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公开(公告)号：US20180037345A1
公开(公告)日：2018-02-08
申请号：US15730528
申请日：2017-10-11
Applicant: ALTRIA CLIENT SERVICES LLC
Inventor： James D. Evans , Herbert Cary Longest , Tamika S. Murrell , Robert V. Powell, JR. , Jeremy Straight , Jarrod Chalkley
IPC: B65B5/10 , B65B1/46 , B65B5/06 , B65B65/00 , B65B39/00 , B65B1/24 , B65B29/00 , B65B5/08 , B65B35/30 , B65B43/54 , B65B9/20 , B65B37/10
CPC classification number: B65B5/101 , B65B1/24 , B65B1/46 , B65B5/061 , B65B5/08 , B65B9/20 , B65B29/00 , B65B35/30 , B65B37/10 , B65B39/007 , B65B43/54 , B65B65/006 , B65B2220/18
Abstract: Apparatuses and methods for tamping the contents of a container are disclosed. An embodiment of an apparatus includes a tamp head for tamping the contents of the container; and a container support assembly structured and arranged to temporarily support the bottom surface of the container during tamping, the container support assembly comprising a support element having a protrusion extending upward from a substantially flat and horizontal upper surface, wherein the protrusion is sized and shaped to correspond to the size and shape of the bottom surface of the container.
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公开(公告)号：US12195221B2
公开(公告)日：2025-01-14
申请号：US18532455
申请日：2023-12-07
Applicant: Altria Client Services LLC
Inventor： Jarrod W. Chalkley , Robert Powell , Christopher R. Newcomb , Jeremy Straight , Isaac J. McGill , James David Evans , Patrick McElhinney
Abstract: A cleaner assembly for an apparatus for making pouch products includes a cleaner roller and a poker roller. The cleaner roller may counter rotate with a rotatable drum of the apparatus, in contact with an upper surface of a first elastic layer on the rotatable drum, and at a greater tangential speed than at least one surface of an outer circumferential surface of the rotatable drum or an upper surface of the first elastic layer. The poker roller includes projections that are each configured to extend into one or more divots of the rotatable drum. The poker roller may counter rotate with the rotatable drum and at a same tangential speed as the at least one surface such that the projections extend into and out of separate, respective divots of the rotatable drum based on the counter rotation of the poker roller and the rotatable drum.
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公开(公告)号：US12138881B2
公开(公告)日：2024-11-12
申请号：US18476563
申请日：2023-09-28
Applicant: Altria Client Services LLC
Inventor： Thien Nguyen , Sean Sundberg , Jeremy Straight , Berina Yerkic-Husejnovic , Jarrod W. Chalkley , James D. Evans , Christopher R. Newcomb , Robert V. Powell, Jr. , Gregory L. Nelson
IPC: B65B1/04 , B29C31/04 , B29C33/00 , B29C33/46 , B29C43/02 , B29C43/40 , B30B12/00 , B30B15/00 , B30B15/02 , B30B15/30 , B65B1/16 , B65B1/24 , B65B1/26 , B65B1/36 , B65B9/02 , B65B37/20 , B65B57/08 , B65B61/28 , B29C43/32
Abstract: An apparatus includes a fixed assembly and a reciprocating assembly. The fixed assembly includes a hopper, a first gas manifold, and a dispensing chamber, and the reciprocating assembly includes a channel assembly defining a channel conduit, a shield plate vertically aligned therewith, and a second gas manifold. The reciprocating assembly may move, in relation to the fixed assembly, to a first position to enable the channel conduit to be filled with bulk compressible material from the hopper, a second position to enable compressible material to be pushed from the channel conduit to the dispensing conduit and to be compressed in the dispensing chamber according to a first gas directed through the channel conduit by the first gas manifold, and a third position to enable the compressed material to be pushed out of the dispensing conduit according to a second gas directed through the dispensing conduit by the second gas manifold.
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公开(公告)号：US11958645B2
公开(公告)日：2024-04-16
申请号：US18065778
申请日：2022-12-14
Applicant: Altria Client Services LLC
Inventor： James D. Evans , Herbert Cary Longest , Tamika S. Murrell , Robert V. Powell, Jr. , Jeremy Straight , Jarrod Chalkley
IPC: B65B5/10 , B65B1/24 , B65B1/46 , B65B5/06 , B65B5/08 , B65B29/00 , B65B35/30 , B65B39/00 , B65B43/54 , B65B65/00 , B65B9/20 , B65B37/10
CPC classification number: B65B5/101 , B65B1/24 , B65B1/46 , B65B5/061 , B65B5/08 , B65B29/00 , B65B35/30 , B65B39/007 , B65B43/54 , B65B65/006 , B65B9/20 , B65B37/10 , B65B2220/18
Abstract: Systems and methods for manufacturing and inserting a pre-determined number of material-filled pouches into containers are disclosed. A system includes a pouch providing system comprising a plurality of lanes, wherein each one of the plurality of lanes includes a pouch making machine and a hold-back structure. The system also includes a conveyor system structured and arranged to move a plurality of containers into alignment with the plurality of lanes. The system further includes a controller structured and arranged to control the hold-back structure in each one of the plurality of lanes such that the pre-determined pouches are inserted into the plurality of containers when the plurality of containers are aligned with the plurality of lanes.
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公开(公告)号：US11891204B2
公开(公告)日：2024-02-06
申请号：US17674216
申请日：2022-02-17
Applicant: Altria Client Services LLC
Inventor： Jarrod W. Chalkley , Robert Powell , Christopher R. Newcomb , Jeremy Straight , Isaac J. McGill , James David Evans , Patrick McElhinney
Abstract: A cleaner assembly for an apparatus for making pouch products includes a cleaner roller and a poker roller. The cleaner roller may counter rotate with a rotatable drum of the apparatus, in contact with an upper surface of a first elastic layer on the rotatable drum, and at a greater tangential speed than at least one surface of an outer circumferential surface of the rotatable drum or an upper surface of the first elastic layer. The poker roller includes projections that are each configured to extend into one or more divots of the rotatable drum. The poker roller may counter rotate with the rotatable drum and at a same tangential speed as the at least one surface such that the projections extend into and out of separate, respective divots of the rotatable drum based on the counter rotation of the poker roller and the rotatable drum.
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公开(公告)号：US11530056B2
公开(公告)日：2022-12-20
申请号：US17199742
申请日：2021-03-12
Applicant: Altria Client Services LLC
Inventor： James D. Evans , Herbert Cary Longest , Tamika S. Murrell , Robert V. Powell, Jr. , Jeremy Straight , Jarrod W. Chalkley
IPC: B65B5/10 , B65B29/00 , B65B35/30 , B65B39/00 , B65B43/54 , B65B65/00 , B65B1/46 , B65B5/06 , B65B5/08 , B65B1/24 , B65B37/10 , B65B9/20
Abstract: Systems and methods for manufacturing and inserting a predetermined number of material-filled pouches into containers are disclosed. A system includes a pouch providing system comprising a plurality of lanes, wherein each one of the plurality of lanes includes a pouch making machine and a hold-back structure. The system also includes a conveyor system structured and arranged to move a plurality of containers into alignment with the plurality of lanes. The system further includes a controller structured and arranged to control the hold-back structure in each one of the plurality of lanes such that the pre-determined pouches are inserted into the plurality of containers when the plurality of containers are aligned with the plurality of lanes.
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公开(公告)号：US10336597B2
公开(公告)日：2019-07-02
申请号：US15078608
申请日：2016-03-23
Applicant: Altria Client Services LLC
Inventor： Gregory James Griscik , Jonathan David Watson , Carl Gregory Miller , Rosana C. Altoveros , Lawrence E. Tipton , Jeremy Straight , David Alvarez , John Nelson
IPC: B67D1/00 , B67D1/12 , B67D1/16 , B67D1/08 , B65D85/804
Abstract: An alcoholic beverage forming apparatus operable to dispense an alcoholic beverage having a desired flavor, proof, temperature, and volume mixes water and alcohol with a flavor medium to form an alcoholic beverage having a desired flavor that may be dispensed from the apparatus. The apparatus includes a capsule holder, a water supply reservoir and an alcohol supply reservoir. The reservoirs are operable to respectively supply water and alcohol to a mixing manifold of the apparatus to such that the water and alcohol are combined in the mixing manifold to form an alcoholic beverage mixture which is subsequently mixed with a flavor medium contained in an interior of a beverage capsule. A dispenser is operable to dispense an alcoholic beverage therefrom during operation of the alcoholic beverage forming apparatus.
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公开(公告)号：US11655059B2
公开(公告)日：2023-05-23
申请号：US17199742
申请日：2021-03-12
Applicant: Altria Client Services LLC
Inventor： James D. Evans , Herbert Cary Longest , Tamika S. Murrell , Robert V. Powell, Jr. , Jeremy Straight , Jarrod W. Chalkley
IPC: B65B5/10 , B65B1/24 , B65B1/46 , B65B5/06 , B65B5/08 , B65B29/00 , B65B35/30 , B65B39/00 , B65B43/54 , B65B65/00 , B65B9/20 , B65B37/10
CPC classification number: B65B5/101 , B65B1/24 , B65B1/46 , B65B5/061 , B65B5/08 , B65B29/00 , B65B35/30 , B65B39/007 , B65B43/54 , B65B65/006 , B65B9/20 , B65B37/10 , B65B2220/18
Abstract: Systems and methods for manufacturing and inserting a predetermined number of material-filled pouches into containers are disclosed. A system includes a pouch providing system comprising a plurality of lanes, wherein each one of the plurality of lanes includes a pouch making machine and a hold-back structure. The system also includes a conveyor system structured and arranged to move a plurality of containers into alignment with the plurality of lanes. The system further includes a controller structured and arranged to control the hold-back structure in each one of the plurality of lanes such that the pre-determined pouches are inserted into the plurality of containers when the plurality of containers are aligned with the plurality of lanes.
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公开(公告)号：US10981682B2
公开(公告)日：2021-04-20
申请号：US16291136
申请日：2019-03-04
Applicant: Altria Client Services LLC
Inventor： James D. Evans , Herbert Cary Longest , Tamika S. Murrell , Robert V. Powell Jr. , Jeremy Straight , Jarrod Chalkley
IPC: B65B5/10 , B65B1/24 , B65B1/46 , B65B29/00 , B65B35/30 , B65B39/00 , B65B43/54 , B65B5/06 , B65B5/08 , B65B65/00 , B65B37/10 , B65B9/20
Abstract: Systems and methods for manufacturing and inserting a pre-determined number of material-filled pouches into containers are disclosed. A system includes a pouch providing system comprising a plurality of lanes, wherein each one of the plurality of lanes includes a pouch making machine and a hold-back structure. The system also includes a conveyor system structured and arranged to move a plurality of containers into alignment with the plurality of lanes. The system further includes a controller structured and arranged to control the hold-back structure in each one of the plurality of lanes such that the pre-determined pouches are inserted into the plurality of containers when the plurality of containers are aligned with the plurality of lanes.
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公开(公告)号：US20160280455A1
公开(公告)日：2016-09-29
申请号：US15078560
申请日：2016-03-23
Applicant: ALTRIA CLIENT SERVICES LLC
Inventor： Carl Gregory Miller , Jonathan David Watson , Gregory James Griscik , David Alvarez , Larry I. Shelton , David B. Kane , Lawrence E. Tipton , Jeremy Straight , Rosana C. Altoveros , John R. Nelson
IPC: B65D85/804
CPC classification number: B65D85/8043
Abstract: A disposable package makes a beverage when liquid is supplied thereto by a beverage forming apparatus. The package comprises an impermeable capsule including a bottom wall and a tubular side wall. The side wall includes an annular shelf extending downwardly and outwardly from an upper end thereof. The side wall includes vertical indentations formed therein wherein upper ends thereof terminate at the annular shelf. An annular upper lip, which surrounds an opening to the interior space, is configured to locate the package in a receptacle of the apparatus. A lid seals the opening. A liquid supply component supplies liquid to the interior space of the capsule which combines with a flavor medium to form a beverage. Pressure build up in the interior space of the capsule deforms the capsule such that the annular shelf tears away from at least one indentation to form one or more through openings. The beverage dispenses through the openings.
Abstract translation: 当通过饮料形成装置向其供应液体时，一次性包装形成饮料。 该包装包括一个包括底壁和一个管状侧壁的不透水胶囊。 侧壁包括从其上端向下和向外延伸的环形搁架。 侧壁包括形成在其中的垂直凹陷，其中上端终止于环形架。 围绕到内部空间的开口的环形上唇被构造成将包装定位在设备的容器中。 盖子密封开口。 液体供应部件将液体供应到胶囊的内部空间，所述内部空间与调味剂介质组合以形成饮料。 在胶囊的内部空间中积聚的压力使胶囊变形，使得环形架从至少一个压痕撕开以形成一个或多个通孔。 饮料通过开口分配。
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