Philip Morris Products S.a.

Pascal Rausis

Yorick Klipfel

Johannes Petrus Maria Pijnenburg

Juan David Manzur Bedoya

Michael Elliott Doyle

Marine Jarriault

Rui Nuno Batista

Corinne Deforel

Audrey Cally

Michael Elliot Doyle

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

The present invention relates to a method to produce a homogenized tobacco material for use in a heat-not-burn aerosol-generating article, comprising the steps of:

Method for producing a homogenized tobacco material, and homogenized tobacco material

The present invention relates to method for production of a slurry for homogenized tobacco material, said method comprising:

Method for the production of homogenized tobacco material

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

The present invention relates to method for production of a slurry for homogenized tobacco material, said method comprising: &#x2014;Selecting tobacco of one or more tobacco types; &#x2014;Coarse grinding said tobacco; &#x2014;Blending said tobacco of one or more tobacco types; and&#x2014;Fine grinding said tobacco of one or more tobacco types.

The present invention relates to a method to produce a homogenized tobacco material for use in a heat-not-burn aerosol-generating article, comprising the steps of: &#x2014;selecting a first target value for a first tobacco characteristic, said first tobacco characteristic being reducing sugars and the first target value being comprised between about (8) percent and about (18) percent in dry weight basis of a total amount of tobacco present within the homogenized tobacco material; &#x2014;selecting a second target value of a second tobacco characteristic, wherein the second tobacco characteristic is one of total ammonia and total alkaloids; &#x2014;blending graded tobacco types so as to form the tobacco blend, each graded tobacco type comprising a predetermined amount of the first and second tobacco characteristics, so that the first and second target values of said first and second tobacco characteristics are obtained in said blend within a predetermined tolerance range; &#x2014;grinding said tobacco blend into a blended tobacco powder; &#x2014;forming a slurry comprising the blended tobacco powder; and forming a web of homogenous tobacco web from the slurry.

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.

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