Patent ID: 9011603
Filing Date: 2015-04-21
Classification: A24B,A24C,A24D

Abstract:
1. A method of forming a smoking article capable of delivering one or more flavorant additive to mainstream smoke when ignited during smoking comprising: providing a smoking article comprising a tobacco rod having a mouth end and an opposite end to be lit; forming a robust immobilized additive insert in the shape of a rod having a sharpened end comprising a thermally degradable elongated device by forming an elongated hollow region in said thermally degradable elongated device having a sharpened end; and introducing one or more flavorant additive into said elongated hollow region of said thermally degradable elongated device; optionally enclosing said elongated device having a sharpened end so as to protect loss of said one or more flavorant during storage; and manually or machine inserting beginning with said sharpened end said resulting elongated device into said opposite end of said tobacco rod of the smoking article, wherein said elongated device containing said one or more additive is sufficiently robust to maintain its original shape during its insertion into the smoking article and is capable of releasing said one or more flavorant additive into mainstream smoke when ignited during smoking.