Segmented smoking article with substrate cavity

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9439453
APP PUB NO 20150359259A1
SERIAL NO

14835441

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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.

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Patent Owner(s)

  • R. J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO COMPANY

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Inventor(s)

Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Banerjee, Chandra K Clemmons, US 29 3258
Barnes, Vernon Brent Advance, US 53 1867
Carpenter, Carolyn R Lewisville, US 5 437
Chang, Yi-Ping Greensboro, US 29 2010
Conner, Billy Tyrone Clemmons, US 45 3276
Crooks, Evon Llewellyn Mocksville, US 34 3104
Gonzalez-Parra, Alvaro Clemmons, US 14 839
McClanahan, David Neil Winston-Salem, US 33 432
Nestor, Timothy B Advance, US 3 155
Sebastian, Andries Don Clemmons, US 92 1844
Stone, James Richard Advance, US 4 373
Thomas, Timothy Frederick High-Point, US 40 717
White, Jackie L Pfafftown, US 34 2499

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