- Patent Title: Smokeless tobacco product, smokeless tobacco product in the form of a sheet, extrudable tobacco composition, method for manufacturing a smokeless tobacco product, method for delivering super bioavailable nicotine contained in tobacco to a user, and packaged smokeless tobacco product sheet
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Application No.: US12122201Application Date: 2008-05-16
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Publication No.: US09125434B2Publication Date: 2015-09-08
- Inventor: Richard C. Fuisz
- Applicant: Richard C. Fuisz
- Applicant Address: CH Neuchatel
- Assignee: Philip Morris Products S.A.
- Current Assignee: Philip Morris Products S.A.
- Current Assignee Address: CH Neuchatel
- Agency: Fitch, Even, Tabin and Flannery LLP
- Main IPC: A24B15/00
- IPC: A24B15/00 ; A24B13/00 ; A23L1/22 ; A24B3/18 ; A24B15/16

Abstract:
A nonaqueous, extrudable composition includes at least one thermoplastic polymer in an amount of more than 20 wt % of the whole composition and tobacco. A smokeless tobacco product in the form of a sheet can be made by extruding or hot melt shaping a nonaqueous composition comprising at least one thermoplastic polymer and tobacco, the sheet being soluble in a user's mouth and resulting in sustained release of nicotine to the user. The sheet can be in a form that may be placed in the buccal cavity of, on the palate of or sublingually in the user, and have an average dissolution time of 5 to 50 minutes for delivering super bioavailable nicotine to the user.
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