Tobacco – Tobacco or tobacco substitute product or component part thereof – Cigar or cigarette
Patent
1987-03-27
1989-06-13
Millin, V.
Tobacco
Tobacco or tobacco substitute product or component part thereof
Cigar or cigarette
131364, 131335, 131337, 131339, A24F 100
Patent
active
048382868
ABSTRACT:
In a smoking article comprising a smoking rod and a mouthpiece, the rod may comprise a wrapped body, of particles of tobacco and/or other smoking material, of which body the packing density is in a range of from 100 to 400 mg cm.sup.-3, a passage extending within the rod and in gas-flow communication with the mouthpiece and the article comprising menthol or other vapor-release material at the mouthpiece and/or at a mouthpiece-end zone of the passage.
The passage, which may extend substantially to the mouthpiece end of the rod, may be closed at the end thereof remote the mouthpiece end.
The passage may be provided by a tube of combustible material or as a bore extending within said body of particles.
A portion of the cross-section of the mouthpiece end of the rod not occupied by said passage may be in gas-flow communication with the mouthpiece. The mouthpiece may comprise a filter.
REFERENCES:
patent: 346025 (1886-07-01), Cook
patent: 3972335 (1976-08-01), Tigglebeck et al.
patent: 4142534 (1979-03-01), Brantl
British-American Tobacco Company Limited
Millin V.
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