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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Patent No.:

US 11382350 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Jul. 12, 2022

Filed:

Dec. 19, 2019

Product portion enrobing process and apparatus, and resulting products

Applicant:

Altria Client Services Llc, Richmond, VA (US);

Inventors:

Andrew Nathan Carroll, Chester, VA (US);

Shannon Maxwell Black, Richmond, VA (US);

Yan Helen Sun, Midlothian, VA (US);

William J. Burke, Nashville, TN (US);

Robert Smith, Glen Allen, VA (US);

Assignee:

Altria Client Services LLC, Richmond, VA (US);

Attorney:

Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C.

Primary Examiner:

Anthony Calandra

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A24B 15/18 (2006.01); A24B 13/00 (2006.01); D01D 11/06 (2006.01); D01D 5/18 (2006.01); D01D 5/098 (2006.01); D01D 5/00 (2006.01); B65G 15/44 (2006.01); B65G 51/02 (2006.01); B65G 15/24 (2006.01); A24B 15/28 (2006.01); D04H 13/00 (2006.01); A24B 3/14 (2006.01); A24B 15/14 (2006.01); A24B 15/40 (2006.01); A24F 23/02 (2006.01); B05B 13/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A24B 15/186 (2013.01); A24B 3/14 (2013.01); A24B 13/00 (2013.01); A24B 15/14 (2013.01); A24B 15/28 (2013.01); A24B 15/283 (2013.01); A24B 15/403 (2013.01); A24F 23/02 (2013.01); B05B 13/0221 (2013.01); B65G 15/24 (2013.01); B65G 15/44 (2013.01); B65G 51/02 (2013.01); D01D 5/0084 (2013.01); D01D 5/0985 (2013.01); D01D 5/18 (2013.01); D01D 11/06 (2013.01); D04H 13/00 (2013.01); D04H 13/001 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method of enrobing a product portion in polymer strands includes mounting at least one product portion on a holding device and passing the at least one product portion through a polymer enrobing zone. The polymer enrobing zone can include a flow of polymeric fibers produced by a polymer spray head. The polymer fibers can wraparound the at least one product portion to produce an enrobed product portion. The holding device can hold the at least one product portion by passing at least partially through the body of the product portion. At least a portion of the holding device is removed from the enrobed product portion. In some cases, the at least one product portion includes smokeless tobacco.

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