Patents by Inventor Roy E. Yeatts

Roy E. Yeatts 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).

  • Barrier sealed packages for cigarettes and other smoking articles
    Patent number: 4807745
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a packaging composite for barrier sealed cigarette or other smoking article packages. The composite includes a foil layer, exterior and interior skin layers of heat-sealable thermoplastic polymer, first and second biaxially oriented polypropylene homopolymer layers located between the exterior skin layers and the foil layers, and first and second adhesive layers coupling the polypropylene layers to the foil layer on each side thereof. The package laminate has a thickness of between 1.5 and 2.5 mils.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 1988
    Date of Patent: February 28, 1989
    Assignee: R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
    Inventors: William H. Langley, Roy E. Yeatts, Carl C. Hein, III, Matthew S. Koschak
  • Composite tipping structure for use on an air-ventilated cigarette and method of manufacturing same
    Patent number: 4295478
    Abstract: A composite structure for use on a smoking product including a non-porous tipping paper coated with a heat-activatable adhesive in a selected pattern, having areas void of adhesive and microscopic openings through the tipping paper within the void areas. The method of manufacturing the composite structure includes applying a non-conductive, heat-activatable adhesive coating on the paper web in a specific pattern having void and adhesive coated areas and forming perforations in the void areas of the paper web.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 1979
    Date of Patent: October 20, 1981
    Assignee: RJR Archer, Inc.
    Inventor: Roy E. Yeatts