Segmented smoking article with foamed insulation material

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9486013
APP PUB NO 20130233329A1
SERIAL NO

13870684

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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 configured to be activated by combustion of a smokable material and an insulation layer of a non-glass material that is woven, knit, or both, and (ii) an aerosol-generating segment with aerosol-forming material disposed between, but physically separate from, each of 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; those segments being connected together by the overwrap to provide a cigarette rod; that is connected to the cigarette rod using tipping material.

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Patent Owner(s)

  • R. J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO COMPANY

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Alderman, Steven L Lewisville, US 7 195
Banerjee, Chandra K Clemmons, US 29 3254
Braxton, Paul E Summerfield, US 15 609
Carpenter, Carolyn R Lewisville, US 5 437
Conner, Billy Tyrone Clemmons, US 45 3256
Crooks, Evon Llewellyn Mocksville, US 34 3081
Gonzalez-Parra, Alvaro Clemmons, US 14 833
Ingebrethsen, Bradley J Long Beach, US 12 1313
Murray, Kristen L Advance, US 2 134
Nestor, Timothy B Advance, US 3 155
Sebastian, Andries Don Clemmons, US 92 1826

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