NICOTINE FORTIFICATION OF SMOKING PRODUCTS

• US 3,861,400 A
• Filed: 09/12/1972
• Issued: 01/21/1975
• Est. Priority Date: 09/23/1971
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Christopher Ralph Bale, Paul Raymond Perkins
• Original Assignee: Christopher Ralph Bale, Paul Raymond Perkins
• Inventors: Perkins, Paul Raymond, Bale, Christopher Ralph
• Primary Examiner(s): Rein, Melvin D.
• Application Number:
  US05/288,329
• Time in Patent Office: 861 Days
• Field of Search: 131/2,17 424/361
• US Class Current: 131/335
• CPC Class Codes: A24B 15/30 by organic substances A24B15/281 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A24B 15/38 having only nitrogen as hetero atom

Abstract

Controlled amounts of nicotine may be supplied to a tobacco product or acceptable substitute smoking composition by adding to the base small amounts of a nicotine derivative of galacturonic acid or polymannuronic acid which on pyrolysis of the composition release small amounts of nicotine into the smoke stream.

Claims

2. The process of claim 1 wherein the material is a nicotine derivative of polygalacturonic acid.

3. The process of claim 2 wherein the derivative is nicotine pectinate.

4. The process of claim 3 wherein the amount of dertive is 3 percent to 13 percent by weight.

5. The process of claim 4 wherein the additive is a nicotine derivative of pectinic acid having a degree of esterification of 25-40 percent and an acidity of 1.5 to 3.5 milliequivalents per gram.

6. The process of claim 1 wherein the material is a nicotine derivative of polymannuronic acid.

7. The process of claim 6 wherein the derivative is nicotine alginate.