WO2020154858A1

WO2020154858A1 - Heat-not-burn cigarette and processing method therefor

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Publication number: WO2020154858A1
Application number: PCT/CN2019/073465
Authority: WO
Inventors: 刘刚; 马早兵; 靖德军; 袁涛; 王泽峰; 傅源锋
Original assignee: 博颉(上海)管理咨询有限公司
Priority date: 2019-01-28
Filing date: 2019-01-28
Publication date: 2020-08-06
Also published as: CZ36023U1; ES2898232A2; ES2898232R1

Abstract

A heat-not-burn cigarette and a processing method therefor. The processing method comprises the following steps: cutting a flaky reconstituted tobaccos into multiple tobacco shreds along a preset direction, so that the tobacco shreds are elongated; and compressing the multiple tobacco shreds together along the width direction of the tobacco shreds, and then wrapping the tobacco shreds in shaped paper to form a cylindrical cigarette, the multiple tobacco shreds in the cigarette being arranged regularly and orderly. Orderly arranged gaps are formed among multiple tobacco shreds by orderly arranging the tobacco shreds, such that compared with disorderly arranged tobacco shreds, the porosity is greatly improved, and good air permeability and airflow consistency inside a cigarette are ensured; the orderly arranged tobacco shreds and the orderly arranged gaps formed thereby provide approximate linear airflow channels for vapor circulation, such that the suction resistance and the vapor adsorption property of the tobacco shreds are reduced, and the vapor passing efficiency is improved.

Description

Heating non-burning cigarette and processing method thereof

Technical field

The present disclosure relates to the technical field of heat-not-burn cigarette processing, and in particular, to a heat-not-burn cigarette and a processing method thereof.

Background technique

Heat-not-burn cigarettes are a new type of cigarette system, also known as heat-not-burn cigarettes. The smoke is produced by baking solid smoking materials such as cut tobacco at a low temperature of 200-400 degrees. The cut tobacco does not burn.

The inventor found in the research that the existing heat-not-burn cigarettes are difficult to volatilize the effective ingredients in the cut tobacco due to the low baking temperature, and the volatilized effective ingredients are easily absorbed by the tobacco again, resulting in poor smoking quality and smoke. The amount is small.

Summary of the invention

The purpose of the present disclosure includes, for example, providing a heat-not-burn cigarette and a processing method thereof, so as to solve the technical problem that the smoke is easily re-absorbed in the prior art, resulting in poor smoking quality and small smoke volume.

The embodiments of the present disclosure can be implemented as follows:

The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a heat-not-burn cigarette, which includes a core segment, the core segment includes a shaped paper and a plurality of strips of tobacco that are arranged in parallel or substantially in parallel along a preset direction. The cut tobacco is arranged in a regular and orderly manner, and the cut tobacco is wrapped by the forming paper.

Optionally, the shredded tobacco is made from shredded sheet-shaped reconstituted tobacco leaves.

Optionally, the raw materials of the sheet-shaped reconstituted tobacco leaf include 5-30 parts of plant fibers, 40-85 parts of tobacco raw materials, 5-40 parts of smokers, 0-20 parts of tobacco flavors, and 1-10 parts of auxiliary materials.

Optionally, the plant fiber is at least one of wood pulp fiber, hemp pulp fiber and bamboo pulp fiber.

Optionally, the tobacco raw material includes at least one of flue-cured tobacco, oriental tobacco, burley tobacco and air-cured tobacco.

Optionally, the smoking agent is at least one of glycerol, propylene glycol and sorbitol.

Optionally, the tobacco flavor is at least one of flue-cured tobacco leaf water extract, flue-cured tobacco leaf alcohol extract, burley tobacco water extract, burley tobacco alcohol extract, furanone, maltol, and tobacco leaf supercritical extract One kind.

Optionally, the auxiliary material is at least one of an adhesive, calcium carbonate and seaweed polysaccharide.

Optionally, the basis weight of the sheet-shaped reconstituted tobacco is c, 50g/m ² ≤c≤250g/m ² ; preferably, 100g/m ² ≤c≤200g/m ² ;

More preferably, the sheet-shaped reconstituted tobacco is produced by dry method, and the basis weight of the sheet-shaped reconstituted tobacco is 110 g/m ² ≤ c ≤ 140 g/m ² , or the sheet-shaped reconstituted tobacco is thick In the pulping method, the basis weight of the sheet-shaped reconstituted tobacco leaf is 140 g/m ² ≤ c ≤ 180 g/m ² .

Optionally, the thickness of the sheet-shaped reconstituted tobacco leaf is d, 0.05mm≤d≤1.0mm, preferably 0.2mm≤d≤0.35mm, more preferably, the d is 0.05mm, 0.10mm, 0.15 mm, 0.20mm, 0.25mm, 0.30mm, 0.35mm, 0.40mm, 0.45mm, 0.50mm, 0.55mm or 0.60mm.

Optionally, the heat-not-burn cigarette further includes a non-cigarette core section, and the tobacco core section and the non-cigarette core section are packaged into cigarettes by wrapping paper.

Optionally, the non-smoke core section has a three-stage structure, the non-smoke core section includes a support section, a cooling section and a filter section, and the smoke core section, the support section, the cooling section and the The filter segments are set in sequence;

Or, the non-smoke core section has a two-stage structure, and the non-smoke core section includes a cooling section and a filter section, and the cigarette wick section, the cooling section and the filter section are arranged in sequence;

Wherein, the cooling section has at least one through cavity channel.

The embodiment of the present disclosure provides a processing method for heat-not-burn cigarettes, the processing method includes the following steps:

Cutting the sheet-shaped reconstituted tobacco into a plurality of shredded tobacco along a predetermined direction, so that the shredded tobacco is in a long strip shape;

A plurality of said tobacco shreds are squeezed together in the width direction of said tobacco shreds, and then the tobacco shreds are wrapped with forming paper to form a cylindrical tobacco rod, so that the plurality of tobacco shreds in the tobacco rod Regular and orderly arrangement.

Optionally, the reconstituted tobacco leaf is manufactured by at least one method of papermaking method, dry method, thick pulp method, and roll method.

Optionally, the length of each shredded tobacco is e, e≥10.0mm, and the width of each shredded tobacco is f, 0.5mm≤f≤3.0mm, preferably, the f is 0.8mm, 1.0mm or 1.5mm.

Optionally, the squeezing the multiple shredded tobacco together along the width direction of the shredded tobacco includes: using a cigarette rolling machine or a filter rod forming machine to squeeze and close the multiple shredded tobacco together.

Optionally, the wrapping the shredded tobacco with forming paper includes: using cigarette paper or forming paper coated with a flame retardant on the surface to wrap the shredded tobacco, preferably, selecting cigarette paper with an aluminum foil layer on the surface.

Optionally, the flame retardant is at least one of magnesium hydroxide and aluminum hydroxide.

Optionally, the diameter of the cylindrical tobacco rod is 6-8mm, preferably 7.1mm, 7.5mm.

Optionally, the weight of the cylindrical tobacco rod is 0.01-0.04g/mm, preferably 0.014g/mm, 0.025g/mm, 0.028g/mm.

Optionally, the preparation method of the sheet-shaped reconstituted tobacco includes:

Crushing and sieving tobacco raw materials to obtain tobacco powder;

The plant fiber is formed into a number of single fibers through the non-hydrolyzed fiber, and then the substrate is formed by the air flow forming device;

Mixing the smoke powder, smoke generating agent, etc. with water to obtain a coating liquid;

The coating liquid is sprayed and dried on the substrate.

Compared with the prior art, the beneficial effects of the heat-not-burn cigarette and its processing method according to the embodiments of the present disclosure include, for example:

The heat-not-burn cigarette processing method of this embodiment cuts the reconstituted tobacco leaves into a plurality of long shredded tobacco along a predetermined direction, and then squeezes them together in the width direction of the long shredded tobacco using a device such as a cigarette wrapping machine or a filter rod forming machine In order to make the multiple long tobacco rods appear as ordered tobacco rods, the tobacco rods are wrapped by forming paper to form a cylindrical tobacco rod with an orderly arranged tobacco rod inside, so that there are also formed between the multiple tobacco rods. The orderly arranged voids greatly increase the porosity compared with the disorderly arranged shredded tobacco, and ensure good ventilation and airflow consistency inside the cigarette; air can enter a large amount of air from the periphery of the cigarette through the forming paper during smoking The inside of the cigarette provides air support for the production of smoke; and, in the length direction of the cigarette, the orderly arranged shredded tobacco and the orderly arranged gaps formed by the cigarette provide an approximately linear air flow channel for the circulation of smoke It reduces the resistance of smoking and the absorption performance of the cut tobacco to the flue gas, improves the passing efficiency of the flue gas, thereby improving the smoking quality, and effectively solves the technical problems of low-temperature flue gas volume and poor smoking quality.

In order to make the above objectives, features and advantages of the present disclosure more comprehensible, preferred embodiments are described below in detail.

Description of the drawings

In order to explain the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present disclosure more clearly, the following will briefly introduce the drawings that need to be used in the embodiments. It should be understood that the following drawings only show certain embodiments of the present disclosure, and therefore do not It should be regarded as a limitation of the scope. For those of ordinary skill in the art, other related drawings can be obtained based on these drawings without creative work.

Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of the first heat-not-burn cigarette provided by an embodiment of the disclosure;

Fig. 2 is a schematic diagram of a second heat-not-burn cigarette provided by an embodiment of the disclosure.

Icon: 100-heat non-burning cigarette; 10- core section; 11- forming paper; 12- cut tobacco; 20- non-cigarette core section; 21- support section; 22- cooling section; 221- cavity channel; 23- filter Mouth section; 30-rolling paper.

detailed description

In order to facilitate the understanding of the present disclosure, the technical solutions of the present disclosure will be described in detail below in combination with embodiments. In the following description, many specific details are set forth in order to fully understand the present disclosure.

However, the present disclosure can be implemented in many other ways different from those described herein, and those skilled in the art can make similar improvements without departing from the connotation of the present disclosure. Therefore, the present disclosure is not limited by the specific implementations disclosed below.

Unless otherwise defined, all technical and scientific terms used herein have the same meaning as commonly understood by those of ordinary skill in the art to which this disclosure belongs. In case of conflict, the definition in this specification shall prevail.

Terms used in this article:

The terms "comprising", "including", "having", "containing" or any other variations as used herein are intended to cover non-exclusive inclusion. For example, a composition, step, method, product, or device containing the listed elements is not necessarily limited to those elements, but may include other elements not explicitly listed or inherent in such a composition, step, method, product or device Elements.

The conjunction "consisting of" excludes any unspecified elements, steps or components. If used in a claim, this phrase will make the claim closed so that it does not contain materials other than those described, except for the conventional impurities associated with it. When the phrase "consisting of" appears in a clause of the subject of a claim rather than immediately after the subject, it is only limited to the elements described in the clause; other elements are not excluded from the description as a whole Outside the claims.

When an amount, concentration, or other value or parameter is expressed in a range, a preferred range, or a range defined by a series of upper and lower preferred values, this should be understood as specifically disclosing any upper limit or preferred value and any lower limit of the range. Or all ranges formed by any pair of preferred values, regardless of whether the ranges are separately disclosed. For example, when the range "1～5" is disclosed, the described range should be interpreted as including the range "1～4", "1～3", "1～2", "1～2 and 4～5" , "1～3 and 5" etc. When a numerical range is described herein, unless otherwise stated, the range is intended to include its end values and all integers and fractions within the range.

"And/or" is used to indicate that one or both of the stated conditions may occur, for example, A and/or B includes (A and B) and (A or B);

The cut tobacco is composed of leaf cut, stalk cut, expanded cut tobacco, etc. The inventors found that the effective ingredients in cut tobacco are difficult to volatilize because the length of the cut tobacco is in a disordered state, and there is no regularity of arrangement. In view of this, the heat-not-burn cigarette and its processing method provided by this embodiment better overcome the above-mentioned problems and defects in the prior art, and the orderly arrangement of the tobacco shreds also forms an orderly relationship between the tobacco shreds. The arranged voids greatly increase the porosity compared with the disorderly arranged shredded tobacco, which ensures good ventilation and airflow consistency inside the cigarette; the orderly arranged shredded tobacco and the orderly arranged gaps formed by it provide for the circulation of smoke The nearly straight airflow channel reduces the resistance of suction and the absorption performance of the cut tobacco to the smoke, and improves the passing efficiency of the smoke. specific:

1 and FIG. 2, this embodiment provides a heat-not-burn cigarette 100, which includes a core section 10, the core section 10 includes a shaped paper 11 and a plurality of strips and parallel or parallel along a preset direction The shredded tobacco 12 is arranged substantially in parallel, a plurality of shredded tobacco 12 are arranged in a regular and orderly manner, and the shredded tobacco 12 is wrapped by a forming paper 11.

In this embodiment, the shredded tobacco is made from shredded sheet-shaped reconstituted tobacco leaves. Sheet-shaped reconstituted tobacco can also be understood as a thin slice of homogenized tobacco material. "Homogenization" refers to the polymerization of finely cut tobacco, tobacco waste or powder. Homogenized tobacco material flakes refers to the polymerization of finely cut tobacco leaves, tobacco waste or powder into thin flakes, and its processes include paper-making reconstruction, dry reconstruction, thick pulp reconstruction and roll-pressing reconstruction. For example, the raw materials of the homogenized tobacco material sheet include plant fibers, tobacco raw materials, and smoke generating agents, where "tobacco raw materials" refer to the above-mentioned finely cut tobacco leaves, tobacco waste or powder. Optionally, the raw materials of the homogenized tobacco material sheet also include tobacco flavors and auxiliary materials.

In this embodiment, the raw materials of the sheet-shaped reconstituted tobacco leaf include 5-30 parts of plant fiber, 40-85 parts of tobacco raw materials, 5-40 parts of smoking agent, 0-20 parts of tobacco flavor and 1-10 parts of auxiliary materials.

For example: 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 or 30 parts of plant fiber; 40, 55, 70 or 85 parts of tobacco raw materials; 5, 20, 30 or 40 parts of smoker; 0, 10 parts of tobacco flavor , 15 or 20 parts; 1, 5, 8 or 10 parts of auxiliary materials.

In this embodiment, the plant fiber is at least one of wood pulp fiber, hemp pulp fiber and bamboo pulp fiber.

It is understandable that plant fibers can be selected from one or more of the above three types.

In this embodiment, the tobacco raw material includes at least one of flue-cured tobacco, oriental tobacco, burley tobacco and air-cured tobacco.

It is understandable that one or more of the above four kinds of tobacco raw materials can be used.

In this embodiment, the smoking agent is at least one of glycerol, propylene glycol and sorbitol.

It is understandable that the smoking agent can be selected from one or more of the above three types.

In this embodiment, the tobacco flavor is at least one of flue-cured tobacco leaf water extract, flue-cured tobacco leaf alcohol extract, burley tobacco water extract, burley tobacco alcohol extract, furanone, maltol, and tobacco leaf supercritical extract. Kind.

It is understandable that one or more of the above-mentioned seven flavors can be used for tobacco flavors.

In this embodiment, the auxiliary material is at least one of adhesive, calcium carbonate, and seaweed polysaccharide.

It is understandable that one or more of the above three kinds of auxiliary materials can be selected.

In this embodiment, the basis weight of sheet-shaped reconstituted tobacco is c, 50g/m ² ≤c≤250g/m ² ; preferably, 100g/m ² ≤c≤200g/m ² ;

More preferably, the sheet-shaped reconstituted tobacco is produced by a dry method, and the basis weight of the sheet-shaped reconstituted tobacco leaf is 110g/m ² ≤c≤140g/m ² , or the sheet-shaped reconstituted tobacco leaf is reproduced by the thick slurry method. The basis weight of the shaped reconstituted tobacco is 140g/m ² ≤c≤180g/m ² .

The basis weight c of the sheet-shaped reconstituted tobacco leaf can be 50g/m ² , 80g/m ² , 100g/m ² , 110g/m ² , 120g/m ² , 140g/m ² , 160g/m ² , 180g/m ² , 200g/m ² , 250g/m ² and so on.

In this embodiment, the thickness of the sheet-shaped reconstituted tobacco leaf is d, 0.05mm≤d≤1.0mm, preferably 0.2mm≤d≤0.35mm, more preferably, d is 0.05mm, 0.10mm, 0.15mm, 0.20 mm, 0.25mm, 0.30mm, 0.35mm, 0.40mm, 0.45mm, 0.50mm, 0.55mm or 0.60mm.

The preparation method of the homogenized tobacco material sheet (sheet-shaped reconstituted tobacco) includes:

Crushing and sieving tobacco raw materials to obtain tobacco powder

Mixing tobacco powder, smoke generating agent, etc. with water to obtain a coating liquid;

The coating liquid is sprayed and dried on the substrate.

1 and 2, in this embodiment, the heat-not-burn cigarette 100 further includes a non-cigarette core section 20, and the tobacco core section 10 and the non-cigarette core section 20 are packaged into cigarettes by a wrapper 30.

The non-smoke core section 20 includes one or more components, and the function of the non-smoke core section 20 includes one or more of a supporting function, a cooling function or a filtering function.

In this embodiment, with reference to FIG. 1, the non-smoke core section 20 has a three-stage structure. The non-smoke core section 20 includes a support section 21, a cooling section 22, and a filter section 23. The smoke wick section 10, a support section 21, and a cooling section 22 and the filter segment 23 are arranged in sequence.

Or, in conjunction with FIG. 2, the non-smoke core section 20 has a two-stage structure, and the non-smoke core section 20 includes a cooling section 22 and a filter section 23, and the tobacco core section 10, the cooling section 22 and the filter section 23 are arranged in sequence.

Wherein, the cooling section 22 has at least one cavity channel 221 penetrating through it. With reference to FIG. 1, the cavity channel 221 allows the smoke in the supporting section 21 to flow into the filter section 23 smoothly. In combination with FIG. 2, the cavity channel 221 allows the smoke in the core section 10 to flow into the filter section 23 smoothly.

Specifically, the supporting section 21 is composed of hollow cellulose acetate, the material of the cooling section 22 may be hollow cellulose acetate, polylactic acid material or paper, etc., and the filter section 23 may be a cellulose acetate filter rod.

This embodiment provides a heat-not-burn cigarette processing method, which includes the following steps:

Cut the sheet-shaped reconstituted tobacco (a thin slice of homogenized tobacco material) into a plurality of shredded tobacco along a predetermined direction, so that the shredded tobacco is in a long strip shape;

A plurality of shredded tobacco is squeezed together along the width direction of the shredded tobacco, and then the shredded tobacco is wrapped with a forming paper to form a cylindrical tobacco rod, so that the multiple tobacco shreds in the tobacco rod are arranged in a regular and orderly manner.

It should be noted that reconstituted tobacco is also called tobacco flakes, reconstituted tobacco, reconstituted tobacco, and homogeneous tobacco. It uses waste tobacco stems, tobacco leaf fragments, tobacco dust, etc. as raw materials, through extraction, concentration, separation, beating, refining, papermaking, drying, and flavoring processes to make natural tobacco flakes with excellent performance. Used as a cigarette filler and reused in cigarette production. The reconstituted tobacco leaves have good softness and tear resistance due to the remanufacturing treatment, and are especially suitable for roll forming and not easy to break.

It can be seen from the above description that in this embodiment, by arranging the tobacco shreds in an orderly manner, an orderly arrangement gap is formed between the tobacco shreds, which greatly increases the porosity compared with the disordered tobacco shreds, and ensures good ventilation and airflow consistency inside the cigarette. ; When inhaling, the air from the periphery of the cigarette through the forming paper can enter a large amount of the inside of the cigarette to provide air support for the production of smoke; more importantly, in the length direction of the cigarette, the orderly arranged shredded tobacco and The orderly arranged gaps formed by it provide an approximately linear air flow channel for the flow of smoke, reduce the resistance of suction and the absorption performance of the tobacco to the smoke, improve the passing efficiency of the smoke, and thus improve the quality of smoking. Effectively solve the technical problems of low-temperature smoke and poor smoking quality.

Optionally, the quantitative of reconstituted tobacco is c, 50g/m ² ≤c≤250g/m ² , such as 50g/m ² ; 80g/m ² , 90g/m ² , 100g/m ² , 150g/m ² , 200g /m ² or 250g/m ² etc.

The thickness of the reconstituted tobacco leaf is d, 0.05mm≤d≤1.0mm, such as 0.05mm, 0.10mm, 0.15mm, 0.20mm, 0.25mm, 0.30mm, 0.35mm, 0.40mm, 0.45mm, 0.50mm, 0.55mm, 0.60 mm, 0.65mm, 0.7mm, 0.75mm, 0.8mm, 0.85mm, 0.9mm, 0.95mm or 1.0mm, etc.

Optionally, the length of each cut tobacco is e, e≥10.0mm, such as 11mm, 12mm, 15mm, etc., the width of each cut tobacco is f, 0.5mm≤f≤3.0mm, such as 0.8mm, 1.0mm or 1.5mm Wait. The width of shredded tobacco should not be too wide, too wide will lead to poor fit and eventually poor heat transfer.

Optionally, the above-mentioned squeezing the multiple shredded tobacco together along the width direction of the shredded tobacco includes: using a cigarette rolling machine or a filter rod forming machine to squeeze and close the multiple shredded tobacco together.

Optionally, the above-mentioned wrapping shredded tobacco with forming paper includes: using cigarette paper or forming paper coated with a flame retardant to wrap the shredded tobacco. Preferably, a cigarette paper with an aluminum foil layer on the surface is selected.

Cigarette paper can choose cigarette paper with high basis weight and low air permeability.

It should be noted that a certain amount of flame retardant is coated on the surface of the forming paper to prevent the burning of the forming paper and to ensure the integrity of the cigarette after heating and smoking.

In this embodiment, the diameter of the cylindrical tobacco rod is 6-8mm, preferably 7.1mm, 7.5mm.

In this embodiment, the weight of the cylindrical tobacco rod is 0.01-0.04 g/mm, preferably 0.014 g/mm, 0.025 g/mm, and 0.028 g/mm.

In this embodiment, the preparation method of sheet-shaped reconstituted tobacco includes:

Crushing and sieving tobacco raw materials to obtain tobacco powder

The coating liquid is sprayed and dried on the substrate.

In order to facilitate the understanding of the present disclosure, the technical solutions of the present disclosure will be further described below in conjunction with embodiments. The applicant declares that the present disclosure uses the following examples to illustrate the detailed process equipment and process flow of the present disclosure, but the present disclosure is not limited to these specific process equipment and process flow, which does not mean that the present disclosure should rely on the following detailed process Equipment and process flow can be implemented. Those skilled in the art should understand that any improvement to the present disclosure, the equivalent replacement of each raw material of the product of the present disclosure, the addition of auxiliary components, the selection of specific methods, etc., fall within the scope of protection and disclosure of the present disclosure.

Example 1

Choose c=100.0±10.0g/m ² , choose d=0.22±0.02mm to reconstitute the tobacco leaves by papermaking method. Use the cutting device to cut into multiple shreds along the preset direction, so that the tobacco is in the shape of long strips, and the width of the strips of tobacco The diameter is 0.5mm. The cigarette rolling machine is used to squeeze and close the tobacco in the transverse direction to make the multiple long tobacco rods appear as an orderly arranged tobacco rod, and then wrap the tobacco with forming paper to form an orderly arranged cylindrical tobacco rod . Cut the cigarette rod according to the length specification of 100.0mm, and then cut the cylindrical cigarette rod of 100.0mm length according to the length of 10.0mm, and then connect it with the non-cigarette core section of the three-section structure to form a heat-not-burn cigarette cigarette 1# sample .

Set the widths of the strips of tobacco to 0.8mm, 1.0mm, 1.2mm, 1.5mm, and repeat the above process to obtain 4 heat-not-burn cigarettes with different strips of tobacco widths 2#, 3#, 4#, 5# kind. In addition, using conventional cigarette technology, the paper-making reconstituted tobacco is cut into small pieces (usually 20mm*30mm diamonds) and then shredded by 1.0mm width, and then rolled into conventional cigarettes by a cigarette making machine, so that the shredded tobacco in the cigarette appears In an irregular sorting state, the cigarettes are cut according to a length of 10.0mm and then connected to the non-cigarette core section of the three-section structure to form a contrast.

The above 5 samples and control samples were evaluated by smoking with heat-not-burn cigarettes. The sensory quality results are shown in Table 1:

Table 1 Sensory quality evaluation of heat-not-burn cigarettes made by papermaking

Example 2

Choose c=120.0±10.0g/m ² , and choose dry reconstituted tobacco with d=0.25±0.02mm. Use a shredding device to cut into multiple shreds along the preset direction, so that the shredded tobacco is in the shape of a long strip. The width of the long shredded tobacco 0.5mm, using a device such as a cigarette rolling machine or a filter rod forming machine to squeeze the tobacco together horizontally to make the multiple long tobacco rods appear as an orderly arrangement of tobacco rods, and then wrap the tobacco with forming paper to form an orderly tobacco rod Arranged cylindrical tobacco rods, the tobacco rods are cut according to the length specification of 120.0mm, and the cylindrical tobacco rods of 120.0mm length are cut again according to the length of 12.0mm and then connected to the non-cigarette section of the three-section structure to form heating and non-combustion Cigarette cigarette 1# like.

Set the width of the long cut tobacco to 0.8mm, 1.0mm, 1.2mm, 1.5mm, and repeat the above process to obtain 4 heat-not-burn cigarettes 2#, 3#, 4# of different long cut tobacco width. , 5# like. In addition, using conventional cigarette technology, dry-process reconstituted tobacco is cut into small pieces (usually 20mm*30mm diamonds) and then shredded by 1.0mm width, and then rolled into conventional cigarettes by a cigarette machine, so that the shredded tobacco in the cigarette appears In an irregular sorting state, the cigarettes are cut according to a length of 12.0mm and then connected to the non-cigarette core section of the three-section structure to form a contrast.

The above 5 samples and control samples were smoked with heat-not-burn cigarettes. The sensory quality evaluation results are shown in Table 2:

Table 2 Sensory quality evaluation of heat-not-burn cigarettes of dry-process reconstituted tobacco

Example 3

Choose c=160.0±10.0g/m ² , choose d=0.20±0.02mm thick slurry method to reconstitute tobacco leaves. Use a shredding device to cut into multiple tobacco shreds in a preset direction, so that the tobacco is in a long strip shape. With a width of 0.5mm, using a device such as a cigarette rolling machine or a filter rod forming machine to squeeze the tobacco together horizontally to make multiple long tobacco rods appear as an orderly arranged tobacco rod, and then wrap the tobacco with a forming paper to form a tobacco Cylindrical tobacco rods arranged in sequence, the tobacco rods are cut according to the length specification of 120.0mm, and the cylindrical tobacco rods of 120.0mm length are cut again according to the length of 15.0mm and then connected to the non-cigarette core section of the three-section structure to form a heating failure. Burning cigarette cigarette 1# like.

Set the widths of the long tobacco strips to 0.8mm, 1.0mm, 1.2mm, 1.5mm, and repeat the above process to obtain 4 heat-not-burn cigarettes with different long tobacco widths 2#, 3#, 4#, 5# kind. In addition, using conventional cigarette technology, the thick pulp method reconstituted tobacco is cut into small pieces (usually 20mm*30mm diamonds) and then shredded with a width of 1.0mm, then rolled into conventional cigarettes by a cigarette machine, so that the shredded tobacco in the cigarette appears In an irregular sorting state, the cigarettes are cut according to a length of 15.0mm and then connected to the non-cigarette core section of the three-section structure to form a contrast.

The above 5 samples and control samples were smoked with heat-not-burn cigarettes. The sensory quality evaluation results are shown in Table 3:

Table 3 Sensory quality evaluation of heat-not-burn cigarettes made from thick slurry method

Example 4

Select c=100.0±5.0g/m ² , d=0.20±0.02mm to reconstitute tobacco leaves by rolling method. Use a cutting device to cut into multiple tobacco shreds along a preset direction, so that the tobacco is in a long strip shape and the width of the long tobacco 0.5mm, using a device such as a cigarette rolling machine or a filter rod forming machine to squeeze and close the tobacco in the transverse direction to make the multiple long tobacco rods appear as an orderly arranged tobacco rod, and then wrap the tobacco with forming paper to form an orderly tobacco rod Arranged cylindrical cigarette rods, the cigarette rods are cut according to the length of 144.0mm, and the cylindrical cigarette rods of 144.0mm length are cut again according to the length of 12.0mm and then connected to the non-cigarette core section of the two-stage structure to form heating and non-combustion Cigarette cigarette 1# like.

Set the widths of the long tobacco strips to 0.8mm, 1.0mm, 1.2mm, 1.5mm, and repeat the above process to obtain 4 heat-not-burn cigarettes with different long tobacco widths 2#, 3#, 4#, 5# kind. In addition, using conventional cigarette technology, the rolled tobacco is cut into small pieces (usually 20mm*30mm diamonds) and then shredded with a width of 1.0mm, then rolled into conventional cigarettes by a cigarette making machine, so that the shredded tobacco in the cigarette appears In an irregular sorting state, the cigarettes are cut according to a length of 12.0mm and then connected to the non-cigarette core section of the two-section structure to form a contrast.

The above 5 samples and control samples were evaluated by smoking with heat-not-burn cigarettes. The sensory quality results are shown in Table 4:

Table 4 Sensory quality evaluation of heat-not-burn cigarettes of reconstituted tobacco by rolling method

It can be seen from the above four embodiments that the heating non-combustion cigarettes obtained by the processing method of this embodiment are compared with the heating non-combustion cigarettes obtained by conventional cigarette technology. The flue gas passing efficiency is higher and the flue gas volume is larger, which greatly improves the suction quality.

The foregoing are only specific embodiments of the present disclosure, and are not intended to limit the present disclosure. For those skilled in the art, the formula and preparation process of the present disclosure may have various modifications and changes. Any modification, equivalent replacement, improvement, etc., made within the spirit and principle of the present disclosure shall be included in the protection scope of the present disclosure.

Industrial applicability:

In summary, the present disclosure provides a heat-not-burn cigarette and a processing method thereof. The cigarette obtained by the method has a higher smoke passing efficiency and a larger amount of smoke, which greatly improves the smoking quality.

Claims

A heat-not-burn cigarette, which is characterized in that it comprises a core segment, the core segment includes a shaped paper and a plurality of strips of tobacco that are arranged in parallel or substantially in parallel along a predetermined direction, and a plurality of the tobacco In a regular and orderly arrangement, the shaped paper wraps the cut tobacco.
The heat-not-burn cigarette according to claim 1, wherein the shredded tobacco is made of shredded sheet-shaped reconstituted tobacco.
The heat-not-burn cigarette according to claim 2, wherein the raw materials of the sheet-shaped reconstituted tobacco include 5-30 parts of plant fiber, 40-85 parts of tobacco raw materials, 5-40 parts of smokers, and tobacco 0-20 parts of spices and 1-10 parts of auxiliary materials.
The heat-not-burn cigarette according to claim 3, wherein the plant fiber is at least one of wood pulp fiber, hemp pulp fiber and bamboo pulp fiber.
The heat-not-burn cigarette according to claim 3 or 4, wherein the tobacco raw material includes at least one of flue-cured tobacco, oriental tobacco, burley tobacco and air-cured tobacco.
The heat-not-burn cigarette according to any one of claims 3 to 5, wherein the smoking agent is at least one of glycerol, propylene glycol and sorbitol.
The heat-not-burn cigarette according to any one of claims 3-6, wherein the tobacco flavor is a flue-cured tobacco leaf water extract, flue-cured tobacco leaf alcohol extract, burley tobacco water extract, burley alcohol At least one of extract, furanone, maltol, and tobacco leaf supercritical extract.
The heat-not-burn cigarette according to any one of claims 3-7, wherein the auxiliary material is at least one of an adhesive, calcium carbonate and seaweed polysaccharide.
The heat-not-burn cigarette according to any one of claims 3-7, wherein the basis weight of the sheet-shaped reconstituted tobacco leaf is c, 50g/m 2 ≤c≤250g/m 2 ; preferably, 100g/m 2 m 2 ≤c≤200g/m 2 ;

More preferably, the sheet-shaped reconstituted tobacco is produced by dry method, and the basis weight of the sheet-shaped reconstituted tobacco is 110 g/m 2 ≤ c ≤ 140 g/m 2 , or the sheet-shaped reconstituted tobacco is thick In the pulping method, the basis weight of the sheet-shaped reconstituted tobacco leaf is 140 g/m 2 ≤ c ≤ 180 g/m 2 .
The heat-not-burn cigarette according to any one of claims 2-9, wherein the thickness of the sheet-shaped reconstituted tobacco leaf is d, 0.05mm≤d≤1.0mm, preferably 0.2mm≤d≤0.35 mm, more preferably, the d is 0.05mm, 0.10mm, 0.15mm, 0.20mm, 0.25mm, 0.30mm, 0.35mm, 0.40mm, 0.45mm, 0.50mm, 0.55mm or 0.60mm.
The heat-not-burn cigarette according to any one of claims 1-10, characterized in that: the heat-not-burn cigarette further comprises a non-core section, and the tobacco core section and the non-cigarette core section are packaged by wrapping paper Cigarettes.
The heat-not-burn cigarette according to claim 11, wherein the non-cigarette core section has a three-section structure, and the non-cigarette core section includes a support section, a cooling section and a filter section, and the cigarette core section , The supporting section, the cooling section and the filter section are arranged in sequence;

Or, the non-smoke core section has a two-stage structure, and the non-smoke core section includes a cooling section and a filter section, and the cigarette wick section, the cooling section and the filter section are arranged in sequence;

Wherein, the cooling section has at least one through cavity channel.
A heat-not-burn cigarette processing method, characterized in that: the processing method includes the following steps:

Cutting the sheet-shaped reconstituted tobacco into a plurality of shredded tobacco along a predetermined direction, so that the shredded tobacco is in a long strip shape;

A plurality of said tobacco shreds are squeezed together in the width direction of said tobacco shreds, and then the tobacco shreds are wrapped with forming paper to form a cylindrical tobacco rod, so that the plurality of tobacco shreds in the tobacco rod Regular and orderly arrangement.
The heat-not-burn cigarette processing method according to claim 13, characterized in that: the reconstituted tobacco is manufactured by at least one of papermaking method, dry method, thick pulp method, and roll compaction method. .
The heat-not-burn cigarette processing method according to claim 13 or 14, wherein the length of each cut tobacco is e, e≥10.0mm, and the width of each cut tobacco is f, 0.5mm≤f ≤3.0mm, preferably, the f is 0.8mm, 1.0mm or 1.5mm.
The heat-not-burn cigarette processing method according to any one of claims 13-15, wherein said squeezing a plurality of said shredded tobacco together in the width direction of said shredded tobacco comprises: adopting cigarette connection A machine or a filter rod forming machine realizes that a plurality of said tobacco shreds are pressed and brought together.
The heat-not-burn cigarette processing method according to any one of claims 13-16, wherein the wrapping the shredded tobacco with forming paper comprises: selecting cigarette paper or forming a flame-retardant coated surface. The paper wraps the shredded tobacco. Preferably, a cigarette paper with an aluminum foil layer on the surface is selected.
The heat-not-burn cigarette processing method according to claim 17, wherein the flame retardant is at least one of magnesium hydroxide and aluminum hydroxide.
The heat-not-burn cigarette processing method according to any one of claims 13-18, wherein the diameter of the cylindrical cigarette rod is 6-8mm, preferably 7.1mm, 7.5mm; and/or The weight of the cylindrical tobacco rod is 0.01-0.04g/mm, preferably 0.014g/mm, 0.025g/mm, 0.028g/mm.
The heat-not-burn cigarette processing method according to any one of claims 13-19, characterized in that: the preparation method of the sheet-shaped reconstituted tobacco leaf comprises:

Crushing and sieving tobacco raw materials to obtain tobacco powder;

The plant fiber is formed into a number of single fibers through the non-hydrolyzed fiber, and then the substrate is formed by the air flow forming device;

Mixing the smoke powder, smoke generating agent, etc. with water to obtain a coating liquid;

The coating liquid is sprayed and dried on the substrate.