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- a cigarette filter is formed of a mass of compressed absorbent material and at least one frangible capsule containing a smoke-treating liquid.
- the capsule is broken and the released liquid, as it is absorbed, cause the absorbent material to swell and fill the void left by the collapsed capsule.
- This invention relates to tobacco smoke filters and, more particularly, to a tobacco smoke filter element that introduces a smoke-treating or smoke-modifying liquid into the path of smoke drawn through the filter element.
- United States Patent No. 2,808,057 discloses a fibrous filter body containing absorbed water and enclosed in a waterproof cylindrical wrapping sheet having open ends
- United States Patents Nos. 2,755,206, 2,863,461 and 3,162,199, as Well as British Patent No. 243,199 describe smoke filters containing collapsible or frangible capsules filled with water or other liquids.
- Filter elements containing free liquid pose a problem of retaining the liquid during storage, and those containing capsules or other containers of a liquid often present, after release of the liquid a problem of holding the released liquid in place without permitting the iilter element to remain collapsed after capsule-breaking pressure has been released.
- the novel filter element of the present invention comprises an outer wrapper surrounding a body of compressed absorbent material having in its expanded condition passages arranged to permit axial filtering liow of smoke therethrough, and at least one frangible capsule containing a tobacco smoketreating liquid medium positioned within said body.
- the capsule is broken to release its liquid medium content into the body of compressed absorbent material when squeezing pressure is applied to the outer wrapper of the filter element, and the compressed body material expands inwardly to fill the tubular outer wrapper substantially completely with the absorbent material in its smokeliltering expanded condition.
- FIG. l is a longitudinal cross-sectional View of one embodiment of the filter element of the invention incorporated with a second conventional filter into a dual filter cigarette;
- FIG. 2 the same View of the same dual filter cigarette after the frangible capsule has been ruptured and the compressed sleeve of absorbent material has expanded to its smoke-filtering condition;
- FIG. 3 is a longitudinal cross-sectional view of another embodiment of the filter element of the invention.
- the filter element of the invention comprises an outer wrapper 5 surrounding a body of absorbent material in the form of a cylindrical sleeve 6 of compressed absorbent material. Positioned within the sleeve 6, and advantageously frictionally supported thereby, is a frangible capsule 7 containing a tobacco smoke-treating liquid medium 8, such for example as water.
- the body of compressed absorbent material is in the form of slivers 9 arranged in generally axial alignment and with a number of frangible liquid-containing microcapsules distributed therebetween.
- the outer wrapper 5 can be of conventional plug wrap paper used in making cigarette filter plugs. It does not have to possess significant wet strength because the liquid in the capsule is not released until after the filter element is enclosed in the stronger tipping paper conventionally used to secure the filter element to a cigarette or cigar, or the like. It should, however, have suliicient body to be resilient so that it can permit the filter to be compressed when the tube is squeezed to rupture the capsule and so that it will return substantially to its initial tubular shape when squeezing pressure is released.
- the tubular body of absorbent material enclosed by the outer wrapper can consist of any compressed smoke filter material which expands when wetted.
- Cellulose sponge is particularly suitable, but other compressed materials such as polyurethane foam, cotton, sponge, crimped paper of good wet strength and resiliency, cellulose acetate tow compressed with an adhesive soluble in the liquid filler component of the capsule, and other similar materials.
- the requirements of the body material are that it be capable of being compressed to a relatively stable shape and that it have suihcient resiliency, when Wet by the liquid component of the capsule, to expand and fill the void originally occupied by the capsule.
- the capsule is composed of a thin-walled frangible shell filled with a tobacco smoke-treating liquid.
- 'I'he shell is advantageously formed from a thermoplastic or thermoset resin, such as polyethylene, polypropylene, ethylene-vinylacetate copolymers, vinylidene chloride copolymers, polyesters, phenoleformaldehyde and ureaformaldehyde resins, petroleum waxes, glass, gelatin, and the like.
- Either a single capsule or several smaller capsules Ior a multiplicity of microcapsules can be positioned within the sleeve of compressed filter material all such forms being referred to herein and in the claim as capsules
- Capsules of a size such that only one or a few capsules are contained in a single filter element are readily produced by techniques and procedures common in the pharmaceutical industry. Smaller capsules, known as microcapsules and having a representative diameter of about 0.001 to 0.12 inch, are produced by the various microencapsulating procedures described in United States Patents Nos. 2,800,457, 2,800,458, 2,969,330, 2,969,331, 3,015,128 and 3,041,289, in the article by H. W.
- the 'Ilhe liquid contained in the capsule or microcapsules can be any aqueous or non-aqueous liquid useful for treating tobacco smoke. That is, the liquid can be one useful in removing or otherwise sequestering undesirable constituents of the vapor phase or particulate phase of the smoke, such for example as Water either alone or with an added surfactant or other useful component, or the liquid can be one useful in augmenting or supplementing the iiavor of the smoke, such for example as a menthol solution or lemon oil, or it can be a solution of a tobacco extract or of a medicament such as 'a decongestant, or the like.
- the liquid can be one useful in removing or otherwise sequestering undesirable constituents of the vapor phase or particulate phase of the smoke, such for example as Water either alone or with an added surfactant or other useful component, or the liquid can be one useful in augmenting or supplementing the iiavor of the smoke, such for example as a menthol solution or lemon oil, or it can be a
- Regahdless of the composition of the liquid medium within the capsule it should be sufficient in amount when released from the capsule or microcapsules to effect expansion of the compressed absorbent material to a smokefiltering state and to provide enough free liquid absorbed or entraned in the expanded filter material to effect the desired treatment of the smoke.
- a total volume of 0.05 to 0.20 milliliter of treating liquid contained in the capsule or lmicrocapsules per l mm. length of filter element is particularly effective, although as little as about 0.01 to 0.3 milliliter of liquid can be used in practicing the invention.
- the filter element of the invention can be the only filter for a cigarette, cigar or pipe, or it can be combined with other conventional filter elements to form dual or triple filters.
- our present preference is to place the filter of the invention between the tobacco and a mouth-end filter element such as cellulose acetate tow, crimped paper, or the like.
- a cellulosic sponge having in its normal expanded condition a pore structure such as to permit smoke fiow through a cigarette embodying the filter of the invention at the rate of about to 30 cc., and preferably about 15 cc., per second under a suction or draft of about 2% inches of water.
- This sponge is compressed to a fiat strip about 2 mm. thickness and 20 mm. wide and is fed continuously from a roll into a filter rod making unit.
- a smoke-treating liquid is fed into a conventional pillowpack making unit which continuously converts a flat plastic film about 16 mm. wide into a tube.
- the smoke treating liquid is introduced into its interior, and seals are made perpendicular to the direction of tube travel in order to encapsulate the liquid.
- the sealing intervals are preferably such that the individual pillows of liquid are about 5 mm. in diameter and about 7 mm. long with the sealed section between pillows about 3 mm. long.
- the sponge sheet and a chain of plastic pillows containing smoke-treating liquid are then fed into a filter rodmaking device which Wraps these two rod components with paper, rand sections 80 mm. in length are cut in the usual manner.
- the resulting 8'0 mm. rods are then fed into a compositing machine to combine them with a conventional fibr-ous filter element composed essentially of cellulose acetate tow in order to make a composite rod of the customary 120 mm. length which is ⁇ fed directly to a cigarette making machine lfor making a dual filter cigarette embodying the filter element of the invention.
- This filter material ly reduces the concentration of vapor phase smoke constituents, compared to the smoke from the same cigarette Without such a filter element, and the Water component in the filter element yalso substantially increases the water content of the particulate phase of the smoke.
- a tobacco smoke filter element comprising: (l) a tubular outer wrapper surrounding (2) a body of compressed absorbent material in the form of slivers arranged in substantially axial align- ⁇ ment within the tubular outer Wrapper and with (3) a plurality of frangible capsules containing a tobacco smoke-treating liquid medium distributed in the body of slivers, the absorbent material (a) having, in its normal expanded condition, a pore structure such as to permit smoke flow through a cigarette at the rate of about 5 to 30 cc.
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P. H. LEAKE ET AL 3,428,049 TOBACCO SMOKE FILTER ELEMENT Feb. 18, 1969 Filed Deo. 21, 1965 INVENTORS PRESTON H. LEAKE EVERETT C. COGBILL BY 2M, m, r
vATTDRNEYS Patented Feb. 18, 1969 1 Claim ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE A cigarette filter is formed of a mass of compressed absorbent material and at least one frangible capsule containing a smoke-treating liquid. When the filter mass is squeezed by the fingers, the capsule is broken and the released liquid, as it is absorbed, cause the absorbent material to swell and fill the void left by the collapsed capsule.
This invention relates to tobacco smoke filters and, more particularly, to a tobacco smoke filter element that introduces a smoke-treating or smoke-modifying liquid into the path of smoke drawn through the filter element.
Numerous proposals have been made heretofore for introducing water or other liquids into a tobacco smoke filter. For example, United States Patent No. 2,808,057 discloses a fibrous filter body containing absorbed water and enclosed in a waterproof cylindrical wrapping sheet having open ends, and United States Patents Nos. 2,755,206, 2,863,461 and 3,162,199, as Well as British Patent No. 243,199, describe smoke filters containing collapsible or frangible capsules filled with water or other liquids. Filter elements containing free liquid pose a problem of retaining the liquid during storage, and those containing capsules or other containers of a liquid often present, after release of the liquid a problem of holding the released liquid in place without permitting the iilter element to remain collapsed after capsule-breaking pressure has been released.
We have now devised a tobacco smoke filter element which does not contain free liquid until released by the smoker and which, after the liquid is released, establishes its shape and function as a smoke filter. The novel filter element of the present invention comprises an outer wrapper surrounding a body of compressed absorbent material having in its expanded condition passages arranged to permit axial filtering liow of smoke therethrough, and at least one frangible capsule containing a tobacco smoketreating liquid medium positioned within said body. The capsule is broken to release its liquid medium content into the body of compressed absorbent material when squeezing pressure is applied to the outer wrapper of the filter element, and the compressed body material expands inwardly to fill the tubular outer wrapper substantially completely with the absorbent material in its smokeliltering expanded condition.
Tihese and other novel features of the invention will be more readily understood from the following description taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawing in which:
FIG. l is a longitudinal cross-sectional View of one embodiment of the filter element of the invention incorporated with a second conventional filter into a dual filter cigarette;
FIG. 2 the same View of the same dual filter cigarette after the frangible capsule has been ruptured and the compressed sleeve of absorbent material has expanded to its smoke-filtering condition;
FIG. 3 is a longitudinal cross-sectional view of another embodiment of the filter element of the invention.
As shown in the modification of FIG. 1, the filter element of the invention comprises an outer wrapper 5 surrounding a body of absorbent material in the form of a cylindrical sleeve 6 of compressed absorbent material. Positioned within the sleeve 6, and advantageously frictionally supported thereby, is a frangible capsule 7 containing a tobacco smoke-treating liquid medium 8, such for example as water. In the modification shown in FIG. 3, the body of compressed absorbent material is in the form of slivers 9 arranged in generally axial alignment and with a number of frangible liquid-containing microcapsules distributed therebetween.
The outer wrapper 5 can be of conventional plug wrap paper used in making cigarette filter plugs. It does not have to possess significant wet strength because the liquid in the capsule is not released until after the filter element is enclosed in the stronger tipping paper conventionally used to secure the filter element to a cigarette or cigar, or the like. It should, however, have suliicient body to be resilient so that it can permit the filter to be compressed when the tube is squeezed to rupture the capsule and so that it will return substantially to its initial tubular shape when squeezing pressure is released.
The tubular body of absorbent material enclosed by the outer wrapper can consist of any compressed smoke filter material which expands when wetted. Cellulose sponge is particularly suitable, but other compressed materials such as polyurethane foam, cotton, sponge, crimped paper of good wet strength and resiliency, cellulose acetate tow compressed with an adhesive soluble in the liquid filler component of the capsule, and other similar materials. The requirements of the body material are that it be capable of being compressed to a relatively stable shape and that it have suihcient resiliency, when Wet by the liquid component of the capsule, to expand and fill the void originally occupied by the capsule.
The capsule is composed of a thin-walled frangible shell filled with a tobacco smoke-treating liquid. 'I'he shell is advantageously formed from a thermoplastic or thermoset resin, such as polyethylene, polypropylene, ethylene-vinylacetate copolymers, vinylidene chloride copolymers, polyesters, phenoleformaldehyde and ureaformaldehyde resins, petroleum waxes, glass, gelatin, and the like. Either a single capsule or several smaller capsules Ior a multiplicity of microcapsules can be positioned within the sleeve of compressed filter material all such forms being referred to herein and in the claim as capsules Capsules of a size such that only one or a few capsules are contained in a single filter element are readily produced by techniques and procedures common in the pharmaceutical industry. Smaller capsules, known as microcapsules and having a representative diameter of about 0.001 to 0.12 inch, are produced by the various microencapsulating procedures described in United States Patents Nos. 2,800,457, 2,800,458, 2,969,330, 2,969,331, 3,015,128 and 3,041,289, in the article by H. W. Mattson entitled Miniature Capsules, published in the April 1965, issue of International Science and Technology, (New York, N.Y.) pages 66 et seq., and in Microencaipsulation. a report recently published by Management Reports, Boston, Mass.
'Ilhe liquid contained in the capsule or microcapsules can be any aqueous or non-aqueous liquid useful for treating tobacco smoke. That is, the liquid can be one useful in removing or otherwise sequestering undesirable constituents of the vapor phase or particulate phase of the smoke, such for example as Water either alone or with an added surfactant or other useful component, or the liquid can be one useful in augmenting or supplementing the iiavor of the smoke, such for example as a menthol solution or lemon oil, or it can be a solution of a tobacco extract or of a medicament such as 'a decongestant, or the like. Regahdless of the composition of the liquid medium within the capsule, it should be sufficient in amount when released from the capsule or microcapsules to effect expansion of the compressed absorbent material to a smokefiltering state and to provide enough free liquid absorbed or entraned in the expanded filter material to effect the desired treatment of the smoke. In general, it has been Ifound that a total volume of 0.05 to 0.20 milliliter of treating liquid contained in the capsule or lmicrocapsules per l mm. length of filter element is particularly effective, although as little as about 0.01 to 0.3 milliliter of liquid can be used in practicing the invention.
The filter element of the invention can be the only filter for a cigarette, cigar or pipe, or it can be combined with other conventional filter elements to form dual or triple filters. When so combined with other filters, our present preference is to place the filter of the invention between the tobacco and a mouth-end filter element such as cellulose acetate tow, crimped paper, or the like.
In producing a filter element of the invention, we presently prefer to use as the sleeve material a cellulosic sponge having in its normal expanded condition a pore structure such as to permit smoke fiow through a cigarette embodying the filter of the invention at the rate of about to 30 cc., and preferably about 15 cc., per second under a suction or draft of about 2% inches of water. This sponge is compressed to a fiat strip about 2 mm. thickness and 20 mm. wide and is fed continuously from a roll into a filter rod making unit.
Simultaneously, a smoke-treating liquid is fed into a conventional pillowpack making unit which continuously converts a flat plastic film about 16 mm. wide into a tube. As the tube is formed, the smoke treating liquid is introduced into its interior, and seals are made perpendicular to the direction of tube travel in order to encapsulate the liquid. The sealing intervals are preferably such that the individual pillows of liquid are about 5 mm. in diameter and about 7 mm. long with the sealed section between pillows about 3 mm. long.
The sponge sheet and a chain of plastic pillows containing smoke-treating liquid are then fed into a filter rodmaking device which Wraps these two rod components with paper, rand sections 80 mm. in length are cut in the usual manner. The resulting 8'0 mm. rods are then fed into a compositing machine to combine them with a conventional fibr-ous filter element composed essentially of cellulose acetate tow in order to make a composite rod of the customary 120 mm. length which is `fed directly to a cigarette making machine lfor making a dual filter cigarette embodying the filter element of the invention. This filter materially reduces the concentration of vapor phase smoke constituents, compared to the smoke from the same cigarette Without such a filter element, and the Water component in the filter element yalso substantially increases the water content of the particulate phase of the smoke.
We claim: 1. A tobacco smoke filter element comprising: (l) a tubular outer wrapper surrounding (2) a body of compressed absorbent material in the form of slivers arranged in substantially axial align- `ment within the tubular outer Wrapper and with (3) a plurality of frangible capsules containing a tobacco smoke-treating liquid medium distributed in the body of slivers, the absorbent material (a) having, in its normal expanded condition, a pore structure such as to permit smoke flow through a cigarette at the rate of about 5 to 30 cc. per second under a draft of about 25/3 inches of water, (b) having in its compressed state a relatively stable shape, and (c) having, when wet by said Aliquid medium, sufficient resiliency to expand and fill the void originally occupied by the capsules and thus fill the tubular outer wrapper substantially completely with the absorbent material in its smokefiltering expanded condition, the capsules being broken to release its liquid medium content into the body of compressed absorbent material when squeezing pressure is lapplied to the outer wrapper of the filter element.
References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS 3,366,121 1/1968 Carty l31-10.1 2,755,206 7/1956 Statia 131-10.1 2,808,057 10/1957 Jaksch l31-10.1 3,196,478 7/ 1965 Bayimiller et al.
FOREIGN PATENTS 652,716 11/ 1962 Canada.
OTHER REFERENCES German application No. 1,077,127; Puchert March 3, 1960.
LUCIE H. LAUDENSLAGER, Primary Examiner.
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