R.j. Reynolds Tobacco Company

Rai Strategic Holdings, Inc.

David Charles Bovender

Charles Jacob Novak, Iii

Michael F Davis

Balager Ademe

Chandra K Banerjee

Timothy Brian Nestor

Evon Llewellyn Crooks

David William Griffith, Jr

Karen V Williams

Susan K Pike

Stephen Benson Sears

Steven Benson Sears

An apparatus and associated method are provided for manufacturing a smokeless tobacco product including tobacco material and at least one object. A forming unit is configured to form a continuous supply of a pouch material into a continuous tubular member defining a longitudinal axis. A tobacco insertion unit is configured to introduce tobacco material into a pouch member portion of the tubular member. An object insertion unit is configured to introduce objects into the tubular member, with at least one of the objects being introduced into the pouch member portion. A closing and dividing unit is configured to close and divide the tubular member at intervals along the longitudinal axis thereof, to form the tubular member into a plurality of discrete pouch member portions such that each discrete pouch member portion includes the tobacco material and the at least one of the objects.

Apparatus for manufacturing a smokeless tobacco product incorporating an object, and associated method

The present disclosure provides components useful in heating, particularly heating of an aerosol precursor solution so as to vaporize the solution and form an aerosol. The disclosure particularly provides an electrically conductive, porous carbon heater. The heater may be combined with an aerosol precursor transport element that also is formed of carbon. The heater and transport element may form an atomizer that can be useful in an electronic smoking article, such as in a cartridge that is adapted for attachment to a control body. In some embodiments, the disclosure provides a cartridge of an electronic smoking article, the cartridge being formed substantially completely of carbon.

Carbon conductive substrate for electronic smoking article

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Walnut Cove, NC, United States of America

David Charles Bovender