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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 25, 2015
R.j. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Winston-Salem, NC (US);
Billy Tyrone Conner, Clemmons, NC (US);
Andries Don Sebastian, Clemmons, NC (US);
Evon Llewellyn Crooks, Mocksville, NC (US);
Timothy Frederick Thomas, High-Point, NC (US);
James Richard Stone, Advance, NC (US);
Chandra K. Banerjee, Clemmons, NC (US);
Yi-Ping Chang, Greensboro, NC (US);
Vernon Brent Barnes, Advance, NC (US);
Alvaro Gonzalez-Parra, Clemmons, NC (US);
David Neil McClanahan, Winston-Salem, NC (US);
Carolyn R. Carpenter, Lewisville, NC (US);
Timothy B. Nestor, Advance, NC (US);
Jackie L. White, Pfafftown, NC (US);
R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Winston-Salem, NC (US);
Abstract
A cigarette includes lighting and mouth ends. It may include a smokable segment disposed at the lighting end. It also includes a mouth-end segment; an aerosol-generation system disposed between the lighting and mouth ends, which includes (i) a heat-generation segment adjacent the smokable segment, including a heat source and an insulation layer and (ii) an aerosol-generating segment including a substrate, which may include tobacco pellets and aerosol-forming material disposed in a substrate cavity between the heat generation segment and the mouth end; a piece of outer wrapping material that provides an overwrap around at least a portion of the aerosol-generating segment, the heat-generation segment, and at least a portion of the smokable segment and includes a foil strip laminated thereon; those segments being connected together by the overwrap to provide a cigarette rod; that is connected to the mouth-end segment using tipping material.