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EP2949225B1
EP2949225B1 EP14001848.2A EP14001848A EP2949225B1 EP 2949225 B1 EP2949225 B1 EP 2949225B1 EP 14001848 A EP14001848 A EP 14001848A EP 2949225 B1 EP2949225 B1 EP 2949225B1
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Thomas Pienemann
Jan Fuhrmann
Thomas Hühne
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Reemtsma Cigarettenfabriken GmbH
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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
    • A24D1/00—Cigars; Cigarettes
    • A24D1/02—Cigars; Cigarettes with special covers
    • 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
    • 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
    • A24D3/048—Tobacco smoke filters characterised by their shape or structure containing additives

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  • the invention relates to a smoking article, e.g., a filter cigarette.
  • WO 2008/043988 A1 discloses a carbon-containing paper used as a filter plug wrap.
  • the core of the related filter comprises carbon as well.
  • a filter according to this document would be connected to a cigarette rod using a conventional tipping paper so that the carbon paper is not directly exposed to the outer surface of the cigarette.
  • EP 2 719 295 A1 describes a smoking article with a filter wrapper containing at its inner surface a sorption material to reduce mainstream gas phase constituents. It is characterised by having a ventilation zone located upstream of at least 80% of the sorbent material to maximize the desired effect of reducing smoke constituents.
  • US 3 370 592 discloses a filter cigarette with parts of the filter being made visible by use of a transparent plug wrap in combination with a tipping comprising openings for viewing.
  • the purpose of this design is to indicate the adsorption in the filter, e.g. by colour change.
  • Similar solutions are described in CH 394 912 , WO 2011/154246 A1 , WO 2012/076649 A1 , and EP 1 252 832 A2 .
  • WO 2011/038430 A1 discloses a method of producing tipping papers or filter plug wraps with viewing holes.
  • the object of the invention is to provide a smoking article which can reduce finger smell generally caused by smoking.
  • the smoking article (e.g., a cigarette) according to the invention comprises a wrapped tobacco rod and a filter.
  • the filter includes filter material and an outer plug wrap.
  • the wrapped tobacco rod and the filter are connected by a tipping paper which overwraps the filter and a part of the wrapped tobacco rod.
  • the outer plug wrap is opaque and comprises activated carbon (active charcoal).
  • the tipping paper is provided with at least one opening (in the following: "openings", which does not exclude just one opening, however) through which the carbon surface of the outer plug wrap is exposed, i.e. exposed to the outside of the smoking article.
  • the filter may be composed of one segment, which comprises filter material (e.g., cellulose acetate) and is wrapped with the outer plug wrap.
  • filter material e.g., cellulose acetate
  • the term "outer plug wrap” includes a single filter plug wrap as commonly used in mono-filters. It is conceivable, however, that one or more than one additional layers of wrapping material are provided beneath the outer plug wrap. In any case, the outer plug wrap comprising activated carbon is the outermost layer of the filter segment.
  • the filter includes more than one segment, each segment comprising an outer layer.
  • the individual segments are connected to each other by the outer plug wrap, which overwraps the outer layers of the individual segments.
  • the filter may comprise at least one segment containing an adsorbent, preferably activated carbon.
  • the filter comprises a mouth-sided segment containing cellulose acetate and a rod-sided segment containing grains of activated carbon, and both segments are overwrapped and connected with the outer plug wrap, which includes activated carbon as well.
  • an individual segment is wrapped with more than one layer, e.g. with layers of different materials, or that an additional common plug wrap is provided beneath the activated carbon-containing outer plug wrap.
  • the tobacco rod of the smoking article can be wrapped with a suitable cigarette paper, as well known in the art.
  • the wrapped tobacco rod and the filter are coaxially aligned and linked by wrapping with the tipping paper.
  • the tipping paper is always the outermost layer in the filter region of the smoking article.
  • the outer plug wrap consists of a single ply containing activated carbon.
  • the term "single ply” does not exclude an optional additional coating, but means that there is only one paper ply.
  • the activated carbon can be added, e.g., during the paper manufacturing process. Suitable papers are disclosed in WO 2008/043988 A1 (see above) and are commercially available, e.g., from Saber Swiss Quality Paper. They are commonly referred to as "carbon papers”.
  • the activated carbon can also be applied to the outer surface of a conventional plug wrap paper after paper making by suitable methods such as coating or printing.
  • the tipping although designated as “tipping paper”, can be made from any suitable material known to a skilled person, e.g. paper, cellophane, polymer films etc. In this sense, the term “paper” includes the other materials as well.
  • the tipping paper comprises one or more openings of any suitable shape. Preferentially, each opening has a surface area in the range of from 0.5 mm 2 to 20 mm 2 .
  • the combined surface area of all openings at one cigarette is in the range of from 20 mm 2 to 200 mm 2 .
  • these openings are located in the region of the filter where the cigarette is usually held, which is 10 mm or more away from the mouth-sided end of the cigarette. In case of filter-ventilated cigarettes, the openings should be placed upstream of the ventilation zone.
  • the openings can be cut from the tipping paper by well-known processes such as laser-cutting or mechanical punching-out.
  • the activated carbon is exposed through the openings to the outer surface of the filter end of the smoking article, where the smoking article is usually held, so that the activated carbon is placed in close proximity to the smoker's fingers during use of the smoking article.
  • the activated carbon can interact with the sidestream smoke that passes along the cigarette surface and can adsorb smelly sidestream smoke constituents.
  • a further way of interaction is by direct contact between the activated carbon and the fingers, whereby smelly, volatile substances that already have been deposited on the skin can be adsorbed by the activated carbon.
  • the filter may comprise at least one layer of wrapping (including the carbon-containing outer plug wrap) which has, in the area of the openings, a porosity of less than 10 CU. That means, one of the filter plug wraps lying beneath the openings is substantially unporous, i.e. it has a porosity of less than 10 CU.
  • This largely unporous plug wrap may be, e.g., the carbon-containing outer plug wrap itself in case of a mono filter or at least one of the inner filter plug wrappings in case of a filter including more than one segment.
  • Typical porosity values for porous wrappings are in the range of from 100 CU to 40000 CU.
  • the tipping paper can be additionally micro-perforated, e.g. by electro-perforation or laser perforation, either before or after it is wrapped about the smoking article.
  • the perforations would also extend through any low-porosity wrapping beneath the tipping paper.
  • this additional ventilation zone is located downstream to the openings in the tipping paper.
  • the ventilation zone may be arranged in an area extending from the mouth-sided end of the smoking article to 70% of the length of the outer plug wrap.
  • the length of the outer plug wrap preferably corresponds to the filter length.
  • the openings are located at a distance of at least 10 mm from the mouth-sided end of the smoking article. This generally avoids a contact of the user's lips with the activated carbon exposed through the openings, but is a good distance in order to achieve a finger smell reduction.
  • the content of activated carbon in the outer plug wrap is in the range of from 5% to 50% (by weight, i.e. total weight of the outer plug wrap including activated carbon) or, preferably, in the range of from of 10% to 30% (by weight).
  • the activated carbon may be applied to the outwardly directed surface of the outer plug wrap, i.e. to that surface of the outer plug wrap which is outwardly directed with respect to the finished smoking article and exposed through the openings in the tipping paper.
  • the step of application can be performed, e.g., by coating or printing, preferably after the paper making process and before the outer plug wrap is wrapped about the corresponding filter parts.
  • the outer plug wrap has an areal weight in the range of from 20 g/m 2 to 80 g/m 2 , which includes the activated carbon.
  • the tobacco rod is wrapped with a low-sidestream (“LSS”) cigarette paper (or with multiple layers of a cigarette paper, which also has a sidestream-reducing effect).
  • LSS cigarette papers are commercially available, e.g. from Delfort Group, and usually contain higher CaCO 3 filler levels or special fillers like MgO.
  • the filter may generally comprise one filter segment or more than one filter segment.
  • at least one filter segment contains an adsorbent, preferably activated carbon.
  • the adsorbent can also reduce the smell of discarded cigarette butts.
  • Adsorbent may be added to filter materials (e.g., if only one filter segment is present) and/or contained in a separate filter compartment, as generally known in the art.
  • the outer plug wrap contains at least one adsorbent different from activated carbon.
  • adsorbents are zeolites, alumina or silica.
  • the filter of the smoking article has particular design features such as a coloured tow (e.g., coloured cellulose acetate tow), a mouth-sided recess or a shaped hollow bore element at the mouth-sided end of the filter, as known in the art.
  • a coloured tow e.g., coloured cellulose acetate tow
  • a mouth-sided recess e.g., coloured cellulose acetate tow
  • a shaped hollow bore element at the mouth-sided end of the filter
  • FIG. 1 illustrates, in a three-dimensional view, a cigarette as an example of a smoking article.
  • the cigarette comprises a wrapped tobacco rod 1, which includes an amount of a tobacco blend wrapped in a cigarette paper, and a filter.
  • the filter comprises filter material 2, e.g. cellulose acetate, which is wrapped in a plug wrap 3 (corresponding to the outer plug wrap discussed above) containing activated carbon.
  • the filter is connected to the wrapped tobacco rod 1 by a tipping paper 4, which comprises openings 5 and an optional perforation line 6 for filter ventilation.
  • the tipping paper 4 overwraps the filter 2, 3 and a part of the wrapped tobacco rod 1.
  • the tipping paper 4 is shown partially unwrapped.
  • the filter can be designed as a filter having one segment or more than one segment, as explained above.
  • FIG. 2 is a schematic drawing that shows several examples of patterns and shapes for openings 5' provided in tipping paper 4'. It is evident that there are much more possibilities for arrangements of openings 5'.
  • Cigarettes with a mono filter were produced on a standard cigarette maker: Cigarette circumference: 24.5 mm Cigarette length: 83 mm Tobacco rod length: 56 mm Rod weight: 620 mg Cigarette paper: LSS paper, 10 CU, 45 g/m 2 Filter length: 27 mm Filter material: Cellulose acetate 3.8Y30 Filter plug wrap: Paper of 40 g/m 2 10% activated carbon by weight Porosity ⁇ 10 CU Tipping length: 32 mm (on cigarette)
  • the tipping was made from white paper and had oval openings of 2.5 mm x 8 mm with a distance of 2.4 mm, similar to the first example of Fig. 2 .
  • the distance of the downstream edge of the openings to the mouth-sided end of the cigarette was 16 mm.
  • a filter ventilation of 35% was applied by use of an on-line laser on the cigarette machine with the laser line being located at 13 mm from the mouth-sided end.
  • Cigarettes with a dual filter were produced on a standard cigarette maker: Cigarette circumference: 24.5 mm Cigarette length: 83 mm Tobacco rod length: 56 mm Rod weight: 620 mg Cigarette paper: LSS paper, 10 CU, 45 g/m 2 Filter length: 27 mm Mouth-ended filter plug: Filter material: Cellulose acetate 3.8Y30 Plug wrap: Paper of 23 g/m 2 Plug wrap porosity: 10000 CU Plug length: 15 mm Rod-ended filter plug: Filter material: Cellulose acetate 3.8Y30 with 3 mg/mm activated carbon Plug wrap: Paper of 27 g/m 2 Plug wrap porosity: ⁇ 10 CU Plug length: 12 mm Outer plug wrap: Paper of 50 g/m 2 30% activated carbon content by weight Porosity 1200 CU Tipping length: 32 mm (on cigarette)
  • the tipping was made from white paper and had oval openings of 2.5 x 6 mm with a distance of 2.4 mm, similar to the first example of Fig. 2 .
  • the distance of the downstream edge of the openings to the mouth-sided end of the cigarette was 17 mm.
  • the tipping had an additional electrostatic micro-perforation located between 10 and 13 mm distance from the mouth-sided end to obtain a tipping porosity (measured excluding openings) of 300 CU. By choice of these parameters, a filter ventilation of 25% was achieved.
  • Cigarettes according to both Example 1 and Example 2 were smoked by a test panel over a period of one week, and the participants reported that less finger smell was observed compared to their usual brand.

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  1. Article à fumer comprenant un boudin de tabac enveloppé (1) et un filtre qui comprend un matériau de filtre (2) et un papier pour filtre extérieur (3), le boudin de tabac enveloppé (1) et le filtre (2, 3) étant reliés par un papier de raccordement (4) qui recouvre le filtre (2, 3) et une partie du boudin de tabac enveloppé (1), dans lequel le papier pour filtre extérieur (3) est opaque et comprend du charbon actif et le papier de raccordement (4) est pourvu d'au moins une ouverture (5) qui expose la surface du papier pour filtre extérieur (3), caractérisé en ce que l'aire totale des ouvertures (5) est comprise dans l'intervalle de 20 mm2 à 20 mm2.
  2. Article à fumer selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que le filtre (2, 3) se compose d'un segment, qui comprend du matériau de filtre (2) et qui est enveloppé avec le papier pour filtre extérieur (3).
  3. Article à fumer selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que le filtre comprend plus d'un segment, chaque segment comprenant une couche extérieure, les segments individuels étant reliés entre eux par le papier pour filtre extérieur qui recouvre les couches extérieures des segments individuels.
  4. Article à fumer selon la revendication 2 ou 3, caractérisé en ce que le filtre comprend au moins un segment contenant un adsorbant, de préférence du charbon actif.
  5. Article à fumer selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 4, caractérisé en ce que le filtre comprend au moins une couche d'emballage, incluant le papier pour filtre extérieur (3), qui a, dans la région des ouvertures (5), une porosité inférieure à 10 CU.
  6. Article à fumer selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 5, caractérisé par une zone d'aération microperforée (6), qui est placée dans une région s'étendant de l'extrémité côté bouche de l'article à fumer à 70 % de la longueur du papier pour filtre extérieur (3).
  7. Article à fumer selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 6, caractérisé en ce que les ouvertures (5) sont situées à une distance d'au moins 10 mm de l'extrémité côté bouche de l'article à fumer.
  8. Article à fumer selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 7, caractérisé en ce que les ouvertures individuelles (5) ont chacune une aire comprise dans l'intervalle de 0,5 mm2 à 20 mm2.
  9. Article à fumer selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 8, caractérisé en ce que la teneur en charbon actif dans le papier pour filtre extérieur (3) est comprise dans l'intervalle de 5 % à 50 % en poids.
  10. Article à fumer selon la revendication 9, caractérisé en ce que la teneur en charbon actif dans le papier pour filtre extérieur (3) est comprise dans l'intervalle de 10 % à 30 % en poids.
  11. Article à fumer selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 10, caractérisé en ce que le charbon actif est appliqué sur la surface du papier pour filtre extérieur (3) qui est orientée vers l'extérieur.
  12. Article à fumer selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 11, caractérisé en ce que le papier pour filtre extérieur (3), charbon actif compris, a une masse surfacique comprise dans l'intervalle de 20 g/m2 à 80 g/m2.
  13. Article à fumer selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 12, caractérisé en ce que le boudin de tabac (1) est enveloppé avec un papier à cigarette à faible courant secondaire ou avec plusieurs couches d'un papier à cigarette ayant un effet de réduction du courant secondaire.
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EP14001848.2A EP2949225B1 (fr) 2014-05-27 2014-05-27 Article à fumer
PL14001848T PL2949225T3 (pl) 2014-05-27 2014-05-27 Wyrób do palenia
ES14001848.2T ES2618054T3 (es) 2014-05-27 2014-05-27 Artículo para fumar
PT140018482T PT2949225T (pt) 2014-05-27 2014-05-27 Artigo para fumar
HUE14001848A HUE031218T2 (en) 2014-05-27 2014-05-27 tobacco Product
UAA201613143A UA120433C2 (uk) 2014-05-27 2015-05-07 Курильний виріб
PCT/EP2015/000941 WO2015180821A1 (fr) 2014-05-27 2015-05-07 Article à fumer
RU2016151182A RU2649272C1 (ru) 2014-05-27 2015-05-07 Курительное изделие
TW104114900A TWI643563B (zh) 2014-05-27 2015-05-11 吸煙物品

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