Segmented smoking article with substrate cavity

• Main Authors: Thomas Timothy Frederick, Sebastian Andries Don, Chang Yi-Ping, Banerjee Chandra K, Barnes Vernon Brent, McClanahan David Neil, Carpenter Carolyn R, Conner Billy Tyrone, Nestor Timothy B, White Jackie L, Stone James Richard, Gonzalez-Parra Alvaro, Crooks Evon Llewellyn
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 13.09.2016
• Subjects: CIGARETTES; CIGARS; HUMAN NECESSITIES; MACHINES FOR MAKING CIGARS OR CIGARETTES; MANUFACTURE OF TOBACCO SMOKE FILTERS OR MOUTHPIECES; MOUTHPIECES FOR CIGARS OR CIGARETTES; SMOKERS' REQUISITES; TOBACCO; TOBACCO SMOKE FILTERS

A cigarette includes lighting and mouth ends. It may include a smokable segment disposed at the lighting end. It also includes a mouth-end segment; an aerosol-generation system disposed between the lighting and mouth ends, which includes (i) a heat-generation segment adjacent the smokable segment, including a heat source and an insulation layer and (ii) an aerosol-generating segment including a substrate, which may include tobacco pellets and aerosol-forming material disposed in a substrate cavity between the heat generation segment and the mouth end; a piece of outer wrapping material that provides an overwrap around at least a portion of the aerosol-generating segment, the heat-generation segment, and at least a portion of the smokable segment and includes a foil strip laminated thereon; those segments being connected together by the overwrap to provide a cigarette rod; that is connected to the mouth-end segment using tipping material.