Patents Examined by Chiam Smith
  • Patent number: 8053008
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a flavor pouch containing flavorant selected from one or more of tea, coffee, rose hips, honey, royal jelly, fruit extracts, mint, sweeteners, exotic flavors, and the like includes feeding a strip of fabric along a feed path, placing preselected amounts of flavorant material at spaced apart locations along the strip, forming flavor pouches by sealing portions of the strip together to enclose each preselected amount of flavorant material, and separating the flavor pouches from the strip. The pouches can have various shapes including crescent and oval shapes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: Philip Morris USA Inc.
    Inventors: William R. Sweeney, Danielle R. Crawford