Gas Combustion Heating Smoking Article
20210289836 · 2021-09-23
Inventors
Cpc classification
A24D3/04
HUMAN NECESSITIES
A24D3/18
HUMAN NECESSITIES
F23Q3/002
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
A24F13/08
HUMAN NECESSITIES
International classification
A24F13/08
HUMAN NECESSITIES
Abstract
A gas combustion heating smoking article with puff mouth piece is provided. The gas heating smoking article includes a smoking article housing, a combustion device, a plurality of cigarette consumable items or a plurality of aerosol generation consumable items. The combustion device uses propane or butane premixed with air before combustion, heat generated from the combustion is used to bake the cigarette consumable items or aerosol generation consumable items. The present invention provides a low temperature smoking article using gas as energy, which generates quite similar taste of normal cigarette, to people who have difficulty to quite smoke. Because there is no cigarette burning, this smoking article can reduce many harmful products compared to the traditional cigarette due to its tobacco burning and heat degradation, like tar, carbon monoxide, ash, etc.
Claims
1. A gas heating smoking article, comprising: a smoking article housing, a combustion device attached on the housing, and a plurality of cigarette consumable items; wherein the combustion device premixes a propane or a butane with air before a combustion to obtain a premixed gas, and a heat generated from the combustion is transferred to an air flow path to heat an air inside the air flow path to obtain a high temperature air; wherein the high temperature air heats the plurality of cigarette consumable items to generate an aerosol; wherein the combustion device and the plurality of cigarette consumable items are placed in a combustion zone and an aerosol generation zone, and there is no air flow between the combustion zone and the aerosol generation zone.
2. The gas heating smoking article of claim 1, wherein the combustion device comprises a heat collector, and the premixed gas combusts in the heat collector to generate the heat.
3. The gas heating smoking article of claim 2, wherein the air flow path is spiral shaped, and the air flow path comprises an inlet air hole connected to an outside of the smoking article housing.
4. The gas heating smoking article of claim 1, wherein the gas heating smoking article further comprises a flame retardant and a thermal insulation layer.
5. The gas heating smoking article of claim 1, wherein an end part of the smoking article housing is provided with a silicon tube for inserting the plurality of cigarette consumable items, wherein a puff mouth piece of the gas heating smoking article is outside the silicon tube; wherein the silicon tube has an unfold opening for inserting the plurality of cigarette consumable items; wherein the puff mouth piece compresses the unfold opening of the silicon tube to make the silicon tube shrink and hold the plurality of cigarette consumable items to present a good sealing.
6. The gas heating smoking article of claim 1, wherein the smoking article housing is provided with a removable puff mouth piece, the plurality of cigarette consumable items are inserted into the smoking article housing or placed in the removable puff mouth piece.
7. The gas heating smoking article of claim 1, wherein the combustion device comprises a heat collection system, the heat collection system is a cellular structure, the premixed gas combusts in the heat collection system with or without flame, the heat collection system is provided with a plurality of air flow holes on its side wall, and a heat release unit is provided at a close end of the heat collection system.
8. The gas heating smoking article of claim 7, wherein the heat collection system is designed as multi-fence metal column, filled with metal foam metal column or filled with metal fiber mat metal column.
9. The gas heating smoking article of claim 2, wherein a flame muffler net is placed between the heat collector and the smoking article housing.
10. The gas heating smoking article of claim 1, wherein the combustion device includes a combustion chamber, an ignition device, a gas flow valve, a gas recharge port, a control switch and a premix chamber, the premix chamber is designed with a combustion supporting air inlet and a nozzle, flame premixed with air flows into the heat collector by the nozzle.
11. The gas heating smoking article of claim 10, wherein the premix chamber is made of heat resistant ceramic, a side wall of the premix chamber is designed with a plurality of waste gas outlets; or the premix chamber is made of a dual wave shaped metal sheet, the dual wave shaped metal sheet is configured to be extended and press to close an air flow valve, and the side wall of the premix chamber is designed with the plurality of waste gas outlets.
12. The gas heating smoking article of claim 2, wherein the smoking article housing is provided with a removable puff mouth piece, the plurality of cigarette consumable items are inserted into the smoking article housing or placed in the removable puff mouth piece.
13. The gas heating smoking article of claim 3, wherein the smoking article housing is provided with a removable puff mouth piece, the plurality of cigarette consumable items are inserted into the smoking article housing or placed in the removable puff mouth piece.
14. The gas heating smoking article of claim 4, wherein the smoking article housing is provided with a removable puff mouth piece, the plurality of cigarette consumable items are inserted into the smoking article housing or placed in the removable puff mouth piece.
15. The gas heating smoking article of claim 4, wherein the combustion device comprises a heat collection system, the heat collection system is a cellular structure, the premixed gas combusts in the heat collection system with or without flame, the heat collection system is provided with a plurality of air flow holes on its side wall, and a heat release unit is provided at a close end of the heat collection system.
16. The gas heating smoking article of claim 5, wherein the combustion device comprises a heat collection system, the heat collection system is a cellular structure, the premixed gas combusts in the heat collection system with or without flame, the heat collection system is provided with a plurality of air flow holes on its side wall, and a heat release unit is provided at a close end of the heat collection system.
17. The gas heating smoking article of claim 6, wherein the combustion device comprises a heat collection system, the heat collection system is a cellular structure, the premixed gas combusts in the heat collection system with or without flame, the heat collection system is provided with a plurality of air flow holes on its side wall, and a heat release unit is provided at a close end of the heat collection system.
18. The gas heating smoking article of claim 3, wherein a flame muffler net is placed between the heat collector and the smoking article housing.
19. The gas heating smoking article of claim 2, wherein the combustion device includes a combustion chamber, an ignition device, a gas flow valve, a gas recharge port, a control switch and a premix chamber, the premix chamber is designed with a combustion supporting air inlet and a nozzle, flame premixed with air flows into the heat collector by the nozzle.
20. The gas heating smoking article of claim 3, wherein the combustion device includes a combustion chamber, an ignition device, a gas flow valve, a gas recharge port, a control switch and a premix chamber, the premix chamber is designed with a combustion supporting air inlet and a nozzle, flame premixed with air flows into the heat collector by the nozzle.
Description
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
[0041] For better understanding of the following figures, reference to the application embodiments is recommended. These illustrative figures do not serve as restrictions to technological solutions of the invention at all. In particular, structures, ratio, sizes are only for instruction for people familiar with the technology, reading and understanding, there is no limit to the invention's implementation.
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE EMBODIMENTS
[0067] The following drawings and specific embodiments will describe the present invention in detail.
[0068] For the terms used herein, cigarette consumable items refers to any filling material used in the smoking articles, particular the cigarettes, which can be either the conventional material, such as normal tobacco, nontobacco plant, signal or hybrid carbon fuel material, there is no limitation of materials in this invention, and there is no limitation of manufacture process and supporting materials. In this invention, traditional tobacco materials like cut tobacco, broken tobacco and tobacco particles, or other special processed tobacco, like being dry distillation or extracted of tobacco leaf (of course by changing the distillation or extraction level could provide different tobacco taste), low nitrosamine content tobacco, low tar tobacco, protein removed tobacco, low protein carbonized processed tobacco, etc. also can add PG, VG, nicotine, tobacco extract, tobacco flavor, ethanol may apply one or more compositions, among tobacco flavors, like sweeteners, aloes, mint, licorice, essence, etc., could be used to change the taste or flavor of cigarette. Carbon fuel material is porous carbide, solid carbon fuel like charcoal rod, porous carbide herein is carbide made from tobacco leaf, tobacco artificial sheet, by high temperature vacuum distillation partially or completely. Currently, solid carbon rod fuel materials have been commercialized and could be customized and sell, like Premier brand released in 1988 and Eclipse released in 1995 from R.J. Reynolds tobacco are heat-not-burn tobacco products. Apparently, in this invention, cigarette consumable items are working as one time products, it could be traditional cigarette, or tobacco rolled with heat resistance paper, member and aluminum foil. The outside of the cigarette could apply a high temperature baking material as packing, however the packing is the focusing point of this invention, so for examples blow will using aluminum foil, but there is no limitation for this invention.
[0069] Aerosol generation consumable items, aerosol generation material refers to liquid which form aerosol after heating and cooling, any liquid in current tobacco product could be applied, like liquid in e-cigarette. As we known, liquid could be categorized into two classes: with nicotine and without nicotine, main composition are PG, VG, nicotine, tobacco extract, tobacco flavor, ethanol may apply one or more compositions, among tobacco flavors, like sweeteners, aloes, mint, licorice, essence, etc., could be used to change the taste or flavor of cigarette; optimized, to fulfill needs, can also add appropriate nicotine and/or tobacco extracts, to replace traditional cigarette products. Aerosol generation material is usually placed in proper container, and conducted by good liquid conduction material like fiber mat, fiber wick consist replaceable or liquid refillable consumable items. In current technology, aerosol generation consumable items are wildly used in e-cigarette, thousands of recipes; there is no limitation in this invention.
[0070] Combustion device refers to combustion device using propane gas or butane gas premixed with air to generate flame, ignition and combustion structure is similar to premix lighter. The theory of premix lighter is premix gas with air then combust. Main parts of combustion device are: ignition device and gas storage tank, ignition device can generate and shoot spark to combustion zone to generate flame. Common ignition devices are: piezoelectric ceramic element, magnetic inductance and battery, etc. By using piezoelectric ceramic element, for example, applying mechanical stress on piezoelectric ceramic will cause the element's internal chargers' center change and polarize the element and generate free chargers at both sides of the element. So once the piezoelectric ceramic element being compressed, it could convert mechanical energy to electrical energy, and release high voltage spark at a sharp point to ignite gas. Technicians in this field should understand, the premix lighter is a mature technology. This invention has no limitation to premix lighter, only use it as a combustion device for baking cigarette, will do some necessary modification on its appearance, premix chamber, nozzle and cooperate structure with smoking articles.
[0071] Filtering element placed in the cigarette consumable item's puff area or in front of puff mouth piece, filtering element could be used for removing tar and other harmful materials in the smoke, reduce the uncomfortable feel after puff, typical filtering material is made of acetate fiber, polyester, polypropylene mesh. Of course there are some filters with special functions and structures. This invention has no limitation to filters' structure, material and function.
[0072] The main idea of this invention is providing a cigarette substitute, with propane gas or butane gas as energy, premixed flame to heat low temperature cigarette, and heat from combustion is for baking cigarette consumable items or aerosol generation consumable items, and generates smoke similar to traditional cigarette.
[0073] Applying cigarette consumable items in the smoking article need design reasonable baking chamber in the smoking article. Depends on the length of the consumable item, there could be 1 or more baking chamber, optimized 3-20 baking chamber, the purpose of the baking chamber is match up smoker's smoking habit and rhythm, also bake the cigarette consumable item as uniform as possible. For baking chamber, since the propane gas or butane gas produce waste gas during combustion, should place waste gas emission outlet to the outside world.
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[0075] Inside the smoking article's housing 1, there are baking chambers 11, separated by partitions 12, all these partitions have reserved with center holes for inserting cigarette consumable items. When inserted with cigarette consumable items 2, each baking chamber 11 is a sealed space, each baking chamber 11 designed a high-temperature gas inlet hole 13 and waster gas outlet hole 14, also the gap between the cigarette consumable item 2, the smoking article's housing 1 and the partition 12 is a high-temperature gas separation path 7, to realize the uniform baking of the cigarette consumable items. Optimized, the high-temperature gas separation path 7 could be designed in 3 to 20's, which means the cigarette consumable item 2 is divided into 3 to 20 sections for baking. Furthermore optimized, to increase the heat efficiency metal fiber or metal foam could be add into the high-temperature gas separation path 7, let the premixed flame and premixed flameless combustion coexistence.
[0076] One side of combustion device 3 is placed with liquid propane or butane gas tank 302 and the tank has gas charging valve and gas flow adjust valve, the other side of the gas tank 302 is placed with a push button 303 and stop valve 304, stop valve 304 connected to gas nozzle 305, gas nozzle 305 placed in premix chamber 80 and close to high voltage ignition wire 307, push button 303 connected with piezoelectric ceramic or high frequency device 308 through high voltage ignition wire 307 to premix chamber 80.
[0077] Step escapement system is placed on the smoking article's housing; main purpose is to realize the step movement of combustion device on the housing. Control a device moving in steps is a mature technology; there is no limitation for this design. Connection between housing 1, combustion device and step escapement device could apply any current technology. In this invention, to provide a good experience, the push button 303 on combustion device controls not only the single ignition but also the step movement of the escapement system. In
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[0080] By pressing push button 303 continually, pawl 502 moves around pawl shaft 503, the device moves along one tooth on rack 501, to complete one step movement. At the same time, the push button 303 also moves stop valve 304 and piezoelectric ceramic 308, to complete ignition process. At every step movement stop point, nozzle on combustion device 3 always facing a baking chamber's high-temperature hole 13. Before puffing, press push button 303, continually, until whole cigarette consumable item finished baking. Remove cigarette consumable item 2 by open the lid 15, or just remove cigarette consumable item 2, and discard it away.
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[0082] In this invention, escapement system 5 and push button 6 connected to pawl 502 and rack 501 to complete step movement. When user press push button 306, stop valve 304 will open, piezoelectric ceramic 308 triggered and generated high voltage. Based on the Bernoulli Equation, propane and butane gas ejected from nozzle drag combustion supporting air into premix chamber, ignited by electrical arc. Once the push button 306 pressed, the ignition process triggers, from
[0083] In the following example, optimized the structure once more, removed the escapement system, and replaced the cigarette consumable items to aerosol generation consumable items. The aerosol generation consumable items have metal or plastic housing, filled with aerosol generation liquid, such aerosol generation liquid includes but not only propylene glycol, glycerin, nicotine and tobacco extract, flavor, water, and in the alumina powder mixture composed of one or more of the following, and using heat resistance fiber wick or mat to conduct liquid by capillary effect.
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[0086] Optional heat collectors as shown in
[0087] When user press push button 716, wave shaped dual metal sheet premix chamber 83, inside wave shaped premix chamber 83 form premixed gas ignited by arc combust in flameless inside heat collector 61. Liquid conduction wick 721 absorbs heat from heat collector and generate aerosol, aerosol cooled by air from puff inlet air hole 40 and puffed by smoker.
[0088] Similar to above mentioned theory, as shown in
[0089] Premix gas combust in heat collector 61, heat collector 61 rounded with flame muffler, heat released through heat releasing unit from heat collector 61 to heat aerosol generation consumable item. Upper housing 901 designed with support air inlet hole 50 and multiple waste gas exhaust hole 60, upper housing also designed with puff air inlet hole 70.
[0090] Lower housing 904 placed with aerosol generation consumable items, at the end of it designed with puff mouth piece 905. Aerosol generation consumable items designed with air flow path 923. In this example, liquid conduction device is made of heat resistant fiber mat 921, two end point of liquid conduction mat 921 attached to fiber column 902 absorbed aerosol generation liquid.
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[0092] In this example, heat collector 1124 could be made of metal foil like nickel foil and shaped in cone shape, heat resistance soft part silicon 1112 seal it with aerosol generation consumable item 1104 at heat resistance fiber 1123, compress the cone shaped heat collector 1124 to make it closely attached with heat resistance fiber 1123 to transfer heat fast. Once the aerosol generation consumable item 1104 inserts in smoking article 1101, top point of heat collector 1124 placed close to the premix chamber 1117, premix chamber 1117 surrounded by flame muffler net 1106. The top of cone shaped heat collector 1124 could be designed round or flat, to increase the contact area of flame, furthermore to increase the aerosol generation speed, optimized a bullet head shape. The space between cone shaped heat collector 1124 and premix chamber 1117 is combustion zone, space between heat collector 1124 and heat resistance fiber 1123 is aerosol generation zone, the combustion zone and aerosol generation zone separated by heat collector 1124. The housing of aerosol generation consumable item 1104 designed with an air inlet path 1118, such air inlet path 1118 connects outside air and space in heat collector, such structure refers to current e-cigarette's similar structure, place an outside inlet air path 1118 in aerosol generation zone, to cool down and from aerosol, meanwhile, such aerosol generation consumable item 1104 also designed with a puff path 1125. Press push button 1116, piezoelectric or high frequency device 1111 ignite premixed gas in premix chamber 1117 generates flame, cone shaped heat collection device transfer heat to heat resistance fiber 1123, liquid in heat resistance fiber 1123 transferred to aerosol, aerosol puffed out by path 1125 and mouth piece 1127. This design has an advantage is fast heat transfer without thermal inertia, heat resistance metal foil heat collector and aerosol generation consumable item 1104 could be disposed together, no carbonyl from repeated usage of heat collector.
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[0096] The invention is not limited to the implementation of above examples. The above description of the specific implementation ways to explain this invention involved technical solutions. The specific implementation of the above ways used to reveal the best implementation method of the invention and to make technician in the field of application of the invention to achieve the purpose of the invention. Based on the invention revealed obvious transform or alternative should be considered in the scope of protection for the invention.