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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 16, 1976
Filed:
Apr. 18, 1973
Dennis Boyd, Belfast, EK;
George Porter, London, EN;
Gallaher Limited, Belfast, EK;
Abstract
A tobacco substitute which consists essentially of a complete fuel and at least one volatile substance impregnating said fuel, said volatile substance being capable of distilling or subliming without chemical change, and said fuel consisting essentially of combustible, flexible and self coherent fibrers made of a carbonaceous material containing at least 80 percent carbon by weight, which material is the product of the controlled pyrolysis of a cellulose based fibre containing only carbon, hydrogen and oxygen, and which has suffered a weight loss of at least 60 percent during the pyrolysis, the fibres produced in the pyrolysis having a cross-sectional dimension between 5 and 50 microns, and a length between 1 mm and 5 cm, and being agglomerated into a plurality of strands, which strands have a cross-sectional dimension between 0.1 mm and 5mm and a length of between 5 mm and 5 cm.
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