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WO2015135723A1
WO2015135723A1 PCT/EP2015/053418 EP2015053418W WO2015135723A1 WO 2015135723 A1 WO2015135723 A1 WO 2015135723A1 EP 2015053418 W EP2015053418 W EP 2015053418W WO 2015135723 A1 WO2015135723 A1 WO 2015135723A1
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Nobuo Nagai
Hiroshi Okuno
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Priority to KR1020167028283A priority patent/KR20160134732A/ko
Priority to EP15704818.2A priority patent/EP3116333B1/fr
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A24—TOBACCO; CIGARS; CIGARETTES; SIMULATED SMOKING DEVICES; SMOKERS' REQUISITES
    • A24D—CIGARS; CIGARETTES; TOBACCO SMOKE FILTERS; MOUTHPIECES FOR CIGARS OR CIGARETTES; MANUFACTURE OF TOBACCO SMOKE FILTERS OR MOUTHPIECES
    • A24D3/00—Tobacco smoke filters, e.g. filter-tips, filtering inserts; Filters specially adapted for simulated smoking devices; Mouthpieces for cigars or cigarettes
    • A24D3/04—Tobacco smoke filters characterised by their shape or structure
    • A24D3/041—Tobacco smoke filters characterised by their shape or structure with adjustable means for modifying the degree of filtration of the filter
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A24—TOBACCO; CIGARS; CIGARETTES; SIMULATED SMOKING DEVICES; SMOKERS' REQUISITES
    • A24D—CIGARS; CIGARETTES; TOBACCO SMOKE FILTERS; MOUTHPIECES FOR CIGARS OR CIGARETTES; MANUFACTURE OF TOBACCO SMOKE FILTERS OR MOUTHPIECES
    • A24D1/00—Cigars; Cigarettes
    • A24D1/02—Cigars; Cigarettes with special covers
    • A24D1/027—Cigars; Cigarettes with special covers with ventilating means, e.g. perforations
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A24—TOBACCO; CIGARS; CIGARETTES; SIMULATED SMOKING DEVICES; SMOKERS' REQUISITES
    • A24D—CIGARS; CIGARETTES; TOBACCO SMOKE FILTERS; MOUTHPIECES FOR CIGARS OR CIGARETTES; MANUFACTURE OF TOBACCO SMOKE FILTERS OR MOUTHPIECES
    • A24D3/00—Tobacco smoke filters, e.g. filter-tips, filtering inserts; Filters specially adapted for simulated smoking devices; Mouthpieces for cigars or cigarettes
    • A24D3/06—Use of materials for tobacco smoke filters
    • A24D3/16—Use of materials for tobacco smoke filters of inorganic materials
    • A24D3/163—Carbon

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  • the present invention relates to a filter element for a smoking article.
  • the present invention relates to a filter element which enables a user to vary the ratio of tobacco smoke to air inhaled by providing a mechanism by varying the pressure drop across the filter.
  • Filter elements for smoking articles are, of course, well known. It is also well known to provide filter elements that have means for varying the ratio of tobacco smoke to air inhaled by a user by providing a mechanism to the user to vary the pressure drop across the filter. Examples of such configurations are shown in US4570649 or WO 2013/079645, for example. Such configurations allow for variations of the ventilation level of the filter, therefore of the smoke intensity and tar delivery of the smoking articles, between a maximum tar delivery in a first state and a second tar delivery in a second state.
  • the present invention seeks to provide a filter element which improves control of the smoke intensity by a user, enabling the user to vary the pressure drop across the filter between reduced tar delivery states whilst still ensuring that a cost effective filter element is provided.
  • the present invention provides a filter element for a smoking article, the filter comprising:
  • the plug of filter material comprises at least two segments being longitudinally aligned and rotatably mounted about a common longitudinal axis, at least one of the segments comprising at least one perforation formed in the substantially air permeable plug wrap; and a wrapping material surrounding at least one portion of the substantially air permeable plug wrap, the wrapping material comprising a first part attached to a first of the two segments of the plug of filter material and a second part attached to the second segment of the plug of filter material, and comprising at least one aperture formed therein,
  • the first and second parts of the wrapping material and first and second segments of the plug of filter material being arranged such that the respective at least one perforation of the substantially air permeable plug wrap and the at least one aperture of the wrapping material can be superimposed upon rotation of one of the segments of the plug of filter material about the common longitudinal axis to vary the filter ventilation.
  • the filter element according to the present invention therefore includes a combination of aligning slots, respectively referred to as perforations and apertures, and a substantially air permeable or porous plug wrap for allowing air flow into the filter.
  • aligning slots and porous plug wrap allows for a relatively small variation of air dilution, which results in an improved stability and fine tuning of the variable filter product.
  • this enables the manufacture of cigarettes having variable taste strength and tar deliveries, by providing a filter element adjustable between two ventilated cigarette configurations.
  • the at least one perforation may be formed in the second segment of the filter material and the at least one aperture may be formed in the second part of the wrapping material.
  • each of the at least one perforation has a first length and each of the at least one aperture has a second length.
  • each of the perforations have the same length, while each of the apertures also have the same length (which may be different from the length of the apertures), which facilitates manufacturing of the filter element.
  • Each of the at least one perforation and each of the at least one aperture may be located in a first plane perpendicular to the common longitudinal axis.
  • At least one of the segments of the filter material comprises at least three perforations spaced equidistally from each other.
  • a further aspect of the invention relates to a smoking article comprising a filter element as previously described.
  • Such a smoking article would typically include a tobacco rod connected to an end of the filter by the wrapping material which overlaps said end of the filter element and one end of the tobacco rod.
  • the second part of the wrapping material comprising the aperture surrounds a segment of the plug of filter material including the perforation and at least part of a segment of the plug of filter material free from the at least one perforation.
  • the first and second parts of the wrapping material may be separated by a circumferential slit around the filter plug, while the first and second segments of the plug of filter material may be separated by a circumferential cut in a second plane perpendicular to the common longitudinal axis, and wherein the circumferential slit is located in the second plane.
  • the circumferential slit in the wrapping material corresponds to a circumferential cut in the plug of filter material, both being located in the same plane.
  • Figures 1 and 2 show a conventional variable flow filter for a smoking article
  • Figure 3 is a cross-sectional view of a smoking article comprising a conventional variable flow filter for a smoking article
  • Figures 4 and 5 are cross-sectional views of smoking articles comprising a filter element according to the present invention.
  • Figures 6A and 6B show sequences of alignment corresponding to relative positions of perforations in the porous plug wrap and slots in the tipping paper to control the amount of air that can be drawn through the combination of aligning slots and perforations;
  • Figure 7 shows another filter element according to the present invention
  • Figure 8 is a table reproducing minimum and maximum tar deliveries obtained for five different smoking articles according to the invention.
  • a filter cigarette 1 comprises a tobacco rod 2 and a filter component 3.
  • the filter component 3 is configured to allow adjustment of the filter ventilation by a user to adjust the taste strength of the cigarette 1.
  • the filter component 3 is configured to allow adjustment of the filter ventilation by a user to adjust the taste strength of the cigarette 1.
  • the plug wrap 4 is substantially air impermeable.
  • the filter component 3 is divided into a mouth end filter segment 5 and a tobacco end filter segment 6, by a circumferential transverse cut 7, which is perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the cigarette 1.
  • the cut 7 is only partial throughout the diameter of the filter plug 4 so as to leave a central connecting member of filter material between the two segments 5, 6.
  • This connecting member (not shown) advantageously acts as an axis of rotation for the segments 5, 6 relative to each other to allow variation of the filter ventilation as explained below.
  • At least one slit also referred to as a perforation 8, is formed into the plug wrap
  • a suitable wrapping material such as tipping paper 9 is provided and wrapped over the plug wrap 4 and filter segments 5, 6.
  • the tipping paper 9 is comprised of two bands 10, 1 1 separable at a pre-cut or cut line 12.
  • a first band 10 of the tipping paper 9 is attached, usually by gluing, to the mouth end filter segment 5 of the cigarette 1 and extends over the cut 7 between the two filter segments 5, 6 and partially over the second filter segment 6 and the perforation 8 without being attached to the second segment 6.
  • This first tipping band 10 comprises at least one transverse slot 13 which is positioned so that it can be aligned over the perforation 8 in the second filter segment 6.
  • a second tipping band 1 1 of the tipping paper 9 is attached, usually by gluing, on the remaining part of the tobacco end segment 6 not covered by band 10 and the tobacco rod 2 to attach the filter component 3 to the tobacco rod 2.
  • Figure 2 shows Figure 1 when assembled with the slot 13 of first band 10 of tipping paper 9 aligned over the perforation 8.
  • Such configuration of the filter component 3 and tipping paper 9 makes the mouth end filter segment 5 capable of rotation around the longitudinal axis of the cigarette 1 relative to the tobacco end filter segment 6 connected to the tobacco rod 2. This varies the respective positions of the perforation 8 in the tobacco end filter segment 6 and the slot 13 in the first tipping band 10 as shown in Figure 3 in order to adjust the ventilation of the filter component 3, and hence the strength of the cigarette 1.
  • Figure 3 shows a cross-sectional view of the filter component 3 through the location of the perforation 8 and slot 13. From this it can be seen that relative rotation of the mouth end filter segment 5 with respect to tobacco end filter segment 6 in either direction can adjust the relative positions of the slot 13 and perforation 8 to control the amount of air that can be drawn through the combination of the slot 13 and perforation 8 and into the filter component 3 when the cigarette 1 is being smoked.
  • the user can rotate the mouth end filter segment 5 to vary the relative locations of the slot 13 and perforation 8 and vary the ventilation for the filter component 3 varying air mixture received by a user when the tobacco rod 2 is lit.
  • airflow can only be drawn through the combination of the slot 13 and perforation 8 and into the filter component 3, since the plug wrap 4 in the known configurations is substantially air impermeable.
  • Figure 4 shows a cross-sectional view of a smoking article comprising a filter element according to the present invention, through the location of the perforation 8 and slot 13.
  • the smoking article according to the present invention is substantially similar in structure to that shown in Figures 1 to 3, with the exception that the plug wrap provided is substantially air permeable or porous.
  • plug wrap papers having porosities ranging from about 1300 CU to 24000 CU can be used in the smoking article of the present invention.
  • the user can rotate the mouth end filter segment 5 to vary the relative locations of the slot 13 and perforation 8 and vary the ventilation for the filter component 3 varying air mixture received by a user when the tobacco rod 2 is lit.
  • the plug wrap 40 is porous, therefore allowing at least some airflow through the filter at all times, irrespective of the alignment of the slot 13 and perforation 8. Since airflow always passes through the filter element 3, the variation of air dilution obtained by the relative positions of the slot 13 and perforation 8 is smaller than in the case of Figure 3.
  • this improves control of the user who is able to steadily vary the smoke intensity, i.e. the tar delivery of the smoking article between two ventilated states.
  • the filter of the invention provides pressure drops of below 130 mmH20 and preferably below 120 mmH20 in any respective position of the slot 13 and perforation 8. This particularly reduces resistance to drawing smoke through the filter element 3 whilst a user tuned the filter to obtain high tar delivery states.
  • any plurality of perforations 8 and/or slots 13 could be provided to achieve the same function of varying the ventilation level in the filter component 3, the common principle of ventilation variation remaining identical and based on alignment/misalignment of said perforations 8 and slot 13 upon rotation of the mouth end segment 5 of the filter with respect to the tobacco end segment 6.
  • the perforations 8 are of equal length and can vary from 2.00 mm to 4.5 mm, for example.
  • Figures 6A and 6B shows the variation of the airflow through the filter component 3 represented in Figure 7, using relatively small perforations 8, e.g. 2.5 mm and matching slots 13 ( Figure 6A) and relatively large perforations 8, e.g. 4.0 mm and matching slots 13 ( Figure 6B). Since the plug wrap 40 is porous, airflow always passes through the filter component 3, resulting in a relatively weak but permanent airflow in the case of relatively small perforations 8 and matching slots 13 ( Figure 6A), and a relatively strong, permanent airflow in the case of relatively large perforations 8 and matching slots 13 ( Figure 6B).
  • Figure 8 is a table reproducing minimum and maximum tar deliveries obtained for five different smoking articles according to the invention, with different filter structures (dual charcoal acetate or mono-acetate filters), different plug wrap porosities and different perforations sizes.
  • the tar deliveries reproduced in that table were obtained under standard ISO smoking regime, following ISO standards for testing smoking articles (ISO 3308, ISO 4387).
  • filter plug-forming material that may be a material such as cellulose acetate tow in a conventional and well-known manner in the industry of cigarette filter making.
  • a continuous filter rod is hereby obtained. This continuous rod is then surrounded with a porous plug wrap 40 to hold the acetate tow in shape and segmented to produce individual filter components 3.
  • filter components 3 are then loaded into a conventional smoking article maker which is equipped with a processing module to assemble filter components 3 and tobacco rods 2 to form cigarettes 1.
  • the filter components 3 are then cut transversally to form two rotatable interconnected segments 5, 6.
  • Perforations 8 are formed in the filter components 3 by laser or blade cutting.
  • the pre-perforated tipping paper 9 may be used.
  • the tipping paper 9 may be perforated and cut or preferably pre-cut to define separation line 12 between bands 10, 1 1 of the tipping paper 9 and then supplied and wrapped around the filter component 3 to connect it with the tobacco rod 2 to form a cigarette product.
  • the filter components 3 are submitted to a laser or blade cut to form simultaneously perforations 8 in the tobacco end filter segment 6 and corresponding slots 13 in the tipping paper 9.
  • the mouth end filter segment 5 is then twisted to misalign perforations 8 and slots 13 of the filters and thereby set the cigarette products 1 at the lowest level of ventilation of the filter components 3.
  • the finished cigarette products are then gathered to form a bundle which is then packed for sale.

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Abstract

L'invention concerne un élément de filtre (3) pour un article à fumer, l'élément de filtre (3) comprenant : au moins un bouchon en un matériau de filtre entouré d'une enveloppe de bouchon sensiblement perméable à l'air (40), le bouchon en un matériau de filtre comprenant au moins deux segments (5, 6) alignés longitudinalement et montés rotatifs autour d'un axe longitudinal commun, au moins l'un des segments (5, 6) comprenant au moins une perforation (8) formée dans l'enveloppe de bouchon sensiblement perméable à l'air (40) ; et un matériau d'emballage (9) entourant au moins une partie de l'enveloppe de bouchon sensiblement perméable à l'air (40), le matériau d'emballage (9) comprenant une première partie (10) fixée à un premier segment (5) des deux segments du bouchon en un matériau de filtre et une seconde partie (11) fixée au second segment (6) du bouchon en un matériau de filtre, et comprenant au moins une ouverture (13) formée en son sein, les première et seconde parties (10, 11) du matériau d'emballage (9) et les premier et second segments (5, 6) du bouchon en un matériau de filtre étant agencés de telle sorte que la ou les perforations (8) respectives de l'enveloppe de bouchon sensiblement perméable à l'air (40) et la ou les ouvertures (13) du matériau d'emballage (9) peuvent être superposées lors de la rotation de l'un des segments (5, 6) du bouchon en un matériau de filtre autour de l'axe longitudinal commun pour faire varier la ventilation de filtre.
PCT/EP2015/053418 2014-03-11 2015-02-18 Élément de filtre pour article à fumer Ceased WO2015135723A1 (fr)

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ES15704818T ES2706491T3 (es) 2014-03-11 2015-02-18 Elemento de filtro para un artículo de fumar
PL15704818T PL3116333T3 (pl) 2014-03-11 2015-02-18 Element filtracyjny do wyrobu do palenia
EA201691601A EA032253B1 (ru) 2014-03-11 2015-02-18 Фильтровальный элемент для курительного изделия
JP2016556290A JP2017507660A (ja) 2014-03-11 2015-02-18 喫煙物品のフィルター
KR1020167028283A KR20160134732A (ko) 2014-03-11 2015-02-18 흡연물품용 필터 요소
EP15704818.2A EP3116333B1 (fr) 2014-03-11 2015-02-18 Élément de filtre pour article à fumer

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EP3116333A1 (fr) 2017-01-18
EA201691601A1 (ru) 2017-03-31
JP2017507660A (ja) 2017-03-23
TR201900291T4 (tr) 2019-02-21
KR20160134732A (ko) 2016-11-23
PL3116333T3 (pl) 2019-06-28
ES2706491T3 (es) 2019-03-29
EP3116333B1 (fr) 2018-12-19

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