R.j. Reynolds Tobacco Company

Rai Strategic Holdings, Inc.

Evon Llewellyn Crooks

Billy Tyrone Conner

David William Griffith, Jr

Dempsey Bailey Brewer, Jr

John Howard Robinson

Andries Don Sebastian

Chandra K Banerjee

Timothy Brian Nestor

Joanne Naomi Taylor

Balager Ademe

Timothy Frederick Thomas

Alvaro Gonzalez-Parra

Carolyn Rierson Carpenter

Michael F Davis

Paul Eugene Braxton

Bradley James Ingebrethsen

Stephen Benson Sears

Jackie L White

Vernon Brent Barnes

Steven Lee Alderman

David Neil McClanahan

Yi-Ping Chang

Jack F Clearman

John-Paul Mua

Barry Smith Fagg

Daniel Verdin Cantrell

Dennis Lee Potter

Nicholas Harrison Watson

Dwayne William Beeson

Karen V Williams

Susan K Pike

David Charles Bovender

Paul Fischer Bernasek

James Richard Stone

Louis John Read, Jr

Cortney Rasheen Jackson

Kristen L Murray

Melissa Ann Clark

Luis Monsalud

Calvin Wayne Henderson

Donald L Roberts

Timothy Franklin Tilley

William J Casey, Iii

Russell D Barnes

Sharon Pitts Dunlap

Yan Pu

Johnny L Brooks

Jason Eugene Kobisky

Jerry S Simmons

Matthew E Lampe

Jeffrey A Willis

Darrell D Williams

Sheila Lynnette Cash

Steven Benson Sears

Annette Snow Ludolf

Samantha S White

Karter R Yutzy

Carl C Morrison

Wayne E Davis, Jr

Timothy Fredrick Thomas

Billy Tyrone Connor

Alvaro Parra Gonzalez

Calvin W Henderson

Karen Womble Wallace

Paul G Hoertz

Stephen Cole

Jackie Lee White

Chandra Kumar Banerjee

A smoking article may include a cigarette incorporated within an electrically powered aerosol generating device that acts as a holder for that cigarette. The smoking article possesses at least one form of tobacco. The smoking article also possesses a mouth-end piece that is used by the smoker to inhale components of tobacco that are generated by the action of heat upon components of the cigarette. A representative smoking article possesses an outer housing incorporating a source of electrical power (e.g., a battery), a sensing mechanism for powering the device at least during periods of draw, and a heating device (e.g., at least one electrical resistance heating element) for forming a thermally generated aerosol that incorporates components of tobacco. During use, the cigarette is positioned within the device, and after use, the used cigarette is removed from the device and replaced with another cigarette.

Tobacco-containing smoking article

A method and associated system are provided for forming a biodegradable filter material for a filter element of a smoking article, wherein the method involves combining cellulose acetate fibers with regenerated cellulose fibers, drawing the combined cellulose acetate fibers and regenerated cellulose fibers to form drawn combined fibers, and crimping the drawn combined fibers to form a mixed fiber tow. An associated filter material for the filter element of a smoking article is also provided.

Filter material for a filter element of a smoking article, and associated system and method

The present disclosure provides components useful in heating, particularly heating of an aerosol precursor solution so as to vaporize the solution and form an aerosol. The disclosure particularly provides an electrically conductive, porous carbon heater. The heater may be combined with an aerosol precursor transport element that also is formed of carbon. The heater and transport element may form an atomizer that can be useful in an electronic smoking article, such as in a cartridge that is adapted for attachment to a control body. In some embodiments, the disclosure provides a cartridge of an electronic smoking article, the cartridge being formed substantially completely of carbon.

Carbon conductive substrate for electronic smoking article

Smoking articles including filter elements formed from two or more fibrous inputs with different physical properties are provided. A first plurality of cellulose acetate staple fibers and a second plurality of degradable polymeric staple fibers are blended to give a fiber mixture, wherein the staple fibers of the fiber mixture are randomly oriented. The degradable polymeric staple fibers can be treated to increase hydrophobicity. The staple fibers of the fiber mixture can then be bonded to form a fibrous bundle which can be incorporated into a filter element. Related methods and mixed fiber products are also provided by the disclosure.

Staple fiber blend for use in the manufacture of cigarette filter elements

A smoking article, such as a cigarette, comprises a lighting end and a mouth end. The smoking article possesses an aerosol-generation system that includes (i) a heat generation segment, and (ii) an aerosol-generating region or segment. A mouth end piece segment can be located at the mouth end of the smoking article. A segment of tobacco cut filler, gathered tobacco paper, or other type of flavor source material, can be positioned between the mouth end piece segment and the aerosol-generation segment. Optionally, segment composed of tobacco cut filler can be positioned so as to provide a lighting end segment. The smoking article possesses an overwrap (e.g., a single paper overwrap) that extends over the longitudinally extending surface of the mouth end piece segment, the aerosol generation segment, at least a portion of the length of the heat generation segment, any segment located between the mouth end piece and aerosol generation segments, and at least a portion of the length of the optional lighting end segment. Alternatively, the smoking article possesses an overwrap (e.g., a single paper overwrap) that extends over the longitudinally extending surface of the aerosol-generating segment, at least a portion of the length of the heat generation segment, at least a portion of any segment located downstream from the aerosol-generating segment, and at least a portion of the length of the optional lighting end segment, thereby forming a cigarette rod; and the cigarette rod is connected or attached to a filter element using a tipping type of material and arrangement.

Smoking article

Growing community of inventors

Mocksville, NC, United States of America

Evon Llewellyn Crooks