Freeze dried oral smokeless tobacco snuff or non-tobacco snuff product and method of manufacturing thereof

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10278416-B2
Application number	US-201414774104-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 4, 2014
Priority date	Apr 9, 2013
Publication date	May 7, 2019
Grant date	May 7, 2019

Abstract

A freeze dried oral smokeless tobacco snuff or non-tobacco snuff product and a method of manufacturing the freeze dried oral smokeless tobacco snuff or non-tobacco snuff product.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An oral smokeless tobacco snuff or non-tobacco snuff product comprising freeze dried snuff, wherein the oral smokeless tobacco snuff or non-tobacco snuff product has a moisture content of less than 15% by weight, wherein the freeze dried snuff comprises tobacco or non-tobacco plant fiber material, and wherein the oral smokeless tobacco or non-tobacco snuff product is incorporated into a pouch.

2. The product according to claim 1 , wherein the product has a moisture content of less than 10% by weight.

3. The product according to claim 1 , wherein the product has a moisture content of less than 8% by weight.

4. The product according to claim 1 , wherein the product is moisturized either prior to use or in the mouth during use.

5. The product according to claim 1 , wherein the freeze dried snuff comprises snus that has been freeze dried.

6. A method of manufacturing an oral smokeless tobacco snuff or non-tobacco snuff product comprising freeze dried snuff, wherein the oral smokeless tobacco snuff or non-tobacco snuff product has a moisture content of less than 15% by weight, wherein the freeze dried snuff comprises tobacco or non-tobacco plant fiber material, and wherein the oral smokeless tobacco or non-tobacco snuff product is incorporated into a pouch, comprising: a) providing a mixture comprising tobacco and/or non-tobacco plant fiber material and water; b) processing said mixture to create a processed mixture; and c) freeze drying the processed mixture.

7. The method according to claim 6 , wherein the processing of the mixture comprises heat treatment.

8. The method according to claim 7 , wherein the heat treatment is a pasteurization process.

9. The method according to claim 6 , wherein the freeze dried oral smokeless tobacco snuff or non-tobacco snuff product is formed into portions prior to freeze drying and the oral smokeless tobacco snuff or non-tobacco snuff is thereafter freeze dried in the pouches.

10. The method according to claim 6 , wherein the method further comprises adding one or more flavorants to the oral smokeless tobacco snuff or non-tobacco snuff product.

11. The method according to claim 10 , wherein the one or more flavorants is added to the oral smokeless tobacco snuff or non-tobacco snuff product after freeze drying.

12. The product according to claim 1 , wherein the freeze dried snuff comprises ground or cut tobacco.

13. The oral smokeless tobacco snuff or non-tobacco snuff product of claim 1 , further comprising a flavouring.

Assignees

• Swedish Match North Europe Ab

Inventors

• Kindvall Mårten
• Jonsson Lars
• Schyberg Mattias

Classifications

• A24B15/183 Primary

  sterilization, preservation or biological decontamination · CPC title

• A24B13/00

  Tobacco for pipes, for cigars, e.g. cigar inserts, or for cigarettes; Chewing tobacco; Snuff (reconstituted tobacco products A24B3/14) · CPC title

• A24F23/02

  Tobacco pouches · CPC title

• B65B63/08

  for heating or cooling articles or materials to facilitate packaging · CPC title