公开(公告)号：US09896228B2

公开(公告)日：2018-02-20

申请号：US14657018

申请日：2015-03-13

Applicant: Altria Client Services LLC

Inventor： Andrew Nathan Carroll ,  Shannon Maxwell Black ,  Yan Helen Sun ,  William J. Burke ,  Christopher Joseph DiNovi ,  David Phillips ,  Jason Andrew Macko ,  Robert Smith

IPC: B65B9/10 ,  A24F23/00 ,  A24B13/00 ,  B65B63/02 ,  B65B29/02 ,  B05D3/06 ,  B05D1/00 ,  B65B53/02 ,  A24B15/18 ,  A24B15/28 ,  B33Y10/00

CPC classification number: B65B9/10 ,  A24B13/00 ,  A24B15/186 ,  A24B15/28 ,  A24F23/00 ,  B05D1/007 ,  B05D3/067 ,  B33Y10/00 ,  B65B29/02 ,  B65B53/02 ,  B65B63/02

Abstract: Methods for encasing bodies including smokeless tobacco or a tobacco substitute with a polymeric casing can include coating a compressed body with microfibers, applying tubular casings to compressed bodies, printing netting and webs on compressed bodies, injection molding around compressed bodies, applying a webbing to compressed bodies, placing compressed bodies into a skin forming bath, and including thermoplastic polymers in a compressed body.

公开(公告)号：US09648904B2

公开(公告)日：2017-05-16

申请号：US14213108

申请日：2014-03-14

Applicant: ALTRIA CLIENT SERVICES LLC

Inventor： Andrew Nathan Carroll ,  Shannon Maxwell Black ,  Yan Helen Sun ,  William J. Burke ,  Robert Smith

IPC: A24B13/00 ,  A24F23/02 ,  D01D5/18 ,  D01D11/06 ,  A24B15/18 ,  D01D5/098 ,  D01D5/00 ,  A24B15/28 ,  A24B3/14 ,  A24B15/14 ,  A24B15/40

Abstract: An apparatus for enrobing a product portion can include at least one polymer spray head adapted to create at least one flow of polymeric fibers to produce at least one polymer enrobing zone and a conveyor system adapted to move at least one product portion from at least one position below at least one polymer enrobing zone and to at least one position above at least one polymer enrobing zone to drop each product portion through one or more polymer enrobing zones a plurality times at different orientations to enrobe each product portion with polymeric fibers.