Product Design
Subject: R&D Support Monthly Summary - September 1990
Abstract
Details test marketing of B&H De-Nic 85 cigarettes delivering 9mg tar and 0.08mg nicotine, and says the majority of nicotine was removed by the FreePlus system. Indicates Lorillard changed packaging appearance for Kent cigarettes, states Brown & Wiliamson is test marketing Barclay 83 cigarettes with a greater rod length and a 27mm Actron filter. Describes the introduction and test marketing of new brands in Japan by several tobacco companies and analyzes 'Smoke Free Twenty-Two Menthols', a product packaged as five pellets of tobacco-like material to be inserted into a hollow filter holder and reports: no nicotine, glycerin or polyethylene glycol [PG] was detected. Summarizes CORESTA studies of cigarette hot collapse, reports four R&D disclosures were recommended for patent filings, and mentions incorporating a goal-directed search feature into the Cigarette Design Expert System, allowing for exploration of a larger number of cigarette designs.
Fields
- Author
- Kuhn, William F. (PM Assistant to Sr. Vice President)Defense
- Recipient
- Houghton, Kenneth S., Ph.D. (Senior VP of R&D at Philip Morris)Defense
Research and development of novel nicotine delivery devices and experimental tobacco designs.
Design changes which alter nicotine delivery or effect how the product causes and maintains dependence, including transfer of nicotine from tobacco to smoke, and uptake into the body.
PM @expanded_tobacco especially during 1980's and early 1990's
Total nicotine in the unburnt tobacco rod
Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp.
An international organization whose objective is "to improve cooperation in scientific research and tobacco." Consists of 186 member companies/institute from 54 countries, including tobacco, paper and filter companies, and universities engaged in tobacco research.
An international organization whose objective is "to improve cooperation in scientific research and tobacco." Consists of 186 member companies/institute from 54 countries, including tobacco, paper and filter companies, and universities engaged in tobacco research.
Subsidiary of BAT Industries
Japanese government -owned tobacco company, until 1994.
Cigarette manufacturer; Pioneer in the generic cigarette business; L&M is the manufacturer of Chesterfield, Decade, Dorado, Duke of Durham in 1958, Eagle, Eve, L&M, Lark, Pyramid and Stride cigarettes
American cigarette manufacturer
Cigarette manufacturer (Camel, Winston, Doral)
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PHILIP MORRIS U.S. A.
INTER-OFFICE CORRESPONDENCE
Richmond, Virginia
COAIIFwrNTIAiL
To: Dr. K. S. Houghton Date: October 15, 1990
From: W. F. Kuhn
Subject: R&D Support Monthly Summary - September 1990
CIGARETTE TESTING SERVICES DIVISION.
MARKET ACTIVITY
Domestic
Philip Morris is test marketing B & H De-Nic 85 Box (plain and menthol) cigarettes
in Kansas City, Missouri. These products deliver 9 mg tar and 0.08' mg nicotine. A
major portion of the nicotine is removed from these products by the use of the
FreePLUSm system;
LoriIlar has changed the packaging,for the Kent 80 (Box), 85 and 100; Kent Golden
Lights 85 and 100 (plain and menthol) and Kent 11185 and 100 prodticts. The Kent
80, 85 and 100 packages have two purple stripes with blue letters; the Kent Golden
Lights 85 and 100 packages have two gold stripes with blue letters; the Kent Golden
Lights Menthol 85 and 100 packages have two gold stripes with green letters; the Kent
11185 and 100 packages have two pewter stripes with blue letters. No changes were
noted in smoke deliveries or cigarette construction.
Brown & Williamson is marketing Barclay 83 (Box) cigarettes in Kentucky. The rod
length of this new product is 3 mm longer than the Barclay 80 (Box) cigarette currently
on the market. The smoke deliveries (2 mg tar, 0.2 mg nicotine) of the 83 (Box)
cigarette are similar to the smoke deliveries of the Barclay 80 and 85 products. This
product utilizes a 27 mtn Actron filter which is similar to the 80 and 85 products.
International
Three Cat's Virginia King Size 20's Box (Mi1ds. Soft and S ecia_l_ These cigarettes
were introduced in Japan. These products are manufactured by Eagle Tobacco Co. of
Petersburg, Virginia for Julian Hector and distributed under the name House of Vegas,
Inc., Richmond, Virginia. The Milds King Size cigarettes deliver 10 mg tar and 0.6
mg nicotine. The Soft King Size cigarettes deliver 9 mg tar and 0:6 mg nicotine. The
Special King Size cigarettes deliver 18 mg tar and 1.8 mg nicotine. These cigarettes
have a dual carbon on CA/CA filter.
Claris Lights King Size Mentho120's (Box): Japan Tobacco, Inc. introduced Claris
Lights King Size Menthol cigarettes to the Japanese market in August. This 84 mm
product delivers 8 mg tar, 0.7 mg nicotine and 0.2 mg smoke menthol. Deliveries of 8
mg tar and 0.7 mg nicotine are printed on the pack.
Kent Special Milds King Size 20's (Box): Kent Special Milds King Size (Box)
cigarettes were introduced in Japan by Brown & Williamsoni in August. These
cigarettes deliver 9' mg tar and 0.7 mg nicotine. This 83 mm product has a dual carbon
on CA/CA filter with 29% ventilation. Deliveries of 8 mg tar and 0.8 mg nicotine are
printed on the pack. The soft pack version of this product was introduced in Japan in
October, 1988.
Hyde Park King Size 20's (Box): The London Tobacco Company, England,
introduced Hyde Park King Size cigarettes to the Japanese market in August. This is
an 84 mm product which delivers 14 mg tar and 0.9 mg nicotine. Deliveries of 14 mg,
tar and 1.0 mg,nicotine are printed on the pack.
Omni Blue Milds 100 20's (Soft Packl: In August, The Liggett~Group began.
exporting Omni Blue Milds 100 cigarette to Japan. This brand delivers 11 mg tar and
1.0 mg nicotine. Deliveries of 12 mg tar and 1.0 mg nicotine are printed on the pack.
Omni Blue Milds has a dual CA/CA filter (plug-space-plug) containing carbon
granules.
SMOKE' FREE TWENTY-TWO MENTHOL
The product "Smoke Free Twenty-Two Menthol" was analyzed for nicotine, glycerin,.
PG and menthol. A non-mentholated version was analyzed in March, 1990. The
product is packaged as five "pellets" of a tobacco-like material: One pellet is inserted
into the tip end of a hollow filter holder, the filter holder is inserted into the hollow
plastic rod, and the product is puffed upon.
The assembled product was puffed for forty 35-m1 puffs through a Cambridge filter on a
5-port smoking machine. The components are then extracted and analyzed by GC.
Nicotine, glycerin and PG were not detected while only a trace of menthol (<0.2 mg)
was detected.
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The pellets were analyzed by GC and compared to the non-menthol version.
Twenty-Two Menthol Twen -Two Regular
Carton A
9/9(Z Carton B
9/90 Carton A
3/90 Carton A
9/94
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Nicotine, % 1.95 1.84 2.81 2.29
Glycerin, % ND ND 0.63 0.70
PG, % <0.5 <0.5 0.86 0.95
Menthol, % 3.8 3.9 0.20 0.22
TA, % ND ND 0.5 <0'.5
CORESTA TASK FORCE ON CIGARETTE HOT COLLAPSE
Status: Hot collapse is the deformation of a cigarette rod or filter as it is puffed. The
deformation is the result of increased temperature and condensate in the rod and filter.
Hot collapse was measured in this study using a Rhodia HDS-4 hardness tester and a
HP-86 computer for smoking control and data collection. The smoking apparatus was
qualified using sainples from the second Coresta study.
The following is a summary of the test results:
A. There is no significant difference between the use of a 10 mm stamp, used in a
previous study on the testing apparatus or a 6 mm stamp which is used in the
current study for measuring filter hot collapse.
B. Sample G has the most firm filter (less collapse). Sample I, the only ventilated
model at approximately 20%, has the most firm tobacco column. Sample H is less
firm in both filter and tobacco column than G and I.
C. The tobacco column on all models was constant, and changes in filter parameters
impact greatly the hot collapse of the tobacco coiunui.
Plant Engineering & Maintenance
Planning and tentative schedules for the impending relocation of approximately 47
employees has presented a major challenge for Plant Engineering. Meetings were held with
affected research personnel to identify laboratory construction needs in order to consolidate
the Paper Program at the Operations Center and the Beta Project on D2. Offices and
laboratory plan layouts and cost estimates were prepared for extensive renovations on D2,
T4 and the Operations Center. Management reviews were held and plans were approved.
The necessary paperwork for job orders and a 650 appropriation request are being prepared.
Clairmont cabinets were removed from C2 to free up space for future use. Library
renovation was completed. Renovation of E1 bathrooms has begun and is scheduled to be
finished by the end of October. "D" Building elevator upgrade is 90% complete and
scheduled to be fully operational soon. In the Semiworks, electronics upgrades were
installed on Thayer weight belts. Our Lodge 10 Instrument Electricians were trained by the
vendor to install these upgrades.
Extensive electrical and mechanical modifications continue on the three-inch tower for
Project NET. A rotary valve support mechanism and chutes were fabricated over the past
weekend on a rush basis. Air-line pipes are being reconfigured in "C" Pilot Plant in
anticipation of the construction project for the Cast Leaf Pilot Plant.
The Machine Shop fabricated parts for the packet opening machine, Project Sigma,
eight-inch tower sampling port and menthol encapsulation in addition to many other
projects. The Lecture Hall planters were evacuated in preparation for the roof replacement.
Lodge 110 worked 909.3 hours between August 20 - September 23, 1990. Individual
Engineer/Supervisor reports are attached.
Patents. Finance & Administration
Nine R&D disclosures were reviewed at the September 13, joint R&D/Engineering patent
disclosures meeting. Four of the disclosures were recommended for instant filing. In
addition, maintenance of the foreign filing of various DATA related cases was reviewed.
Ten routine nondisclosure agreements were prepared.
The 1991 Original Budget package was prepared for review with Mr. Serrano. Work
continued on resource allocations for the 1991 Strategic Plan. A summary of resources, in
the pyramid format, was provided for a speech to be given by Dr. Houghton. The 650's
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for the Lecture Hall roof and D-2 refurbishing were approved. The 650 for NET was
approved locally and sent to New York. Financial assistance was provided to the IMC
organization.
A proposal for the planned purchase of two replacement copiers (to be placed in CAD and
CTSD) was prepared and approved. All 16 phone orders processed for this month have
been completed. Central Duplicating produced almost 90,000 black and white impressions
and 1,000 color copies. The report on Technical Publishing activity, attached, shows that
the emphasis during this period was divided equally among textual material and schematic
drawings. The receptionist scheduled 524 conference rooms during the month.
Tamara B anty completed interviewing and selecting process for the five replacement and
one new COE positions. All 13 positions at R&D are now filled. Represented R&D at a
session of PM's New Employee Orientation.
Frank Friedman provided input to the employee relocation project in the form of proposed
schedules for moves and construction. He is responsible for overall logistics, scheduling
and communicating personnel moves during the consolidation of Project Beta and the Paper
Program. He coordinated with PM Security on new Marlok requirements for T4, T7 and
D2. He advised Brant Daughtry (CAD) and Linda Bean (telephone coordination) of
pending moves to ensure a smooth transition.
Laborator,y & Cleaning Services
A total of 2,033 withdrawals were processed during this reporting period, and 30
requisitions for non-stock maintenance items were handled. Resource Recovery picked up
one shipment of flammable liquids and chemicals from the North Complex. Stockroom
personnel provided support to the ERT for two training sessions, and the other members of
the Transportation Team handled support for two fire team calls.
A safety seminar on "Using Cleaning Chemicals" was given by a representative of the
Buckeye Company for the Local 203 employees and supervision. An epoxy coating with a
safety ingredient to prevent slipping was applied to the traffic lanes in "C" and "D" Pilot
Plants. The walls in D 124 Semiworks area were patched and painted. The ceilings in T5,
T1!08 and T7 lounge areas were painted, as well as numerous areas of the Library and E1
CAD Users Room.
Trucking needs for the ART Pilot Plant continue. A large shipment of 1.8 million cigarettes
was prepared and shipped to Germany. The group also palletized and shippedPED supplies
from E2 and the Warehouse to Reynolds, a warehouse and delivery operation. This firm
will provide daily
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support to PED in the storage and delivery of materials. A total of 1,703: packages was
received and delivered this month. Research of unpaid invoices continued by calling users
and compiling receiving data for Accounting.
Jim Dierkes met with Tom Jenkins of PM Engineering on three occasions to identify and
obtain bids to remove the hogshead carousel unit from the Dock Street Warehouse.
Removal has been completed. He coordinated with CAD personnel and label vendors to
discuss barcode labels and the hardware needed to begin barcoding the entire warehouse
inventory. We are completing the process of "weeding out the junk," and otherwise
organizing the warehouse. Barcoding should start no later than October 1, 1990.
COMPUTER APPLICATIONS DIVISION
We continued to monitor three load factors and continued to evaluate several parameters
both as measures of performance as seen by the user, and as tools to project the need for
capacity increases.
In response to specific needs on the Multiflow (a high volume of network traffic), a one
gigabyte disk drive was added.
Continued discussions with DEC regarding our disk drive problems culminated in a decision
by them to repl'ace, at no cost to PM, the three remaining head drive assemblies identified as
being past their expected life cycle.
A beginning was made in accumulating and reporting applications usage data. This
information will be available by user by application by machine. It will be accumulated in
monthly blocks and can be rolled up into summaries as desired and will let us know what
users and applications are responsible for the loads we experience. October 1990 will be the
first full month.
Evaluation of an executive secretarial workstation has been initiated. Various hardware and
software configurations will be evaluated in close cooperation with users. This is part of a
plan to improve text processing user acceptability.
All problems with the Sytek terminal servers, primary candidates to replace the aging and no
l'onger supported LocalNet 20 devices (T-boxes), appear to have been solved and an
appropriation request is being put together.
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Plans have been completed and job order requests are being put together to extend Ethernet
into three floors of the Tower and parts of E Building where the need for this type of
network capability can currently be justified. Such networking allows for centralized'
management of distributed computing devices (PC's and Workstadons).
The configuration of workstations for the TP1V1 Station Upgrade project has been defined
and a Job Order has been approved. Completion is expected in the 4th quarter.
The PE Nelson Turbochrom H systems necessary to replace the PE CLAS minicomputer in
Chemical Research have been ordered. These systems can be deployed elsewhere should
the users wish to evaluate and implement a different system.
Considerable effort has been devoted to providing support to the modified DIET Process
project.
The result of modifications to the Neurocomputer backpropagation training and simulation
programs to incorporate new features has been encouraging. Applied to the cigarette
analytical vs liking score mapping problem, the new procedure not only converges to a
lower mean squared error, but the convergence is significantly less sensitive to the initial
weight set and other learning parameters.
A goal-directed search "pruning" feature incorporated into the Cigarette Design Expert
System allows it to explore a much larger number of cigarette designs than previously
possible with the same amount of memory. It at times tends to slow down the search,
however and alternative strategies will be explored to solve the goal-directed searchh
problem. A review of current capabilities will be held with users in October and future
directions will be defined.
Satisfactory progress is being made in the conversion of databases to the Sybase/Sun 4/90
system, with a number of the systems completed and others underway.
Support of Product Evaluation included completion of the installation of the PC's for off-
line ballot processing, and submission of a Job Order for the high speed printer replacement.
Progress continued on the development of a job tracking and management reporting system
for Semiworks. The necessary pieces are now together to provide the functionality currently
provided by the manual system. An implementation strategy for this part is being put
together.
All of the hardware and software required by the automated salaried timesheet system has
been installed, however problems, that appear to be "on the other side" have prevented
testing and training on the system. These are being worked out with IS.
TECHNICAL INFORMATION SECTION
Literature searching this month had impact on such diverse projects/programs as:
paper technology
ingredients
pesticides
competitor intelligence
tobacco expansion
combustion
The appearance and the mechanics related to issuing the Monthly Progress Report were
changed successfully. The new Program Index (the primary goal) was achieved and
received favorable comments.
CC: H. Burnley
J. Charles
C. Lilly
J. Myracle
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