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US3246655A
US3246655A US266212A US26621263A US3246655A US 3246655 A US3246655 A US 3246655A US 266212 A US266212 A US 266212A US 26621263 A US26621263 A US 26621263A US 3246655 A US3246655 A US 3246655A
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  • This invention relates to a new cigarette filter which selectively removes certain products of combustion from tobacco smoke, and particularly to cigarette filters containing a chemical complexing agent to selectively remove phenol and phenolic compounds from tobacco smoke.
  • cigarette filter fibers impregnated with certain polymeric compounds having the property of forming a complex with phenol and phenolic compounds in tobacco smoke are particularly advantageous.
  • Such filters selectively adsorb phenol and phenolic compounds from tobacco smoke, while at the same time, if properly made, they do not remove excessive amounts of tar.
  • the molecular weight of the complex-forming compounds (which determine y and z) is dependent on the specific material used. In selecting a suitable molecular weight, the vapor pressure of the complex-forming compounds should be sufficiently low that it will remain in the filter during storage and will not volatilize during the smoking of the cigarette. The vapor pressure of the complex-forming compounds should be from 0 mm. up to mm. Hg at 25 C., however, the preferred range is between 0 mm. and 1 mm. Hg at 25 C.
  • a further limitation on the molecular weight of the polymeric compound is that the compound should be soluble in the plasticizer for the filter fiber base. Where compounds of Formulas l to 3 are used, the molecular weight may vary over a considerable range, to over several thousand. If di-isocyanates are used (e.g., Formula 4) it is preferred that the polymer contain no more than 1 or 2 urethane linkages. Where the urethane linkage is large with respect to the number of ether linkages, the polymer becomes insoluble in the plasticizer materials.
  • Particularly preferred compounds within the above class have the formula R(XOH) a being 3, and especially glyceryl derivatives of propylene oxide, e.g., compounds of the formula C H (XOH) wherein X has the formula (OC3HG)Z.
  • Compounds of groups 1 to 4 are most conveniently prepared by reacting a lower alkyl mono-, di-, trihydric alcohol, a lower alkyl amine or diamine, or a lower alkyl isocyanate or di-isocyanate with a lower alkylene oxide or glycol.
  • Useful compounds may also be prepared by reacting alkylene oxides or glycols containing alkylene groups of various chain lengths with alcohols, amines, or isocyanates containing alkyl groups of. various chain lengths.
  • Complex-forming compounds which are particularly useful in accordance with this invention are selected from the group consisting of I ll 3 R-N-C-XOH According to the present invention, the complex-forming compounds. are incorporated into a conventional cigarette filter prepared from a fibrous material.
  • Cellulose, regenerated cellulose, cellulose acetate or other cellulosic fibers are the most economical and commercially preferred materials.
  • Such fibers are normally procured in the form of a rope or tow and the tow manufactured into a compact plug by methods known in the art to form a filter having a plurality of tortuous passages to trap solid and liquid particulate matter which may be present in the tobacco smoke.
  • the complexforming compounds are dissolved in a plasticizer for the fiber base, and impregnated into the fibrous base by applying the plasticizer solution of the complexing compounds to the fibrous tow.
  • the tow is thereafter formed into a compact filter plug.
  • a sufiicient amount of the plasticizer-complexing compound solution should be applied to the tow to provide a filter containing between 0.01% and 25% of the complexing compound, based on the weight of the fiber. The optimum range is between 0.3% and 2% by weight of the fiber.
  • plasticizers therefor. These include, but are not limited to, esters of glycerine with lower fatty acids, such as glyceryl triacetate, esters of citric acid with lower alkyl alcohols and lower fatty acids, such as triethyl citrate, acetyl triethyl citrate and esters of phthalic acid with lower alkyl alcohols.
  • the preferred plasticizer is glyceryl triacetate.
  • the plasticizer may be present in the finished filter in an amount up to 20% by weight.
  • Filters made in accordance with the method of this invention have a number of advantages.
  • An important advantage lies in the improved simplicity of manufacture.
  • materials containing high percentages of ether oxygen have the property of complexing with phenol and phenolic compounds in tobacco smoke.
  • Typical compounds having this property are the polyalkylene oxides, as well as the condensates of alkylene oxides with alcohols or amines such as described above.
  • the ether oxygen acts as a Lewis base, and that accordingly the percentage of ether oxygen is a measure of the number of bonding sites per molecule- In the manufacture of cigarette filters an additional consideration must be taken into account.
  • the additive This is accomplished by using .the.materials...of .the present invention which, in addition to being polyethers capable of complexing with phenol and phenolic compounds, -are characterized by being soluble in the plasticizers for the fiber base.
  • a solution of the polyether complexing compounds may be prepared in a plasticizer, which, when added to the filter tow, is absorbed into the fiber.
  • the fibrous tow is thereafter processed into filter plugs in the usual manner, yielding a plug having approximately the same draw without the need for additional steps in the filter manufacturing process.
  • Such filters thereby have approximately the same total of filter efficiency, i.e., they remove the same amounts of tars, but selectively remove phenol and phenolic compounds from the tobacco smoke.
  • the materials of the present invention being water-insoluble are not subject to this disability.
  • Cigarette filters according to the present invention are illustrated by the following examples.
  • a typical cellulose acetate filter is illustrated in Example 1.
  • the cellulose acetate filter tow which was used to prepare the filter in the base case was impregnatedwith a solution of glyceryl triacetate and each of several complexing compounds in various proportions.
  • the cigarettes resulting were machine smoked and the products passing through the filter were collected and analyzed, each test being run in quadruplicate.
  • filter efliciency and phenol filter efliciency used in the following tables and examples refer to the percentages of particulate matter and of phenol and phenolic compounds, respectively, which are removed from the tobacco smoke.
  • Example 1 several complexing materials was mixed with glyceryl triacetate in weight ratios varying from 1:3 to 1:15 parts of complexing compound per part of plasticizer and added to cellulose acetate fibers.
  • the treated fibers were prepared into filter plugs in the usual manner.
  • a filter was prepared using glyceryl be incorporated in the fiber tow in such a manner that. triacetate without a complex-forming additive. The readditional steps are not required, sults are set forth in Table H.
  • Example 1 The data reported in Example 1 were all obtained within several weeks after sample preparation. However, in normal practice, the time lapse from production to consumer use may be approximately two months. Therefore, it is appropriate to determine the stability of these filters with respect to aging for a two month period.
  • Example 2 Filter-tipped cigarettes having a filter of cellulose acetate and glyceryl triacetate, as set forth in Table I, and filter-tipped cigarettes having a similar filter but containing Niax LG 168 in addition were stored for a period of two months and then tested for phenol filter efficiency.
  • the Niax LG 168 as received contained an antioxidant (butylated hydroxy toluene, 250 p.p.m.) which was added by the manufacturer to improve the stability of the compound.
  • the cigarettes thus prepared were separated into two groups, one of which was smoked immediately and the other group was smoked after storage for two months. The results are set forth in Table 111.
  • a filter-tip cigarette having in combination an elongated cylindrical plug of shredded tobacco joined at one end thereof with a filter element having a fibrous base material
  • said fibrous base material of (A) from 0.01% to 25%, based on the weight of said fiber, of a compound having the formula wherein R is a saturated hydrocarbon radical containing from 2 to 6 carbon atoms, X is a polymeric chain having the formula (O'R) R being an alkylene radical containing from 2 to 6 carbon atoms, and a being 3, said compound containing from 10% to 37% ether oxygen based on the weight of the compound and having a vapor pressure between 0 mm. and 40 mm. Hg at 25 C., and (B) a plasticizer for said cellulosic material, said compound (A) being insoluble in water and being soluble in said plasticizer (B), and being impregnated in said fiber.
  • a filter-tip cigarette having in combination an elongated cylindrical plug of shredded tobacco joined at one end thereof with a filter element having a fibrous base material
  • the improvement comprising the combination with said fibrous base material of (A) from 0.01% to 25% based on the weight of said fiber and the compound having the formula C H (XOH) wherein X is a polymeric chain having the formula [OC H said compound containing from 16% to 37% other oxygen and having a vapor pressure between 0 mm. and 1 mm. Hg at 2 5 C.

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United States Patent M 3,246,655 SELECTIVE CIGARETTE FILTERS Alexander W. Spears, William E. Routh, Chase W. Lassiter', and Jimmy H. Bell, Greensboro, N.C., assignors to P. Lorillard Company, New York, N.Y., a corporation of New Jersey No Drawing. Filed Mar. 19, 1963, Ser. No. 266,212
9 Claims. (Cl. 131-10) This is a continuation-in-part of application Serial No. 188,281, filed April 16, 1962.
This invention relates to a new cigarette filter which selectively removes certain products of combustion from tobacco smoke, and particularly to cigarette filters containing a chemical complexing agent to selectively remove phenol and phenolic compounds from tobacco smoke.
It has been thought by some to be desirable to provide a filter for cigarettes which removes phenol and phenolic compounds from the tobacco smoke. While smoke of a somewhat reduced content of phenolic compounds may be obtained by providing a more efiicient filter, such filters have certain limitations. Highly efficient filters are not necessarily desirable from the standpoint of the average smoker because the increased eificiency of the filter tends to remove those compounds generally responsible for good body andflavor. In addition, an important limitation of filters of improved efliciency is that phenol and some of the phenolic compounds are in the vapor state, and hence not amenable to filtration no matter how efficient the filter may be.
According to the present invention, it has been found that cigarette filter fibers impregnated with certain polymeric compounds having the property of forming a complex with phenol and phenolic compounds in tobacco smoke are particularly advantageous. Such filters selectively adsorb phenol and phenolic compounds from tobacco smoke, while at the same time, if properly made, they do not remove excessive amounts of tar.
3,246,655 Patented Apr. 19, 1966 --O which occurs between successive alkylene groups in the X chain.
The molecular weight of the complex-forming compounds (which determine y and z) is dependent on the specific material used. In selecting a suitable molecular weight, the vapor pressure of the complex-forming compounds should be sufficiently low that it will remain in the filter during storage and will not volatilize during the smoking of the cigarette. The vapor pressure of the complex-forming compounds should be from 0 mm. up to mm. Hg at 25 C., however, the preferred range is between 0 mm. and 1 mm. Hg at 25 C.
A further limitation on the molecular weight of the polymeric compound is that the compound should be soluble in the plasticizer for the filter fiber base. Where compounds of Formulas l to 3 are used, the molecular weight may vary over a considerable range, to over several thousand. If di-isocyanates are used (e.g., Formula 4) it is preferred that the polymer contain no more than 1 or 2 urethane linkages. Where the urethane linkage is large with respect to the number of ether linkages, the polymer becomes insoluble in the plasticizer materials.
Particularly preferred compounds within the above class have the formula R(XOH) a being 3, and especially glyceryl derivatives of propylene oxide, e.g., compounds of the formula C H (XOH) wherein X has the formula (OC3HG)Z.
Compounds of groups 1 to 4 are most conveniently prepared by reacting a lower alkyl mono-, di-, trihydric alcohol, a lower alkyl amine or diamine, or a lower alkyl isocyanate or di-isocyanate with a lower alkylene oxide or glycol. Useful compounds may also be prepared by reacting alkylene oxides or glycols containing alkylene groups of various chain lengths with alcohols, amines, or isocyanates containing alkyl groups of. various chain lengths.
Several typical compounds are illustrated by, but not limited to the materials set forth in Table I.
TABLE I Formula oi Polymeric Approx. Monomeric Units Available From Trade Name Manufacturer's Trade Condensate Moi. Wt. Bulletin C3H5[(OC3Hu)XOH]i 3, 000 Glycerol, propylene oxide.-. Union Carbide Chemicals Niax LG 56 Union Carbide Chemical Co. C0. Technical Bulletin Niax Polyethers (1961). CsH5[(OCaH5)x0H]3 1,000 d0 do Niax LG 168 Do. C6H11[(OC3Hi)X0H]3. 5,000 Hexailietriol, propylene do Niax LH T-34. Do.
oxic c. CDHH(OC3HB)XOH 4, 100 Trimethanol propane, Wyandotte Chemicals Corp Pluracol 4040 Wyandotte Chemicals propylene oxide. Technical Bulletin Pluracol TP Triols, (1958).
Complex-forming compounds which are particularly useful in accordance with this invention are selected from the group consisting of I ll 3 R-N-C-XOH According to the present invention, the complex-forming compounds. are incorporated into a conventional cigarette filter prepared from a fibrous material. Cellulose, regenerated cellulose, cellulose acetate or other cellulosic fibers are the most economical and commercially preferred materials. Such fibers are normally procured in the form of a rope or tow and the tow manufactured into a compact plug by methods known in the art to form a filter having a plurality of tortuous passages to trap solid and liquid particulate matter which may be present in the tobacco smoke.
In the manufacture of such cigarette filters it is known to add powdered materials such as water-soluble polyethylene oxide with the filter tow. In general, these additives provide increased surface area for the removal of condensed tars and other such matter. The polyethylene oxide when so added provides a filter having a high surface area particularly adapted to trap condensed tars from the tobacco smoke, thereby resulting in a filter of improved tar removal eiliciency. While a good efficiency of tar removal is thought by some to be desirable, the removal of large amounts of tar tends to make the taste of the tobacco smoke undesirably fiat.
Accordingly to the present invention, the complexforming compounds are dissolved in a plasticizer for the fiber base, and impregnated into the fibrous base by applying the plasticizer solution of the complexing compounds to the fibrous tow. By manufacturing methods well known in the art, the tow is thereafter formed into a compact filter plug. A sufiicient amount of the plasticizer-complexing compound solution should be applied to the tow to provide a filter containing between 0.01% and 25% of the complexing compound, based on the weight of the fiber. The optimum range is between 0.3% and 2% by weight of the fiber.
Where a cellulosic based fiber is used, there are many well known plasticizers therefor. These include, but are not limited to, esters of glycerine with lower fatty acids, such as glyceryl triacetate, esters of citric acid with lower alkyl alcohols and lower fatty acids, such as triethyl citrate, acetyl triethyl citrate and esters of phthalic acid with lower alkyl alcohols. The preferred plasticizer is glyceryl triacetate. The plasticizer may be present in the finished filter in an amount up to 20% by weight.
Filters made in accordance with the method of this invention have a number of advantages. An important advantage lies in the improved simplicity of manufacture. According to the present invention, it has been discovered that materials containing high percentages of ether oxygen have the property of complexing with phenol and phenolic compounds in tobacco smoke. Typical compounds having this property are the polyalkylene oxides, as well as the condensates of alkylene oxides with alcohols or amines such as described above. In the complexing reaction it is believed that the ether oxygen acts as a Lewis base, and that accordingly the percentage of ether oxygen is a measure of the number of bonding sites per molecule- In the manufacture of cigarette filters an additional consideration must be taken into account. As noted above, it is known to add powdered polyethylene oxides to tobacco smoke filters to improve the tar filtration elficiency. This improvement in filtration efiiciency comes about merely by providing for tighter packing and greater internal surface area in the filter plug and results in a concomitant increase in the draw. Such filters can, if desired, be more loosely packed, thereby giving rise to a filter having a more acceptable draw but which then provides no improvement in total filtration efficiency. The preparation of cigarette filters in this manner, furthermore, requires additional, undesirable steps in the manufacturing process. It is preferred in the manufacture of cigarette filters that the additive This is accomplished by using .the.materials...of .the present invention which, in addition to being polyethers capable of complexing with phenol and phenolic compounds, -are characterized by being soluble in the plasticizers for the fiber base. Thus, a solution of the polyether complexing compounds may be prepared in a plasticizer, which, when added to the filter tow, is absorbed into the fiber. The fibrous tow is thereafter processed into filter plugs in the usual manner, yielding a plug having approximately the same draw without the need for additional steps in the filter manufacturing process. Such filters thereby have approximately the same total of filter efficiency, i.e., they remove the same amounts of tars, but selectively remove phenol and phenolic compounds from the tobacco smoke.
An additional advantage arises from the use of the compounds of the present invention. Besides being soluble in the usual plasticizers for cellulosic fibers, compounds of the presentinvention are insoluble in Water. This is in contrast to the polyethylene oxides mentioned above, which are water-soluble. When prepared in the form of cigarette filters, the filter is potentially subjected,
to being wetted by saliva. If water-soluble materials are used in such a filter, the water-soluble resin would be reduced to a gummy mass, an obviously undesirable result. By contrast, the materials of the present invention being water-insoluble are not subject to this disability.
Cigarette filters according to the present invention are illustrated by the following examples. As a basis of comparison, a typical cellulose acetate filter is illustrated in Example 1. In Example 1 and subsequent illustrations, the cellulose acetate filter tow which was used to prepare the filter in the base case was impregnatedwith a solution of glyceryl triacetate and each of several complexing compounds in various proportions. The cigarettes resulting were machine smoked and the products passing through the filter were collected and analyzed, each test being run in quadruplicate.
The terms filter efliciency and phenol filter efliciency used in the following tables and examples refer to the percentages of particulate matter and of phenol and phenolic compounds, respectively, which are removed from the tobacco smoke.
Example 1 several complexing materials was mixed with glyceryl triacetate in weight ratios varying from 1:3 to 1:15 parts of complexing compound per part of plasticizer and added to cellulose acetate fibers. The treated fibers were prepared into filter plugs in the usual manner. As a basis of comparison, a filter was prepared using glyceryl be incorporated in the fiber tow in such a manner that. triacetate without a complex-forming additive. The readditional steps are not required, sults are set forth in Table H.
TABLE II.-FILTERS CONTAINING COMPLEXING COMPOUND MIXED WITH GLYCERYL TRIACE- TATE PLASTICIZER Weight Ratio of Total Phenol Complex Forming Complex- Weight Denier Total Length, Plug Filter Filter Compound 1 Forming Percent of Fiber Denier mm. Draw Efii- Elli- Compound on Fiber money, money,
to Plas- Percent Percent tieizer None 1 6 3. 2 55,000 17 0. 48 47.0 71. 5 N iax LHT-34 1 :7 6 3. 2 55, 000 17 0. 44 49 87 Niax LG-168 1:7 6 3. 2 000 17 0, 46 47. 5 88 Niax L G-168- 1 15 6 3. 2 55, 000 17 0. 42 49 91 Niax LG-168- 1:3 5 3. 2 55, 000 17 O. 39 47 89. 5 Niax L G-l68- 1 7 5 2 42, 000 20 0. 36 61 94 Nlax L G56 1 15 5 3. 2 55, 000 17 0. 48 48 86 Pluraeol 4040 1:7 5 3. 2 55, 000 17 0. 45 47 86 1 See Table I for identification of these compounds 1 6% plasticizer present in the fiber. 1
The data reported in Example 1 were all obtained within several weeks after sample preparation. However, in normal practice, the time lapse from production to consumer use may be approximately two months. Therefore, it is appropriate to determine the stability of these filters with respect to aging for a two month period.
Example 2 Filter-tipped cigarettes having a filter of cellulose acetate and glyceryl triacetate, as set forth in Table I, and filter-tipped cigarettes having a similar filter but containing Niax LG 168 in addition were stored for a period of two months and then tested for phenol filter efficiency. The Niax LG 168 as received contained an antioxidant (butylated hydroxy toluene, 250 p.p.m.) which was added by the manufacturer to improve the stability of the compound. The cigarettes thus prepared were separated into two groups, one of which was smoked immediately and the other group was smoked after storage for two months. The results are set forth in Table 111.
TABLE III-STABILITY OF CIGARETTE FILTERS Phenol Filter Change in Sample Etfi- 2 Months,
eieney, Percent Percent Cellulose acetate and glyccryl triacetate (57 -4. 5 Niax LG 168 and glyeeryl triaoctate (1:15) 76 -l5 Niax LG 168 and glyceryl triacetate (1:7) 89 0 Niax LG 158 and glyceryl triacetate (1:3) 8S 0 The various filters set forth in the preceding examples wherein R is a saturated hydrocarbon radical containing from 2 to 6 carbon atoms, X is a polymeric chain having the formula [OR'], R being an alkylene radical containing from 2 to 6 carbon atoms, a is 3 and b is a small whole number from 1 to 2, said compound containing from 10% to 37% ether oxygen, based on the weight of the compound and having a vapor pressure between 0 mm. and 40 mm. Hg at C., and (B), a plasticizer .for said fibrous base material, said compound (A) being insoluble in water and soluble in said plasticizer (B), and being impregnated in said fiber.
2. A filter-tip cigarette according to claim 1 wherein said compound (A) contains from 16% to 37% other oxygen based on the weight of the compound.
3. A filter-tip cigarette according to claim 1 wherein said compound (A) has a vapor pressure of from 0 mm. to 1 mm. Hg at 25 C.
4. A filter-tip cigarette according to claim 1 wherein said compound (A) is present in an amount from 0.2% to 3% based on the weight of said fiber.
5. In a filter-tip cigarette having in combination an elongated cylindrical plug of shredded tobacco joined at one end thereof with a filter element having a fibrous base material, the improvement comprising the combination with said fibrous base material of (A) from 0.01% to 25%, based on the weight of said fiber, of a compound having the formula wherein R is a saturated hydrocarbon radical containing from 2 to 6 carbon atoms, X is a polymeric chain having the formula (O'R) R being an alkylene radical containing from 2 to 6 carbon atoms, and a being 3, said compound containing from 10% to 37% ether oxygen based on the weight of the compound and having a vapor pressure between 0 mm. and 40 mm. Hg at 25 C., and (B) a plasticizer for said cellulosic material, said compound (A) being insoluble in water and being soluble in said plasticizer (B), and being impregnated in said fiber.
6. A filter-tip cigarette according to claim 5 wherein said compound (A) contains from 16% to 37% ether oxygen based on the weight of the compound.
'7. A filter-tip cigarette according to claim 5 wherein said compound (A) has a vapor pressure of from 0 mm. to 1 mm. Hg at 25 C.
8. A filter-tip cigarette according to claim 5 wherein said compound (A) is present in an amount from about 0.2% to 3% based on the weight of the fiber.
9. In a filter-tip cigarette having in combination an elongated cylindrical plug of shredded tobacco joined at one end thereof with a filter element having a fibrous base material, the improvement comprising the combination with said fibrous base material of (A) from 0.01% to 25% based on the weight of said fiber and the compound having the formula C H (XOH) wherein X is a polymeric chain having the formula [OC H said compound containing from 16% to 37% other oxygen and having a vapor pressure between 0 mm. and 1 mm. Hg at 2 5 C., (B) a plasticizer for said cellulose, said compound (A) being insoluble in water and being soluble in said plasticizer (B), and being impregnated in said fiber.
References Cited by the Examiner UNITED STATES PATENTS Re. 24,486 6/1958 Mitchell 106--163 2,881,771 4/1959 Touey 131-208 2,904,050 9/ 1959 Kiefer et al 131208 2,943,737 7/ 1960 Norton.
2,956,329 10/ 1960 Touey 131--208 3,026,226 3/ 1962 Touey et al. 13'1208 3,101,723 8/1963 Seligman et al. 131208 3,144,024 8/1964 Eiohwald et al. 131208 FOREIGN PATENTS 173,262 12/1952 Australia.
SAMUEL KOREN, Primary Examiner.
MELVIN D. REIN, ABRAHAM G. STONE, Examiners.

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1. IN A FILTER-TIP CIGARETTE HAVING IN COMBINATION AN ELONGATED CYLINDRICAL PLUG OF SHREDDED TOBACCO JOINED AT ONE END THEREOF WITH A FILTER ELEMENT HAVING A FIBROUS BASE MATERIAL, THE IMPROVEMENT COMPRISING THE COMBINATION WITH SAID FIBROUS BASE MATERIAL OF (A) FROM 0.01% TO 25% BASED ON THE WEIGHT OF SAID FIBER OF A COMPOUND SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF
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