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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 04, 2010
Filed:
Aug. 21, 2002
Applicants:
David John Dittrich, Hants, GB;
Joseph Peter Sutton, Southampton, GB;
Steven Coburn, Southampton, GB;
Inventors:
David John Dittrich, Hants, GB;
Joseph Peter Sutton, Southampton, GB;
Steven Coburn, Southampton, GB;
Assignee:
British American Tobacco (Investments) Limited, London, GB;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A24B 15/00 (2006.01); A24B 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
This invention relates to a smoking article having a controllable static burn rate by virtue of the particle size of a component of the smoking material thereof. The smoking material comprises a non-combustible inorganic filler, a binder, aerosol generating means, the non-combustible filler comprising a proportion of material having a mean particle size in the range of 500 μm to 20 μm.