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Segmented smoking article with substrate cavity

US9439453B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateAug 25, 2015
Grant dateSep 13, 2016
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Expiry dateAug 25, 2035

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
  • CPC primaryA24D1/22
  • WIPO fieldOther consumer goods
  • WIPO sectorOther fields

Abstract

A cigarette includes lighting and mouth ends. It may include a smokable segment disposed at the lighting end. It also includes a mouth-end segment; an aerosol-generation system disposed between the lighting and mouth ends, which includes (i) a heat-generation segment adjacent the smokable segment, including a heat source and an insulation layer and (ii) an aerosol-generating segment including a substrate, which may include tobacco pellets and aerosol-forming material disposed in a substrate cavity between the heat generation segment and the mouth end; a piece of outer wrapping material that provides an overwrap around at least a portion of the aerosol-generating segment, the heat-generation segment, and at least a portion of the smokable segment and includes a foil strip laminated thereon; those segments being connected together by the overwrap to provide a cigarette rod; that is connected to the mouth-end segment using tipping material.

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