Polymer encased smokeless tobacco products

US9896228B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Altria Client Services LLC · US

Inventors

• Andrew Nathan Carroll · Chester, US
• Shannon Maxwell Black · Richmond, US
• Yan Helen Sun · Midlothian, US
• William J. Burke · Nashville, US
• Christopher Joseph DiNovi · Ruther Glen, US
• David Phillips · Holland, US
• Jason Andrew Macko · Richmond, US
• Robert Smith · Richmond, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 13, 2015
• Grant date: Feb 20, 2018
• Expiry date: Jul 6, 2035

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B33Y10/00
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

Methods for encasing bodies including smokeless tobacco or a tobacco substitute with a polymeric casing can include coating a compressed body with microfibers, applying tubular casings to compressed bodies, printing netting and webs on compressed bodies, injection molding around compressed bodies, applying a webbing to compressed bodies, placing compressed bodies into a skin forming bath, and including thermoplastic polymers in a compressed body.