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公开(公告)号：US20250042116A1
公开(公告)日：2025-02-06
申请号：US18925631
申请日：2024-10-24
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: B30B12/00 , B29C31/04 , B29C33/00 , B29C33/46 , B29C43/02 , B29C43/32 , B29C43/40 , B30B15/00 , B30B15/02 , B30B15/30 , B65B1/04 , B65B1/16 , B65B1/24 , B65B1/26 , B65B1/36 , B65B9/02 , B65B37/20 , B65B57/08 , B65B61/28
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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2.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：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：US20230397645A1
公开(公告)日：2023-12-14
申请号：US18458329
申请日：2023-08-30
Applicant: Altria Client Services LLC
Inventor： Herbert C. LONGEST , Jarrod W. CHALKLEY , Tamika S. MURRELL , Jeremy J. STRAIGHT , Travis M. GARTHAFFNER , Leah A. MEYERS , James D. EVANS
CPC classification number: A24B3/06 , B65B1/16 , B65B57/10 , A24F23/02 , B65B1/36 , G01F11/40 , B65B29/00 , B65B1/46 , B65B2210/10 , B65B37/14
Abstract: Systems and methods for measuring tobacco for packaging in pouches are disclosed. A system includes a hopper structured and arranged to hold a granular material in a hopper cavity. The system also includes a measuring system including a measuring cavity and a tube that is slidable in the hopper cavity between a first position unaligned with the measuring cavity and a second position over and aligned with the measuring cavity. The measuring system is configured to continuously communicate a vacuum to the measuring cavity. The measuring system is configured to move a portion of the granular material from the hopper cavity to the measuring cavity when the tube is in the first position. The measuring system is configured to move the portion of the granular material from the measuring cavity to a pouch making machine using pressurized gas that overcomes the vacuum when the tube is in the second position.
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5.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：US20220324596A1
公开(公告)日：2022-10-13
申请号：US17851222
申请日：2022-06-28
Applicant: Altria Client Services LLC
Inventor： Gregory L. NELSON , Christohper Ryan NEWCOMB , James D. EVANS , Thien NGUYEN , Jarrod W. CHALKLEY , Robert V. POWELL
Abstract: In an example embodiment, an apparatus for making pouch products includes a conveyor system. The conveyor system includes a first receiving location along a path of the conveyor system, and a dosing location along the path of the conveyor system. The apparatus also includes a first material dispensing station configured to transfer a first material to the first receiving location. The first material includes a first elastic layer and a first support layer. The first material dispensing station includes a dispenser roller configured to hold a roll of the first material, a plurality of rollers configured to convey the first material from the dispenser roller to the first receiving location, and a stripper plate configured remove at least a portion of the first support layer from a portion of the first elastic layer.
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公开(公告)号：US20220097887A1
公开(公告)日：2022-03-31
申请号：US17550261
申请日：2021-12-14
Applicant: Altria Client Services LLC
Inventor： Jarrod W. CHALKLEY , James D. EVANS , Thien Hoang NGUYEN , Patrick S. MCELHINNEY
IPC: B65B61/06 , B65B65/08 , B65B61/28 , B65B9/207 , B65B9/20 , B29C65/00 , B29C65/18 , B29C65/74 , B29C65/78 , B65B51/30 , B29C65/30
Abstract: A fin sealer and method to seal a radially outwardly directed fin of a tubular web structure by directing the fin through a nip between a first and a second fin sealing rollers while communicating heat to the fin through at least one of the fin sealing rollers is provided. The fin sealer is configured to maintain a nominal face-to-face relation between an outer annulus of the first fin sealing roller and an outer annulus of the second fin sealing roller with a flexible connection between a hub element of the second fin sealing roller with the outer annulus of the second fin sealing roller.
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公开(公告)号：US20190352026A1
公开(公告)日：2019-11-21
申请号：US16526451
申请日：2019-07-30
Applicant: Altria Client Services LLC
Inventor： Herbert Carrington LONGEST, JR. , Jarrod W. CHALKLEY , Tamika S. MURRELL , Leah A. MEYERS , Jeremy J. STRAIGHT , Travis M. GARTHAFFNER
Abstract: Systems and methods for metering a granular material for packaging in pouches are disclosed. A system includes a hopper structured and arranged to hold a granular material in a hopper cavity. The system also includes a measuring system including a measuring cavity and a tube that is slidable in the hopper cavity between a first position unaligned with the measuring cavity and a second position over and aligned with the measuring cavity. The measuring system is structured and arranged to move a portion of the granular material from the hopper cavity to the measuring cavity when the tube is in the first position. The measuring system is structured and arranged to move the portion of the granular material from the measuring cavity to a pouch making machine using pressurized gas when the tube is in the second position.
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公开(公告)号：US20250162750A1
公开(公告)日：2025-05-22
申请号：US18946315
申请日：2024-11-13
Applicant: Altria Client Services LLC
Inventor： Jarrod W. CHALKLEY , Sean SUNDBERG , Robert POWELL , Isaac J. MCGILL , Charles DENDY
Abstract: A packaging machine includes a rotatable apparatus and an ejection system. The rotatable apparatus rotates a plurality of funnels around a first central rotation axis at a first rate of rotation while a plurality of containers move continuously along an arcuate path while remaining axially aligned with separate, respective bottom openings of the plurality of funnels. The ejection system ejects separate pluralities of material articles from a fixed ejection position at a fixed time interval, and the rotatable apparatus receives the separate pluralities of material articles at a fixed material receiving position. The rotatable apparatus directs a same quantity of material articles into each continuously moving container based on rotating around the first central rotation axis such that each separate funnel moves continuously through the material receiving position concurrently with the rotatable apparatus receiving at least one plurality of material articles at the fixed material receiving position.
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公开(公告)号：US20240140633A1
公开(公告)日：2024-05-02
申请号：US18407285
申请日：2024-01-08
Applicant: Altria Client Services LLC
Inventor： Gregory L. NELSON , Christopher Ryan NEWCOMB , James D. EVANS , Thien NGUYEN , Jarrod W. CHALKLEY , Robert V. POWELL
CPC classification number: B65B9/04 , A24F23/02 , B65B1/10 , B65B29/00 , B65B41/16 , B65B43/04 , B65B61/10 , B65B61/28
Abstract: In an example embodiment, an apparatus for making pouch products includes a conveyor system. The conveyor system includes a first receiving location along a path of the conveyor system, and a dosing location along the path of the conveyor system. The apparatus also includes a first material dispensing station configured to transfer a first material to the first receiving location. The first material includes a first elastic layer and a first support layer. The first material dispensing station includes a dispenser roller configured to hold a roll of the first material, a plurality of rollers configured to convey the first material from the dispenser roller to the first receiving location, and a stripper plate configured remove at least a portion of the first support layer from a portion of the first elastic layer.
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