Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Filling station and method for filling cartridges of electronic cigarettes with a liquid
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Application No.: US15578462Application Date: 2016-06-01
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Publication No.: US10407196B2Publication Date: 2019-09-10
- Inventor: Oscar Slurink
- Applicant: Sluis Cigar Machinery B.V.
- Applicant Address: NL Kampen
- Assignee: SLUIS CIGAR MACHINERY B.V.
- Current Assignee: SLUIS CIGAR MACHINERY B.V.
- Current Assignee Address: NL Kampen
- Agency: Patterson + Sheridan, LLP
- Priority: NL2014946 20150609
- International Application: PCT/NL2016/050392 WO 20160601
- International Announcement: WO2016/200253 WO 20161215
- Main IPC: B65B39/12
- IPC: B65B39/12 ; B65B35/46 ; B65B59/00 ; B65B59/04 ; B65B3/00 ; B65B3/04 ; B65B39/00

Abstract:
The present invention relates to a filling station for filling cartridges of electronic cigarettes with a liquid, the filling station defining a plurality of filling positions for a plurality of cartridges, the filling station being configured for simultaneously filling the cartridges which are in the filling positions, the filling station comprising: a plurality of nozzles, wherein the nozzles are grouped in a first group of first nozzles and a second group of second nozzles, wherein each filling position is associated with a first nozzle from the first group and a second nozzle from the second group, an up-down actuator for moving the nozzles downward into upwardly oriented filling openings of the cartridges in the filling positions in order to insert at least a first nozzle and a second nozzle into each cartridge, and a distance actuator for changing a horizontal distance between each first nozzle and second nozzle.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180134429A1 FILLING STATION AND METHOD FOR FILLING CARTRIDGES OF ELECTRONIC CIGARETTES WITH A LIQUID Public/Granted day:2018-05-17
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