CN1031016A - The improvement of relevant cigarette products - Google Patents

Abstract

One cigarette is included in the nicotine carrying blocking that polyethylene in one polymeric material of Qi Zui end, polypropylene or polystyrene are formed.The nicotine content of main trip smog is greater than the nicotine content of the downstream end exit smog of pipe tobacco bar strip in sucking the process of this cigarette.

Description

The improvement of relevant cigarette products

The application's goal of the invention relates to cigarette products.

The scheme that proposed imitated cigarette products in patent documentation comprises that a tubulose seals and one be placed on this loading material body in sealing.According to this loading material of these schemes is to handle with a kind of preparation that volatilization takes place when air is drawn through this and seals.The scheme of this essence of tool is included in US Patent specification the 2nd, 721, and 551,2,860,638 and 3,404, in No. the 2032nd, 244, No. 692, No. the 697737th, south african patent specification and the United Kingdom's patent specification.According to United States Patent (USP) 2,860,638(crust Toro rice Austria), south african patent 697737(thatch Valence is smooth) and United States Patent (USP) 2,032, the 244(thunder) be maybe may be nicotine in order to this volatility preparation of handling loading material.

In patent documentation, also proposed to transmit the scheme of content in order to the main trip smog nicotine that improves cigarette.In US Patent specification the 3rd, 422, proposed to handle the scheme of the package paper of a cigarette in No. 819 with a nicotine salt, this cigarette is provided to one second outer package and contacts with smoker's lip with the package that nicotine salt was handled so that prevent.The 1st, 032, No. 330 instructions of the United Kingdom's patent specification contact a particle ion exchange resin with nicotine, and during the nicotine one ion exchange resin complex compound that will the synthesize filter that is attached to cigarette chews.According to US Patent specification the 3rd, 584, No. 630 disclosed nicotines are to be adsorbed in the weak adsorbent of fine segmentation, then it are combined in the filter of tobacco or tobacco smoke and chew.United States Patent (USP) 3,584, preferred adsorbent is a carbon black type adsorbent in 630.

Disclose imitated cigarette products in No. the 174th, 645, European patent specification, these goods comprise the flammable carbon-containing fuel unit of a weak point and the matrix that a carrying one forms the molten material of gas, and this fuel unit contacts with heat conducting device with matrix.Nicotine may be carried on the matrix.

One object of the present invention is to provide a cigarette or a similar cigarette products with improved procedure, when sucking this cigarette or cigarette products, the nicotine content of the smog that transmits from this cigarette wants big at the nicotine content from the exit smog of the downstream end of the cigarette material bar strip of cigarette.

Thereby another object of the present invention is to provide a device of nicotine-tar ratio that can advantageous manner improves the main trip smog of a cigarette products under the nicotine content of the cigarette material that does not rely on cigarette products.

The invention provides a cigarette products, these goods comprise a cigarette material bar strip and one be attached to described bar strip described bar strip chew nicotine releasing unit on the end, described unit comprises the smog permeable mass of a polymeric material of being made up of carbon and hydrogen atom, the surface of described polymeric material is hydrophobic and does not have chemical functional, described smog permeable mass carrying nicotine, thereby when sucking this cigarette products, cause from described permeable mass release of nicotine to this smog from the smog of described bar strip suction by described unit.

This cigarette material preferably comprises or is made up of tobacco, and this tobacco is suitable makes traditional chopping filler tobacco form.This tobacco can be air-dry processing, cigarette smoke processing, burley tobaccos or east type, or can be the mixed type of these type arbitrarily.The batching of this tobacco can be the pipe tobacco through expansion process.Also may make this cigarette material comprise again and again a tobacco curing grass product or a tobacco substitute material.This cigarette material preferably comprises a source of nicotine.

The cigarette material bar strip can comprise the zone that a passage extends to the downstream end of bar strip, thereby makes in the process of sucking this cigarette products, and hot smog is transported to the downstream end zone of bar strip.The further details that comprise the cigarette products of the sort of channel type can be with reference to the United Kingdom's patent specification the 2nd, 149,287A number.

That this polymeric material can have is fibrous, cellular or grain structure, and should get the cylindrical shape configuration by the permeable mass that this material is made.

The nicotine carrying body of this polymeric material can be at its upstream and/or downstream end in abutting connection with a filtration blocking of for example making by cellulose acetate.When this polymeric material is that the appropriate to the occasion upstream and downstream that adopts simultaneously of particle shape filters blocking.

The polymeric material of nicotine carrying body is favourable with polyethylene.Other suitable material comprises polypropylene and polystyrene.Use these materials to provide than the more significant advantage of prior art proposal.These materials can be made according to the technical specification physics that is predetermined or chemistry approaching or continuously.These materials also can be by very easily reaching Accurate Shaping as extruding, bar strip to be provided and it is cut into cylinder bodily form blocking.This blocking is controlled oneself, that is, this blocking does not need to use the blocking package for its size stability and packed.In addition, neither costliness is very clean again these materials to be used for the cigarette manufacturing process.

The nicotine that the nicotine carrying body of being made by this polymeric material is carried can be free nicotine, the derivative of nicotine salt or nicotine.Except that nicotine, also can use one or more flavor enhancements at the supporting body that this polymer is made, peppermint one of is in this flavor enhancement.

The nicotine that is carried by the nicotine carrying body must directly contact with the polymeric material of supporting body, what promptly this nicotine must non-package.

If when the nicotine in the nicotine releasing unit is the nicotine that dissociates, then can another smog permeation unit be set in abutting connection with this nicotine releasing unit place, this another smoke units is carried a kind of acids.Utilize this have suitable corresponding nicotine and the arrangement of sour bearing capacity, can be in sucking this cigarette products process, formation has a kind of salt of pH value in 5 to 7 scopes.If not so arrangement then will surpass the sense quality that synthetic variation among the pH of this master trip smog of 7 value plays a part this smog of raising.Be used for the suitable acids of this pH control purpose and comprise lactic acid and tartaric acid.

Simultaneously may on this nicotine releasing unit, on identical position, carry the acids of a control pH, and find mainly to swim nicotine content in the smog and be not higher than nicotine content from the exit smog of the downstream end of cigarette material bar strip especially with such being arranged in as the carrying nicotine.A kind of effectively be arranged to very significantly this acids is carried on be arranged on the separate unit of this nicotine releasing unit.This independently carries the acids unit and is suitable for being arranged on the side of nicotine releasing unit away from the cigarette material bar strip.In another is arranged, this nicotine releasing unit and acids load bearing unit be arranged at the identical longitudinal region of this cigarette products and this Unit two on the appropriate section of this regional cross section.When adopting this arrangements, be preferably in a kind of compartment of making by steam tight material of employing between this unit every.

As an example, shown in the drawings according to cigarette of the present invention.

At the cigarette shown in Fig. 1, represent that with total label 1 the cigarette bar strip 2, that comprises one 64 millimeters long is chewed end sub-assembly 3 and a filter and chewed package and draw together 4 and play a part mutual attaching bar strip 2 and sub-assembly 3.This bar strip 2 comprises a cutting pipe tobacco inserts 5 and the cigarette that a low Nicotine as cigarette material, cigarette smoke processing and seals paper 6.Chew end sub-assembly 3 and comprise the cylinder bodily form blocking 7 that a cylinder bodily form opening microporous polyethylene is made, this opening microporous polyethylene flooded with 3 to 10 milligrams of free nicotines, and a tubular cellulose acetate is made filtration blocking 8, as can be seen in the figure, it be to be set at the centre position and in abutting connection with cigarette bar strip 2 with filter blocking 8 that blocking 7 is formed a nicotine releasing unit.

When sucking cigarette 1, from the pipe tobacco smog of bar strip 2 by blocking 7 and thereby cause nicotine volatilization the blocking 7.Thereafter, nicotine steam and pipe tobacco smog are just by filtering blocking 8.The content that the nicotine conveying capacity of main by this way trip smog is obtained when not comprising this nicotine carrying blocking 7 when cigarette is to have improved.

Filter is chewed package 4 and be can be made into the perforation state to allow the importing of vent air in the zone of blocking 7 and/or blocking 8.If when having air vent, then this air vent must preferentially be arranged on the zone of blocking 8.

Cigarette 1 in Fig. 2 ' shown those with Fig. 1 in identical part represent with identical label.Cigarette 1 among Fig. 2 ' with cigarette 1 among Fig. 1 is identical except chewing end sub-assembly 3 external structures, and this is chewed portion's sub-assembly 3 and comprises another cylinder bodily form opening microporous polyethylene blocking with label 8 ' expression and filter blocking to substitute one.This blocking 8 ' tool and blocking 7 equal length and physical arrangement are also flooded with lactic acid.

Tell the smog that is shootd out and measure discovery through examination cigarette machine is inhaled for 9 times, the blocking 7 of cigarette is wherein blocking 8 ' be to flood with 10 milligrams of lactic acid with 10 milligrams of free nicotines dippings in Fig. 2, relatively the time, the main nicotine content of swimming smog from blocking 8 ' circulation in sucking the process of this cigarette has been enhanced about 75% with the plainly-packed contrast cigarette that does not promptly have an identical bar strip of cigarette among tool one that filter chews and Fig. 2.The amount of nicotine is 13 to the percentage of the amount of particulate matter (not moisture and nicotine part) in main trip smog, and the percentage of contrast cigarette has only 5.8.

When the blocking 7 of cigarette among Fig. 1 is carried with 10 milligrams of nicotines, can expect that cigarette obtains being same as the shown main raising of swimming the smog nicotine content of cigarette among Fig. 2 from Fig. 1.

Shoot out one by one in the test respectively comprising from the pipe tobacco bar strip of the medium tar content cigarette of a standard Britain at another, one 10 millimeters long cellulose acetate filter elements carry out the mensuration of nicotine conveying capacity in abutting connection with the cigarette of this filter element in abutting connection with pipe tobacco bar strip and one 10 millimeters long nicotine releasing units.This nicotine releasing unit is made up of the polyethylene blocking of the nicotine dipping of 10.8 milligrams of usefulness.With the value of the nicotine conveying capacity of these cigarettes and the pipe tobacco bar strip that comprises the medium tar content type of above-mentioned standard and as the contrast cigarette of filter element that is included in the cellulose acetates of 10 identical in those test cigarettes millimeters long compare.From the measurement result of this test, raising and the contrast cigarette of average nicotine conveying capacity that comprises the test cigarette of nicotine releasing unit relatively is reduced to from 0.1 milligram of shooing out for the first time and shoots out 0.07 milligram that promptly shoots out for the 7th time at last.

Claims (11)

1, a cigarette products comprises described bar strip that a cigarette material bar strip and is attached to described bar strip and chews nicotine releasing unit on the end, the smog permeable mass of it is characterized in that described unit comprises one polymeric material of forming by carbon and hydrogen atom, the surface of described polymeric material is hydrophobic and does not have chemical functional, described smog permeable mass carrying nicotine, thereby when sucking this cigarette products, from the smog of described bar strip suction, cause from described permeable mass release of nicotine to this smog by described unit.

2,, it is characterized in that wherein said polymeric material is to be selected from the combination that comprises polyethylene, polypropylene and polystyrene according to the described cigarette products of claim 1.

3,, it is characterized in that wherein said nicotine is free nicotine according to claim 1 or 2 described cigarette products.

4, according to claim 1,2 or 3 described cigarette products, it is characterized in that wherein said cigarette material comprises that to account for major part at least be pipe tobacco, and wherein when sucking described goods, nicotine conveying capacity in main trip smog, than nicotine conveying capacity in the plainly-packed contrast cigarette is big, but is no more than 50%.

5,, it is characterized in that described cigarette products has a main trip nicotine conveying capacity in 0.05 milligram to 3.00 milligrams scope according to above-mentioned any described cigarette products of claim.

6, according to above-mentioned any described cigarette products of claim, it is characterized in that in sucking the process of described goods in main trip smog the nicotine conveying capacity for the ratio of the conveying capacity of the particulate matter of not moisture in described main trip smog and nicotine, want big than the described ratio of a plainly-packed contrast cigarette.

7, according to above-mentioned any described cigarette products of claim, it is characterized in that described goods also are included in a kind of acids on the end of chewing of described cigarette products, described acid can be reacted to produce a kind of salt with described nicotine.

8,, it is characterized in that the position that described acids is set is different from the position that described nicotine is set according to the described cigarette products of claim 7.

9, according to above-mentioned any above-mentioned cigarette products of claim, it is characterized in that described goods are a cigarette.

10, according to above-mentioned any described cigarette products of claim, it is characterized in that wherein said cigarette material comprises the chopping tobacco.

11, according to this paper front basically with reference to the cigarette of Fig. 1 or Fig. 2 narration.