公开(公告)号：US11160936B2

公开(公告)日：2021-11-02

申请号：US15631126

申请日：2017-06-23

Applicant: Altria Client Services LLC

Inventor： Terry Bache ,  Ryan Newcomb ,  Eric A. Hawes ,  Dmitriy Kirzhner ,  Raymond Lau ,  Danielle Crawford ,  Dwight D. Williams ,  William Eugene Rabbitt ,  Carl Roy Stevens

IPC: A61M11/04 ,  H05B1/02 ,  G01N27/04 ,  H01R13/24 ,  A24F40/30 ,  A24F40/42 ,  A24F40/53 ,  A61M16/00 ,  A24F15/015 ,  A24F40/10 ,  A24F40/20 ,  A24F40/485 ,  A24F40/60

Abstract: A vapor cartridge for a non-combustible vaping device may be configured to receive a flavor cartridge, generate a vapor, and direct the generated vapor through the flavor cartridge to provide a flavored vapor. The flavor cartridge may include an instance of electrically conductive material extending at least partially around the flavor cartridge. The vapor cartridge may include an authentication assembly including a set of electrically conductive instruments may independently and directly contact the instance of electrically conductive material of the flavor cartridge inserted into the vapor cartridge, such that the electrically conductive instruments are electrically connected to each other through the instance of electrically conductive material of the flavor cartridge. The vapor cartridge may be coupled with a base that includes a control circuitry configured to control vapor generation by the vapor generator, based on the electrically conductive instruments being electrically connected to each other through the flavor cartridge.

公开(公告)号：US11027860B2

公开(公告)日：2021-06-08

申请号：US15973860

申请日：2018-05-08

Applicant: Altria Client Services LLC

Inventor： Dwight D. Williams

IPC: B65B1/04 ,  B65B37/14 ,  B65B1/30 ,  B65B9/02 ,  B05B11/00

Abstract: An air accelerator dosing tube for a form/fill/seal machine used to package fine cut tobacco material includes an axially-adjustable annular venturi communicating with the particulate material passage. A lining of polyether ether ketone optionally covers surfaces exposed to the particulate material. A metering assembly for delivering predetermined quantities of particulate material at predetermined time intervals may also be fabricated from polyether ether ketone. Each dosing tube is adapted for calibration by adjustment of the annular venturi to produce a predetermined force at a predetermined stand-off distance. In operation, consistent simultaneous operation of multiple dosing tubes, each of which has been calibrated, gives substantially uniform deposit of particulate material in pouch-type packages. The particulate material may include finely cut tobacco in addition to humectants, flavorants, and other tacky substances.

公开(公告)号：US20200077697A1

公开(公告)日：2020-03-12

申请号：US16683700

申请日：2019-11-14

Applicant: Altria Client Services LLC

Inventor： Munmaya K. Mishra ,  Alex Jordan ,  Kathryn M. Draper ,  Dwight D. Williams

IPC: A24D3/06 ,  A24B15/28 ,  A24D3/04

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.

公开(公告)号：US20190261675A1

公开(公告)日：2019-08-29

申请号：US15905230

申请日：2018-02-26

Applicant: ALTRIA CLIENT SERVICES LLC

Inventor： Patrick S. McElhinney ,  Dwight D. Williams

IPC: A24C5/18 ,  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.

公开(公告)号：US20180257796A1

公开(公告)日：2018-09-13

申请号：US15973860

申请日：2018-05-08

Applicant: Altria Client Services LLC

Inventor： Dwight D. Williams

IPC: B65B1/04 ,  B65B1/30 ,  B65B37/14 ,  B05B11/00 ,  B65B9/02

CPC classification number: B65B1/04 ,  B05B11/00 ,  B65B1/30 ,  B65B9/02 ,  B65B37/14

Abstract: An air accelerator dosing tube for a form/fill/seal machine used to package fine cut tobacco material includes an axially-adjustable annular venturi communicating with the particulate material passage. A lining of polyether ether ketone optionally covers surfaces exposed to the particulate material. A metering assembly for delivering predetermined quantities of particulate material at predetermined time intervals may also be fabricated from polyether ether ketone. Each dosing tube is adapted for calibration by adjustment of the annular venturi to produce a predetermined force at a predetermined stand-off distance. In operation, consistent simultaneous operation of multiple dosing tubes, each of which has been calibrated, gives substantially uniform deposit of particulate material in pouch-type packages. The particulate material may include finely cut tobacco in addition to humectants, flavorants, and other tacky substances.