SEAMLESS ORAL POUCH PRODUCT

摘要

An oral pouch product has no seams or fewer seams than conventional pouch products. The pouch includes a seamless or single seam tube of a hosiery web material. An elastomeric thread is placed inside the tubular enclosure. One end of the tube is sealed and connected to one end of the elastomeric thread. A filling material, in one example including tobacco products or other plant materials, is placed inside the tubular enclosure. The second end of the tubular enclosure is then fixed and connected to a stretched end of the elastomeric thread. The thread and attached ends of the enclosure are then sheared away and simultaneously released so that the ends of the tube are drawn inside the tubular space of the tubular enclosure. The natural energy within the elastomeric thread exceeds the flexible energy in the hosiery tube. Therefore, at rest, the center thread pulls its connections to the hosiery tube ends closer to the center of the tube than the outside edges of the tube which also stretches the web tightly around the inner filling. In this way, there is a seamless oral pouch that may be enjoyed by a user.

主权项

1. An oral pouch product comprising:
a web defining an enclosure, wherein the enclosure has a tubular shape; a loose filling material inside the enclosure, where the filling material comprises a plant material; wherein the web is comprised of hosiery material, and each end of the tubular enclosure is sealed; an elastomeric thread positioned inside the tubular enclosure, wherein the elastomeric thread is fixed on a first end to the tubular enclosure, and the elastomeric thread is fixed on a second end opposite the first end to the second end of the tubular enclosure; wherein the sealed first and second ends of the tubular enclosure are closer together than a length of the tubular enclosure; whereby the sealed ends of the tubular enclosure are retained inside the tubular shape of the pouch enclosure.