Patents by Inventor Carl Carlton Greene, Jr.
Carl Carlton Greene, Jr. 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).
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Patent number: 7448390Abstract: Cigarettes are manufactured using modified automated cigarette making apparatus. Those cigarettes possess smokable rods having paper wrapping materials having additive materials applied thereto as patterns. The additive material can be applied as a coating formulation in an off-line manner to a continuous paper sheet web that is later used for cigarette manufacture. The additive material can be applied as a coating formulation in an on-line manner to continuous paper web moving through an operating cigarette making machine. The coating formulation is applied to the paper web using roll applicator techniques, ink jet printing techniques or electrostatic precipitation techniques. Liquid coating formulation are curable, and are virtually absent of solvent or liquid carrier. Radiation, such as ultraviolet or electron beam radiation, is used to solidify and fix polymerizable liquid components of the coating formulation that have been applied to the paper web.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2003Date of Patent: November 11, 2008Assignee: R.J. Reynolds Tobacco CompanyInventors: Vernon Brent Barnes, Lloyd Harmon Hancock, Carl Carlton Greene, Jr., Sydney Keith Seymour, Balager Ademe, John Larkin Nelson
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Patent number: 7409956Abstract: Cigarettes are manufactured using modified automated cigarette making apparatus. Those cigarettes possess smokable rods having paper wrapping materials having additive materials applied thereto as patterns. The additive materials, which can have the forms of liquid or paste formulations, can be applied to the paper web using application apparatus possessing rollers. One of those rollers can have a series of pockets in its roll face to receive additive formulation from a reservoir and to define the pattern of the formulation on the paper. A radiant dryer can be used to dry the additive material that has been applied to the paper web. The radiant dryer can be located on one component of a two component assembly that is used to manufacture cigarettes. Spectrometric techniques can be used to ensure proper registration of the additive material on the cigarette rods so manufactured, and to ensure proper quality of those cigarettes.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2006Date of Patent: August 12, 2008Assignee: R.J. Reynolds Tobacco CompanyInventors: Lloyd Harmon Hancock, Carl Carlton Greene, Jr., John Larkin Nelson, Vernon Brent Barnes, Sydney Keith Seymour, Balager Ademe
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Patent number: 7363929Abstract: Cigarettes can be manufactured using modified automated cigarette making apparatus. Those cigarettes can possess smokable rods having paper wrapping materials having additive materials applied thereto as patterns. The additive materials can have the forms of liquid or paste formulations. The formulation can be applied to the paper web using application apparatus possessing rollers. A radiant dryer can be used to dry the additive material applied to the paper web. Such a system provides a source of paper web, applies additive material to that web in a pattern, dries the paper web, and winds the treated paper web on to a bobbin. That bobbin can be later used to provide a source of paper web on a cigarette making machine, which unrolls that bobbin, receives the treated paper web from that bobbin, supplies tobacco filler and manufactures a cigarette rod from the paper web and tobacco filler.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2003Date of Patent: April 29, 2008Assignee: R.J. Reynolds Tabacco CompanyInventors: Barry Smith Fagg, Vernon Brent Barnes, Sydney Keith Seymour, Lloyd Harmon Hancock, John Larkin Nelson, Carl Carlton Greene, Jr., Balager Ademe
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Patent number: 7275548Abstract: Cigarettes manufactured using modified automated cigarette making apparatus can possess smokable rods having additive materials applied to paper wrapping materials as patterns. The additive materials can be applied to a continuous paper web using rollers.) One of those rollers can have a series of pockets in its roll face to receive additive formulation from a reservoir and to define the pattern of the formulation on the paper. The additive material in the recessed pockets of a first roller can be transferred in a controlled manner to a second roller and from the second roller to desired locations on the paper web. The additive material can also be applied to a transfer roller, transferred from the transfer roller to pick-up roller, transferred from the pick-up roller to an application roller, and transferred to the paper web that passes between the application roller and a back-up roller.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2003Date of Patent: October 2, 2007Assignee: R.J. Reynolds Tobacco CompanyInventors: Lloyd Harmon Hancock, Vernon Brent Barnes, Carl Carlton Greene, Jr.
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Patent number: 7117871Abstract: Cigarettes are manufactured using modified automated cigarette making apparatus. Those cigarettes possess smokable rods having paper wrapping materials having additive materials applied thereto as patterns. The additive materials, which can have the forms of liquid or paste formulations, can be applied to the paper web using application apparatus possessing rollers. One of those rollers can have a series of pockets in its roll face to receive additive formulation from a reservoir and to define the pattern of the formulation on the paper. A radiant dryer can be used to dry the additive material that has been applied to the paper web. The radiant dryer can be located on one component of a two component assembly that is used to manufacture cigarettes. Spectrometric techniques can be used to ensure proper registration of the additive material on the cigarette rods so manufactured, and to ensure proper quality of those cigarettes.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2002Date of Patent: October 10, 2006Assignee: R.J. Reynolds Tobacco CompanyInventors: Lloyd Harmon Hancock, Carl Carlton Greene, Jr., John Larkin Nelson, Vernon Brent Barnes, Sydney Keith Seymour, Balager Ademe
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Patent number: 7073514Abstract: Cigarettes are manufactured using modified automated cigarette making apparatus. Those cigarettes possess smokable rods having paper wrapping materials having additive materials applied thereto as patterns. The additive materials, which can have the forms of liquid or paste formulations, can be applied to the paper web using application apparatus possessing rollers. One of those rollers can have a series of pockets in its roll face to receive additive formulation from a reservoir and to define the pattern of the formulation on the paper. A radiant dryer can be used to dry the additive material that has been applied to the paper web. The radiant dryer can be located on one component of a two component assembly that is used to manufacture cigarettes.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2002Date of Patent: July 11, 2006Assignee: R.J. Reynolds Tobacco CompanyInventors: Vernon Brent Barnes, Carl Carlton Greene, Jr., Lloyd Harmon Hancock, John Larkin Nelson
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Patent number: 6854469Abstract: The present invention provides a smoking article having a reduced ignition propensity by reason of one or more cross-directional bands of an adhesive applied to the paper wrapper of the smoking article. The adhesive may be one of a cigarette seam adhesive, a filter plug wrap adhesive or a tipping paper adhesive conventionally used in the manufacture of cigarettes. A cigarette maker is modified to include the adhesive applicator apparatus of the invention which applies the adhesive bands to the paper wrapper in an in line process.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2001Date of Patent: February 15, 2005Inventors: Lloyd Harmon Hancock, Vernon Brent Barnes, Carl Carlton Greene, Jr., Robert Leslie Oglesby
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Patent number: 6155273Abstract: A beauty coil that is in the form of a rod which is comprised of a mass of elongated fibers which run the length of the rod. The fibers are held in a compressed state by an outer sheathing having a pair of longitudinal slits at one end of the rod to form a tab to permit easy removal of the sheath which allows the fiber mass to expand or blossom prior to use.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 1998Date of Patent: December 5, 2000Assignee: R. J. Reynolds Tobacco CompanyInventors: Mickey Lee Smith, Charles Ray Ashcraft, Carl Carlton Greene, Jr.
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Patent number: 5709352Abstract: An apparatus and method for the tensionless unwinding of a gossamer web of material from a bobbin uses a servo control system connected between the servomotors of a web handling apparatus and a bobbin unwinder for controlling the unwinding speed of the bobbin unwinder in relation to the take-up speed of the web handling apparatus. A pulsed infrared sensor is used to sense the web position in a loop between the unwinder and the web handling apparatus and supply a feedback signal to the servo control system for maintaining the web in a substantially untensioned state. A flow of air is impinged upon the web adjacent the sensor to prevent unwanted web movement due to ambient air currents and other transitory forces on the web.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 1996Date of Patent: January 20, 1998Assignee: R. J. Reynolds Tobacco CompanyInventors: Jeffery Kane Rogers, Gary Micheal Jackson, Wallace Ray Lassiter, Carl Carlton Greene, Jr.