Patents by Inventor Guillermo Gerding

Guillermo Gerding has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 5713377
    Abstract: The invention relates to a coaxial tobacco cartridge with an inner core of a first tobacco blend, a sheath for the inner core, an outer jacket of a second tobacco blend, a sheath of high air permeability and an associated filter element. The coaxial tobacco cartridge is not smokable independently, but can be used by persons to make their own coaxial cigarettes, by inserting it in an appropriate cigarette-paper tube or wrapping it in a cigarette-paper strip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 1995
    Date of Patent: February 3, 1998
    Assignee: British-American Tobacco (Germany) GmbH
    Inventors: Guillermo Gerding, Dirk Pangritz, Werner Schneider
  • Patent number: 5190060
    Abstract: A smokable article having an aerosol generating zone connected to a mouthpiece via a tubular intermediate zone, wherein the aerosol generating zone includes an annular combustion element and a cylindrical carrier for an aerosol precursor coaxially disposed therewithin with a space therebetween forming air flow passages. Heat from the combustion element conducted to the aerosol carrier generates aerosols that may be drawn by air passing through the air flow passages to the mouthpiece by a smoker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 1990
    Date of Patent: March 2, 1993
    Assignee: B.A.T. Cigarettenfabriken GmbH
    Inventors: Guillermo Gerding, Bernhard Hauser, Knut Moller, Bernd-Henrik Muller, Gert Rudolph, Wolfgang Wiethaup
  • Patent number: 5135009
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a smokable article which is intended to permit the smoker to avoid the condensates usually present in the smoke while retaining the taste experience familiar from conventional cigarettes; this is achieved in that a sheet-like carrier element coated with an aroma-carrying material and having a low thermal capacity is brought into direct thermal contact with a heat source comprising a hollow cylindrical combustion element having at least one passage therethrough wherein said passage is separate and distinct from the hollow portion; in the pauses between draws a cavity serves as collecting container or reservoir for the aromatic substances developed which can be inhaled in the next draw by the smoker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 1990
    Date of Patent: August 4, 1992
    Assignee: B.A.T. Cigarettenfabriken GmbH
    Inventors: Bernd-Henrik Muller, Wolfgang Wiethaup, Guillermo Gerding, Bernhard Hauser, Knut Moller, Gert Rudolph
  • Patent number: 5115820
    Abstract: A smokable article including an aerosol generating zone which has a combustion element and a carrier for an aerosol precursor which coaxially surrounds the combustion element, flow passages in the aerosol generating zone and a mouthpiece. The combustion element includes axial flow passages extending over its entire length and a jacket formed of a gas-impermeable heat-insulating material. The jacket is surrounded at a distance by a concentric sleeve of a gas-impermeable material so that between the jacket and the sleeve at least one flow space results; the sucked-in air flows through the flow passages in the combustion element, then back through the flow space between the jacket and the sleeve and finally through the carrier for the aerosol precursor to the mouthpiece. The carrier includes a precursor, and the combustion element has a plurality of axial passages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 1990
    Date of Patent: May 26, 1992
    Assignee: B.A.T. Cigarettenfabriken GmbH
    Inventors: Bernhard Hauser, Guillermo Gerding, Knut Moller, Bernd-Henrik Muller, Gert Rudolph, Wolfgang Wiethaup
  • Patent number: 5080114
    Abstract: The invention described here relates to a smokable article which is intended to enable the smoker to avoid the condensates usually present in the smoke while retaining or even enhancing the taste experience familiar from conventional cigarettes or smokable articles; this is achieved by the advantageous geometrical and thermodynamic configuration of the heat source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 1990
    Date of Patent: January 14, 1992
    Assignee: B.A.T. Cigarettenfabriken GmbH
    Inventors: Gert Rudolph, Bernd-Henrik Muller, Guillermo Gerding, Bernhard Hauser, Rolf Kutting, Knut Moller, Wolfgang Wiethaup