WO2013004452A1

WO2013004452A1 - Flavor insert for inserting into a smoking article package

Info

Publication number: WO2013004452A1
Application number: PCT/EP2012/060990
Authority: WO
Inventors: Ulf BODERIUS
Original assignee: British American Tobacco (Germany) Gmbh
Priority date: 2011-07-06
Filing date: 2012-06-11
Publication date: 2013-01-10
Also published as: TW201313140A; DE102011106718A1

Abstract

The invention relates to a flavor insert (1) for inserting into a smoking article package, having an absorbent carrier material (2) and at least two containers (3) for storing a flavor material (4), wherein the carrier material (2) is designed to receive, after opening of a container (3), the flavor material (4) contained therein for discharge to the environment.

Description

FLAVOR INSERT FOR INSERTING IN A SMOKE ITEM PACKAGING

The present invention relates to a Flavoureinsatz for insertion into a smoking article packaging to deliver flavors to smoking articles.

Cigarette products have been developed by the cigarette industry in recent years to enable smokers' consumers to tailor the smoke flavor of cigarettes to different taste preferences.

There are already known cigarettes which have a flavor capsule in the filter section, which contains, for example, menthol. By crushing the capsule, the consumer of smoking articles can turn a menthol-flavored cigarette into a menthol-flavored cigarette or increase the menthol content / flavor of a cigarette with menthol already provided with menthol.

Cigarette packs are known from documents WO 2009/092823 and EP 2 034 817, which expose the packaged cigarettes to a flavoring agent by means of flavoring carriers arranged on the pack.

Furthermore, from DE 20 2004 009 457 and US 3,266,499 sticks are known which can be used in a cigarette pack to treat the cigarettes contained in the pack with the present in the sticks flavors.

It is the object of the present invention to provide an individually applicable option for smoking article consumers to influence the taste of smoking articles. This object is solved by the subject matter of independent claim 1. The dependent claims define preferred embodiments of the present invention.

The Flavoureinsatz invention comprises a receptive carrier material and at least two containers that store the desired Flavourstoff. The containers are designed so that they can be opened by the user, so that the Flavourstoff contained therein can escape from the containers. The Flavourstoff escaped from the containers is then absorbed by the carrier material and can not escape uncontrollably in the environment. Rather, the Flavourstoff from the carrier material evenly, gradually discharged in a controlled manner to the environment. Since the present invention is a flavoring insert for insertion into a smoking article package, the term "environment" means the receiving space of a smoking article package. In this way, smoking articles can be provided by the user individually and in a simple way with flavorings. Aromatization therefore takes place indirectly, ie, in contrast to Rauchartikein with integrated Kapsein or flavor carriers from a location outside of the flavored smoking article.

If the Flavoureinsatz sold together with the smoking article packaging (for example, this could be packaged with the smoking article), the consumer can remove the Flavoureinsatz from the pack, open one or more Flavourstoff-containers at will and thus activate the Flavoureinsatz and this again in insert the smoking article packaging. The now in the carrier material Flavourstoff is gradually released into the environment, spreads in the smoking article packaging, and thus flavored in the smoking article packaging smoking products such as cigarettes or loose fine-cut tobacco for homemade cigarettes. The intensity of aromatization is determined both by the exposure time of the flavor substance to the smoking article and by the selected one Number of opened Flavourstoff containers, ie the amount of released Flavourstoffes dependent. The number of containers is unlimited, for example, up to 20 or more containers can be provided in Flavoureinsatz. Also, the number of containers can be adapted to the number of smoking articles and this particular correspond.

Fiavourstoff are all known suitable for tobacco flavoring Flavourstoffe or Flavourstoffmischungen suitable. According to a preferred embodiment, the fiavour comprises menthol or is more preferably menthol. As Flavourstoffe or Flavourstoffgemische but also peppermint oils, spearmint oils, floral and fruity Flavor are conceivable. Mixtures of the mentioned flavorings are also conceivable. According to a further preferred embodiment, the carrier material, which is to receive the carrier after opening the containers, comprises Fhtertow, paper and / or cardboard. Particularly preferably, the carrier material of Flavoureinsatzes consists of one of these materials.

Although it is conceivable in principle that the Fiavorstoff may be solid, liquid or gaseous, however, liquid Fiavourstoff is preferred according to the present invention. Here it is important that the Trägermateriai can absorb the liquid Fiavorstoff well, so is absorbent. Another important task for the Trägermateriai is the gradual release of Flavourstoffes to the environment or the interior of the smoking article packaging, so that a controlled flavoring of the smoking article is made possible. The containers for the carrier may be configured as separate capsules, for example in the form of "beads" with a cavity, separated from each other. These capsules may be made of any suitable material, but it is important that they can be opened by manipulation by the smoking article consumer to release the flavor. Furthermore, the containers can be formed by bulges, which are configured in one or more planar structures. This makes it possible to produce a plurality of containers by processing a flat structure, for example a foil strip. Furthermore, these can Bulges are closed by one or more other planar structures, for example by a film to keep the Flavourstoff in the bulges.

According to the present invention, it is intended to ensure that the flavourant emerging from the containers does not come into uncontrolled contact, for example in liquid form, with the smoking articles. Therefore, in preferred embodiments, the invention provides for embedding the containers in the carrier material, so that they are enclosed on all sides by the carrier material, the containers should be arranged next to the carrier material, it being ensured that the containers are opened exclusively in the direction of the carrier material, or merely to envelop the containers by means of the carrier material. Enveloping should be understood at this point in contrast to embedding so that at least one point on one or more containers is free of carrier material.

According to a preferred embodiment, the containers are opened by destroying the Behältniswandung, wherein the destruction is particularly preferably caused by pressing on the containers. Flavourstoff can be released in a particularly simple manner if the destruction of the container wall is possible by simply pressing the smoking article user or crushing the individual containers. However, it would also be possible to design the containers elongated to give the smoking article consumers the opportunity to break them like a stick, in principle, the user should be given the opportunity to open the containers without the aid of any kind of aid ,

To ensure a controlled opening of the containers, so that the escaping Flavourstoff is supplied exclusively to the substrate, one or more weakenings, such as reduced wall thicknesses can be provided in the container wall to be destroyed. Another way to prevent unwanted contact of the exiting Fiavorstoffes with the smoking articles, is the provision of a cover for the Fiavoureinsatz. Such a wrapper can be made, for example, from paper and applied directly to the carrier material, in particular the wrapper, such as cigarette paper, can wrap the fiavoure insert or the carrier material on the cylindrical surface of a cigarette. In order nevertheless to ensure a controlled discharge of the fuel, the casing can be made porous and / or have perforations through which the fuel can pass.

According to a further preferred embodiment, the Fiavoureinsatz on its outside, in particular on the envelope have markings to give the smoking article consumers information about the location of the containers in Fiavoureinsatz or in the carrier material or in terms of the nature of the flavors contained in the containers. It is also vorstable to color the Fiavoureinsatz or applied thereto markers according to the container arrangement in the carrier material or Fiavoureinsatz more or less strongly to indicate the smoking article consumers on the strength of the flavoring according to the number of opened containers. For example, an elongated Fiavoureinsatz in which the containers are arranged in juxtaposed, from one end to the other end of increasingly intense markings have. This can be done, for example, both by the color intensity (about light green to dark green for menthol) or by the size of the markers.

Particularly preferred according to the present invention, the Fiavoureinsatz elongated, designed in the form of a so-called "flavor stick". Such a stick can have the dimensions and shape of a cigarette, in particular for the flavoring of cigarettes. In this way, such a stick can be sold together with the cigarettes to be flavored in a pack. However, it is advantageous if such a stick differs at least by a Merkmai from conventional cigarettes to confusion by the smoking article consumers to avoid. Thus, the stick can either be designed to be longer or shorter than the cigarettes to be flavored, with a longer stick being easier to remove from the smoking article packaging. Furthermore, such a stick can have markings, in particular on the end faces, so that the consumer of smoking articles immediately recognizes the flavor stick as such. Also, various cross sections of such a stick are conceivable, so for example, in addition to round as cigarettes and square, which is also a distinguishing feature of conventional cigarettes.

Another aspect of the present invention relates to a multiple flavourant pack package as described above. Such a package provides much more opportunities for smokers to influence the flavor of their smoking articles because the number of favors is not tied to the number of purchased smoking article packages.

Hereinafter, particularly preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to drawings. The invention may include the features described herein both individually and in any convenient combination.

Show it:

FIG. 1 shows a first embodiment of a flavor stick,

Figure 2 shows a second embodiment of a flavor stick.

FIG. 1 shows a first embodiment of a flavor stick according to the invention, which has the shape and the dimensions of a cigarette, that is to say an elongated cylindrical shape. The flavor stick as a whole is provided with the reference numeral 1. This flavor embroidery essentially comprises a carrier material, specifically in the form of an elongate cylinder, in which a plurality of containers 3 for a fuel 4 are arranged lengthwise. Around the lateral surface of the flavor stick 1, a porous paper wrapper 7 is applied, on which in turn several markings 8, here in the form of circumferential lines, are printed. If a smoking article consumer wants to flavor smoking articles, he must crush one or more containers 3 according to taste, so that the container wall 5 is destroyed and the liquid flavorant 4 is absorbed by the absorbent carrier material 2 from filter tow. The envelope 7 prevents the flavourant from coming into contact with the surrounding cigarettes in liquid form as soon as the Flavourstick 1 is put back into the cigarette pack. However, the envelope 7 allows through its porous configuration, the passage of gaseous substances for aromatization of the surrounding Rauchartikei.

The circumferential line markings 8 give the smoking article user a clear indication of where the containers 3 to be crushed are arranged in the flavor stick 1.

FIG. 2 shows a further embodiment of a "foil strip" flavor stick. An unspecified first flat structure below has five bulges, which are closed by another, unspecified flat structure. The containers 3 formed thereby are thus separated both from the environment and from each other. Both sheets may be formed from a film, preferably a plastic film, with the top film being weaker, i.e., less thick. easier to destroy than the lower film should be configured with the bulges to ensure the escape of Flavourstoffes 4 to the substrate 2 out. As in the first embodiment, the smoking article consumer crushes one or more of the capsules formed by the bulges, destroying the top foil and receiving the carrier material 2 from the exiting liquid flavorant. Again, the carrier material 2 is provided at the top with a wrapper to give any liquid Flavourstoff uncontrolled to the environment.

Due to the bulges the position of the containers 3 is clearly known for the smoking article consumers, however, the wrapper 7 may have markings on the upper side, in order to provide an indication of the position of the upper side Containers 3 to give. Likewise, marks for the content, for example, different flavor substances in different containers 3 give. In principle, it is conceivable that the containers 3 of a single Flavoureinsatzes 1 different flavor substances 4 include. Thus, the user can "mix" different flavors as desired.

The Flavoureinsatz shown in Figure 2 and can be seen in cross-section does not necessarily have to be designed as an elongated "Flavorstick", according to the present invention, the Flavoureinsatz also basically flat be configured, which is particularly clear in the seen in Figure 2 embodiment: The Flavoureinsatz shown here can also extend in drawing level, so that could be spoken by a "Flavor Board".

Claims

claims

1. Flavoureinsaiz for insertion in a smoking article packaging, with a receptive carrier material (2) and at least two containers (3) for storing a Flavourstoffes (4), wherein the carrier material (2) is configured after opening a container (3) to receive the flavourant (4) therein for delivery to the environment.

2. Flavoureinsatz according to claim 1, wherein the Flavourstoff (4) comprises menthol, in particular consists of menthol.

3. Flavoureinsatz according to any one of claims 1 or 2, wherein the carrier material is an absorbent Trägermateriai (2), in particular filter tow, paper and / or cardboard comprises, in particular consists of one of these materials.

4. Flavoureinsatz according to one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the Flavourstoff (4) is liquid, the containers (3) are separate capsules and / or the containers (3) bulges in one or more planar structures, which by one or more other flat structures are closed.

5. Flavoureinsatz according to one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the containers (3) embedded in the carrier material (2), arranged next to this or are enveloped by this.

6. Flavoureinsatz according to one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the containers (3) by destroying the Behältniswandung (5) are opened, in particular by pressing on the containers (3).

7. Flavoureinsatz according to claim 6, wherein the Behäitniswandung (5) at least a weakening (6), which causes an opening of the containers (3) at a predetermined location.

8. Fiavoureinsatz according to one of claims 1 to 7, with a sheath (7) for the carrier material (2), which is in particular made porous and / or has openings.

9. Fiavoureinsatz according to one of claims 1 to 8, wherein the Fiavoureinsatz on its outside, in particular on the envelope (7) at least one mark (8), in particular at least one colored marker (8), which on the location, the content and / or type of containers (3).

10. Pack of several Flavoureinsätzen (1) according to any one of the preceding claims.