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Electronic smoking article having a vapor-enhancing apparatus and associated method

a technology of electronic smoking and enhancing apparatus, which is applied in the direction of tobacco smoke filter, tobacco, food science, etc., can solve the problems of delivering large quantities of incomplete combustion and pyrolysis products

Inactive Publication Date: 2014-09-18
RAI STRATEGIC HLDG INC
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The present patent discloses an apparatus and method for enhancing the vapor produced by an electronic vapor smoking article. The apparatus includes a filter material and a tubular housing with a longitudinally-opposed end that receives a vapor from the electronic vapor smoking article. A vapor-enhancing element is operably engaged with the filter material and enhances the vapor drawn through the filter material and the mouth-engaging end of the housing by applying a suction to the mouth-engaging end. The technical effects of this invention include improved smoking experience with enhanced vapor and reduced harmful substances in the inhalable vapor.

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Many of those devices purportedly have been designed to provide the sensations associated with cigarette, cigar, or pipe smoking, but without delivering considerable quantities of incomplete combustion and pyrolysis products that result from the burning of tobacco.

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[0017]The present disclosure will now be described more fully hereinafter with reference to exemplary embodiments thereof. These exemplary embodiments are described so that this disclosure will be thorough and complete, and will fully convey the scope of the disclosure to those skilled in the art. Indeed, the disclosure may be embodied in many different forms and should not be construed as limited to the embodiments set forth herein; rather, these embodiments are provided so that this disclosure will satisfy applicable legal requirements. As used in the specification, and in the appended claims, the singular forms “a”, “an”, “the”, include plural referents unless the context clearly dictates otherwise.

[0018]The present disclosure provides descriptions of articles that use electrical energy to heat a material (preferably without combusting the material to any significant degree) to form an inhalable substance; such articles most preferably being sufficiently compact to be considered ...

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Abstract

A vapor-enhancing apparatus is provided for an electronic vapor smoking article. Such an apparatus includes a filter material and a tubular housing defining a lumen. The lumen has a mouth-engaging end and a longitudinally-opposed component-engaging end, and is configured to receive the filter material therein. The component-engaging end is adapted to operably engage a control body portion associated with the electronic vapor smoking article and to receive a vapor therethrough. A vapor-enhancing element is operably engaged with the filter material and is configured to enhance the vapor drawn through the filter material within the lumen, and through the mouth-engaging end, by application of suction to the mouth-engaging end of the housing. An associated method is also provided.

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BACKGROUND OF THE DISCLOSURE[0001]1. Field of the Disclosure[0002]The present disclosure relates to aerosol delivery articles and uses thereof, and in particular to articles that can be considered to be smoking articles for purposes of yielding components of tobacco and other materials in an inhalable form. Highly preferred components of such articles are made or derived from tobacco, or those articles can be characterized as otherwise incorporating tobacco for human consumption.[0003]2. Description of Related Art[0004]Many smoking devices have been proposed through the years as improvements upon, or alternatives to, smoking products that require combusting tobacco for use. Many of those devices purportedly have been designed to provide the sensations associated with cigarette, cigar, or pipe smoking, but without delivering considerable quantities of incomplete combustion and pyrolysis products that result from the burning of tobacco. To this end, there have been proposed numerous s...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): A24F47/00A24D3/17A24F40/10A24F40/30A24F40/40
CPCA24F47/008A24D3/17A24F40/10A24F40/30A24F40/40
Inventor POTTER, DENNIS LEESEARS, STEPHEN BENSON
Owner RAI STRATEGIC HLDG INC
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