Product portion enrobing machines and methods
AssigneeAltria Client Services LLC
InventorsAndrew Nathan Carroll, Shannon Maxwell Black, Yan Helen Sun, William J. Burke, Robert Smith
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Abstract
An apparatus for enrobing a product portion can include at least one polymer spray head adapted to create at least one flow of polymeric fibers to produce at least one polymer enrobing zone and a conveyor system adapted to move at least one product portion from at least one position below at least one polymer enrobing zone and to at least one position above at least one polymer enrobing zone to drop each product portion through one or more polymer enrobing zones a plurality times at different orientations to enrobe each product portion with polymeric fibers.
Claims18
An oral product comprising:
- a body including tobacco fibers;
- and
- a porous wrap surrounding the body and having a basis weight of less than or equal to 40 grams per square meter, the porous wrap including,
- a plurality of fibers including,
- a polymer, and
- a filler configured to increase a hydraulic permittivity of the porous wrap.
An oral product comprising:
- a body including,
- non-tobacco cellulosic fibers, and
- nicotine;
- and
- a porous wrap surrounding the body and having a basis weight of less than or equal to 40 grams per square meter, the porous wrap including,
- a plurality of fibers including,
- a polymer, and
- a filler configured to increase a hydraulic permittivity of the porous wrap.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.