354 results about "Tobacco smoke" patented technology

A smokable rod for a smoking article, such as a cigarette, possesses a co-axial or concentric construction. A longitudinally extending inner core of tobacco cut filler is positioned within a smokable rod. The outer material that circumscribes the inner core in an annular fashion is composed of a tobacco material treated with an optional burn suppressing agent, and the outer material acts as a substrate for an aerosol forming material. A preferred aerosol forming material is glycerin. An outer paper wrapper circumscribes the length of the smokable rod, and another paper wrapping material also can circumscribe the inner core material. In use, one end of the smokable rod is lit. When the opposite end of the smokable rod is drawn upon, an aerosol composed of tobacco smoke, thermal decomposition products of tobacco, and volatilized aerosol forming material, is provided. Alternatively, a smokable rod can be provided by positioning the tobacco cut filler in the outer annular region, and by constructing the inner core portion using the tobacco material treated with aerosol forming material and an optional burn suppressing agent. Alternatively, a smokable rod possesses a single blend of smokable materials; at least a portion the smokable material being a tobacco material carrying a relatively high amount of aerosol forming material; and optionally at least a portion of the smokable material being in intimate contact with a burn suppressing agent. A filtered cigarette can be produced by attaching a filter element to one end of any of those smokable rods.

A running web of tipping paper (one side of which is coated with a film of adhesive) in a filter cigarette making machine is subdivided into discrete uniting bands and / or is perforated by resorting to a single source or to two discrete sources of coherent radiation. Each source is associated with a control unit which initiates the emission of short-lasting flashes of coherent radiation. Such radiation is caused to impinge upon a diffractive focusing lens which focuses coherent radiation upon one or more masks having openings for coherent radiation which is to sever the web along transversely extending linear zones and / or to provide the web with desired arrays of perforations. The perforations permit atmospheric air to enter the column of tobacco smoke in a filter cigarette wherein the tobacco-containing portion and the filter mouthpiece are united by a perforated adhesive-coated uniting band.

The present invention includes a method and apparatus for detecting exposure to environmental tobacco smoke by analyzing a sample of breath using electronic sensor technology, including surface acoustic-wave gas sensor technology. The method determines the presence and concentration of substance(s) (or a class of substances) indicative of environmental smoke exposure. Diagnostic software is used to identify substances where a stored library of signatures is compared to the signature obtained from the system. Signal processing and neural networks are preferably utilized in the analysis.

A smokable rod for a smoking article, such as a cigarette, possesses a co-axial or concentric construction. A longitudinally extending inner core of tobacco cut filler is positioned within a smokable rod. The outer material that circumscribes the inner core in an annular fashion is composed of a tobacco material treated with a burn suppressing agent, and the outer material acts as a substrate for an aerosol forming material. In use, one end of the smokable rod is lit, and the tobacco cut filler of the inner core burns to yield tobacco smoke. The outer material smolders, and hence thermal decomposition products of the outer tobacco material and volatilized aerosol forming material are produced. When the opposite end of the smokable rod is drawn upon, an aerosol composed of tobacco smoke, thermal decomposition products of tobacco, and volatilized aerosol forming material, is provided.

A tobacco smoking device comprises a porous mass of active particles adapted to enhance a tobacco smoke flowing over said active particles and binder particles. The active particles comprises about 1-99% weight of the porous mass, and the binder particles comprises about 1-99% weight of said porous mass. The active particles and said binder particles are bound together at randomly distributed points throughout the porous mass. The active particles have a greater particle size than the binder particles.

A method of modifying the content of certain chemical compounds in tobacco materials is provided, the method including treatment of a tobacco plant or portion thereof with at least one enzyme. For example, the method may modify the content of tobacco smoke toxicant precursors in tobacco materials, which can result in a modification in toxicant production when the tobacco material is exposed to elevated temperatures. The type of tobacco plant or portion thereof treated according to the invention can be, for example, a tobacco seed, a tobacco seedling, an immature live plant, a mature live plant, a harvested plant, or a plant derivative. Smoking articles and other tobacco products including such enzyme-treated tobacco materials are also provided.

A smoking article such as a cigarette comprises a tobacco rod and a filter component having a cavity filled with spherical beaded carbon. As mainstream tobacco smoke is drawn through the filter component, targeted gas phase smoke constituents are removed as the smoke passes through the carbon. During the filter manufacturing process the spherical beaded carbon flows like a liquid and substantially completely fills the cavity. Point-to-point contact between the spherical beads together with substantially complete filling of the cavity produces minimal channeling of ambulatory gas phase as well as maximum contact between the gas phase and the carbon surface of the spherical beads during smoking.

A battery powered portable human body carrying electronic human breath filtration device is an electronic nose mask and is the most ideal alternative to conventional filter paper type nose mask. It utilizes electronic ionization technique and electrostatic field to remove air borne particles, dust, pollens, contaminants, bacteria, viruses, toxic chemical, fume and tobacco smoke from human inhalation and exhalation breath. It interacts with human breathing action as the air flow driving system to move the inhalation and exhalation breaths through the electronic filter elements, in addition to a front louver cover and a rear louver cover's protection as pre-filters. The system requires very low running current and uses small batteries usually found in household electronics. This filtration system is light weight with negligible air flow resistance and is integrated into the nose mask which is connected to a pocket size control system via a connection cable.

A cigarette having a multi-component filter wherein an upstream sorbent removes at least one constituent from mainstream tobacco smoke passing through the filter and a downstream flavor segment compensates for taste lost to the sorbent. The flavor component includes cellulosic flavor bearing granules which release volatile flavor constituents into the mainstream smoke under ambient conditions. The cellulosic granules include microcrystalline cellulose or other cellulosic material which can be formed into a paste with the flavor additive, extruded and spheronized to form the flavor granules.

A novel and improved method of applying adhesive to one side of a running web of wrapping material for a rod-like filler of filter material for tobacco smoke includes directing toward the one side of the web a stream of adhesive which issues from an open-and-shut orifice of a nozzle, and employing one or more jets of compressed air to vary the direction of flow of the stream so that the adhesive coats one marginal portion as well as the adjacent portion of the major central part of the one side and forms at least one non-linear layer. Once the thus treated web is draped around the filler, the adhesive bonds the two marginal portions of the converted web to each other and simultaneously bonds the central part of the web to the filler.

This invention relates to the provision in a cigarette filter element of a capsule containing a deodoriser. The capsule is resistant to the handling endured before and during smoking, yet ruptures to release or expose the deodoriser upon extinguishing of the smoked cigarette. The deodoriser may comprise neutralising or masking agents, or mixtures of both.

A method of detecting impurities in a mass, such as detecting metallic and / or plastic particles in a stream of tobacco particles or filter material for tobacco smoke, includes the steps of moving the mass relative to a microwave field and / or vice versa, and analyzing the influence of the mass upon the microwave field. The analyzing step involves simultaneously measur- the actual values of a first and a second parameter of the microwave field, ascertaining the presence or absence of those changes of the parameters which are attributable to the presence of impurities in the mass, determining whether or not the changes are within an acceptable range, and generating signals for segregation of impurities-containing portions of the mass from the other portions when the changes are outside of the acceptable range.

Improved filters useful for tobacco products, such as cigarettes, and novel cigarettes having such filters are disclosed. The filters include adsorbents such as activated carbon which reduce amounts of one or more gas phase constituents of mainstream tobacco smoke. The adsorbents are treated with off-taste suppressants which reduce the off-taste associated with adsorbent containing filters and substantially restore the taste normally associated with tobacco smoke.

The invention provides a tobacco smoking apparatus that enables a person to smoke, namely inhale and exhale smoke and other combustion products from burning tobacco, while isolating and protecting others from a substantial portion of the combustion products, including smoke, smoker's exhale and odor, that are produced from smoking tobacco.

A filter such as a cigarette filter having a metal reagent which selectively binds with a gaseous component of a gas stream such as tobacco smoke. The metal reagent comprises nanometer or micrometer size clusters of a transition metal or alloy containing a transition metal. The transition metal can be incorporated in an intermetallic compound such as titanium aluminide or iron aluminide. The metal clusters can be incorporated in or on a support material such as silica gel, porous carbon or a zeolite. The metal reagent can remove the gaseous component by selectively binding to unsaturated hydrocarbons such as 1,3-butadiene. The binding can occur by insertion of a metal atom of the metal reagent into a C—H bond or a C—C bond of the gaseous component.

A tobacco smoking device comprises a porous mass of active particles adapted to enhance a tobacco smoke flowing over said active particles and binder particles. The active particles comprises about 1-99% weight of the porous mass, and the binder particles comprises about 1-99% weight of said porous mass. The active particles and said binder particles are bound together at randomly distributed points throughout the porous mass. The active particles have a greater particle size than the binder particles.

The invention discloses an electric heat airglow type smoking system which comprises a cigarette holder and a cigarette chamber, wherein the cigarette holder and the cigarette chamber are mutually matched; a heating element and a placing cavity which is filled with tobacco are arranged in a shell of the cigarette cavity; one end of the placing cavity is connected with one end of the heating element; the other end of the placing cavity is connected with the cigarette holder; and the other end of the heating element is connected with a control power supply. According to the heat airflow type smoking system, hot air and the heating element are jointly used for heating, and the airflow of the hot air is capable of uniformly flowing through the tobacco to heat the whole tobacco, so that the volatilization of the volatile matters of the tobacco smoke forming products and the smoke generation of the tobacco can be effectively improved and then the problem in the background art is solved.

A smokable rod for a smoking article, such as a cigarette, possesses a co-axial or concentric construction. A longitudinally extending inner core of tobacco cut filler is positioned within a smokable rod. The outer material that circumscribes the inner core in an annular fashion is composed of a tobacco material treated with a burn suppressing agent, and the outer material acts as a substrate for an aerosol forming material. A preferred aerosol forming material is glycerin. An outer paper wrapper circumscribes the length of the smokable rod, and another paper wrapping material also can circumscribe the inner core material. In use, one end of the smokable rod is lit, and the tobacco cut filler of the inner core burns to yield tobacco smoke. The outer material smolders, and hence thermal decomposition products of the outer tobacco material and volatilized aerosol forming material are produced. When the opposite end of the smokable rod is drawn upon, an aerosol composed of tobacco smoke, thermal decomposition products of tobacco, and volatilized aerosol forming material, is provided. Alternatively, a smokable rod can be provided by positioning the tobacco cut filler in the outer annular region, and by constructing the inner core portion using the tobacco material treated with aerosol forming material and a burn suppressing agent. Alternatively, a smokable rod possesses a single blend of smokable materials; at least a portion the smokable material being a tobacco material carrying a relatively high amount of aerosol forming material; and at least a portion of the smokable material being in intimate contact with a burn suppressing agent. A filtered cigarette can be produced by attaching a filter element to one end of any of those smokable rods.

The present invention relates to the use of an elastase inhibitor, preferably fahsin for the treatment or prevention of emphysema, COPD or lung cancer. The elastase inhibitor is preferably administered through inhalation, preferably thorough inhalation of tobacco smoke. The invention also comprises smoking articles comprising such an elastase inhibitor.

A method of preventing or reducing tobacco smoke-associated injury in the aerodigestive tract of a subject is disclosed. The method comprises administering a therapeutically effective amount of an antioxidant agent capable of preventing or reducing tobacco smoke-associated injury in the aerodigestive tract of a subject

A multi-component filter for tobacco smoke and the like comprises a mouthpiece section and two filter sections respectively containing conventional filtration material and scented filtration material in the form of porous scented paper adapted to disguise the odor of the smoke with a fresh clean odor. The sections are telescopically assembled with small spring clips co-operating with annular grooves for releasable connection of the same.

The invention relates to a fruity type flue-cured tobacco essence and also relates to the applications thereof. The fruity type flue-cured tobacco essence mainly consists of trans-2-hexenal, hexenyl formate, methyl acetate, red date tincture, hawthorn tincture and the like. The fruity type flue-cured tobacco essence can be used for leading the fruit flavor to be coordinated with the flavor of the tobacco to hide the offensive smell of the tobacco and develop the tobacco smoke to be rich and mellow, thereby improving the intake taste with comfortable and mellow, cool and soft smoking feeling and fragrant and elegant aftertaste.

A filter-tipped cigarette comprises tobacco core 1 contained in casing 3, and filter 2, the filter having first filtering member 4 connected by its one end to tobacco core 1, and a second filtering member provided within first filtering member 4. The second filtering member comprises a distributed system of water-resistant casings having a liquid nucleus, the casings being in the form of tubular capsules 6 and / or ampoule-type capsules 7, which capsules 6, 7 are caused to rupture upon mechanical force is exerted externally thereon. The second filtering member has a volume within the range from 3 to 75 percent by volume of the volume of the first filtering member. The filter-tipped cigarette provides high-quality tobacco smoke cleaning along with enabling the smoker to vary the efficiency of tobacco smoke cleaning and simultaneously flavor tobacco smoke.

The invention discloses a method for predicting the main indexes of flue-cured tobacco smoke, which comprises the following steps: firstly, establishing a model for the main indexes of the flue-cured tobacco smoke; secondly, detecting the main chemical compostions and the main indexes of the smoke of a training flue-cured tobacco sample and a testing flue-cured tobacco sample; thirdly, using a gray function clustering method to cluster the training flue-cured tobacco sample; fourthly, determining the variable of the sample entering the model; fifthly, establishing a gray prediction model between the main indexes and the main chemical compositions of the smoke of each type of the sample; sixthly, establishing a BP neural network for each type of the training sample; and seventhly, performing a test and an adjustment by using the main indexes and the main chemical compositions of the smoke of the testing flue-cured tobacco sample. In the process of detection, the main chemical components of the flue-cured tobacco sample to be tested are clustered; and then the model of the type of the sample is applied to performing prediction so as to obtain the main indexes of the smoke. The method overcomes defects that the prior art needs to detect and operate a large number samples, achieves the prediction of the main indexes of the flue-cured tobacco smoke by using a small amount of the chemical composition samples, lightens the workload caused by smoke panel tests for formulating personnel, and can be widely used in the tobacco industry.

This invention is an improved method for controlling, reducing, and quitting smoking. Specifically, this method requires the use of one or more non-combustible devices that employ (at least) (A) a loading chamber for measuring the amount of combustible material to be smoked; and (B) a baffle or similar apparatus to prevent the smoker from inhaling the tobacco. By using one such non-combustible device, the smoker can measure the precise amount of tobacco to be smoked. Hence, the smoker can reduce his or her dependency on smoking by limiting the amount of tobacco smoked, as well as how many times he or she smokes that amount each day. By using two or more non-combustible devices with varying loading chamber lengths, the smoker can reduce his or her dependency by gradually reducing the amount of tobacco smoked, in addition to how many times he or she smokes a day.

The present invention is a capsule that has a perforated outer shell that is substantially filled with a filtering media which has been pressurized to remove air pockets resulting in more effective and consistent filtration. The media may be activated carbon or other filtering media and may include other flavorants, aromatic substances, or a combination thereof. The present invention, thus, also provides an insert for a smoking article. The insert is the capsule of the present invention, namely, a perforated shell with media filling the cavity (without “air pockets”) formed by the shell. The capsule is placed within the smoking article at a point between the tobacco and the point of inhalation (the mouthpiece) such that, upon inhalation, the tobacco smoke is drawn completely and consistently through the media. Alternatively, the capsule may be integrated into a cigarette holder, pipe, or the like at a point in-line between the tobacco charge and the smoker.

Disclosed are particulate filter media comprising a particulate or powdery acetoacetate-functional compound or composition that is effective in removing gaseous aldehydes present in gases such as air. The particulate filter media are capable of reacting with and irreversibly removing airborne aldehydes, such as formaldehyde, acetaldehyde, and acrolein. Also disclosed is a method or process for the removal of an aldehyde from a gas such as air or tobacco smoke by contacting the aldehyde-containing gas with the particulate filter media.

A tobacco smoke filter (10) can comprise a spiral core (11) of impermeable or semi-permeable material. A filter spiral core (11) is surrounded by filter material (12) such as cellulose acetate and wrapped in paper (13).

A tobacco smoke containment and filter device with built-in ignition for treating secondary and side stream tobacco smoke that includes a main body portion having an outer chamber and an inner chamber, a mouthpiece, and a housing unit that includes a cigarette ignition system, a fan and a filter. The main body portion includes an outer chamber connected to the housing unit. The mouthpiece has an opening therewith sized to accommodate a cigarette. The outer chamber includes a smoke exhaust member branching off from the exterior of the outer chamber. An inner chamber is positioned within the outer chamber and has a closed far end containing at least one air hole and a near end joined to the outer chamber forming an opening for the mouthpiece. The mouthpiece has a smoke control system that controls the inhalation and exhalation of smoke by the user. (printed circuit board).