Synthetic smoking product
AssigneeGallaher Limited
InventorsDennis Boyd, George Porter
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Abstract
The invention relates to a fuel for use in a smoking product and consisting of a fibrous flexible self coherent carbonaceous material the fibers of which preferably have certain dimensions and are agglomerated into clusters of certain dimensions. Volatile constituents to give smoking satisfaction are added to the fuel and are distilled or sublimed into a smoke stream upon burning of the fuel.
Claims6
The method of preparing a fuel for smoking by human beings which comprises the steps of agglomerating a plurality of flexible cellulose-base fibres containing only carbon, hydrogen and oxygen, into a coherent mass, and subjecting said mass to a controlled pyrolysis until said fibres have suffered a weight loss of at least 60% during the pyrolysis, having a cross-sectional dimension between 5 and 10 microns and an organic content which is at least 90% carbon by weight.
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