A smoking article, a smoking article filter section and a method of manufacturing a smoking article
AssigneeBritish American Tobacco (Investments) Limited
InventorsKarl KALJURA, Tina WHITTON, Mark BAILEY, Sydney TAVERN, Lisa HARVEY, Mark AUSTIN
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Abstract
A smoking article and a method of manufacturing a smoking article A smoking article has a filter section for receiving smoke and/or other aerosol generated by said smoking article, a variable ventilation arrangement configured to provide a user controllable level of ventilation into the filter section and a flavour source configured to release flavour to said smoke and/or other aerosol generated by said smoking article at a location in said smoke and/or other aerosol downstream of said ventilation arrangement.
Claims31
A smoking article comprising:
- a filter section comprising filtration material arranged to filter smoke and/or other aerosol generated by said smoking article;
- a variable ventilation arrangement configured to provide a user controllable level of ventilation into the filter section;
- and
- a flavour source configured to release flavour to said smoke and/or other aerosol passing through the filtration material of the filter section at a location in said smoke and/or other aerosol downstream of said ventilation arrangement.
A filter section for a smoking article comprising filtration material arranged to filter smoke and/or other aerosol generated by said smoking article, the filter section comprising:
- a variable ventilation arrangement configured to provide a user controllable level of ventilation into the filter section;
- and
- a flavour source configured to release flavour to said smoke and/or other aerosol passing through the filtration material of the filter section at a location in said smoke and/or other aerosol downstream of said ventilation arrangement.
A method of manufacturing a smoking article, the method comprising:
- forming a filter section comprising filtration material arranged to filter smoke and/or other aerosol generated by said smoking article;
- providing a variable ventilation arrangement configured to provide a user controllable level of ventilation into the filter section;
- and
- providing a flavour source configured to release flavour to said smoke and/or other aerosol passing through the filtration material of the filter section at a location in said smoke and/or other aerosol downstream of said ventilation arrangement.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.