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公开(公告)号：US20250100762A1
公开(公告)日：2025-03-27
申请号：US18975265
申请日：2024-12-10
Applicant: Altria Client Services LLC
Inventor： Brian M. CASEY , James David EVANS , David DAWSON
Abstract: At least one example embodiment relates to a container. The container includes a base, a canister configured to engage a portion of the base, and a lid configured to be removably coupled to the canister such that the lid is moveable between a locked position and an unlocked position. The base includes a bottom wall having a central portion, a peripheral portion, and an angle portion between the central portion and the peripheral portion. The base includes a first sidewall extending from a periphery of the peripheral portion and about a periphery of the bottom wall and a second sidewall extending from an end of the peripheral portion opposite the first sidewall. The first sidewall and the second sidewall extend perpendicular to the peripheral portion such that the peripheral portion, first sidewall, and second sidewall define a first gap.
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公开(公告)号：US20190193110A1
公开(公告)日：2019-06-27
申请号：US16288609
申请日：2019-02-28
Applicant: Altria Client Services LLC
Inventor： James David EVANS , Andrew Nathan Carroll , Shannon Maxwell Black
CPC classification number: B05D1/12 , A24B13/00 , A24B15/186 , A24F23/02 , B05B7/144 , B05B12/36 , B05D1/06
Abstract: An apparatus for enrobing a product portion can include a polymer spray head arranged to direct a plurality of polymeric fibers in an upward direction and levitate product portions in a polymer enrobing zone above the polymer spray head. Polymeric fibers produced by the polymer spray head can wrap around the product portions levitated in the polymer enrobing zone to create an enrobed product. Side guide structure(s) and/or air knife(s) can be provided adjacent to the polymer enrobing zone to inhibit levitated product portions from falling out of the polymer enrobing zone and/or to guide levitated product portions along a desired path. Exemplary enrobed products include smokeless tobacco products.
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公开(公告)号：US20230382571A1
公开(公告)日：2023-11-30
申请号：US18446020
申请日：2023-08-08
Applicant: Altria Client Services LLC
Inventor： Dwight David WILLIAMS , James David EVANS , Patrick Sean MCELHINNEY , Jarrod Wayne CHALKLEY
Abstract: An apparatus configured to provide portioned instances of a compressible material includes a channel assembly, a gas source, a cutting assembly, and a discharge assembly. The channel assembly holds a bulk instance of the material extending through upper and lower channels of a continuous channel. The gas source supplies gas to compress the bulk instance. The cutting assembly moves in relation to the channel assembly to isolate the upper and lower channels, severing upper and lower material portions of the bulk instance. The discharge assembly directs gas to impinge on a lower face of the cutting assembly to discharge the lower material portion as a portioned instance. The channel assembly may be moveable, where operation of the gas source, cutting assembly, and/or discharge assembly are based on moving the channel assembly between various positions. The gas supply may be controlled based on a determined property of the portioned instance.
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公开(公告)号：US20220088816A1
公开(公告)日：2022-03-24
申请号：US17542849
申请日：2021-12-06
Applicant: Altria Client Services LLC
Inventor： Dwight David WILLIAMS , James David EVANS , Patrick Sean MCELHINNEY , Jarrod Wayne CHALKLEY , Christopher R. NEWCOMB , Robert V. POWELL
Abstract: An apparatus includes channel assemblies in a rotatable section, a cutting assembly, a discharge assembly, and a cleanout assembly. The channel assembly holds a bulk instance of compressible material extending through upper and lower channels of a continuous channel. The cutting assembly moves in relation to the channel assembly to isolate the upper and lower channels, severing upper and lower material portions of the bulk instance. The discharge assembly directs gas into the lower channel of a channel assembly to discharge the lower material portion from the lower channel, based on radial alignment of a conduit assembly of the channel assembly with a conduit assembly of the discharge assembly. The cleanout assembly supplies a fluid through the conduit assembly of the channel assembly, based on radially alignment of the conduit assembly of the channel assembly with a conduit assembly of the cleanout assembly.
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公开(公告)号：US20250100734A1
公开(公告)日：2025-03-27
申请号：US18971749
申请日：2024-12-06
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：US20230264377A1
公开(公告)日：2023-08-24
申请号：US18309414
申请日：2023-04-28
Applicant: Altria Client Services LLC
Inventor： Dwight David WILLIAMS , James David EVANS , Patrick Sean MCELHINNEY , Jarrod Wayne CHALKLEY , Christopher R. NEWCOMB , Robert V. POWELL
CPC classification number: B26D7/08 , B26D7/1854 , B26D5/00
Abstract: An apparatus includes channel assemblies in a rotatable section, a cutting assembly, a discharge assembly, and a cleanout assembly. The channel assembly holds a bulk instance of compressible material extending through upper and lower channels of a continuous channel. The cutting assembly moves in relation to the channel assembly to isolate the upper and lower channels, severing upper and lower material portions of the bulk instance. The discharge assembly directs gas into the lower channel of a channel assembly to discharge the lower material portion from the lower channel, based on radial alignment of a conduit assembly of the channel assembly with a conduit assembly of the discharge assembly. The cleanout assembly supplies a fluid through the conduit assembly of the channel assembly, based on radially alignment of the conduit assembly of the channel assembly with a conduit assembly of the cleanout assembly.
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7.发明公开公开(公告)号：US20230257149A1
公开(公告)日：2023-08-17
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：US20240174414A1
公开(公告)日：2024-05-30
申请号：US18060227
申请日：2022-11-30
Applicant: Altria Client Services LLC
Inventor： Brian M. CASEY , James David EVANS
CPC classification number: B65D50/061 , B65D43/021 , B65D81/32 , B65D2215/04 , B65D2543/0049
Abstract: At least one example embodiment relates to a container. The container includes a base, a canister configured to engage a portion of the base, and a lid configured to be removably coupled to the canister such that the lid is moveable between a locked position and an unlocked position. The base includes a bottom wall having a central portion, a peripheral portion, and an angle portion between the central portion and the peripheral portion. The base includes a first sidewall extending from a periphery of the peripheral portion and about a periphery of the bottom wall and a second sidewall extending from an end of the peripheral portion opposite the first sidewall. The first sidewall and the second sidewall extend perpendicular to the peripheral portion such that the peripheral portion, first sidewall, and second sidewall define a first gap.
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9.发明公开公开(公告)号：US20240109680A1
公开(公告)日：2024-04-04
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：US20220081134A1
公开(公告)日：2022-03-17
申请号：US17533735
申请日：2021-11-23
Applicant: Altria Client Services LLC
Inventor： Dwight David WILLIAMS , James David EVANS , Patrick Sean MCELHINNEY , Jarrod Wayne CHALKLEY
Abstract: An apparatus configured to provide portioned instances of a compressible material includes a channel assembly, a gas source, a cutting assembly, and a discharge assembly. The channel assembly holds a bulk instance of the material extending through upper and lower channels of a continuous channel. The gas source supplies gas to compress the bulk instance. The cutting assembly moves in relation to the channel assembly to isolate the upper and lower channels, severing upper and lower material portions of the bulk instance. The discharge assembly directs gas to impinge on a lower face of the cutting assembly to discharge the lower material portion as a portioned instance. The channel assembly may be moveable, where operation of the gas source, cutting assembly, and/or discharge assembly are based on moving the channel assembly between various positions. The gas supply may be controlled based on a determined property of the portioned instance.
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