Reconstituted tobacco with bonded flavorant, smoking article and methods
AssigneePhilip Morris USA Inc.
InventorsSzu-Sung Yang, Trevor Scott Gentry, Robley Eugene Pitts, Jr., Ricky L. Bowman
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Abstract
A process of manufacturing a reconstituted tobacco material is provided which includes: preparing a heated mixture of water and sugar; providing a liquid flavorant such as menthol; mixing tobacco particles, water and a gum binder with the mixture of water and sugar and with the flavorant to form a reconstituted tobacco mixture; and forming the reconstituted tobacco mixture, such as by casting or extruding the reconstituted tobacco mixture, into a reconstituted tobacco material. Exemplary menthol reconstituted tobacco products provided herein enable high levels of menthol to be retained in a tobacco product.
Claims6
A mentholated smoking article comprising shreds of sugar encapsulated menthol, the shreds comprising 85 to 95% by weight solids and 5 to 15% by weight water,
- wherein the solids comprise on a dry weight basis approximately 10 to 30% by weight menthol, approximately 45 to 55% by weight sugar, approximately 5 to 7% by weight gum binder and a remainder tobacco particles and wherein the sugar is sucrose and the gum binder is guar gum.
Tobacco shreds of sugar encapsulated menthol, the shreds comprising 85 to 95% by weight solids and 5 to 15% by weight water,
- wherein the solids comprise on a dry weight basis approximately 10 to 30% by weight menthol, 45 to 55% by weight sugar, approximately 5 to 7% by weight gum binder and a remainder tobacco, wherein the sugar is sucrose and the gum binder is guar gum.
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