Flavor-tasting article
AssigneeJapan Tobacco Inc.
InventorsYutaka Saito, Yuriko Anzai, Ryuichi Suzuki, Hiroshi Ichinose
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Abstract
A flavor-tasting article including a flavor-generating medium, and a heating source disposed physically separated from the flavor-generating medium to heat the flavor-generating medium to release a flavoring component therefrom. The flavor-generating medium includes a flavoring component-holding material formed of a heat-irreversibly gelled, heat-irreversibly coagulating glucan and a flavoring component held in the holding material. The flavor-generating material releases a sufficient amount of the flavoring component only through heating.
Claims28
A flavor-tasting article substantially without accompanying smoke of tobacco filler, said article comprising:
- a non-burning flavor-generating medium in a smoking article for releasing a flavoring component upon heating;
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- a heating source physically separated from said flavor-generating medium for heating said flavor-generating medium to release the flavoring component therefrom, said flavor-generating medium including a flavor-generating material which comprises a flavoring component-holding material comprising a heat-irreversibly gelled heat-irreversibly coagulating glucan, said glucan being at least one of .beta.-1, 3-glucan and curdlan, and the flavoring component being held in said gelled glucan.
A flavor-tasting article comprising:
- a non-burning flavor-generating medium in a smoking article which comprises a flavor-generating material composed of a flavoring component-holding material comprising a heat-irreversibly gelled heat-irreversibly coagulating glucan, said glucan being at least one of .beta.-1, 3-glucan and curdlan, and a flavoring component held in the holding material, said flavor-generating medium being capable of releasing the flavoring component only through heating;
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- a heating source which is physically separated from said flavor-generating medium, and is used for heating said flavor-generating medium to release said flavoring component therefrom, said heat source further comprising a hollow tube in which said flavor-generating medium is disposed.
A flavor-tasting article comprising:
- a non-burning flavor-generating medium in a smoking article which comprises a flavor-generating material composed of a flavoring component-holding material comprising a heat-irreversibly gelled heat-irreversibly coagulating glucan, said glucan being at least one of .beta.-1, 3-glucan and curdlan, and a flavoring component held in the holding material, said flavor-generating medium being capable of releasing the flavoring component only through heating;
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- a heating source which is physically separated from said flavor-generating medium, and is used for heating said flavor-generating medium to release said flavoring component therefrom, said heat source further comprising non-combustible means for generating heat.
A flavor-tasting article substantially without accompanying smoke of tobacco filler, said article comprising:
- a non-burning flavor-generating medium in a smoking article for releasing a flavoring component upon heating;
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- a heating source physically separated from said flavor-generating medium for heating said flavor-generating medium to release the flavoring component therefrom, said flavor-generating medium including a flavor-generating material which comprises a flavoring component-holding material comprising a heat-irreversibly gelled heat-irreversibly coagulating glucan, said glucan being at least one of .beta.-1,3-glucan and curdlan, and the flavoring component held in said gelled glucan, said flavor-generating medium having been prepared by (1) preparing a dispersion of said glucan in water, (2) adding the flavoring component to the dispersion, (3) casting the resultant mixture into a sheet, (4) thermally gelling the case sheet to hold the flavoring component within the gelled glucan, (5) cutting or pulverizing the gelled sheet to provide the flavor-generating material, (6) admixing the flavor-generating material into a sheet tobacco raw material, (7) forming the resultant admixture into a sheet, and (8) cutting or pulverizing the formed sheet to provide the flavor-generating medium.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.