Patent ID: 9066541
Filing Date: 2015-06-30
Classification: A24D

Abstract:
1. A filter component for a smoking article, consisting of: an upstream segment of filter material; a downstream segment of filter material in a spaced apart relation to the upstream segment of filter material so as to define a cavity therebetween; a single flavor bead disposed in the cavity, said flavor bead, wherein the flavor bead has an outer diameter, which is at least 75% of the spaced apart relation of the upstream segment of filter material and the downstream segment of filter material, and the outer diameter of the flavor bead does not exceed an outer diameter of either the upstream or the downstream segments of filter material; a plug wrap circumscribing the upstream segment, the downstream segment and the single flavor bead; a tipping paper circumscribing the plug wrap; and one or more circumferential rows of perforations through the plug wrap and the tipping paper at an upstream end portion of the filter.