Patents by Inventor Lloyd Harmon Hancock

Lloyd Harmon Hancock 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).

  • Publication number: 20040118420
    Abstract: 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, are applied to a continuous paper web on the cigarette making apparatus. The formulation is applied to the paper web using application apparatus possessing rollers, and one of those rollers has 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 modified figure rail assembly and garniture entrance cone provide air flow toward the paper web being advanced through the garniture region of the cigarette making apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2002
    Publication date: June 24, 2004
    Inventors: Vernon Brent Barnes, Carl Carlton Greene, Lloyd Harmon Hancock, John Larkin Nelson
  • Patent number: 5819751
    Abstract: Cigarettes and methods of making them, in which an insulated fuel element is combined with a substrate assembly comprising a substrate within a tube, combining a roll of tobacco with a plug of tobacco paper, combining the fuel element/substrate assembly with the tobacco/tobacco paper assembly, and combining the resulting combination with a filter element to produce filter cigarettes. Methods of constructing the various and preferred subassemblies are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 13, 1998
    Assignee: R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
    Inventors: Vernon Brent Barnes, Donald Ross Wilkinson, Lloyd Harmon Hancock, Erwin Oesterling, Siegfried Schlisio, Werner Hinz