US 12,433,325 B2
Elongated smoking article
Jan Fuhrmann, Hamburg (DE); and Edward Cooper, Hamburg (DE)
Assigned to REEMTSMA CIGARETTENFABRIKEN GMBH, Hamburg (DE)
Appl. No. 17/297,401
Filed by REEMTSMA CIGARETTENFABRIKEN GMBH, Hamburg (DE)
PCT Filed Dec. 12, 2019, PCT No. PCT/EP2019/084796
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date May 26, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/126782, PCT Pub. Date Jun. 25, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 18212908 (EP), filed on Dec. 17, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2022/0030933 A1, Feb. 3, 2022
Int. Cl. A24D 1/02 (2006.01); A24D 1/00 (2020.01); A24D 1/04 (2006.01)
CPC A24D 1/025 (2013.01) [A24D 1/002 (2013.01); A24D 1/045 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. Elongated smoking article, comprising:
a cylindrical smoking body extending in a longitudinal direction with a combustible material surrounded by a wrapping paper;
a filter element configured to reduce substances from combustion gases drawn through the filter element from the burning smoking body, wherein a first base area of the filter element faces a base area of the smoking body and a second base area is an open base area; and
a tipping paper enclosing the smoking body and the filter element and being attached to external surfaces of the smoking body and the filter element,
wherein a flavoring is disposed in or on the tipping paper such that the flavoring is spaced apart from the second base area in the longitudinal direction and with a distribution that varies in a longitudinal direction of the tipping paper,
wherein a content of the flavoring either continuously increases or continuously decreases in the longitudinal direction of the tipping paper.