EP3387920B1 - Tipping paper and filtered cigarette product - Google Patents

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EP3387920B1
EP3387920B1 EP16884894.3A EP16884894A EP3387920B1 EP 3387920 B1 EP3387920 B1 EP 3387920B1 EP 16884894 A EP16884894 A EP 16884894A EP 3387920 B1 EP3387920 B1 EP 3387920B1
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A24—TOBACCO; CIGARS; CIGARETTES; SIMULATED SMOKING DEVICES; SMOKERS' REQUISITES
    • A24C—MACHINES FOR MAKING CIGARS OR CIGARETTES
    • A24C5/00—Making cigarettes; Making tipping materials for, or attaching filters or mouthpieces to, cigars or cigarettes
    • A24C5/56—Making tipping materials, e.g. sheet cork for mouthpieces of cigars or cigarettes, by mechanical means
    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D21—PAPER-MAKING; PRODUCTION OF CELLULOSE
    • D21H—PULP COMPOSITIONS; PREPARATION THEREOF NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASSES D21C OR D21D; IMPREGNATING OR COATING OF PAPER; TREATMENT OF FINISHED PAPER NOT COVERED BY CLASS B31 OR SUBCLASS D21G; PAPER NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • D21H13/00—Pulp or paper, comprising synthetic cellulose or non-cellulose fibres or web-forming material
    • D21H13/02—Synthetic cellulose fibres
    • D21H13/08—Synthetic cellulose fibres from regenerated cellulose
    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D21—PAPER-MAKING; PRODUCTION OF CELLULOSE
    • D21H—PULP COMPOSITIONS; PREPARATION THEREOF NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASSES D21C OR D21D; IMPREGNATING OR COATING OF PAPER; TREATMENT OF FINISHED PAPER NOT COVERED BY CLASS B31 OR SUBCLASS D21G; PAPER NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • D21H13/00—Pulp or paper, comprising synthetic cellulose or non-cellulose fibres or web-forming material
    • D21H13/10—Organic non-cellulose fibres
    • D21H13/12—Organic non-cellulose fibres from macromolecular compounds obtained by reactions only involving carbon-to-carbon unsaturated bonds
    • D21H13/14—Polyalkenes, e.g. polystyrene polyethylene
    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D21—PAPER-MAKING; PRODUCTION OF CELLULOSE
    • D21H—PULP COMPOSITIONS; PREPARATION THEREOF NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASSES D21C OR D21D; IMPREGNATING OR COATING OF PAPER; TREATMENT OF FINISHED PAPER NOT COVERED BY CLASS B31 OR SUBCLASS D21G; PAPER NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • D21H15/00—Pulp or paper, comprising fibres or web-forming material characterised by features other than their chemical constitution
    • D21H15/02—Pulp or paper, comprising fibres or web-forming material characterised by features other than their chemical constitution characterised by configuration
    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D21—PAPER-MAKING; PRODUCTION OF CELLULOSE
    • D21H—PULP COMPOSITIONS; PREPARATION THEREOF NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASSES D21C OR D21D; IMPREGNATING OR COATING OF PAPER; TREATMENT OF FINISHED PAPER NOT COVERED BY CLASS B31 OR SUBCLASS D21G; PAPER NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • D21H19/00—Coated paper; Coating material
    • D21H19/10—Coatings without pigments
    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D21—PAPER-MAKING; PRODUCTION OF CELLULOSE
    • D21H—PULP COMPOSITIONS; PREPARATION THEREOF NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASSES D21C OR D21D; IMPREGNATING OR COATING OF PAPER; TREATMENT OF FINISHED PAPER NOT COVERED BY CLASS B31 OR SUBCLASS D21G; PAPER NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • D21H19/00—Coated paper; Coating material
    • D21H19/10—Coatings without pigments
    • D21H19/14—Coatings without pigments applied in a form other than the aqueous solution defined in group D21H19/12
    • D21H19/20—Coatings without pigments applied in a form other than the aqueous solution defined in group D21H19/12 comprising macromolecular compounds obtained by reactions only involving carbon-to-carbon unsaturated bonds

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  • This invention relates to a tipping paper and a filtered cigarette product.
  • a filtered cigarette product for example, a filter-tipped cigarette is an article formed by placing a cigarette rod and filter in opposition to each other and in contact with each other, and winding a tipping paper around an outer circumferential surface of the filter and around an outer circumferential surface of the cigarette rod in the vicinity of the opposed part to thereby integrate the cigarette rod and filter into one article.
  • Patent Literature 1 a filter-tipped cigarette in which cigarette filter wrapping having a red color as a ground color is used, and which is thereby capable of making the lipstick adhering to the cigarette filter wrapping inconspicuous, and alleviating the feeling of discomfort of the smoker caused by the lipstick adhering to the cigarette filter wrapping to spoil the external appearance of the cigarette is disclosed.
  • a paper or nonwoven article comprises a nonwoven web layer.
  • the nonwoven web layer comprises a plurality of fibers and a plurality of binder microfibers.
  • the binder microfibers comprise a water non-dispersible, synthetic polymer.
  • the binder microfibers have a length of less than 25 millimeters and a fineness of less than 0.5 d/f.
  • the binder microfibers further have a melting temperature that is less than the melting temperature of the fibers.
  • the nonwoven web layer may comprise a coating. After the nonwoven web layer is subjected to drying and thermal bonding, the coating may be applied to the nonwoven web and/or paper.
  • the coating can comprise a decorative coating, a printing ink, a barrier coating, an adhesive coating, and a heat seal coating.
  • the coating can comprise a liquid barrier and/or a microbial barrier.
  • Patent Literature 3 a method for producing a filter cigarette with tipping paper having improved lip release properties is disclosed. Lip release chemicals are applied to one side of a base tipping paper during its manufacture in a papermaking process by surface coating, followed by manufacture of the cigarette using otherwise conventional apparatus and materials according to known procedures
  • Patent Literature 1 is not to prevent the adhering itself of the lipstick to the cigarette filter wrapping.
  • This invention relates to provide a tipping paper and a filtered cigarette product capable of reducing adhesion of lipstick to a tipping paper surface when the filtered cigarette product is smoked.
  • a tipping paper characterized by including a front surface layer and back surface layer, and in which the front surface layer has surface properties satisfying a following formula (1) is provided.
  • the front surface layer (11) is a nonwoven fabric, and the nonwoven fabric is formed of wood pulp and rayon fiber with binder fiber, or of rayon fiber and binder fiber, wherein a fiber thickness is greater than or equal to 0.8dtex and less than or equal to 11dtex, the nonwoven fabric possesses a basis weight of greater than or equal to 10gsm and less than or equal to 70gsm, and the amount of the rayon fiber based on the total amount of the wood pulp and the rayon fiber with the binder fiber is greater than or equal to 40% by weight and less than or equal to 80% by weight.
  • the present invention can reduce adhesion of lipstick or the like to a tipping paper surface when a filtered cigarette product is smoked.
  • FIG. 1 is a schematic cross-sectional view of a tipping paper 1 according to a first embodiment.
  • the tipping paper 1 is provided with a front surface layer 11 and a back surface layer 12.
  • the front surface layer 11 has surface properties which satisfy a formula (1): -8.2 ⁇ Rsk-0.2 ⁇ Rc ⁇ 0.
  • Rsk represents the skewness
  • Rc represents the average height.
  • the tipping paper has the surface properties indicated by the formula (1), whereby it is possible to reduce the area of contact between the lip and tipping paper. It is more desirable that the front surface layer 11 should have surface properties which satisfy a formula (2): -8.2 ⁇ Rsk-0.2 ⁇ Rc ⁇ -20. The surface properties indicated by the formulae (1) and (2) will be described later.
  • the front surface layer 11 is normally formed of a material producing surface properties specified by the above formula (1) with respect to the upper surface profile (concavo-convex shape) thereof.
  • a material include an aggregate of partially combined fibers, for example, a nonwoven fabric.
  • FIG. 2 a part of the flat surface of such a nonwoven fabric is shown in an enlarging manner.
  • a plurality of fibers (fibers for nonwoven fabric) 13 constituting the nonwoven fabric are combined with each other at combining parts 14 through fusion bonding substances 15 to thereby form an aggregate.
  • the fiber 13 is a rayon fiber.
  • the fusion bonding substance 15 is a substance formed when a binder fiber such as a polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) fiber, polyethylene glycol (PEG) fiber, vinylon fiber is melted in the process of putting the front surface layer 11 and back surface layer 12 one on top of the other to dry the layers 11 and 12 to be described later, and combines the fibers 13 for the nonwoven fabric with each other.
  • the nonwoven fabric may include pulp in addition to the fibers 13 for the nonwoven fabric and binder fiber.
  • each of constituent fibers has a thickness greater than or equal to 0.8dtex and less than or equal to 11dtex, and has a basis weight greater than or equal to 10 and less than or equal to 70gsm.
  • each of constituent fibers has a thickness greater than or equal to 3.3dtex and less than or equal to 11dtex, and has a basis weight greater than or equal to 10gsm and less than or equal to 70gsm.
  • the nonwoven fabric may be colored by a dye such as a food additive colorant or the like.
  • the "nonwoven fabric” includes paper.
  • a method of forming a nonwoven fabric for example, a dry method, a wet method, a spunbonding method, a melt-blowing method, and an air-laid method are known.
  • a method of combining fibers constituting the nonwoven fabric with each other for example, a chemical bonding method, a thermal bonding method, a needle punching method, and a hydroentangling method are known.
  • the nonwoven fabric contained in the front surface layer 11 is formed by the wet method, and fibers 13 for the nonwoven fabric are combined with each other by the thermal bonding method, as the method of forming the nonwoven fabric and the method of combining the nonwoven fabric fibers 13, other generally known methods may also be used.
  • a back surface layer 12 can be provided on the under surface of the front surface layer 11.
  • the back surface layer 12 can be formed of a material known in the field concerned as a material for the tipping paper, for example, pulp or the like.
  • the tipping paper 1 can be obtained by combining the front surface layer 11 and back surface layer 12 with each other by a papermaking method well known to those skilled in the art.
  • This papermaking method includes at least a process of combining a material constituting the front surface layer 11 and material constituting the back surface layer 12 with each other, and a process of drying the resultant.
  • the paper machine conventionally known ones, for example, a cylinder paper machine, inclined tanmo machine, fourdrinier paper machine, tanmo machine, and the like can be used, and paper machines can be appropriately combined according to the prescribed properties.
  • This papermaking method includes, for example, a process of combining wet paper formed of a suspension of a material constituting the front surface layer 11 by means of a cylinder paper machine and wet paper formed of a suspension of a material constituting the back surface layer 12 by means of a fourdrinier paper machine with each other. Further, the wet paper combined in this way can be dried by using conventionally known drying methods such as the yankee dryer method, multi-cylinder method, hot-air method, infrared heating method, and the like. In one embodiment, the wet paper laminated body of the front surface layer 11 and back surface layer 12 can be dried by using a dryer of a temperature of 100°C to 150°C.
  • fibers contained in the front surface layer 11 and having adhesiveness when melted such as polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) fibers, polyethylene glycol (PEG) fibers, vinylon fibers are melted, whereby the fibers become fusion bonding substances 15 having adhesiveness and the fusion bonding substances 15 can combine fibers 13 constituting the front surface layer 11 with each other.
  • PVA polyvinyl alcohol
  • PEG polyethylene glycol
  • vinylon fibers are melted, whereby the fibers become fusion bonding substances 15 having adhesiveness and the fusion bonding substances 15 can combine fibers 13 constituting the front surface layer 11 with each other.
  • the method of combining the front surface layer 11 and back surface layer 12 with each other the method is not limited to the aforementioned papermaking methods, and other conventionally known papermaking methods may also be used. As such papermaking methods, methods described in " Hand book of pulp and paper technology 1982", Japan Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry, pp. 284 to 305 can be used.
  • the conventional tipping paper has, like the generally used printing paper, not a structure formed by combining two layers having different physical properties, and has a single layer structure, in which the surface properties of the front surface and back surface are approximately identical and the smoothness of both the surfaces is high. For this reason, in a filter-tipped cigarette provided with the conventional tipping paper, the tipping paper tends to come into close contact with the lip of the smoker at the time of smoking. As a result, lipstick or the like attached to the lip of the smoker becomes liable to move onto the tipping paper.
  • the tipping paper 1 according to this embodiment is provided with the front surface layer 11 having surface properties satisfying the above formula (1), and thereby can reduce the area of contact between the lip and tipping paper 1, and hence can reduce adhesion of a substance such as lipstick attached to the surface of the smoker's lip to the tipping paper 1. Furthermore, even when lipstick is not used, it is possible to prevent unpleasant phenomena such as adhesion of the skin of the smoker's lip to the tipping paper, coming off of the skin of the lip when the lip is released from the tipping paper, and so on from occurring.
  • the quality of the tipping paper which makes it easy for the tipping paper and lip to separate from each other when the cigarette is to be released from the lip is expressed by that the lip-releasability is excellent.
  • FIG. 3 a schematic cross-sectional view of a tipping paper 2 according to a second embodiment is shown.
  • the tipping paper 2 according to the second embodiment has a configuration identical to the tipping paper 1 according to the first embodiment except that the front surface layer 11 and back surface layer 12 are stuck with an adhesive layer 21.
  • a water-based adhesive or hot-melt adhesive can be used as the adhesive layer 21, a water-based adhesive or hot-melt adhesive.
  • a water-based adhesive for example, a starch-based, cellulose-based, PVA-based, polyvinyl acetate (PVAc)-based, and ethylene-vinyl acetate (EVA)-based adhesive can be used.
  • a hot-melt adhesive a resin-based, polyethylene (PE)-based, and polypropylene (PP)-based adhesive can be used.
  • the resin-based adhesive layer 21 has a luster and reflects light incident on the resin-based adhesive layer 21, and hence it is possible to provide elegant tipping paper in which light leaks out of gaps between fibers of the front surface layer 11 to thereby impart a unique feeling to the tipping paper.
  • a colored resultant formed by mixing the aforementioned adhesive with dye may also be used.
  • FIG. 4 a schematic cross-sectional view of a tipping paper according to a third embodiment is shown.
  • the tipping paper according to the third embodiment has a configuration identical to the tipping paper 1 according to the first embodiment except that a coating agent layer 31 is provided on the upper surface of the front surface layer 11.
  • the coating agent layer 31 can be provided by applying a coating agent to the upper surface of the front surface layer 11. By providing the coating agent layer 31, it is possible to prevent fibers in the front surface layer 11 from falling off.
  • a coating agent for example, starch, nitrocellulose or polyvinyl alcohol or a combination of these can be used. It is desirable that the coating agent be such an amount as not to significantly change the surface properties of the front surface layer 11. For example, it is desirable that the coating agent be less than or equal to 0.8gsm from the viewpoint of guaranteeing the surface properties of the nonwoven fabric.
  • FIG. 5 shows the tipping paper 4 according to the fourth embodiment
  • (A) is a perspective view of a back surface layer 12 of that
  • (B) is a perspective view of the whole tipping paper 4.
  • FIG. 6 is a schematic cross-sectional view along a line VI-VI of FIG. 5 .
  • the tipping paper 4 according to the fourth embodiment is provided with a front surface layer 11, back surface layer 12, and adhesive layer 21.
  • the back surface layer 12 is provided with a decorative section 41 on an upper surface (surface opposed to the front surface layer 11) thereof.
  • the decorative section 41 can be provided by printing a decorative pattern on the upper surface of the back surface layer 12.
  • the tipping paper 4 has a configuration identical to the tipping paper 2 according to the second embodiment except that the tipping paper 4 is provided with the decorative section 41 on the back surface layer 12, it is desirable that the adhesive to be used as the adhesive layer 21 ( FIG. 6 ) be transparent so that the decorative section 41 can be seen through from the front surface layer 11 side.
  • the decorative section 41 is provided on the upper surface of the back surface layer 12, whereby the decorative section 41 can be seen through from the front surface layer 11, thereby making the tipping paper 4 excellent in design.
  • FIG. 7 a schematic cross-sectional view of a tipping paper 5 according to a fifth embodiment is shown.
  • the tipping paper 5 according to the fifth embodiment has a configuration identical to the tipping paper 1 according to the first embodiment except that a surface modifier layer 51 is provided on the upper surface of the front surface layer 11.
  • the surface modifier layer 51 can be provided by applying a surface modifier configured to prevent, for example, lipstick or the like from adhering to the tipping paper to the upper surface of the front surface layer 11.
  • a surface modifier configured to prevent, for example, lipstick or the like from adhering to the tipping paper to the upper surface of the front surface layer 11.
  • a fluorine-based resin or silicon-based resin can be used as the surface modifier.
  • the thickness of the surface modifier layer 51 can appropriately be adjusted according to the substance to be used as the surface modifier and the lipstick adhesion reducing effect required of the tipping paper 5.
  • FIG. 8 a schematic cross-sectional view of a tipping paper according to a sixth embodiment is shown.
  • the tipping paper according to the sixth embodiment has a configuration identical to the tipping paper 1 according to the first embodiment except that an embossed pattern is provided on the front surface layer 11.
  • the embossed pattern is constituted of a convex section 61 and concave section 62.
  • the embossed pattern can be provided by passing the tipping paper between a pair of embossing rolls.
  • the embossed pattern on the front surface layer 11 it is possible to obtain a more lipstick adhesion reducing effect and, at the same time, provide tipping paper excellent in design.
  • the embossing can be carried out to such a degree that the surface properties of the front surface layer 11 are not deteriorated.
  • FIG. 9 a schematic cross-sectional view of a tipping paper according to a seventh embodiment is shown.
  • the tipping paper 7 according to the seventh embodiment has a configuration identical to the tipping paper 2 according to the second embodiment except that a front surface layer 11 is provided with, for example, a plurality of colored sections 71 separate from each other.
  • Each of the colored sections 71 extends from the upper surface of the front surface layer 11 to a plane thereof opposed to the back surface layer 12.
  • the colored sections 71 can be formed by carrying out printing such as gravure printing, ink jet printing or the like using a colorant such as ink or the like.
  • a filtered cigarette product according to an eighth embodiment will be described below.
  • a filter-tipped cigarette will be described as an example of a filtered cigarette product
  • the filtered cigarette product is not limited to this and may be other smoking articles to which a filter is connected, such as a cigar and a cigarillo in addition to non-combustion smoking supplies and unheated smoking supplies, and the like which utilize electric heating/heat of chemical reaction.
  • a filter-tipped cigarette 8 is provided with a cigarette rod 81, a filter 82 arranged in such a manner that an end part thereof is placed in opposition to and in contact with an end part of the cigarette rod 81, and a tipping paper 83 wound around the whole outer circumferential surface of the filter 82 and around the outer circumferential surface part of the cigarette rod 81 near the opposition/contact position, and integrating the cigarette rod 81 and filter 82 into one body.
  • the cigarette rod 81 is provided with shredded tobacco 84 and rolled paper 85 wound around the shredded tobacco 84 into a cylindrical shape.
  • the filter 82 is provided with a filter material (not shown) formed by binding or folding up, for example, acetate fibers or nonwoven fabric of pulp, and filter paper 86 rolling the filter material up into a cylindrical shape.
  • Such a filter-tipped cigarette 8 according to the embodiment can reduce adhesion of lipstick on the surface of the lip of the smoker to the tipping paper, while maintaining the functional characteristics (tensile strength and opacity) caused by the advantageous effects of the tipping paper according to each of the first to seventh embodiments.
  • test samples different from each other in characteristics were prepared.
  • Each of the test samples is provided with a front surface layer and a back surface layer.
  • the front surface layer is constituted of a nonwoven fabric.
  • the nonwoven fabric is formed of wood pulp and rayon fiber with binder fiber, or rayon fiber and binder fiber by hand making, and has different surface roughness, fiber length, and basis weight for each test samples.
  • rayon fiber that having a thickness of 0.1dtex to 11.0dtex was used.
  • test samples in which polyvinyl alcohol or starch was used as a coating agent for prevention of fiber falling-off were also manufactured.
  • back surface layer paper formed by using wood pulp generally used as a material for tipping paper was used. Further, test samples in which the front surface layer and back surface layer were stuck with a vinyl acetate-based adhesive or resin-based adhesive were also manufactured.
  • measurement of the surface roughness was carried out by using SURFTEST SJ-210 (trade name) manufactured by Mitutoyo Corporation.
  • the filtering process in the surface roughness measurement was carried out by using the Gaussian filter. Further, as the detector, that having a shape of a stylus front R of 2pm and front edge angle of 60° was used.
  • FIG. 11 is a view for explaining the method of making lipstick 95 adheres to the tipping paper 93 by using a rheometer (CR-3000EX-S manufactured by Sun Scientific Co., Ltd.).
  • FIG. 11(A) is a schematic view showing a state where tipping paper 93 of a test sample is put on the rheometer.
  • the rheometer is provided with a cylindrical plunger 91 having a diameter of 10mm, and measuring table 92 on which the tipping paper 93 of the test sample is to be placed.
  • the tipping paper 93 of the test sample is placed on the top surface of the measuring table 92 of the rheometer.
  • a gel 94 is placed on the top surface of the tipping paper 93.
  • the gel 94 have elasticity and softness similar to a human lip, and "HITOHADA ® gel" (trade name), product number: H0-1, manufactured by EXSEAL Co., Ltd. having such physical properties that the pressure thereof at the time of deformation by 1mm is 0.53N ⁇ 0.34 was used.
  • a flat plate 96 is placed on the top surface of the gel 94.
  • the flat plate 96 can equalize the pressure to be applied to the tipping paper 93 when the plunger 91 is pressed in the vertical direction against the gel 94 and the flat surface of the tipping paper 93.
  • the flat plate 96 is a flat plate formed of, for example, plastic. The tipping paper 93, gel 94, and flat plate 96 are held between the plunger 91 and measuring table 92.
  • FIG. 11(B) is a view showing a state where fixed pressure is applied to the flat plate 96, tipping paper 93 and gel 94 in the vertical direction for a constant time by thrusting the plunger 91 in a direction perpendicular to the planes of the flat plate 96, gel 94, and tipping paper 93.
  • the pressure to be applied to the tipping paper 93 was set in such a manner that the pressure reaches the maximum pressure 2.5N after an elapse of about one second from the start of application of pressure, and becomes 0N after an elapse of about two seconds in order that the pressure can become approximately equal to the pressure to be applied to the tipping paper when the filter-tipped cigarette is actually smoked.
  • Measurement of the degree of adhesion of the lipstick to the tipping paper was carried out, after the lipstick was adhered to the tipping paper by using the rheometer as described above, by measuring a color difference ⁇ E between a place on the tipping paper to which the lipstick was adhered and place to which the lipstick was not adhered.
  • Measurement of the color difference ⁇ E was carried out by means of a spectrophotometer (manufactured by X-Rite Inc., product name: SpectroEye) by obtaining an average value of coordinates of the L ⁇ a ⁇ b ⁇ color coordinate system of the color difference display method specified by CIE, and calculating a color difference ⁇ E between the place on the tipping paper to which the lipstick was adhered and place to which the lipstick was not adhered. It should be noted that the condition of measurement by the spectrophotometer was made that the light source was D65, light source filter was not used, and viewing angle was set to 2°.
  • the highest lipstick adhesion reducing effect was obtained by the tipping paper of the test sample which has a rayon combination ratio of 90% by weight, fibrous PVA combination ratio of 10% by weight, and basis weight of 15gsm, and in which a starch coating agent is used among the test samples.
  • ⁇ E color difference
  • the Rsk is increased in order to reduce the area of contact between the lip and tipping paper and/or it is sufficient if the Rc is increased in order to reduce the influence due to biting of the lip into gaps between fibers of the front surface layer.
  • FIG. 12 is a view formed by setting the skewness (Rsk) to the X-axis coordinate value, and average height (Rc) to the Y-axis coordinate value, and plotting measurement results of thirty-eight test samples, and is a view showing relationships between the surface roughness and color difference ⁇ E.
  • a test sample with ⁇ E ⁇ 10 is indicated by a white circular plot
  • test samples with 10 ⁇ E ⁇ 20 are indicated by black circular plots
  • test samples with 20 ⁇ E ⁇ 30 are indicated by white square plots
  • test samples with 30 ⁇ E ⁇ 40 are indicated by black square plots, respectively.
  • a measurement result of the case where existing white tipping paper having 37gsm was used as a comparative example is indicated by a white triangular plot.
  • the color difference ⁇ E measured with respect to the existing white tipping paper having 37gsm of the comparative example is 51.2.
  • all the color differences ⁇ E measured with respect to the tipping paper of the test samples plotted in FIG. 10 were less than 40, and were on the recognizable level.
  • a state of adhesion of a substance attached to the surface of a lip to the tipping paper can be calculated by parameterizing the state of adhesion by means of the surface properties (Rsk and Rc) of the front surface layer.
  • FIG. 13 is a view formed by plotting the evaluation results in a state where the horizontal axis is set to the measured color difference ⁇ E, and the longitudinal axis is set to the sensory amount. Evaluation results of the test samples are indicated by white rhombic plots, and evaluation results of the comparative example are indicated by black rhombic plots.
  • each of the quadrilaterals surrounding the plotted points in figure indicates a range of variation of 1 ⁇ . That is when the variation in the results of the answers is large, the quadrilateral becomes larger and, when the variation is small, the quadrilateral becomes smaller.
  • the straight lines connecting plotted points and quadrilaterals indicating the ranges of variations in the test samples and comparative example when evaluation of a case where the lipstick is not wiped off by using tissue paper or the like is to be indicated, the evaluation is indicated by a solid line and, when evaluation of a case where the lipstick is once wiped off is to be indicated, the evaluation is indicated by dotted lines.
  • the comparative example was evaluated as "considerable adhesion” and, conversely, the test samples was evaluated as "a certain degree of adhesion", and the sensory amount associated with the state of adhesion of the lipstick to the tipping paper is lowered.
  • ⁇ E is also about 50 in the comparative example and, conversely, ⁇ E is measured about 30 in the test samples, and is lowered like the sensory amount and, it can be seen that when the lipstick attached to the lip is not wiped off by using tissue paper or the like, there is a correlation relationship between the color difference ⁇ E and sensory amount.
  • the comparative example was evaluated as "a certain degree of adhesion” and, conversely, the test samples was evaluated as "slight adhesion", and the sensory amount associated with the state of adhesion of the lipstick to the tipping paper is lowered.
  • the color difference ⁇ E ⁇ E is also about 20 in the comparative example and, conversely, ⁇ E is measured about 7 in the test samples, and is lowered like the sensory amount and, it can be seen that even when the lipstick attached to the lip is once wiped off by using tissue paper or the like, there is a correlation relationship between the color difference ⁇ E and sensory amount.
  • test samples have lip-releasability overwhelmingly superior to the tipping paper of the comparative example.
  • the tipping paper of the test samples has a lipstick adhesion reducing effect and lip-releasability effective in the sensory evaluation.

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