US 12,376,618 B2
Smoking substitute consumable
Kate Ferrie, Liverpool (GB); Edward Ross Shenton, Liverpool (GB); John Williams, Liverpool (GB); Jill Jones, Liverpool (GB); and Christopher Lord, Liverpool (GB)
Assigned to Imperial Tobacco Limited, Bristol (GB)
Filed by Imperial Tobacco Limited
Filed on Apr. 2, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/221,288.
Application 17/221,288 is a continuation of application No. PCT/EP2019/076688, filed on Oct. 2, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 1816120 (GB), filed on Oct. 3, 2018; application No. 1817560 (GB), filed on Oct. 29, 2018; and application No. 19020084 (EP), filed on Feb. 22, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0219597 A1, Jul. 22, 2021
Int. Cl. A24B 15/16 (2020.01); A24B 15/30 (2006.01); A24B 15/40 (2006.01); A24D 1/18 (2006.01); A24D 1/20 (2020.01); A24F 40/20 (2020.01); A24F 40/40 (2020.01)
CPC A24B 15/303 (2013.01) [A24B 15/16 (2013.01); A24B 15/403 (2013.01); A24F 40/20 (2020.01); A24F 40/40 (2020.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An aerosol-forming article comprising an aerosol-forming substrate formed of a plurality of longitudinally-aligned, elongate shreds of plant material;
wherein the aerosol-forming substrate comprises a plurality of first elongate shreds and a plurality of second elongate shreds, each first shred having longitudinal edges spaced by a first transverse width and each second shred having longitudinal edges spaced by a second transverse width, wherein the first transverse width is different to the second transverse width, wherein a region of the aerosol-forming substrate comprises a greater proportion of first shreds than second shreds, wherein there is a plurality of transverse bridge portions each extending between and joining two or more of the shreds.