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Tony Persson

Mårten Kindvall

Jonas Lindberg

The present disclosure relates to an oral pouched snuff product comprising a filling material and a saliva-permeable pouch enclosing the filling material, the oral pouched snuff product having a longitudinal direction and a transverse direction perpendicular to said longitudinal direction, the saliva-permeable pouch comprising a first elongated seal and a second elongated seal, each of said first and second elongated seals having a seal length extending along the transverse direction of the product and a seal width extending along the longitudinal direction of the product, wherein the seal width of said at least one elongated seal being equal to or less than 2 mm, such as within the range of from 0.1 mm to 2 mm or from 0.1 mm to 1 mm or from 0.1 mm to 0.5 mm. There is also provided a container having a base and a detachable lid together providing an interior container space in which a plurality of these oral pouched snuff products is contained.

Oral pouched snuff product

The present invention relates to a method for portion-packing of an oral pouched snuff product (&#x2033;). The method comprises a) supplying and advancing a tubular web (&#x2033;) of packaging material enveloping a continuous feed (&#x2033;) of filling material in a direction of travel (L), b) forming transverse seals () in the tubular web across the continuous feed of filling material by means of ultrasonic welding, the transverse seals extending in a transverse direction (T) being perpendicular to the direction of travel. The present invention further relates to an arrangement (&#x2033;) for portion-packing of an oral pouched snuff product.

Method and arrangement for portion-packing of an oral pouched snuff product

The present disclosure relates to a method for producing an oral pouched snuff product comprising a filling material () and a saliva-permeable pouch () enclosing the filling material (), the product () having a moisture content of at most 20% by weight, in particular at most 10% by weight, based on total weight of the product (), the saliva-permeable pouch () having one or more seals (), and said filling material () comprising at least 20% by weight, based on dry weight of the filling material (), of at least one ingredient having a melting temperature below 180&#xb0; C., the method comprising ultrasonically welding and cutting an advancing web () of packaging material () to which the filling material () has been supplied. The present disclosure also provides an oral pouched snuff product which is obtainable by this method.

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