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Fiber-wrapped smokeless tobacco product

  • US 9,763,473 B2
  • Filed: 07/11/2016
  • Issued: 09/19/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/14/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A seamless fiber-wrapped smokeless tobacco product comprising:

  • smokeless tobacco;

    a binder binding the smokeless tobacco, the smokeless tobacco product comprising less than 0.5 weight percent binder; and

    a plurality of melt-blown polymeric fibers surrounding the smokeless tobacco, the melt-blown polymeric fibers having a hydrophilic surface coating and having a basis weight of less than 10 gsm; and

    wherein the polymeric fibers comprise surfactant-quenched fibers.

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