Robert A Arents

US Patent:

51919044, Mar 9, 1993

Filed:

Aug 19, 1991

Appl. No.:

7/746746

Inventors:

Robert A. Arents - Richmond VA
Everett C. Patterson - Midlothian VA

Assignee:

Philip Morris Incorporated - New York NY

International Classification:

A24C 536

US Classification:

131 96

Abstract:

A trash removal system for separating trash and loose tobacco shreds from cigarettes that are rejected in cigarette manufacturing and packaging operations. A mixture comprising cigarettes, cigarette wrapper, trash and loose tobacco is metered onto a vibrating trash removal conveyor comprising a plurality of vertical plates arranged in a sinusoidally varying pattern.

US Patent:

20220264942, Aug 25, 2022

Filed:

May 2, 2022

Appl. No.:

17/734458

Inventors:

- Richmond VA, US
Eric HAWES - Midlothian VA, US
Raymond LAU - Richmond VA, US
Robert ARENTS - Richmond VA, US
Gerd KOBAL - Sandy Hook VA, US

Assignee:

Altria Client Services LLC - Richmond VA

International Classification:

A24F 7/00
A61M 11/04
A61M 15/06
A24F 40/30
A24F 40/485

Abstract:

The method including first establishing a first airflow in a first passage of an e-vaping cartridge, the first passage including a first portion, a second portion and a third portion, a first air inlet in communication with the first portion, a heater in communication with the second portion, the second portion being between the first portion and the third portion, and second establishing a second airflow in a second passage of the e-vaping cartridge, the second passage being in communication with the third portion.

US Patent:

20200068956, Mar 5, 2020

Filed:

Nov 11, 2019

Appl. No.:

16/679815

Inventors:

- Richmond VA, US
Eric HAWES - Richmond VA, US
Raymond LAU - Richmond VA, US
Robert ARENTS - Richmond VA, US
Gerd KOBAL - Sandy Hook VA, US

Assignee:

Altria Client Services LLC - Richmond VA

International Classification:

A24F 47/00
A61M 15/06
A61M 11/04
A24F 7/00

Abstract:

The cartridge includes a housing and a reservoir configured to contain a pre-vapor formulation. A first tube extends longitudinally within the housing, the first tube at least partially defining an air passage. A vapor generator is in communication with a first portion of the air passage, where the vapor generator is configured to communicate the pre-vapor formulation from the reservoir to the first portion and at least partially vaporize the pre-vapor formulation. A first air inlet is defined by the cartridge, where the first air inlet is in communication with a second portion of the air passage, the second portion being upstream of the vapor generator. A dilution air passage is defined by the cartridge, where a discharge end of the dilution air passage intersect a third portion of the air passage that is downstream of the vapor generator. The method makes the cartridge. The e-vaping device includes the cartridge.

US Patent:

20200029619, Jan 30, 2020

Filed:

Jul 30, 2018

Appl. No.:

16/049346

Inventors:

- Richmond VA, US
Ryan Alan BAILEY - Richmond VA, US
Charles DENDY - Ruther Glen VA, US
Robert ARENTS - Richmond VA, US
Christopher S. TUCKER - Midlothian VA, US
Nam TRAN - Richmond VA, US

Assignee:

Altria Client Services LLC - Richmond VA

International Classification:

A24F 47/00
H01M 2/06
H01M 2/10
A24F 7/02

Abstract:

A power supply assembly for an e-vaping device may include a coupling interface configured to couple with a cartridge to configure the e-vaping device to generate a vapor, a light-emitting device, and a light tube structure extending from the light-emitting device and through the coupling interface. The light tube structure may channel light emitted by the light-emitting device to emit the light into a reservoir of the cartridge to cause at least one portion of the cartridge to emit at least a portion of the channeled light to an external environment.

US Patent:

20190090538, Mar 28, 2019

Filed:

Sep 22, 2017

Appl. No.:

15/712353

Inventors:

- Richmond VA, US
Eric HAWES - Glen Allen VA, US
Raymond LAU - Richmond VA, US
Robert ARENTS - Richmond VA, US
Gerd KOBAL - Sandy Hook VA, US

Assignee:

Altria Client Services LLC - Richmond VA

International Classification:

A24F 47/00

Abstract:

The cartridge includes a housing, a reservoir containing a pre-vapor formulation, a vapor generator in communication with a central passage, the central passage including a first portion, a second portion and a third portion. The vapor generator is configured to communicate the pre-vapor formulation to the first portion of the central passage. A first air inlet is in communication with the second portion of the central air passage, where the second portion is between the vapor generator and the first air inlet. A dilution air inlet intersects the third portion of the central air passage, where the third portion is between the vapor generator and an outlet of the cartridge. The dilution air inlet defines a dilution air passage that does not pass through the vapor generator. The e-vaping device includes the cartridge.