Philip Morris Products S.a.

Marine Jarriault

Johannes Petrus Maria Pijnenburg

Cedric Meyer

Alain Sciboz

Gerard Zuber

Yorick Klipfel

Alexis Louvet

Corinne Deforel

Pascal Rausis

Celine Lesuffleur

Pierre-Yves Gindrat

Daniele Sanna

Thomas Badertscher

Juan David Manzur Bedoya

Michael Elliott Doyle

Rui Nuno Batista

Frederic Lavanchy

Mirko Minzoni

Jean-Claude Schneider

Aurélien Guyard

Gaetan Couderc

Audrey Cally

Roelof Cornelis De Borst

Chrystophe Schaller

Céline Lesuffleur

Cédric Meyer

An aerosol-generating article for an aerosol-generating device including a heating element is provided, the aerosol-generating article including: an aerosol-forming substrate including homogenised tobacco material; a support element disposed immediately downstream of the aerosol-forming substrate; an aerosol-cooling element disposed downstream of the support element; and an outer wrapper circumscribing the aerosol-forming substrate, the support element, and the aerosol-cooling element, the support element abutting the aerosol-forming substrate.

Aerosol-generating article for use with an aerosol-generating device

The invention relates to a method for the preparation of a sheet including a homogenized material containing alkaloids, said method comprising: —forming a mixture comprising particles of a material containing alkaloids and a starch component, and a quantity of a first additive comprising a component selected from the group consisting of water, aerosol-former and binder, wherein the quantity of the first additive is comprised between about 0.1 percent and about 50 percent by weight of the total weight of the mixture; —applying to the mixture a mechanical energy of at least about 20 watt-hour per kilogram of the mixture; —combining the mixture with a quantity of a second additive comprising a component selected from the group consisting of water, aerosol-former, and binder, to form a slurry; and —forming a sheet from the slurry.

Method for the preparation of a sheet including a homogenized material containing alkaloids and aerosol forming article comprising a component prepared from it

The invention relates to a method for the preparation of a material containing alkaloids, said method comprising: —forming a mixture comprising a reducing sugar and particles of a material containing alkaloids; —extruding the mixture, wherein extruding includes: feeding the mixture to an extruder; heating the mixture to a first temperature lower than or equal to about 190 Celsius degrees; cooling the mixture from the first temperature to a second temperature lower than or equal to about 70 Celsius degrees; and discharging an extruded mixture from the extruder.

Method for the preparation of a material containing alkaloids and aerosol forming article comprising a component prepared from it

An aerosol-generating article is provided, including: a substrate portion containing an aerosol-forming substrate; and a connect portion disposed at one end of the aerosol-generating article in direct abutment with the substrate portion, the connect portion having a tubular empty core structure, the substrate portion having a length of between 20 millimeters and 60 millimeters, and a diameter of between 4 millimeters and 7 millimeters, the aerosol-forming substrate including an aerosol former, and an amount of the aerosol former ranges between 6 percent and 20 percent by weight on a dry weight basis of the aerosol-forming substrate. An aerosol-generating system including the aerosol-generating article and an aerosol-generating device, and a method for manufacturing the aerosol-generating article, are also provided.

Aerosol-generating article with high aerosol former content

The invention relates to a method for the preparation of a sheet including a homogenized material containing alkaloids, said method comprising: —forming a mixture comprising a reducing sugar and particles of a material containing alkaloids; —extruding the mixture; —adding water to the extruded mixture to form a slurry; and —casting the slurry into a sheet.

There is provided a heated aerosol-generating article for producing an inhalable aerosol, the heated aerosol-generating article including: an aerosol-forming substrate that is a homogenized tobacco material including tobacco, a fat having a melting point between 20&#xb0; C. and 50&#xb0; C., and one or more aerosol-formers, the homogenized tobacco material containing at least 60% tobacco on a dry weight basis. A homogenized tobacco material is also provided.

Homogenized tobacco material with improved volatile transfer

A method of forming homogenized tobacco material is provided, including forming a homogenized slurry including tobacco powder; casting the homogenized slurry onto a moving belt; incorporating a porous reinforcement sheet into the cast homogenized slurry; and drying the cast homogenized slurry with the incorporated porous reinforcement sheet to form the homogenized tobacco material, the porous reinforcement sheet having anisotropic properties such that the porous reinforcement sheet has a higher tensile strength in a longitudinal direction thereof than in a transverse direction thereof.

Method of producing high tensile strength homogenized tobacco material

An aerosol-generating article is provided, including an aerosol-forming substrate; a support element located immediately downstream of the aerosol-forming substrate; an aerosol-cooling element located downstream of the support element; and an outer wrapper circumscribing the aerosol-forming substrate, the support element and the aerosol-cooling element. The support element abuts the aerosol-forming substrate. The aerosol-forming substrate is penetrable by a heating element of an aerosol-generating device.

There is provided a method of making rods having predetermined values of cross-sectional porosity, and a cross-sectional porosity distribution value for use as an aerosol-forming substrate in a heated aerosol-generating article, including providing a continuous sheet of aerosol-forming material having a specified width and a specified thickness; gathering the sheet transversely relative to a longitudinal axis thereof; circumscribing the gathered sheet with a wrapper to form a continuous rod; severing the rod into a plurality of discrete rods; determining values of cross-sectional porosity and cross-sectional porosity distribution for at least one of the discrete rods; and controlling one or more manufacturing parameters to ensure that the cross-sectional porosity and cross-sectional porosity distribution values of subsequent rods are within the predetermined values.

Method of making a rod for use as an aerosol-forming substrate having controlled porosity distribution

The invention relates to a method for the preparation of a homogenized tobacco material, said method comprising: &#x2014;pulping and refining cellulose fibres to obtain fibres having a mean size comprised between about 0.2 millimetres and about 4 millimetres; &#x2014;grinding a blend of tobacco of one or more tobacco types to a tobacco powder having a mean size comprised between about 0.03 millimetres and about 0.12 millimetres; &#x2014;combining the pulp with the tobacco powder blend of different tobacco types and with a binder in an amount comprised between about 1 percent and about 5 percent in dry weight basis of the total weight of the homogenized tobacco material, so as to form a slurry; &#x2014;homogenizing the slurry; and&#x2014;forming the homogenized tobacco material from the slurry.

Homogenized tobacco material and method of production of homogenized tobacco material

There is provided a heated aerosol-generating article for producing an inhalable aerosol, the article including an aerosol-forming substrate that is a homogenized tobacco material including tobacco and a wax having a melting point between 50&#xb0; C. and 150&#xb0; C., a total content of wax in the homogenized tobacco material being between 5 weight percent and 15 weight percent on a dry weight basis, and the wax being evenly distributed within the homogenized tobacco material. A homogenized tobacco material and a method of making a homogenized tobacco material are also provided.

Homogenized tobacco material with meltable lipid

The present invention relates to a method of preparation of a slurry for the production of a homogenized tobacco material, said method comprising: &#x2014;suspending a binder in an aerosol-former to form a suspension; &#x2014;creating a cellulose pulp from cellulose fibers and water; &#x2014;providing a tobacco powder blend; and &#x2014;combining said suspension of binder in aerosol-former, said cellulose pulp and said tobacco powder blend to form said slurry.

Method for the production of homogenized tobacco material

Consumable cigarette with recessed mouthpiece filter

An aerosol-generating article is provided, including a plurality of elements assembled in the form of a rod, the plurality of elements including an aerosol-forming substrate, and a mouthpiece filter located downstream from the aerosol-forming substrate within the rod. The aerosol-generating article further includes a volatile flavor-generating component disposed between the aerosol-forming substrate and the mouthpiece filter within the rod. In some embodiments, the volatile flavor-generating component is supported by a low resistance support element located between the aerosol-forming substrate and the mouthpiece filter. In some embodiments, the volatile flavor-generating component is menthol.

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Marine Jarriault