Method for producing a homogenized tobacco material, and homogenized tobacco material

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United States of America

PATENT NO 11304438
APP PUB NO 20190387786A1
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16560698

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The present invention relates to a method to produce a homogenized tobacco material for use in a heat-not-burn aerosol-generating article, comprising the steps of:

    selecting a first target value for a first tobacco characteristic, said first tobacco characteristic being reducing sugars and the first target value being comprised between about 8 percent and about 18 percent in dry weight basis of a total amount of tobacco present within the homogenized tobacco material;selecting a second target value of a second tobacco characteristic, wherein the second tobacco characteristic is one of total ammonia and total alkaloids;blending graded tobacco types so as to form the tobacco blend, each graded tobacco type comprising a predetermined amount of the first and second tobacco characteristics, so that the first and second target values of said first and second tobacco characteristics are obtained in said blend within a predetermined tolerance range;grinding said tobacco blend into a blended tobacco powder;forming a slurry comprising the blended tobacco powder; andforming a web of homogenous tobacco web from the slurry.

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PHILIP MORRIS PRODUCTS S ASWITZERLAND ZUG ZUG

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Doyle, Michael Elliot Ridgeway, US 1 0
Klipfel, Yorick St. Saphorin-sur-Morge, CH 21 86
Manzur, Bedoya Juan David Lutry, CH 6 32
Pijnenburg, Johannes Petrus Maria Neuchatel, CH 35 179
Rausis, Pascal Colombier, CH 7 32

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