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公开(公告)号：US11800889B2
公开(公告)日：2023-10-31
申请号：US15905230
申请日：2018-02-26
Applicant: Altria Client Services LLC
Inventor： Patrick S. McElhinney , Dwight D. Williams
CPC classification number: A24C5/1807 , A24C1/18 , A24C1/26
Abstract: An example embodiment includes a tongue includes a forming surface of a forming channel, the forming channel configured to enable the shaping of shredded material into a desired form as a shredded material is drawn through the forming channel and an arrangement to introduce at least a portion of a web component adjacent a portion of the forming surface such that the introduced web component portion may be operative upon the drawn shredded material as a source of additional drawing action. The tongue may include an arrangement to draw a moving web into the tongue through a channel that converges with the working surface of the tongue, whereby the moving web is interposable between a moving column of shredded material and the first surface portion of the working surface to reduce friction. The tongue may further comprise an arrangement comprising a scalloped surface portion along the working surface of the tongue.
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公开(公告)号：US11252989B2
公开(公告)日：2022-02-22
申请号：US16663787
申请日：2019-10-25
Applicant: Altria Client Services LLC
Inventor： Charles David Howe , Dwight D. Williams
Abstract: The tongue includes a major body, where the major body has a first longitudinal length that runs from a first end to a second end of the major body. The major body includes a first channel defined along a first edge of the major body, and a second channel defined along a second edge of the major body. The first channel and the second channel is hollow and runs substantially along the first longitudinal length from the first end to the second end of the major body. The first channel and the second channel oppose each other and face away from each other. The tongue support assembly and the rod forming apparatus include the tongue. The method aligns the tongue with a lower plate of a compression box.
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公开(公告)号：US11117159B2
公开(公告)日：2021-09-14
申请号：US16792370
申请日：2020-02-17
Applicant: Altria Client Services LLC
Inventor： Dwight D. Williams
IPC: B05C11/10
Abstract: An adapter is configured to be mounted onto or otherwise coupled to a hot-melt adhesive dispenser. The adapter may include a body defining at least a first inlet channel, a second inlet channel, and a feed channel. The first inlet channel is configured to receive a first adhesive. The second inlet channel is configured to receive a second adhesive. The feed channel is configured to direct at least one of the first adhesive or the second adhesive to the hot-melt adhesive dispenser.
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公开(公告)号：US20210112854A1
公开(公告)日：2021-04-22
申请号：US17136104
申请日：2020-12-29
Applicant: Altria Client Services LLC
Inventor： Munmaya K. Mishra , Alex Jordan , Kathryn M. Draper , Dwight D. Williams
Abstract: A breakable capsule such as a seamless breakable capsule useful in a smoking article or a smokeless tobacco product includes an outer shell formed of a cross-linked agar matrix including at least one filler, and an inner core surrounded by the outer shell which comprises a liquid or gel based composition of a flavorant and/or non-flavorant. The cross-linked agar matrix is reinforced with carboxymethyl cellulose that is dispersed throughout the agar matrix so as to fill empty spaces in the agar matrix and inhibit the composition from passing through the empty spaces of the agar matrix.
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公开(公告)号：US20180332889A1
公开(公告)日：2018-11-22
申请号：US15596868
申请日：2017-05-16
Applicant: ALTRIA CLIENT SERVICES LLC
Inventor： Dwight D. Williams , Thaddeus Paul Kwolek
CPC classification number: A24D3/0295 , A24D3/0254 , B65H57/08 , B65H57/14
Abstract: A method of operating a filter rod making machine comprising disposing a plurality of stations laterally of the filter making machine, placing a bale of tow at each of the laterally disposed plurality of stations, drawing tow from above each of the placed plurality of bales into the filter rod making machine in succession, and upon depletion of tow from the placed plurality of bales, replacing the depleted plurality of bales as a set. The drawing of tow may include, for each bale, drawing tow from above the respective bale with a station guide operative at the respective, laterally disposed station and drawing the tow transversely from the respective station guide to a machine-based guide adjacent the filter rod making machine. The disclosure also provides associated apparatus, including a system for making a filter rod and a boom assembly of a tow conditioning section of a system for making a filter rod.
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公开(公告)号：US11903412B2
公开(公告)日：2024-02-20
申请号：US17136104
申请日：2020-12-29
Applicant: Altria Client Services LLC
Inventor： Munmaya K. Mishra , Alex Jordan , Kathryn M. Draper , Dwight D. Williams
CPC classification number: A24D3/061 , A24B15/283 , A24D3/048 , A24D3/17 , A24D1/02
Abstract: A breakable capsule such as a seamless breakable capsule useful in a smoking article or a smokeless tobacco product includes an outer shell formed of a cross-linked agar matrix including at least one filler, and an inner core surrounded by the outer shell which comprises a liquid or gel based composition of a flavorant and/or non-flavorant. The cross-linked agar matrix is reinforced with carboxymethyl cellulose that is dispersed throughout the agar matrix so as to fill empty spaces in the agar matrix and inhibit the composition from passing through the empty spaces of the agar matrix.
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公开(公告)号：US11571015B2
公开(公告)日：2023-02-07
申请号：US16548985
申请日：2019-08-23
Applicant: Altria Client Services LLC
Inventor： Dwight D. Williams
Abstract: A system includes system at least one dispenser configured to dispense to dispense a plurality of segments on a first conveying path and a spacing drum configured to receive a number of the plurality of segments per revolution of the drum and configured to release the number of segments on a second conveying path at a segment-release spacing and a segment-release speed along the conveying path, the number of the plurality of segments being at least three and the number of segments released by the spacing drum forming a filter element.
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公开(公告)号：US20210120863A1
公开(公告)日：2021-04-29
申请号：US16663886
申请日：2019-10-25
Applicant: Altria Client Services LLC
Inventor： Dwight D. Williams , Charles David Howe
Abstract: The tongue includes a shaft, the shaft being hollow. The tongue includes an upper plate connected to the shaft. The upper plate includes a first protrusion on a first side of the upper plate, and a second protrusion on the first side of the upper plate. The first protrusion and the second protrusion define a notch. The first protrusion runs along at least part of an upper portion of a longitudinal length of the shaft. The rod forming apparatus includes the tongue. The method installs the tongue on the rod forming apparatus.
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公开(公告)号：US12171256B2
公开(公告)日：2024-12-24
申请号：US17519842
申请日：2021-11-05
Applicant: Altria Client Services LLC
Inventor： Dwight D. Williams , Charles David Howe
Abstract: The method includes transporting tobacco into and through a shaft of a tongue of a compression box, and compressing the tobacco into a tobacco rod as the tobacco is transported through the compression box, the compression box including a first plate, a first portion of the first plate being formed over an upper portion of the shaft, the first portion running along a majority of a longitudinal length of the shaft.
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公开(公告)号：US12075812B2
公开(公告)日：2024-09-03
申请号：US17849212
申请日：2022-06-24
Applicant: Altria Client Services LLC
Inventor： Dwight D. Williams , Mark A. Derigo , Gerald M. Dale , Charles David Howe
CPC classification number: A24C1/18 , A24C1/02 , A24C3/00 , A24C5/1807 , Y10T29/49826
Abstract: An apparatus for the formation of machine-made tobacco rods for use in the production of smoking articles, such as cigars, from tobacco comprising a tacky material. The apparatus includes a pair of transfer and compression belts for receiving and compressing the stream of tobacco, the transfer and compression; a pair of squeeze bars for compressing the tobacco in a direction perpendicular to the pair of transfer and compression belts, the pair of squeeze bars produced from a material comprising a poly(aryl ether ketone); a tongue for receiving the compressed tobacco, the tongue produced from a material comprising a poly(aryl ether ketone); and a folder for folding a wrapper material around the compressed tobacco so as to form a continuous rod of tobacco, the wrapper material provided from a source of wrapper material, the folder produced from a material comprising a poly(aryl ether ketone).
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