R.j. Reynolds Tobacco Company

Rai Strategic Holdings, Inc.

Alvaro Gonzalez-Parra

Andries Don Sebastian

Charles Jacob Novak, Iii

Michael F Davis

Billy Tyrone Conner

Chandra K Banerjee

Evon Llewellyn Crooks

Timothy Brian Nestor

Jackie L White

Gary R Shelar

Wesley Steven Jones

Vernon Brent Barnes

Steven Lee Alderman

Thomas A Perfetti

Timothy Frederick Thomas

John-Paul Mua

Nicholas Harrison Watson

Dwayne William Beeson

Carolyn Rierson Carpenter

Yi-Ping Chang

David Neil McClanahan

Mark Dockrill

Paul Eugene Braxton

Jeffery S Gentry

Bradley James Ingebrethsen

Joseph Dominique

Thomas L Gentry

Luis Monsalud

Milly M Wong

Timothy Franklin Tilley

William J Casey, Iii

Jerry W Lawson

Brian M Lawrence

Yan Pu

Dennis M Riggs

Jeffrey A Willis

Matthew E Lampe

James Richard Stone

Walter R Young, Jr

Aju N Lekwauwa

Simon Andrew English

Darrell D Williams

Kenneth W Swicegood

Ronald O Wagoner

Bradley Phillips

Kristen L Murray

David Pritchard

Jeffrey Hughes

Thomas Crugnale

Simon Philip Adam Higgins

Eugenia Theophilus

Gary W Worrell

Kelly K Hutchison

Karter R Yutzy

Samantha S White

Robert Neil

Marielle Anitra Keyna Des Etages

Karen Womble Wallace

Paul G Hoertz

Iii Charles Jacob Novak

Simon A English

Stephen Cole

Jackie Lee White

Chandra Kumar Banerjee

A unit for mixing and dispensing an aerosol precursor composition, and containers to be dispensed therefrom. The unit includes a plurality of bulk material filling stations, the plurality of bulk material filling stations have at least one first filling station with aerosol former and at least one second filling station with a flavor material for creating the aerosol precursor. The unit also includes a bulk consumable pack staging a plurality of containers configured to receive the aerosol precursor, and a robot configured to retrieve a container from the bulk consumable pack and move the container through at least two dimensions to stop at at least two of the plurality of bulk material filling stations.

Dispenser unit for aerosol precursor

A unit for mixing and dispensing an aerosol precursor composition, and containers to be dispensed therefrom. The unit includes a plurality of bulk material filling stations, the plurality of bulk material filling stations have at least one first filling station with aerosol former and at least one second filling station with a flavor material for creating the aerosol precursor. The unit also includes a bulk consumable pack staging a plurality of containers configured to receive the aerosol precursor, and a robot configured to retrieve a container from the bulk consumable pack and move the container through at least two dimensions to stop at least two of the plurality of bulk material filling stations.

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 configured to be activated by combustion of a smokable material and an insulation layer of a non-glass material that is woven, knit, or both, and (ii) an aerosol-generating segment with aerosol-forming material disposed between, but physically separate from, each of 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; those segments being connected together by the overwrap to provide a cigarette rod; that is connected to the cigarette rod using tipping material.

Segmented smoking article with foamed insulation material

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.

Segmented smoking article with substrate cavity

Segmented smoking article with insulation mat

Disclosed is a stabilized substrate composition for smoking articles, particularly cigarettes. In general, the stabilized substrate composition comprises an admixture of a binder and an aerosol forming material which plasticizes the binder, together with optional fillers and/or base materials. In the stabilized substrate compositions of the present invention the relative amounts of binder and aerosol former depend particularly on the situation in which the substrate composition is used. In general, the ratio of aerosol former to binder is between about 3:1 and about 40:1. When the stabilized composition is used on a base material such as tobacco cut filler, the ratio of aerosol former to binder should be at least about 15:1, and preferably is from about 25-35:1, with a maximum ratio of about 40:1. If the composition is formed into a cast sheet, the minimum ratio is about 3:1, the preferred ratio is about 8:1, and the maximum ratio is about 10:1. When the stabilized mixture is printed on a sheet or web substrate, the ratio of aerosol former to binder is generally about 6:1, the maximum ratio is about 10:1, and the minimum ratio is about 3:1.

Substrates material for smoking articles

Substrate material for smoking articles

Flavorful tobacco extracts are provided by subjecting a moist spray dried tobacco extract to heat treatment. The moist extract is contacted with a furanone, a pyranone or an alpha-dicarbonyl compound, and exposed to a temperature above about 100.degree. C. in a pressure controlled vessel. Resulting flavorful extracts are useful as forms of tobacco in cigarettes and other smoking articles.

Tobacco treatment process

It has been found that the addition of specific levels of sodium, advantageously in the form of sodium carbonate, to low sodium level binder, e.g., ammonium alginate, containing carbonaceous fuel compositions results in dramatic changes in the performance of both the fuel element themselves and, cigarettes (or other smoking articles) incorporating the fuel elements. These performance differences include variation in the yields of aerosol and/or flavorants. The addition of sodium carbonate to the fuel elements greatly improves the smolder rates and also improves puff calories, without overheating the cigarette, thereby resulting in substantial improvements in total (and puff by puff) aerosol yield.

Carbonaceous composition for fuel elements of smoking articles and

A smoking article includes a short, combustible, carbonaceous fuel element in a heat exchange relationship with a substrate carrying glycerin, tobacco extract, and a portion of an essential oil gland bearing plant. For example, fragments of cinnamon bark, lovage root, chamomile flowers or cardamon physically separate from the fuel element provide for a controlled release of a flavor profile during use of the smoking article. Heat provided by the burning fuel element acts to release essential oils from the glands to provide a complex flavor and aroma profile. The smoking article is capable of providing the user with many of the pleasures of smoking by heating but not necessarily burning tobacco.

Smoking article

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Clemmons, NC, United States of America

Alvaro Gonzalez-Parra