Patents Represented by Attorney Middelton Reutlinger
  • Patent number: 6082550
    Abstract: The invention relates to a cooling and screening drum for tobacco materials comprising a material inlet, a rotary drum including lifting webs running longitudinally along the inner wall, a cross-flow cooling system and a material outlet, the lifting webs being configured inclined obliquely to the inner wall contrary to the direction of rotation of the drum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2000
    Assignee: Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation
    Inventors: Wolfgang Metzner, Uwe-Peter Korner
  • Patent number: D537555
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2007
    Assignee: Genlyte Thomas Group, LLC
    Inventors: Robert L. Summerford, Claude Barozzini, Mike Joss
  • Patent number: D589638
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2009
    Assignee: Genlyte Thomas Group LLC
    Inventor: Scotty Collins