smoke per se, but instead a flavoured aerosol.
  • aerosol cigarettes include those described in U.S. patents 5,040,551 , 5,137,034 and 5,944,025 , which use catalysts to provide the necessary heat generation to develop the aerosol.
  • catalyst systems include oxides of cerium, palladium or platinum.
  • cigarette paper, cigarette wrapper, wrapper for a cigar or other like tobacco products is provided for reducing visible sidestream smoke with an improved or modified ash.
  • the invention may include the use of a solid solution of particulate mixed metal oxides as said catalyst and said adjunct.
  • the oxygen storage and donor metal oxide oxidation catalyst as part of the solid solution is preferably selected from the group consisting of lanthinum oxide, cerium oxide, praseodymium oxide, neodymium oxide and mixtures thereof.
  • the adjunct which is also part of the solid solution is preferably selected from the group of metal oxides consisting of zirconium oxide, aluminum oxide, magnesium oxide, titanium oxide and mixtures thereof.
  • the solid solution of mixed metal oxides may further include in the solid solution metal catalyst selected from the group consisting of palladium, platinum, rhodium, tin oxide, copper oxide, iron oxide, manganese oxide and mixtures thereof.
  • Preferred mixed oxides of the solid solution are cerium/lanthinum mixed oxide, cerium/zirconium mixed oxide, cerium/zirconium/lanthinum mixed oxide, cerium/zirconium/praseodynium mixed oxide, cerium/zirconium/lanthinum/praseodynium mixed oxide, cerium/zirconium/neodymium mixed oxide and mixtures thereof.
  • the adjunct may comprise a mixed metal oxide or carbonate filler used in conjunction with a zeolite based material.
  • the zeolite based material is preferably in an amount ranging from about 0.1% to 35% by weight of the total dry weight of the composition, although the amount could be higher.
  • the mixture of metal oxides may include mixtures of zirconium oxide, tin oxide, titanium oxide, magnesium oxide, alumina, cerium oxide tin oxide, iron oxide, manganese oxide, calcium carbonate, zirconium carbonate, magnesium carbonate and mixtures thereof.
  • the metal oxides may be of various surface areas and most preferably either low surface area in the range of about 5 to 15 m2/g and high surface area of over 20 m2/g.
  • a cerium oxide hydrate sol may be applied to the adjunct, for example, the metal oxides to provide increase catalytic activity.
  • the oxygen storage and donor metal oxide oxidation catalyst material preferably include lanthinum oxide, cerium oxide, praseodymium oxide, neodymium oxide and mixtures thereof.
  • Oxidation catalyst of the precious metal and transition metal type may also be included such a palladium, platinum, rhodium, tin oxide, copper oxide, iron oxide, manganese oxide and mixtures thereof. These catalyst may also be fixed on the adjunct or the ash modification material or as part of the solid solution of the mixed oxides.
  • the sidestream smoke treatment composition may be incorporated in the combustible treatment paper, coated on the combustible treatment paper, impregnated into treatment paper or a combination of the above steps.
  • the treatment paper may be double wrapped and be of the same or different compositions.
  • One of the double wraps may be conventional paper.
  • one of the double wraps may have a composition directed primarily to sidestream smoke reduction and the other double wrap paper include a composition directed towards ash modification.
  • the treatment composition comprises an oxygen storage and donor metal oxide oxidation catalyst and an essentially non-combustible high surface area adsorptive adjunct for the catalyst incorporated in said treatment paper.
  • a coating of calcium carbonate is provided on an exterior surface of the treatment paper to modify ash characteristics.
  • cigarette For ease of description, whenever the term cigarette is used, it is understood to not only include smokable cigarettes but as well any form of wrapped smokable tobacco product, such as cigars, or the like.
  • treatment paper it is understood to encompass combustible wrappers and the like which may be used on cigarettes, cigars, and the like.
  • the wrapper may be used as a single layer of cigarette paper or multiple layer of cigarette paper.
  • the wrapper may be applied as the sole layer of cigarette paper or as a wrap over conventional cigarette paper of a cigarette.
  • the treatment paper may include as its substrate conventional cigarette paper or similar combustible product with a wide range of porosities.
  • the conventional tobacco rod encompasses tobacco compositions normally used in smokable cigarettes. These rods are to be distinguished from tobacco components used in aerosol cigarette.
  • the sidestream smoke treatment composition provides the desired degree of visible sidestream smoke control while at the same time providing a suitable ash of desired characteristics.
  • the sidestream smoke treatment composition of this invention comprises, an oxygen storage and donor metal oxide oxidation catalyst used in combination with a non-combustible finely divided porous particulate adjunct for the catalyst.
  • ash characteristics such as, appearance can sometimes be less than acceptable due to, for example, discolouration, delamination and defoliation.
  • enhancements have been made to the composition and in particular to the catalyst and/or adjunct to modify ash characteristics to provide for example an acceptable appearance, acceptable strength, colour, integrity and reduction or elimination of ash defoliation, delamination and the like.
  • the adjunct may be any suitable essentially non-combustible, finely divided particulate material which does not affect the flavour and taste of the mainstream smoke and does not give off any undesirable odours in the sidestream vapours.
  • the particulate material is physically stable at the elevated temperatures of the burning cigarette coal.
  • the adjunct may have a low surface area usually less than 20 m 2 /g and preferably 1 m 2 /g to 15 m 2 /g and most preferably 3 m 2 /g to 10 m 2 /g. It is understood for the low surface area materials the particulates are finely ground and are usually not porous. However, as the surface area increases towards 20 m 2 /g it is understood that the particles may be porous.
  • the particulate adjunct may have an average particle size of less than about 30 ⁇ m, more preferably less than about 20 ⁇ m and most preferably ranging from about 1 ⁇ m up to about 10 ⁇ m.
  • Non-combustible materials may be porous clays of various categories commonly used in cigarette paper manufacture, such as the bentonite clays or treated clays having high surface areas.
  • Non-combustible carbon materials may also be used including milled porous carbon fibres and particulates.
  • metal oxides and/or carbonates may be used such as porous monolithic mineral based materials such as zirconium oxide, titanium oxides, magnesium oxide, aluminum oxide, cerium oxide, tin oxide, iron oxide, manganese oxide, calcium carbonate, zirconium carbonate, magnesium carbonate and mixtures thereof, metal oxide fibres such as zirconium fibres and other ceramics such as milled porous ceramic fibres and mixtures thereof.
  • cerium oxide it has been found that it is capable of functioning as a finely divided adjunct and as an oxygen storage and donor cerium oxide oxidation catalyst.
  • Other adjunct materials include high surface area materials such as activated carbon and zeolites.
  • the adjunct may also comprise high surface area highly sorptive materials which are non-combustible, inorganic finely divided particulate, such as molecular sieves which include zeolites and may also comprise amorphous materials such as silica/alumina, zirconium oxide, zirconium hydroxide and the like.
  • Zeolites such as silicalite zeolites, faujasites X, Y and L zeolites, beta zeolites, Mordenite zeolites and ZSM zeolites are acceptable.
  • Preferred zeolites include hydrophobic zeolites and mildly hydrophobic zeolites which have affinity for hydrophobic and mildly hydrophobic organic compounds of such sidestream smoke whereby water vapour is avoided.
  • the zeolite materials provide a highly porous structure which selectively absorbs and adsorbs components of sidestream smoke.
  • the highly porous structure generally comprise macropores amongst the particles and micropores within the particles which branch off of the macropores. It is believed that the captured components in the macropores and micropores in presence of the cerium oxide or other suitable oxidation catalysts at the high temperature of the burning cigarette, converts such captured components into oxidized compounds which continue to be trapped in the adsorbent material or are released as invisible gases which have sufficiently low tar and nicotine levels so that the sidestream is invisible or at a low desired level.
  • the zeolite materials may be characterized by the following formula: M m M' n M" P [aAlO 2 • b SiO 2 • cTO 2 ] wherein
  • Preferred zeolites of the above formula have the specific formulas of faujasites ((Na 2 , Ca, Mg) 29 [Al 58 Si 134 O 384 ] ⁇ 240 H 2 O; cubic), ⁇ -zeolites (Na n [Al n Si 64-n O 128 ] with n ⁇ 7; tetragonal), Mordenite zeolites (Na 8 [Al 8 Si 40 O 96 ] ⁇ 24 H 2 O; orthorhombic), ZSM zeolites (Na n [Al n Si 96-n O 192 ] ⁇ 16 H 2 O with n ⁇ 27; orthorhombic), and mixtures thereof.
  • sorptive material various grades may be used. This is particularly true with gradients of zeolites which can be custom designed to selectively adsorb, for example, high boiling point materials, mid boiling point materials and low boiling point materials. This can lead to layers of the zeolite composition where the cerium oxide or other suitable catalyst contemplated by this invention is preferably dispersed throughout these layers. The layers may then be bound on cigarette paper for the tobacco rod by using a binder or an adhesive which may be, for example, polyvinylacetate, polyvinyl alcohol, carboxy methyl cellulose (CMC), starches and casein or soya proteins, and mixtures thereof
  • the oxygen donor and oxygen storage metal oxide oxidation catalyst may be selected from the transition metal oxides, rare earth metal oxides, (such as scandium, yttrium, and lanthanide metal series, i.e. lanthanum) and mixtures thereof. It is appreciated that the catalyst may be in its metal oxide form or a precursor of the metal oxide which, at the temperature of the burning cigarette, is converted to a metal oxide to perform its catalytic activities.
  • the transition metal oxides may be selected from oxides of the group of metals from the Periodic Table consisting of groups, VB, VIB, VIIB, VIII and IB metals and mixtures thereof.
  • Preferred metals from the transition metal group are oxides of iron, copper, silver, manganese, vanadium and tungsten and from the rare earth group are oxides of lanthanide metals such as oxides of lanthinum, cerium, praseodymium, neodymium and mixtures thereof.
  • cerium may be used in admixture with any one of the transition metals such as Ce/Zr mixed oxide.
  • other metal oxide oxidation catalysts may be used with the oxygen storage and oxygen donor type of catalyst.
  • Such other metal catalysts include precious metals and metals from groups IIA, IVA and mixtures thereof. Examples include palladium, platinum, rhodium, tin oxide, copper oxide, iron oxide, manganese oxide and mixtures thereof.
  • the cerium catalyst precursor may be in the form of a cerium salt such as a cerium nitrate or other dispersible forms of cerium such as a cerium sol made up of a cerium oxide hydrate or as it is also refrred to as a cerium hydroxide which is applied in solution or sol to the sorptive material or to a paper as a coating and which is converted to cerium oxide at the high temperature of the burning cigarette to then function as a catalyst.
  • the sol may be a low nitrate cerium oxide hydrate sol.
  • the term catalyst is intended to include any catalyst precursor.
  • the catalyst such as, cerium oxide
  • the catalyst is used in combination with the adjunct material. It has been found that when the two are used separate from one another or in spaced apart, non- adjacent layers, the ability to control sidestream smoke is greatly reduced. Although in certain arrangements, some sidestream smoke control can be achieved.
  • the catalyst is substantially adjacent the adjunct material. This can be achieved by co-mingling the particulate catalyst, in admixture with the adjunct, contacting a layer of the adjunct with a catalyst layer, coating the catalyst on the adjunct or impregnating the catalyst within or on the porous surfaces of the adjunct, to bring about the desired surprising sidestream smoke control properties. It should be appreciated that many other constituents may be used in addition to the combination of the oxygen storage and oxygen donor metal oxide oxidation catalyst and the adjunct.
  • Additional additives may be used to further enhance the treatment of the sidestream smoke or alter other characteristics of the cigarette. Such additional additives may be mixed in with the treatment composition or used elsewhere in the cigarette construction, providing of course that such additives do not appreciably impact negatively on the ability of the treatment composition to treat the sidestream smoke.
  • the composition may be formulated in a variety of ways which achieve co-mingling of the cerium with the adsorptive material.
  • the adsorptive material may be sprayed with or dipped in a cerium salt solution such as cerium nitrate or cerium oxide hydrate sol to impregnate the surface of the adsorptive material with cerium material.
  • Cerium oxide may be prepared as a separate fine powder which is mixed with the fine powder of the adsorptive material.
  • the catalyst powders have an average particle size of less than about 30 ⁇ m and preferably less than 20 ⁇ m and most preferably about 1.0 to 10 ⁇ m and more preferably 6 to 10 ⁇ m to ensure intimate mixing and co-mingling of the materials.
  • the selected catalyst has a surface area which is such to ensure that the catalyst active sites are available to the migrating sidestream smoke components. This may result in catalyst particle size being greater than 30 ⁇ m in certain embodiments, if the catalyst particles are properly distributed to achieve the necessary degree of sidestream smoke component oxidation.
  • the cerium oxide is one of the few metal oxides which can perform both functions of the invention, namely as the oxygen storage and oxygen donor catalyst and as well as the adjunct.
  • the porous cerium oxide particles can be made with the high surface areas and an average particle size required for the adjunct.
  • the cerium oxide is used with the cigarette paper in a first amount as the catalyst and a second amount as the adjunct in the treatment composition. Such amounts of the cerium oxide correspond generally with the amounts used for the catalyst and adjunct in accordance with other aspects of the invention to make up the total loading.
  • the high surface area cerium oxides can be used with adjuncts such as zeolites or other high surface metal oxides such as zirconium oxide or zirconium hydroxide.
  • the cerium may be formulated as a solution dispersion, such as cerium oxide sol, or the like and applied to the sorptive material such as zeolite. It is then dried and fired to provide cerium oxide particles fixed on the surfaces of the adsorptive material. When the cerium oxide particles are fixed to adjunct surfaces such as surfaces of zeolite, the average particle size may be less than about 1.0 ⁇ m.
  • the relative amounts of cerium oxide fixed to the zeolite may range from about 1% to 75% by weight based on the total equivalent cerium oxide and zeolite content.
  • the preferred relative amounts of cerium oxide fixed to the zeolite may range from about 5% to 70% by weight based on the total equivalent cerium oxide and zeolite content.
  • the method generally involves making a catalytic cerium oxide-coated zeolite particulate material having at least 1 % by weight of cerium oxide coated on outer surfaces of the zeolite particulate material, based on the total equivalent cerium oxide and zeolite content.
  • the method generally comprises the steps of:
  • ash appearance characteristics include delamination, defoliation, ash smear, oily appearance and color. It was thought that various ash modifiers could be added to the paper to improve ash appearance.
  • ash modifiers include metal oxides and/or carbonates such as zirconium oxide, titanium oxides, magnesium oxide, aluminum oxide, cerium oxide, tin oxide, iron oxide, manganese oxide, calcium carbonate, zirconium carbonate, magnesium carbonate and mixtures thereof.
  • the treatment composition may require modifications to improve ash characteristics.
  • modifications may include selection of a particular chemical or physical type of oxygen donor/oxygen storage catalyst and/or of the type of adjunct.
  • reduced amounts of zeolite base material for the adjunct is appropriate.
  • the reduce amount of zeolite material based on the dry weight of the paper is preferably less than 35% by weight and more preferably less than 25% by weight and most preferably less than 15% by weight. It is appreciated that other types of fillers have to be added to compensate for the reduced amount of zeolite based adjunct.
  • Suitable substitute metal oxides and/or carbonates include zirconium oxide, titanium oxides, magnesium oxide, aluminum oxide, cerium oxide, tin oxide, iron oxide, manganese oxide, calcium carbonate, zirconium carbonate, magnesium carbonate and mixtures thereof.
  • Low or high surface area cerium/zirconium mixed oxides as a solid solution are preferred.
  • Such adjuncts may be made for example by co-precipitating zirconium and cerium species, drying the precipitate and then firing to form a crystalline solid solution product of high surface area cerium oxide and zirconium oxide.
  • the ratio of cerium oxide to zirconium oxide in this crystalline structure may range from about 5:95 through to 95:5.
  • the ratio may range from about 20:80 to 80:20 and most preferred ranging from about 50:50 to 80:20.
  • This material in its high surface area form also has catalytic properties and also provides for oxygen storage and donor properties where the zirconium oxide functions as the adjunct for the cerium oxide.
  • cerium oxide may be deposited on high surface area cerium oxide, cerium oxide hydrate deposited on high surface area cerium/zirconium oxides, cerium oxide hydrate deposit and dried on a high surface area cerium oxide particle.
  • oxidation catalyst of the aforementioned precious metal or transition metal types may be combined with the cerium based materials such as palladium, platinum, rhodium, tin oxide, copper oxide, iron oxide, manganese oxide, and mixtures thereof.
  • Solid solutions of mixed metal oxides are particularly preferred as the oxygen donor catalyst because of an improved lighter colour ash.
  • the solid solution of the mixed metal oxides includes the oxygen donor oxygen storage oxidation catalyst and the adjunct.
  • Preferred metal oxides in a solid solution as the oxygen donor oxygen storage material include lanthinum oxide, cerium oxide, praseodymium oxide, neodymium oxide and mixtures thereof.
  • the preferred metal oxides as adjuncts include zirconium oxide, aluminum oxide, magnesium oxide, titanium oxide and mixtures thereof.
  • solid solutions examples include cerium/lanthinum mixed oxide, cerium/zirconium mixed oxide, cerium/zirconium/lanthinum mixed oxide, cerium/zirconium/ praseodynium mixed oxide, cerium/zirconium/lanthinum/praseodynium mixed oxide, cerium/zirconium/neodymium mixed oxide.
  • These solid solutions of mixed oxides and other mixed oxides are readily available as commercial grade catalyst and are available from any of a number of catalyst suppliers.
  • Other alternatives to the solid solutions include physical mixtures of zirconium oxide, aluminum oxide, magnesium oxide, titanium oxide with a solid solution for example cerium/zirconium mixed oxide solid solution.
  • Other solid solutions and mixed oxides contemplated by this invention include cerium/aluminum mixed oxide, cerium/magnesium mixed oxide, cerium/titanium mixed oxide.
  • the oxidation catalysts which maybe included in the solid solutions are usually present in trace amounts.
  • Such catalyst include palladium, platinum, rhodium, tin oxide, copper oxide, iron oxide, manganese oxide and mixtures thereof. They are usually included in the solid solutions at levels less than 1% by weight of the total solid solution.
  • a preferred combination and in respect of the solid solution with trace amounts of other oxidation catalyst is a combination of the above catalyst with a solid solution of cerium/zirconium mixed oxide. It is preferred that the above oxidation catalyst either individually or mixtures thereof be included in the solid solution. Although alternatively it is understood that the above catalyst or mixtures thereof maybe applied to the surfaces of the cerium/zirconium mixed oxide solid solution particulate material.
  • Multiple purpose solid solution of mixed oxides include ceria/ zirconia/magnesia/titania/ where ceria makes up about 5% to about 75% of the solid solution.
  • a coating on the wrapper of particulate calcium carbonate is useful in improving ash characteristics.
  • the treatment composition maybe incorporated or coated on a wrapper which is the sole wrapper for the tobacco rod.
  • one approach to improving ash is to reduce the amount of the absorptive adjunct such a zeolites and substitute therefor a selected metal oxide.
  • a coating of calcium carbonate on the exterior of the wrapper greatly improves the ash particularly from the stand point of appearance. It is quite surprising that a coating of particulate calcium carbonate could have this effect on improving the ash characteristics.
  • the particulate calcium carbonate chemically or physically binds constituents in the wrapper to produce a more uniform light to gray coloured ash.
  • the particulate calcium carbonate maybe slurried with a suitable binder for coating on the wrapper.
  • suitable binders include those commonly used in coating calcium carbonate on wrapper materials such a polyvinlylalcohols, starches, CMC, casein, soya, binding clays and other acceptable binders or glues.
  • the particulate calcium carbonate has a particle size of that normally associated with its use as a filler in manufacture of cigarette paper. The particle size is therefore usually below 10 ⁇ m and preferably above 3 ⁇ m. Although some grades of calcium carbonate less than 1 ⁇ m may also be useful.
  • the surprising activity of the sidestream smoke treatment composition permits its use in cigarette papers having a wide range of porosities. It has also been found that the composition does not have to be used in cigarette papers that just have high porosities.
  • the treatment composition works equally well in papers with very low porosities of about 0.5 through to very high porosities of about 1,000 Coresta units. Preferred porosities are usually less than 200 Coresta units and most preferred porosities are usually in the range of about 15 to 60 Coresta units.
  • the paper may be used as a double or multiple wrap. The paper may be applied as an outer wrap over a cigarette having conventional cigarette paper. It is appreciated that depending upon the porosity, certain combinations of the catalyst and adjunct may work better than others.
  • the composition may be simply sprayed onto either side or both sides of the cigarette paper and absorbed into the paper.
  • the paper 10 is conveyed in the direction of arrow 12.
  • the treatment composition 14 as a slurry is sprayed by spray nozzle 16 onto the paper 10 to provide a coating 18 which is dried on the paper.
  • the composition may be extruded as a film to the surface of the paper and may be used as a single or multiple wrap.
  • a film coating device 20 contains the slurried treatment composition 14.
  • the film coater 20 lays a thin film 22 on the paper 10 which is conveyed in the direction of arrow 12.
  • the film is dried to provide a coating 24 on the paper 10.
  • Coating may be achieved by a roller applicator 26, as shown in Figure 3 .
  • the treatment composition 14 is applied as a layer 28 on the roller 30.
  • a doctor knife 32 determines the thickness of a layer 34 which is then laid onto the paper 10 which is conveyed in the direction of arrow 12.
  • the layer is then dried to form a coating 36 on the paper 10.
  • Impregnation is achieved by using the coating roller 24 of Figure 4 and the resultant layer 36 with paper 10 is passed in the direction of arrow 12 through pressure rollers 38 and 40 which force the layer of material into the paper 10 to thereby impregnate constituents of the treatment composition into the paper.
  • Mylar TM sheet or other suitable continuous sheet may be used to transfer a coating composition from the Mylar TM sheet to the surface of the cigarette paper.
  • This type of transfer coating is useful when the substrate sheet may not readily accept the roll coating of a composition due to physical strength characteristics of the paper or the like.
  • a further alternative is to incorporate the treatment composition into the manufacture of paper.
  • the composition may be introduced to the paper furnish as a slurry.
  • the treatment composition in the furnish 42 is stirred by stirrer 44 to form a slurry in the tank 46.
  • the slurry is transferred in the conventional paper making manner and is laid as a layer 48 on a moving conveyor 50 to form the resultant cigarette paper 52.
  • the treatment composition is incorporated in the final paper product.
  • Another alternative is to sandwich the treatment composition between paper layers to form a double cigarette paper wrap on tobacco rods.
  • the composition may be applied such as by the spraying technique of Figure 1 on the interior of the outer paper and/or the exterior of the inner paper.
  • the composition as a layer is sandwiched between the two papers.
  • Each paper may be of half of the thickness of conventional cigarette paper so that the double wrap does not add appreciably to the overall diameter of the cigarette as is readily handled by cigarette making machines.
  • the tobacco rod 54 has, for example, the cigarette paper 10 wrapped therearound with the coating 18 on the outside of the paper.
  • the cigarette paper 10 can be applied with the coating 18 on the inner surface of the paper adjacent the tobacco rod 54.
  • FIG 8 Another alternative, as shown in Figure 8 , is to sandwich the coating 18 between cigarette papers 56 and 58.
  • the papers 56 and 58 with the intermediate coating 18 may be formed as a single cigarette wrapper which is applied to the tobacco rod 54.
  • Figure 9 A further alternative is shown in Figure 9 where the tobacco rod 54 is covered with conventional cigarette paper 60. Over the conventional paper 60 is the cigarette paper 52 of Figure 5 with the treatment composition incorporated therein. It is also appreciated that paper 52 with the treatment composition incorporated therein may be applied directly to the tobacco rod 54.
  • various combinations for the sidestream smoke treatment paper may be provided in a double wrap configuration for example, a coated paper of Figure 7 could be used as the inner layer of paper and a different paper could be used as the outer layer of the double wrap which could be conventional paper.
  • the inner layer paper could also be a paper having the treatment composition incorporated therein such as that of Figure 9 .
  • the inner layer paper could be designed to provide for sidestream smoke reduction by including all the necessary components of the composition such an oxygen storage and donor metal oxide oxidation catalyst and the non-combustible adjunct for the catalyst.
  • Preferred examples of this type of composition includes a high surface area, cerium/zirconium mixed oxide with zeolite and optionally enhanced with an oxidation catalyst such as platinum or palladium.
  • the amount of zeolite may exceed 30% and may be in the range for example of 50% to 60% by weight.
  • the outer layer of the double wrap may have a different composition and be designed to provide for ash modifications to achieve desired characteristics.
  • the outer paper may be designed to enhance not only ash appearance but as well modify the burn rate of the cigarette and also minimized if not eliminate flare ups on lightning and puffing of the cigarette.
  • the outer layer may include, for example, metal oxides such as low surface area cerium oxide, solid solution of cerium oxide/zirconium oxide, alumina, zirconium oxide, titanium oxide, tin oxide and the like.
  • cerium oxide hydrate may be coated on the metal oxide materials of the outer layer to ensure sufficient oxygen is present to support combustion of the outer layer of the cigarette.
  • the two layers when combined as a double wrap provide effective control of visible sidestream smoke.
  • the adjacent papers burn evenly to produce desired ash and the outer paper may function to minimize or eliminate the highly active oxygen donor material from causing flare ups.
  • the double wrap feature of the invention provides significant flexibility in the design of a low sidestream smoke cigarette.
  • the individual sheets of the double wrap design has the selected treatment composition impregnated, coated or incorporated in the respective sheet.
  • sheets that have a treatment composition incorporated therein may also be coated with the same or different treatment composition to further enhance the sidestream smoke control and/or ash modification.
  • exemplary treatment composition for the inner and outer papers are as follows:-
  • compositions for the inner and outer papers may be combined in various combinations to provide for sidestream smoke control and ash improvement.
  • the preferred combination is a solid solution of high surface area cerium/zirconium mixed oxide (75:25) and zirconium oxide for the outer paper.
  • the preferred treatment composition is a solid solution of high surface area cerium/zirconium mixed oxide (75:25) enhanced with palladium catalyst plus zeolite enhanced with palladium catalyst.
  • On a dry weight basis in the outer paper coating formulation has 25% of high surface area cerium/zirconium mixed oxide and 75% of low surface area zirconium oxide.
  • the inner paper on a dry weight basis has about 44% of high surface area cerium/zirconium mixed oxide and 56% of zeolite both enhanced with palladium.
  • the aforementioned procedures for providing the sidestream smoke treatment composition within or onto a desired cigarette paper may be varied with respect to the loadings provided and the number of wraps used on a tobacco rod.
  • two or more papers with various loadings of the composition, on both sides of the papers, may be used such that the loading to one side is reduced, making the coating application easier.
  • processing aids include laminating materials such as polyvinylalcohol, starches, CMC, casein, soya and other types of acceptable glues, various types of binding clays, inert fillers, whiteners, viscosity modying agents, inert fibrous material such as zirconium fibres and zirconium/cerium fibres, such as described in U.S. application Serial No. 60/318,614 entitled Zirconium/Metal Oxide Fibres, filed September 13, 2001, the subject matter of which is incorporated hereby by reference.
  • laminating materials such as polyvinylalcohol, starches, CMC, casein, soya and other types of acceptable glues, various types of binding clays, inert fillers, whiteners, viscosity modying agents, inert fibrous material such as zirconium fibres and zirconium/cerium fibres, such as described in U.S. application Serial No. 60/318,614 entitled Zirconium/Metal Oxide Fibre
  • Penetrating agents may also be employed to carry the composition into the paper. Suitable diluents such as water are also used to dilute the composition so that it may be spray coated, curtain coated, air knife coated, rod coated, blade coated, print coated, size press coated, roller coated, slot die coated, technique of transfer coating and the like onto a conventional cigarette paper.
  • Desirable loadings of the treatment composition onto or into the cigarette paper, wrapper or the like is preferably in the range of from about 2.5 g/m 2 to about 125 g/m 2 . Most preferably the loading is in the range of about 2.5g/m 2 to about 100 g/m 2 . Expressed as a percent by weight, the paper may have from about 10% to 500% by weight and most preferably about 10% to 400% by weight of the treatment composition. While these loadings are representative for single paper, it is understood by one skilled in the art that these total loadings may be provided with the use of two or more papers.
  • the sidestream smoke reduction composition is used normally as a water slurry of the composition.
  • the make up of the dry composition which can be made into a slurry may vary depending on its use as a paper coating, incorporation or impregnation.
  • the incorporation formulation may contain by weight from about 10% to 33% of a cerium based catalyst, 20% to 62% of an adjunct and 10% to 75% of an ash modifier.
  • Another alternative may contain by weight about 10% to 25% of a cerium based catalyst, 40% to 55% of an adjunct and 20% to 50% of a zeolite which is other than the adjunct.
  • the slurry may be incorporated in the furnish of the paper in the paper making process, or is coated onto the paper by various coating processes or impregnated into the paper by various impregnating methods.
  • the preferred average particle size of the catalyst and adjunct for the slurry is in the range of about lpm to about 30 ! lm and most preferably about 1, um to about 10pu.
  • the preferred relative amounts of catalyst fixed to the adjunct may range from about 1% to 75% for cerium, more preferably from about 10% to 70%, and even more preferably from about 20% to 70% by weight based on the total equivalent catalyst and adjunct content. Less than 1% of other catalyst such as precious metal catalyst may be fixed to the adjunct.

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