Abstract:
A tobacco smoking mixture is provided that includes tobacco and at least one inorganic particulate material. The at least one inorganic particulate material is effective to reduce the temperature of a burning portion of the tobacco smoking mixture upon combustion/pyrolysis thereof. The at least one inorganic particulate material can be an inorganic carbonate, an inorganic hydrate, an inorganic oxide, an inorganic phosphate, a carbon material or combinations thereof.
Abstract:
An electrical smoking system (21) comprising a housing (31) having front and rear housing portions (33 and 35), a reusable lighter (25), a filter cigarette (23), a cigarette receiver (27) which is open at a front end portion (29) of the lighter (25), an indicator (51) to indicate number of puffs remaining in a smoke of the cigarette (23), and a cigarette detector (57) to detect the presence of a cigarette.
Abstract:
A novel photonic-electronic smoking system (21) comprising a cigarette (23) and a photonic operated electronic lighter (25), together with methodologies of smoking a cigarette, the lighter comprising a receptacle (27) for removably receiving a cigarette; a photonic source (96); an optical train establishing a plurality of optical pathways from said photonic source to a plurality of locations at the received cigarette; a source of electrical power (35A); a puff sensor (49) responsive to a drawing action upon a cigarette received by said receptacle; and a controller (41) responsive to said puff sensor for controllably communicating said source of electrical power with said photonic source so that upon drawing action upon the received cigarette, the photonic source discharges along said optical pathway to heat a region (110) of said cigarette adjacent at least one of said locations.
Abstract:
A cylindrical tube (300) is provided of a mechanically strong and flexible electrical conductor such as a metal and has a plurality of separated regions. An electrically insulating layer (310) such as a ceramic is applied on the outer surface except for one exposed portion (110). Electrically resistive heaters (122) are then applied to the insulated regions and are electrically connected at one end to the underlying electrical conducting region. The electrical conductor is connected to the negative terminal of a power source. The other end of all the heaters are adapted to be connected to the positive terminal of the source. Accordingly, an electrically resistive heating circuit is formed wherein the tube serves as a common for all of the heating elements. The tubular heater can comprise an exposed end hub with a plurality of blades extending therefrom. Each blade can have an individual heater deposited thereon. Alternatively, every other blade can have a heater deposited thereon. The blades having no heaters function as barriers to minimize outward escape of generated vapors. These barrier blades also function as heat sinks for the heaters on adjacent blades.
Abstract:
A cigarette (23) comprises a tobacco rod having filled and unfilled portions arranged so that electrical heater elements (31) may overlap both portions. The rod includes a tubular tobacco web. The web is constructed by converting tobacco feedstock into a continuous sheet of tobacco web and converting the continuous sheet of tobacco web into one or ore bobbins of tobacco web suitable for automated manufacture of cigarettes. A heater (25) comprises a supporting hub and electrically resistive heater blades (37) defining a receptacle (27) for an inserted cigarette (23). Each blade comprises first and second heater blade legs each having a first end and a second end, and a connecting section connecting the second end of the first leg and the first end of the second leg. The blades (37) are heated by a resistive heating circuit and heat the inserted cigarette (23). The legs are separated by a gap to permit entrainment of flavour substances upon drawing.
Abstract:
A novel photonic-electronic smoking system (21) comprising a cigarette (23) and a photonic operated electronic lighter (25), together with methodologies of smoking a cigarette, the lighter comprising a receptacle (27) for removably receiving a cigarette; a photonic source (96); an optical train establishing a plurality of optical pathways from said photonic source to a plurality of locations at the received cigarette; a source of electrical power (35A); a puff sensor (49) responsive to a drawing action upon a cigarette received by said receptacle; and a controller (41) responsive to said puff sensor for controllably communicating said source of electrical power with said photonic source so that upon drawing action upon the received cigarette, the photonic source discharges along said optical pathway to heat a region (110) of said cigarette adjacent at least one of said locations.
Abstract:
A novel photonic-electronic smoking system (21) comprising a cigarette (23) and a photonic operated electronic lighter (25), together with methodologies of smoking a cigarette, the lighter comprising a receptacle (27) for removably receiving a cigarette; a photonic source (96); an optical train establishing a plurality of optical pathways from said photonic source to a plurality of locations at the received cigarette; a source of electrical power (35A); a puff sensor (49) responsive to a drawing action upon a cigarette received by said receptacle; and a controller (41) responsive to said puff sensor for controllably communicating said source of electrical power with said photonic source so that upon drawing action upon the received cigarette, the photonic source discharges along said optical pathway to heat a region (110) of said cigarette adjacent at least one of said locations.
Abstract:
An electrical smoking system (21) comprising a housing (31) having front and rear housing portions (33 and 35), a reusable lighter (25), a filter cigarette (23), a cigarette receiver (27) which is open at a front end portion (29) of the lighter (25), an indicator (51) to indicate number of puffs remaining in a smoke of the cigarette (23), and a cigarette detector (57) to detect the presence of a cigarette.
Abstract:
Methods and apparatuses for cleaning an electrical lighter are provided. A sleeve, e.g., ceramic or metal, surrounds the heater fixture, and a resistive heating element (210) is in thermal proximity with the sleeve. The resistive heating element (210) is either a dedicated element or the cigarette heating elements (210). The sleeve serves as an aerosol barrier and condensate accumulator to protect other components. Periodically, e.g., substantially contemporaneously with a battery recharge, the heating element (210) is activated to thermally liberate condensates deposited on the sleeve during smoking and also heats, and thereby cleans, other components. Also, a cleaning element is optionally inserted into the cigarette receptacle of the electrical lighter or placed at the exit thereof to absorb, attract and/or catalytically break down the thermally liberated condensates. The sleeve also directs a desired flow path for drawn air within an electrical lighter toward the cigarette.
Abstract:
Methods and apparatuses for cleaning an electrical lighter are provided. A sleeve, e.g., ceramic or metal, surrounds the heater fixture, and a resistive heating element (210) is in thermal proximity with the sleeve. The resistive heating element (210) is either a dedicated element or the cigarette heating elements (210). The sleeve serves as an aerosol barrier and condensate accumulator to protect other components. Periodically, e.g., substantially contemporaneously with a battery recharge, the heating element (210) is activated to thermally liberate condensates deposited on the sleeve during smoking and also heats, and thereby cleans, other components. Also, a cleaning element is optionally inserted into the cigarette receptacle of the electrical lighter or placed at the exit thereof to absorb, attract and/or catalytically break down the thermally liberated condensates. The sleeve also directs a desired flow path for drawn air within an electrical lighter toward the cigarette.