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

IPC: B65B55/24 ,  B08B1/00 ,  B08B1/04 ,  B65B9/04 ,  B65B47/10 ,  B65B61/06

CPC classification number: B65B55/24 ,  B08B1/008 ,  B08B1/04 ,  B65B9/04 ,  B65B47/10 ,  B65B61/06

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.

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

IPC: B65B55/24 ,  B08B1/30 ,  B08B1/32 ,  B65B9/04 ,  B65B47/10 ,  B65B61/06

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.

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

IPC: B65B55/24 ,  B08B1/04 ,  B08B1/00 ,  B65B47/10 ,  B65B9/04 ,  B65B61/06

CPC classification number: B65B55/24 ,  B08B1/04 ,  B08B1/008 ,  B65B47/10 ,  B65B9/04 ,  B65B61/06

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.

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

IPC: B65B39/04 ,  B65B43/60

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.