US 4,714,082 A · Smoking article

Abstract

The present invention relates to a smoking article, preferably in cigarette form, which produces an aerosol that resembles tobacco smoke. The article preferably comprises a short combustible fuel element having a density greater than 0.5 g/cc, a separate substrate bearing an aerosol forming material, a heat conducting member recessed from the lighting end of the fuel element, which preferably encloses the substrate, a resilient insulating jacket encircling at least a portion of the fuel element, and an optional tobacco jacket encircling at least a portion of the aerosol forming material.

Claims103

Dependent claims

A cigarette-type smoking article comprising:

(a) a combustible fuel element less than about 30 mm in length prior to smoking, having a density of at least about 0.5 g/cc;
(b) a physically separate aerosol generating means including an aerosol forming material in conductive heat exchange relationship with the fuel element;
and
(c) means for delivering the aerosol produced by the aerosol generating means to the user.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

06/790,484Filed 23 Oct 1985 · continuation in part

Priority

14 Sep 1984

Granted

22 Dec 1987

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification5 codes

A24D 1/18
Cigars; Cigarettes: selection of materials, other than tobacco, suitable for smoking
A24B 15/165
Of tobacco substitutes: comprising as heat source a carbon fuel or an oxidized or thermally degraded carbonaceous fuel, e.g. carbohydrates,…
A24D 1/22
Cigars; Cigarettes: cigarettes with integrated combustible heat sources, e.g. with carbonaceous heat sources
A24D
Cigars

Smoking article

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Abstract

Claims103