Methods and systems for incorporating nicotine into oral products
AssigneeAltria Client Services LLC
InventorsFeng Gao, Shuzhong Zhuang, Diane L. Gee
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Abstract
This document provides methods and systems for stabilizing nicotine and incorporating nicotine into one or more oral products. This document also provides oral products. Nicotine can be stabilized by mixing liquid nicotine with cellulosic fiber such that the liquid nicotine absorbs into pores of the cellulosic fiber to form a cellulosic fiber-nicotine mixture. In some cases, a cellulosic fiber-nicotine mixture can be combined with one or more binders and molded into an oral product.
Claims19
A method for stabilizing nicotine, comprising
- mixing liquid nicotine with cellulosic fiber such that the liquid nicotine absorbs into pores of the cellulosic fiber to form a cellulosic fiber-nicotine mixture;
- and
- loosely depositing the cellulosic fiber-nicotine mixture within a container,
- wherein the cellulosic fiber comprises wood pulp, cotton, sugar beets, bran, citrus pulp fiber, switch grass and other grasses, Salix, tea, Populus, bamboo fibers, or combinations thereof.
A method for incorporating liquid nicotine into an oral product, comprising:
- (a) mixing liquid nicotine with cellulosic fiber to produce a cellulosic fiber-nicotine mixture, wherein the cellulosic fiber comprises wood pulp, cotton, sugar beets, bran, citrus pulp fiber, switch grass and other grasses, Salix, tea, Populus, bamboo fibers, or combinations thereof;
- (b) mixing the cellulosic fiber-nicotine mixture with one or more binders to form an oral product pre-molding mixture, the one or more binders comprising a chewing gum base;
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- (c) molding the oral product pre-molding mixture into an oral product.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.