Patents Assigned to Banana Bros. LLC
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Patent number: 11547139Abstract: An apparatus for preparing a smokeable product is provided. The apparatus includes an upper chamber configured to receive feed material, a feed material cutting mechanism comprising a size reducer configured to rotate in two directions, a motor configured to rotate the feed material cutting mechanism, a controller configured to selectively reverse direction of rotation of the feed material cutting mechanism, a power source configured to drive the motor, a switch for turning the power source off and on, and a fan in the uppermost chamber configured to move feed material within the uppermost chamber to a lowermost chamber.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2018Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: Banana Bros, LLCInventors: David Richmond, Howard Richmond, Manuel A. Montano, Jeffery Kunkler
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Patent number: 11172701Abstract: The invention includes a device for smoking smokeable material. The device has a housing, a rotatable shaft for driving smokeable material towards the first end of the housing as the smokeable material is smoked, at least one radial hole through the shaft for passage of smokeable material from the burning section of the housing into the longitudinal hole of the rotatable shaft.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2017Date of Patent: November 16, 2021Assignee: Banana Bros, LLCInventors: David Richmond, Howard Richmond, Manuel A. Montano
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Patent number: 11116253Abstract: An electronic cigarette comprising an atomizer is provided. The electronic cigarette includes an inner core assembly configured to receive liquid and provide the liquid through at least one opening in the inner core assembly. The inner core assembly includes a heater having a noncylindrical shape, in one embodiment having hexagonal shape in a sinusoidal wave pattern with rounded corners.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2019Date of Patent: September 14, 2021Assignee: Banana Bros, LLCInventors: David Richmond, Howard Richmond
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Patent number: 11026452Abstract: A vaporizer is provided, including a body, a concentrate chamber provided within the body and including at least one chamber aperture, a concentrate pusher configured to push material through the concentrate chamber, a heating element having at least one element aperture, the heating element positioned proximate the at least one chamber aperture and configured to heat material pushed through the concentrate chamber, and a power source configured to apply power to the heating element.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2018Date of Patent: June 8, 2021Assignee: Banana Bros, LLCInventors: David Richmond, Howard Richmond, Manuel A. Montano, Jeffery Kunkler
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Patent number: 10798965Abstract: A filter device including a Bernoulli element is provided. The filter device includes a housing, a plurality of permeable membranes positioned in association with the housing to create a plurality of chambers in the housing, and a Bernoulli element positioned within one chamber, wherein the Bernoulli element causes airflow and pressure to vary within the one chamber when fluid comprising smoke is drawn into the filter device.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2017Date of Patent: October 13, 2020Assignee: Banana Bros, LLCInventors: David Richmond, Howard Richmond
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Patent number: 10709169Abstract: An apparatus for rolling papers into a non-cylindrical orientation is provided. The apparatus includes a rotatable non-cylindrical workpiece having a plurality of openings provided therein, a surface comprising a receiving indentation configured to receive and fit the rotatable non-cylindrical workpiece, a suction producing arrangement connected to the rotatable non-cylindrical workpiece, and a rolling paper. The suction producing arrangement draws air through the plurality of openings while the rotatable non-cylindrical workpiece rotates such that the drawn air draws the rolling paper toward and around the rotatable non-cylindrical workpiece, the rotation causing the rolling paper and a quantity of adhesive applied to the rolling paper to form a completed non-cylindrical rolling paper product.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2019Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: Banana Bros, LLCInventors: David Richmond, Howard Richmond, Manuel A. Montano, Jeffery Kunkler
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Patent number: 10532875Abstract: An apparatus is provided including a sealable fluid-tight container comprising leafy organic material and a one-way fluid-tight valve, a pressure source, and means for connecting the pressure source to the sealable fluid-tight container such that the pressure source applies fluid pressure to the sealable fluid-tight container via the one-way fluid-tight valve. The pressure source is configured to provide fluid to the sealable fluid-tight container comprising the leafy organic material and the one-way fluid-tight valve keeps received fluid from escaping the sealable fluid-tight container.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2017Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: Banana Bros, LLCInventors: David Richmond, Howard Richmond
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Patent number: 10440984Abstract: A system and method for manufacturing a plurality of uniform cigarettes that uses air current and a vacuum to move and pack plant matter into pre-rolled cigarette papers is provided. Such an apparatus includes an air current generator with an air outlet portion and an air intake portion, a channel configured to channel air current from the air outlet portion of the air current generator, means for holding at least one pre-rolled paper in the channel so that air current generated by the air current generator passes through all pre-rolled papers, and an opening configured to receive organic leafy material and introduce the organic leafy material received into the channel. Airflow from the air current generator provides organic leafy material to the opening, the channel, and the at least one pre-rolled paper in the channel.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2018Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: Banana Bros, LLCInventors: David Richmond, Howard Richmond, Manuel A. Montano, Jeffery Kunkler
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Patent number: 10440986Abstract: The invention includes a device for smoking smokeable material. The device has a housing with a burning section and an inhalation section, a pusher in the housing for pushing the smokeable material through the burning section. The device also has a threaded rotatable shaft for driving smokeable material towards the first end of the housing as the smokeable material is smoked, and a connector for connecting the mouthpiece to the threaded rotatable shaft, where the connector is rotatable relative to the housing, so that rotation of the connector rotates the threaded rotatable shaft relative to the housing.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2017Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: Banana Bros, LLCInventors: David Richmond, Howard Richmond, Manuel Montano
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Publication number: 20180213838Abstract: A system for preparing smokeable material comprising a wall providing an upper chamber and a lower chamber with a grate between the chambers. Feed smokeable material in the upper chamber has its size reduced with a size reducer a sufficient amount such that it can pass through the grate into the lower chamber as fill smokeable material. There is an opening in the lower chamber for fill smokeable material to pass out of the lower chamber. The fill smokeable material can then be used to fill a wrapper or a smokeable device.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2017Publication date: August 2, 2018Applicant: BANANA BROS LLCInventors: David Richmond, Howard Richmond, Manuel A. Montano, Jeffery Kunkler
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Publication number: 20180192692Abstract: The invention includes a device for smoking smokeable material. The device has a housing with a burning section and an inhalation section, a pusher in the housing for pushing the smokeable material through the burning section. The device also has a threaded rotatable shaft for driving smokeable material towards the first end of the housing as the smokeable material is smoked, and a connector for connecting the mouthpiece to the threaded rotatable shaft, where the connector is rotatable relative to the housing, so that rotation of the connector rotates the threaded rotatable shaft relative to the housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2017Publication date: July 12, 2018Applicant: BANANA BROS, LLCInventors: David Richmond, Howard Richmond, Manuel Montano
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Publication number: 20180192688Abstract: The invention includes a smokeable product formed by compressing starting smokeable material by at least 20%, and forming it into a log shape. Smokeable material can have a longitudinally extending opening extending from one end partially to the opposed end, and/or can have external grooves on the outer surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2017Publication date: July 12, 2018Applicant: BANANA BROS, LLCInventors: David Richmond, Howard Richmond, Manuel A. Montano
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Publication number: 20180192691Abstract: The invention includes a device for smoking smokeable material. The device has a housing, a rotatable shaft for driving smokeable material towards the first end of the housing as the smokeable material is smoked, at least one radial hole through the shaft for passage of smokeable material from the burning section of the housing into the longitudinal hole of the rotatable shaft.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2017Publication date: July 12, 2018Applicant: BANANA BROS, LLCInventors: David Richmond, Howard Richmond, Manuel A. Montano
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Patent number: 9814259Abstract: A system for preparing smokeable material comprising a wall providing an upper chamber and a lower chamber with a grate between the chambers. Feed smokeable material in the upper chamber has its size reduced with a size reducer a sufficient amount that it can pass through the grade into the lower chamber as fill smokeable material. A support below the lower chamber is provided for supporting a wrapper. There is an opening in the lower chamber for fill smokeable material to pass into the wrapper. An axially moveable tamper can tamp the fill smokeable material in the wrapper. Biasing means bias the wall and tamper into the upper position. A mechanism is provided for moving the tamper from its upper position to its lower position against the biasing means for tamping the smokeable material in the wrapper.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2017Date of Patent: November 14, 2017Assignee: Banana Bros. LLCInventors: David Richmond, Howard Richmond, Manuel A. Montano
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Patent number: D961840Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2017Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: Banana Bros, LLCInventors: David Richmond, Howard Richmond, Manuel A. Montano