Rai Strategic Holdings, Inc.

R.j. Reynolds Tobacco Company

Jack Gray Flinchum, Jr

Paul Andrew Brinkley

Frederic Philippe Ampolini, Sr

John DePiano

Timothy Brian Nestor

Frank S Silveira

David Smith

Charles Jacob Novak, Iii

Steven Lee Alderman

Nicholas Harrison Watson

Grady Lance Dooly

Kevin Edward Keough

Michael Laine

Edward Louis Dickinson

James William McClellan

Wayne Douglas Brown

Eugene R Harris

James Robert Covino

Michael LaCourse

Robert Metcalf

Nathaniel Cambray

David Pelletier

Dwayne William Beeson

Stephen Benson Sears

Gary Maurice Dull

Wesley Steven Jones

Michael Francis Dube

Anthony Richard Gerardi

Eric Taylor Hunt

Quentin Paul Guenther, Jr

John William Wolber

John Hook

Steven R Mongillo

Marc Bourque

Steven Hart

Steven Lee Worm

Karen V Williams

Thomas A Perfetti

Darrell Eugene Holton, Jr

David Neil McClanahan

Jeremy Barrett Mabe

Huamin Gan

Harvey J Young

Crystal Dawn Hege Byrd

James S Thomasson

Dale Bowman Poindexter

Franklin Allan Stump, Jr

Thomas W Brown

Charles Bradford Rhoades, Jr

William Monroe Iii Coleman

The present disclosure relates to systems, apparatuses, and methods for assembling cartridges for aerosol delivery devices. The cartridges may be assembled by transporting carriages between various substations at which parts are added to a base. In another assembly method, the base may be moved between a plurality of robots which direct the base downwardly into contact with components to couple the components therewith. An inspection system may inspect the cartridges at various stages of completion.

Method for assembling a cartridge for a smoking article

A smokeless tobacco product is configured for insertion into the mouth of a user and incorporates materials fromspecies (e.g., tobacco-derived materials) and plant materials from non-species (e.g., non-tobacco plant materials). The tobacco material can have the form of processed tobacco material (e.g., granulated, reconstituted, heat treated, or otherwise processed tobacco laminae and/or stem), tobacco extract (e.g., an extract of water soluble tobacco components obtained by extracting tobacco with water), or a combination thereof. The non-tobacco material can have the form of vegetable pulp (e.g., sugar beet pulp), pulp obtained after removal of water soluble components as a result of water extraction treatment, or a combination thereof. The tobacco product is composed of a mixture of the tobacco material and non-tobacco material components; such as a mixture of tobacco material, tobacco extract and processed non-tobacco material, or a mixture of aqueous tobacco extract and water-extracted vegetable pulp.

Smokeless tobacco composition comprising tobacco-derived material and non-tobacco plant material

The present disclosure relates to electronic smoking articles exhibiting improved moisture control of a reservoir contained therein. The reservoir can be formed of fibrous materials, such as cellulose acetate fiber, thermoplastic fiber, non-thermoplastic fiber, or a combination thereof. The disclosure further provides methods for forming electronic smoking articles and methods of packaging electronic smoking articles (including cartridges thereof) so as to improve moisture control of the reservoir.

Electronic smoking article with improved storage of aerosol precursor compositions

A method of preparing a whitened tobacco material is provided, the method including the steps of (i) extracting a tobacco material with an aqueous solution to give a tobacco pulp and a tobacco extract; (ii) treating the tobacco pulp with at least one of a caustic reagent and an oxidizing agent for a time and at a temperature sufficient to lighten the color of the tobacco pulp to give a whitened tobacco pulp; (iii) clarifying the tobacco extract to remove higher molecular weight components; and (iv) combining the whitened tobacco pulp with a clarified tobacco extract to form a whitened tobacco material. The whitened tobacco material can be isolated and incorporated into a smokeless tobacco product. The invention also provides a smokeless tobacco product incorporating a whitened tobacco material. The smokeless tobacco product may be a snus-type formulation contained within a sealed pouch.

Whitened tobacco composition

Whitened tobacco compostion

The present disclosure relates to an aerosol delivery device. The aerosol delivery device may include a control body and a cartridge. The cartridge may include a base, a flow director, an outer body, a reservoir substrate, an outer body, and a mouthpiece. Heating elements may be molded into the flow director. The flow director may be welded to the base and the outer body, or the base and the flow director may include deformable ribs that engage the outer body. The flow director and the outer body may cooperatively define a reservoir compartment in which the reservoir substrate and the atomizer are received. The flow director and the base may define an electronics compartment in which an electronic control component is received. A related assembly method is also provided.

Sealed cartridge for an aerosol delivery device and related assembly method

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Clemmons, NC, United States of America

Jack Gray Flinchum, Jr