EP2832243B1 - Geschnittenes stück duftstoffhaltiger folie - Google Patents

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EP2832243B1
EP2832243B1 EP13767629.2A EP13767629A EP2832243B1 EP 2832243 B1 EP2832243 B1 EP 2832243B1 EP 13767629 A EP13767629 A EP 13767629A EP 2832243 B1 EP2832243 B1 EP 2832243B1
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A24—TOBACCO; CIGARS; CIGARETTES; SIMULATED SMOKING DEVICES; SMOKERS' REQUISITES
    • A24B—MANUFACTURE OR PREPARATION OF TOBACCO FOR SMOKING OR CHEWING; TOBACCO; SNUFF
    • A24B3/00—Preparing tobacco in the factory
    • A24B3/12—Steaming, curing, or flavouring tobacco
    • 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
    • A24B15/281—Treatment of tobacco products or tobacco substitutes by chemical substances the action of the chemical substances being delayed
    • A24B15/282—Treatment of tobacco products or tobacco substitutes by chemical substances the action of the chemical substances being delayed by indirect addition of the chemical substances, e.g. in the wrapper, in the case
    • 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
    • A24B15/30—Treatment of tobacco products or tobacco substitutes by chemical substances by organic substances
    • A24B15/302—Treatment of tobacco products or tobacco substitutes by chemical substances by organic substances by natural substances obtained from animals or plants
    • A24B15/303—Plant extracts other than tobacco

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  • the present invention relates to a cut piece of a flavor-containing sheet for a smoking article.
  • a flavor-containing sheet in which a volatile flavor such as menthol is dispersed in a non-volatile matrix such as a polysaccharide, a polyol or an ether polymer is known (for example, Patent Documents 1 and 2).
  • the volatile flavor is dispersed in the matrix in the state of droplet-shaped particles of tens of micrometers, which suppresses the volatilization of the flavor.
  • the flavor-containing sheet is used, the flavor-containing sheet is cut, and the obtained cut pieces are mixed with cut tobacco. The obtained mixture is wrapped to form a cigarette rod, and the smoking taste of the flavor is added to the smoking taste of the cut tobacco during smoking.
  • a cut piece of a flavor-containing sheet comprising a non-volatile matrix and a flavor dispersed in the non-volatile matrix, characterized in that the cut piece has a hexahedral shape; a ratio of an area of cutting planes to a volume is 3.0 or less; a ratio of a length of a long side to that of a short side is 10 or less; and the length of the long side is less than a diameter of a cigarette rod to be produced; and the non-volatile matrix comprises gellan gum and tamarind gum.
  • the cut piece of the flavor-containing sheet of the present invention maintains a sufficient flavor content. Further, the cut piece suppresses the volatilization of the flavor during storage, and has a shape which is not easily crushed by a mechanical external force.
  • a cut piece of a flavor-containing sheet of the present invention is cut out from the flavor-containing sheet.
  • a flavor such as menthol is dispersed in a non-volatile matrix of gellan and tamarind gum.
  • the flavor-containing sheet is described in, for example, International Publication No. WO2009-142159 .
  • a flavor is dispersed in a matrix of a polysaccharide gel. Since the above-mentioned polysaccharide can form a gel by cooling, it is not necessary to add a gelling agent such as a metal chloride to the polysaccharide.
  • a gelling agent such as a metal chloride
  • examples of the flavor include lipophilic flavors such as 1-menthol or mint oil.
  • the flavor-containing sheet can be obtained by mixing the polysaccharides with water, heating the mixture to prepare an aqueous solution of the polysaccharide, adding a flavor and preferably an emulsifier to the aqueous solution, stirring the solution to emulsify the flavor, casting the obtained emulsion on a substrate, and drying the emulsion by heat.
  • Lecithin, a sugar ester or the like can be used as the emulsifier.
  • the drying by heat can be performed at a temperature of 70°C to 200°C.
  • the flavor-containing sheet thus obtained the flavor is dispersed in the form of particles in the non-volatile matrix.
  • the flavor-containing sheet can contain 18% by weight or more of the flavor, and preferably 60% by weight or more. Usually, the flavor-containing sheet contains 65% by weight or less of the flavor.
  • a cut piece is cut out from the flavor-containing sheet.
  • the shape of the cut piece is a hexahedron, preferably a rectangular prism, for example, a regular quadrangular prism, and more preferably a cube.
  • a short side is defined as x; a long side is defined as y; and a thickness is defined as t.
  • the short side and the long side are defined as the short side and long side of a square formed by projecting the hexahedron in the thickness direction.
  • a ratio r of the long side/short side, an area A of cutting planes, a volume V of the cut piece, a ratio ⁇ of the area of the cutting planes/volume are represented by the following formulae.
  • the area A of the cutting planes means the total area of the four cutting planes of the cut piece which are obtained by cutting the flavor-containing sheet in the longitudinal and latitudinal directions along the thickness direction.
  • Ratio r of long side/short side r y / x in the case of y ⁇ x
  • the ratio of the area of the cutting planes to the volume of the cut piece is 3.0 or less; the ratio of the length of the long side to that of the short side is 10 or less; and the length of the long side is less than the diameter of a cigarette rod to be produced. More preferably, in the cut piece having a hexahedron shape, the ratio of the area of the cutting planes to the volume of the cut piece is 2.0 or less; the ratio of the length of the long side to that of the short side is 5 or less; and the length of the long side is 1/2 or less of the diameter of the cigarette rod to be produced.
  • the shape of the cut piece is a quadrangular prism
  • the short side is 1.0 mm to 2.0 mm.
  • the cut piece of the flavor-containing sheet obtained as described above is mixed with cut tobacco.
  • the obtained mixture is wrapped by a cigarette paper to prepare a cigarette rod.
  • the diameter of the cigarette rod is 3 mm to 10 mm.
  • the menthol content of the menthol-containing sheet was measured by GC-FID as follows.
  • 0.1 g of the cut tobacco with which the menthol-containing sheet was mixed was weighed.
  • 10 mL of methanol (a new reagent of special grade or higher grade was dispensed without exposing it to the air to eliminate the influence of the water absorption in the air) was added to the cut tobacco in a 50 mL closed container (screw pipe), followed by shaking (200 rpm) for 40 minutes.
  • the obtained mixture was left overnight, shaken (200 rpm) for 40 minutes again, and allowed to stand.
  • the supernatant was used as a measurement solution (by 10-fold diluting it with methanol for GC measurement).
  • the measurement solution was analyzed by the following GC-FID and quantified according to a calibration curve method.
  • GC-FID 6890N gas chromatograph, manufactured by Agilent Technologies, Inc. Column; DB-WAX, 30 m ⁇ 530 ⁇ m ⁇ 1 ⁇ m Constant pressure mode, 5.5 psi (velocity; 50 cm/sec) Injection; 1.0 ⁇ L Inlet; Spritless mode 250°C, 5.5 psi Oven; 80°C ⁇ (10°C/minute) ⁇ 170°C (hold 6.0 minutes) [maximum 220°C] Detector; FID detector, 250°C (H 2 ; 40 mL/minute, air; 450 mL/minute) Signal rate; 20 Hz
  • Table 1 Flavor residual ratio Cigarette rod Flavor residual ratio 2 days after storage 6 days after storage 30 days after storage 55 days after storage 90 days after storage Comparative example 1 65 weight % 36 weight % 4 weight % 3 weight % 2 weight % Example 1 59 weight % 61 weight % 43 weight % 44 weight % 40 weight %
  • the cut pieces of the flavor-containing sheet had a flavor residual ratio far higher than that of the case where the flavor was directly added to the cut tobacco.
  • polysaccharides gellan gum and tamarind gum
  • polysaccharides gellan gum and tamarind gum
  • polysaccharides gellan gum and tamarind gum
  • 13000 parts by weight of 1-menthol as a flavor 455 parts by weight of a colorant (caramel color and cocoa powder), and an emulsifier aqueous solution containing 105 parts by weight of an emulsifier (lecithin) in 1995 parts by weight of water were added to the polysaccharide aqueous solution.
  • the obtained mixture was sufficiently emulsified by means of a homogenizer.
  • the emulsified slurry was cast into a sheet form on a substrate, and dried at 70°C. The thickness of the dried flavor-containing sheet was 0.1 mm.
  • the flavor-containing sheet was cut into quadrangular prism shapes having various sizes to prepare cut pieces.
  • the sizes of the cut pieces prepared were as follows.
  • each cut piece was left in a thermostat at a temperature of 50°C for 1 hour in order to accelerate the volatilization of the flavor, and the weight decrease rate of the flavor was measured.
  • the relationship between the weight decrease rate and the sectional area/volume ratio of the cut piece is shown in FIG. 1 .
  • the sectional area per volume of the cut piece should be decreased. If the weight decrease rate of the flavor is 30% or less under the acceleration condition, a concentration of the flavor contained in a cigarette rod is regarded as such a level that the incidence of the problem of the appearance of the cigarette (incidence of a stain on a cigarette paper) is decreased. Therefore, in consideration of application of the cut piece to tobacco, the sectional area/volume of the cut piece is 3 or less; and desirably the sectional area/volume of the cut piece is 2 or less, wherein the weight decrease rate of the flavor is 20% or less.
  • the average particle size of the cut pieces A, B and C was measured, wherein the weight decrease rate was 30% or less. After that, each of the cut pieces A, B, and C was put into a small mill (trade name: Labo Millser Plus). After the cut piece was subjected to a milling treatment for 5 seconds, the average particle size was measured. Further, the milled sample was put into a cylindrical container having an inner diameter of 60 mm. A load of 3.0 kg was applied from above, and balkiness at that time (after crush) (i.e., a compression volume per 1 gram of the cut piece in the case where the load was applied) was measured. Average particle size distributions are shown in FIGS. 2 to 4 . FIG. 2 shows the result of the cut piece A; FIG.
  • FIG. 3 shows the result of the cut piece B; and FIG. 4 shows the result of the cut piece C.
  • line 'a' represents a particle size before crush
  • line 'b' represents a particle size after crush.
  • Table 2 The average particle size of the cut pieces A to C before and after crush and the bulkiness are shown in Table 2.
  • the shape of the cut piece is determined by first specifying the sectional area of cutting planes based on the sectional area/volume ratio, and thereafter decreasing the long side/short side ratio, thereby suppressing the occurrence of the crush section. Furthermore, when a cigarette is produced by an existing cigarette making machine, the cut tobacco with which the cut pieces of the flavor-containing sheet are blended is adsorption-conveyed by an adsorption band of the cigarette making machine.
  • the cut piece can pass without being bent in the subsequent step. Therefore, in consideration of the case where the cut piece is disposed in the central part of the tobacco rod, the size of the long side of the cutting plane of the cut piece is desirably less than the diameter of the cigarette rod in order to prevent the crush of the cut piece in making the cigarette.
  • the cut piece A or the cut piece C was mixed in an amount of 5% with the cut tobacco, and the obtained mixture was wrapped to prepare a cigarette rod having a circumference length of 25.2 mm.
  • the cigarette rod was cut open, and all the cut pieces were collected. However, very few cut pieces were crushed into small pieces.

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  1. Ein geschnittenes Stück duftstoffhaltiger Folie, umfassend eine nichtflüchtige Matrix und einen in der nichtflüchtigen Matrix dispergierten Duftstoff, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass das geschnittene Stück eine sechsflächige Form aufweist; das Verhältnis einer Fläche von Schnittebenen zu einem Volumen 3,0 oder weniger beträgt; das Verhältnis von Länge einer langen Seite zu der einer kurzen Seite 10 oder weniger beträgt; die Länge der langen Seite weniger als der Durchmesser eines zu erzeugenden Zigarettenstrangs ist; und die nichtflüchtige Matrix Gellangummi und Tamarindengummi umfasst.
  2. Geschnittenes Stück duftstoffhaltiger Folie nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass das Verhältnis der Fläche der Schnittebenen zum Volumen 2,0 oder weniger beträgt; das Verhältnis der Länge der langen Seite zu der der kurzen Seite 5 oder weniger beträgt; und die Länge der langen Seite 1/2 oder weniger des Durchmessers des zu produzierenden Zigarettenstrangs beträgt.
  3. Geschnittenes Stück duftstoffhaltiger Folie nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass das geschnittene Stück eine viereckige Prismenform aufweist.
  4. Geschnittenes Stück duftstoffhaltiger Folie nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass das Aroma L-Menthol umfasst.
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