公开(公告)号：US6116247A

公开(公告)日：2000-09-12

申请号：US176028

申请日：1998-10-21

申请人： Joseph Leslie Banyasz ,  Aubry T. Burton ,  John M. Campbell ,  Woontung Geoffrey Chan ,  Mary Ellen Counts ,  William James Crowe ,  Jay A Fournier ,  Patrick H. Hayes ,  Willie Gray Houck, Jr. ,  Robert E. Lee, III ,  Donald Bruce Losee ,  John B. Paine, III ,  Robert L. Ripley ,  Charles Edwin Thomas, Jr.

发明人： Joseph Leslie Banyasz ,  Aubry T. Burton ,  John M. Campbell ,  Woontung Geoffrey Chan ,  Mary Ellen Counts ,  William James Crowe ,  Jay A Fournier ,  Patrick H. Hayes ,  Willie Gray Houck, Jr. ,  Robert E. Lee, III ,  Donald Bruce Losee ,  John B. Paine, III ,  Robert L. Ripley ,  Charles Edwin Thomas, Jr.

IPC分类号： A24F47/00 ,  A24F3/02 ,  A24F9/04 ,  A24F9/12

CPC分类号： A24F47/008

摘要： A cleaning unit used to clean condensates formed during use of a component of a smoking system. The component can be a heating fixture having a cigarette receiving section and a plurality of longitudinally extending circumferentially spaced apart heating elements located within a can which accumulates the condensates. During a cleaning operation, the heating fixture is fitted within a cavity in the cleaning unit such that the cigarette receiving end of the heating fixture engages an O-ring and the terminal base portion abuts against an indented stop in an interior sidewall of a removable portion of the housing. The cleaning unit includes a water inlet connected to a source of pressurized water such as a faucet and a spray member extends into the cigarette receiving section to spray jets of water against the interior of the can. The housing can include a main flow passage which supplies pressurized water to the spray member and one or more bypass passages whereby water used to clean the heating fixture can exit the housing through one outlet and water which bypasses the heating fixture can exit the housing through other outlets. The housing can include a pulsating mechanism to pulsate jets of pressurized water against the interior of the heating fixture.

摘要翻译： 用于清洁在使用吸烟系统的部件期间形成的冷凝物的清洁单元。 该部件可以是具有香烟接收部分和位于罐内的多个纵向延伸的周向间隔开的加热元件的加热装置，其积聚冷凝物。 在清洁操作期间，加热夹具安装在清洁单元中的空腔内，使得加热夹具的香烟接收端接合O形环，并且端子基座部分抵靠在可移除部分的内侧壁中的凹入止动件 的住房。 清洁单元包括连接到诸如水龙头的加压水源的进水口，并且喷雾构件延伸到香烟接收部分中，以将喷射的水喷射到罐的内部。 壳体可以包括向喷射构件供应加压水的主流路和一个或多个旁通通道，由此用于清洁加热装置的水可以通过一个出口离开壳体，并且绕过加热夹具的水可以通过其它的出口离开壳体 网点 壳体可以包括脉动机构，以使加压水的喷射脉动相对于加热夹具的内部。

公开(公告)号：USD452930S1

公开(公告)日：2002-01-08

申请号：US29120626

申请日：2000-03-23

申请人： Arun Sinha ,  Wendy Marin ,  Brendan Anderson ,  Jan Jones ,  Chuck Krausie ,  Phil Hill ,  Charles T. Higgins ,  William James Crowe ,  Takahide Takeda

设计人： Arun Sinha ,  Wendy Marin ,  Brendan Anderson ,  Jan Jones ,  Chuck Krausie ,  Phil Hill ,  Charles T. Higgins ,  William James Crowe ,  Takahide Takeda

公开(公告)号：USD447597S1

公开(公告)日：2001-09-04

申请号：US29120630

申请日：2000-03-23

申请人： Arun Sinha ,  Wendy Marin ,  Brendan Anderson ,  Jan Jones ,  Robert Pandorf ,  James Collins ,  Charles T. Higgins ,  William James Crowe ,  Takahide Takeda

设计人： Arun Sinha ,  Wendy Marin ,  Brendan Anderson ,  Jan Jones ,  Robert Pandorf ,  James Collins ,  Charles T. Higgins ,  William James Crowe ,  Takahide Takeda

公开(公告)号：US06688313B2

公开(公告)日：2004-02-10

申请号：US09814779

申请日：2001-03-23

申请人： Susan E. Wrenn ,  A. Clifton Lilly, Jr. ,  Traci L. Franklin ,  Patrick H. Hayes ,  Mary Ellen Counts ,  William James Crowe

发明人： Susan E. Wrenn ,  A. Clifton Lilly, Jr. ,  Traci L. Franklin ,  Patrick H. Hayes ,  Mary Ellen Counts ,  William James Crowe

IPC分类号： A24F1304

CPC分类号： A24C5/478 ,  A24C5/606 ,  A24F47/008

摘要： An electrical smoking system comprising a cigarette and an electric lighter, wherein the cigarette comprises a tubular tobacco mat partially filled with material tobacco so as to define a filled tobacco rod portion and an unfilled tobacco rod portion. The cigarette and the lighter are mutually arranged so that when the cigarette is received in the lighter, the electrical heater element of the lighter at least partially superposes at least a portion of the filled tobacco rod portion. The cigarette and the lighter are also mutually arranged so that when the cigarette is received in the lighter, the free end of the cigarette is occluded. The cigarette includes a zone of perforations at a location along the filled tobacco rod portion, with the cigarette being free of perforations along the unfilled tobacco rod portion. An apparatus for perforating a cigarette which can be smoked in an electrical smoking device includes a drum link-up assembly and a laser perforating apparatus. The apparatus can be used in a method of perforating a tobacco rod of the cigarette prior to assembly of the tobacco rod to a filter rod via tipping paper. In the method, a tobacco rod is supplied to the drum link-up assembly wherein the tobacco rod is moved from a combining apparatus to a tipping apparatus which attaches the tobacco rod to a filter rod by tipping paper. In making the cigarettes with a tobacco rod and a filter rod, a combining apparatus forms a continuous tobacco rod which is cut into 2-up tobacco rods.

摘要翻译： 一种包括香烟和电动打火机的电吸烟系统，其中所述香烟包括部分填充有材料烟草的管状烟草垫，以限定填充的烟草杆部分和未填充的烟草棒部分。 香烟和打火机相互布置，使得当香烟被接收在打火机中时，打火机的电加热器元件至少部分地叠置在填充的烟草棒部分的至少一部分上。 香烟和打火机也相互排列，使得当香烟被接收在打火机中时，香烟的自由端被遮挡。 香烟在沿着填充的烟草棒部分的位置处包括穿孔区域，香烟沿着未填充的烟草棒部分没有穿孔。 一种用于穿过可在电吸烟装置中吸烟的香烟的装置包括鼓连接组件和激光穿孔装置。 该装置可以用于在将烟草杆通过接装纸组装到过滤嘴杆之前对香烟的烟草条进行穿孔的方法。 在该方法中，烟草棒被供应到鼓连接组件，其中烟草杆从组合装置移动到通过水泥纸将烟草杆附接到过滤杆的接装设备。 在用烟草棒和过滤杆制造香烟时，组合装置形成连续的烟丝条，其被切成2根烟草棒。