SMOKELESS TOBACCO PRODUCTS AND PROCESSES

• US 20100018540A1
• Filed: 07/28/2008
• Published: 01/28/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 07/28/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: R J Reynolds Tobacco Company (R. J. Reynolds Tobacco)
• Original Assignee: R J Reynolds Tobacco Company (R. J. Reynolds Tobacco)
• Inventors: Doolittle, David James, Arzonico, Barbara Walker, Chapman, Paul Stuart, Stokes, Cynthia Stewart
• Application Number:
  US12/180,763
• Publication Number:
  US 20100018540A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 131/352
• CPC Class Codes: A24B 13/00 Tobacco for pipes, for cigars, e.g. cigar inserts, or for cigarettes; Chewing tobacco; Snuff reconstituted tobacco products A24B3/14
• CPC Class Codes: A24B 15/282 by indirect addition of the chemical substances, e.g. in the wrapper, in the case
• CPC Class Codes: A24F 23/00 Cases for tobacco, snuff, or chewing tobacco

Abstract

A smokeless tobacco product is provided. A tobacco product configured for insertion into the mouth of a user of that product comprises a tobacco formulation including a granular tobacco composition enclosed within a water-permeable pouch that has been treated with a substance selected from the group consisting of: an analgesic, a buffer, a coloring, an effervescent, or an organic acid.

Claims

1. A tobacco product configured for insertion into the mouth of a user of that product, the tobacco product comprising:

a tobacco formulation including a granular tobacco composition enclosed within a water-permeable pouch, wherein said water-permeable pouch has been treated with a substance selected from the group consisting of;

an analgesic, a buffer, a coloring, an effervescent, or an organic acid.