R.j. Reynolds Tobacco Company

Other

Reynolds Technologies, Inc.

American Science and Technology Corporation

Michael Francis Dube

Wennuan Liu

Robert Soreo

Eric Taylor Hunt

William Monroe Coleman, Iii

Vernon Brent Barnes

Luis Mayan Dominguez

Cynthia Stewart Stokes

Anthony Richard Gerardi

Kenneth Wayne Smith

Darlene Madeline Lawson

John Larkin Nelson

Thomas A Perfetti

Daniel Verdin Cantrell

August Joseph Borschke

Crystal Dawn Hege Byrd

Darrell Eugene Holton, Jr

John-Paul Mua

Paul Andrew Brinkley

Jerry Wayne Marshall

Barry Smith Fagg

Jeffrey Silver Taggart

Dennis Lee Potter

Frank Kelley St Charles

Dwayne William Beeson

Bruce Alan Bengtsson

Jack Gray Flinchum, Jr

Ronald Keith Hutchens

David Neil McClanahan

Alan B Norman

Paul Stuart Chapman

Luis Monsalud

Jeremy Barrett Mabe

Jerry Wayne Lawson

Barbara W Arzonico

Christopher Junker

James Neil Figlar

William Coleman

Norman Philip Andresen

Charles Ray Ashcraft

Gong Chen

Robert Leslie Oglesby

Huamin Gan

Barry L Saintsing

Chi-Kuen Shu

Glenn E Creamer

Jason Eugene Kobisky

James L Harris

Geoffrey W Kennard

Edwin G Zoborowski

Rick Lehman

Ronald Lewis Parks

Susan Marlene Adams

Mohammad Ali Manesh

Cheryl Cooper Scott

Courtney Guenther Culbert

Chelsea Allison Cooke

Anthony L Angel

Crystal D Hege Byrd

Rhys Thomas Dale

Elwood Lee Williams, Jr

Bob Horvath

Morrison Clark Dale

Jessica Hanna Johnston

Charles Bradford Rhoades, Jr

Robin Kent Wilson

Barbara Walker Arzonico

Darrell Holton

John Guenther

James E Fay Iii

William Monroe Iii Coleman

Jack Flinchum

Iii William Monroe Coleman

William Monroe Coleman Iii

Apparatuses are provided for manufacturing a rod member for a cigarette filter element. Each rod member defines a longitudinal axis and includes a generally longitudinally-extending filter material and a plurality of objects disposed therein along the longitudinal axis. Such an apparatus comprises a rod-forming unit configured to form a continuous supply of a filter material into a continuous cylindrical rod member. An object insertion unit is configured to introduce a plurality of objects into engagement with the rod member. A rod-dividing unit is configured to divide the rod member into a plurality of rod portions such that each rod portion includes a plurality of the objects. Associated methods are also provided.

Apparatus for inserting objects into a filter component of a smoking article and associated method

Methods of selectively forming substituted pyrazines are provided. Methods of the present invention can include receiving a reaction solution including at least one carbon source and at least one nitrogen source, and heating the reaction solution to a reaction temperature and holding the reaction solution at the reaction temperature for a time sufficient to produce a reaction product comprising at least one substituted pyrazine. The carbon source can be selected from the group consisting of hydroxy ketone(s), sugar(s) treated with at least one buffer, and combinations thereof. Tobacco products incorporating substituted pyrazines are also provided.

Methods of selectively forming substituted pyrazines

A method of forming a carbon material from the stalk or roots of a plant of thespecies is provided herein, wherein the method includes i) receiving a tobacco material comprising at least one of a stalk material and a root material of a harvested plant of thespecies; and ii) pyrolyzing the tobacco material to remove volatiles and to form a tobacco-derived carbon material. Optionally, the method can further include activating the tobacco-derived carbon material. The tobacco-derived carbon material can be incorporated into a tobacco product. A carbon material derived from pyrolyzing a tobacco material in the form of at least one of a tobacco stalk material and a tobacco root material of a harvested plant of thespecies is also provided herein.

Tobacco-derived carbon material

A method of isolating compounds from a tobacco-derived black liquor, including receiving a black liquor from a pulping process of an input material comprising a plant of thespecies, treating the black liquor with an acid to lower the pH of the black liquor to about 7 or lower in order to produce a precipitate and an acidified black liquor, separating the precipitate and the acidified black liquor, extracting the acidified black liquor with an organic solvent in order to produce an organic layer extract and an aqueous layer extract, and separating the organic layer extract and the aqueous layer extract.

Method for preparing flavorful compounds isolated from black liquor and products incorporating the flavorful compounds

A filtered cigarette possesses at least one breakable capsule in its filter element. The filter element can possess a central cavity extending from the cigarette tobacco rod towards the middle of the filter element. The central cavity may be defined by an inner filter portion. The inner filter portion can be surrounded by an outer filter portion comprised of filter tow material that is generally permeable to the smoke generated by the cigarette. At least one breakable capsule is disposed in the central cavity of the filter element. The breakable capsules are spherical in shape, and are composed of a gelatin outer shell that encloses a payload of triglycerides and flavoring agents. The breakable capsules are adapted to rupture in response to pressure applied by the smoker to the outside region of the filter element.

Filtered cigarette incorporating a breakable capsule

Methods of forming cellulosic sugars from the stalk or roots of a plant of thespecies are provided herein, the methods including i) receiving a tobacco material including at least one of a stalk material and a root material of a harvested plant of thespecies; ii) delignifying the tobacco material to form a tobacco-derived pulp; and iii) hydrolyzing the tobacco-derived pulp to form a hydrolyzed tobacco product including residual solids and a liquid including at least one tobacco-derived cellulosic sugar. A cellulosic sugar derived from hydrolyzed tobacco material including at least one of a tobacco stalk material and a tobacco root material of a harvested plant of thespecies is also provided herein. Tobacco products incorporating the cellulosic sugars derived from hydrolyzed tobacco material or products derived from the cellulosic sugar are also provided.

Tobacco-derived cellulosic sugar

The invention provides a method of extracting and isolating certain compounds from tobacco. The resulting isolate can include more than 90% by weight of a given compound and can be used as a flavor component for tobacco material used in smoking articles and smokeless tobacco compositions. Exemplary compounds that may be present in the isolate according to the invention include, but are not limited to, solanone, neophytadiene, megastigmatrienone, &#x3b2;-damascenone, norsolanadione, cis-abienol, &#x3b1;-cembratrienediol, &#x3b2;-cembratrienediol, sucrose esters, and lutein.

Tobacco-derived components and materials

The invention provides a tobacco composition for use in a smoking article or a smokeless tobacco composition that includes an additive derived from a flower of thespecies. The additive can be a flower isolate derived from a flower of thespecies. In certain embodiments, the flower isolate is in the form of an extract from a flower of thespecies or in the form of a chemically transformed flower isolate, the chemical transformation being selected from acid/base reaction, hydrolysis, thermal treatment, and enzymatic treatment, the chemical transformation releasing at least a portion of a glycosidically bound compound in the flower of thespecies. The invention also provides smoking articles and smokeless tobacco compositions that include the flower additives described herein, and methods for preparing an additive derived from a flower of thespecies for addition to a tobacco composition.

Methods of forming pyrazines from reactants derived from a plant of thespecies, including receiving an aqueous reactant solution including at least one tobacco-derived cellulosic sugar and at least one tobacco-derived amino acid, heating the reactant solution to a reactant temperature and holding the reactant solution at the reactant temperature for a reactant time to produce a reactant product including at least one tobacco-derived pyrazine, and isolating the at least one tobacco-derived pyrazine from the reactant product. Tobacco products incorporating the tobacco-derived pyrazines are also provided.

Tobacco-derived flavorants

A process for producing flavorants made or derived from tobacco or, more generally, made or derived from any biomass derived from any one or more species of genus, or that otherwise incorporate tobacco, is provided. Provided are flavorants obtained or derived from plants or portions of plants from thespecies, such as from one or more flowers from one or morespecies, and products comprising one or more such flavorants.

Process for producing flavorants and related materials

The invention provides a tobacco composition for use in a smoking article or a smokeless tobacco composition that comprises an extract derived from a component of a plant of thespecies. The invention also provides smoking articles and smokeless tobacco compositions that include the extracts described herein, and methods for preparing extracts derived from a component of a plant of thespecies for addition to a tobacco composition.

Tobacco-derived casing composition

An igniter apparatus is provided, comprising a heat precursor source having a heat precursor; a heating arrangement configured to, on demand, receive the heat precursor from the heat precursor source and to emit heat associated with the heat precursor and capable of igniting an ignitable article; and a sensory precursor source having a sensory precursor substance, wherein the sensory precursor substance is configured to provide a perceptible sensory effect, and wherein the sensory precursor source is in communication with the heating arrangement and is configured to release the sensory precursor substance in association with the heat emitted by the heating arrangement. An associated method is also provided.

Igniter apparatus for a smoking article, and associated method

A method of curing tobacco. The method comprises the steps of contacting a tobacco material with a curing additive comprising one or more salts and curing the tobacco material under conditions and temperature for a time sufficient to produce cured tobacco wherein the amount of the one or more salts contacted with the tobacco is at least 5 percent of the dry weight of the cured tobacco.

Tobacco products and processes

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Winston-Salem, NC, United States of America

Michael Francis Dube