Patent ID: 8678013
Filing Date: 2014-03-25
Classification: A24B,A24C,A24D

Abstract:
1. A cigarette comprising: a lighting end and a mouth end; a smokable segment disposed only at the lighting end, said smokable segment having a length and comprising a smokable material circumscribed by wrapping material; a mouth end piece segment disposed at the mouth end; an aerosol-generation system disposed between the smokable segment and the mouth end piece segment, the aerosol-generation system including (i) a heat generation segment adjacent to the downstream end of the smokable segment and axially aligned in an end-to-end relationship with, but physically separate from, the smokable segment, said heat generation segment having a length and including a heat source, and (ii) an aerosol-generating segment incorporating aerosol-forming material, said aerosol-generating segment having a length and being disposed between, but physically separate from, each of the heat generation segment and the mouth end; a single piece of outer wrapping material that provides an overwrap (i) around the aerosol-generating segment for at least a portion of its length, (ii) around the heat generation segment for the length of that segment, and (iii) around the smokable segment for at least a portion of its length; those segments being connected together by the overwrap to provide a cigarette rod; and the mouth end piece segment being connected to the cigarette rod using tipping material.