Patents by Inventor Manfred Drabner

Manfred Drabner 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).

  • Method for the continuous manufacture of smoking articles
    Patent number: 8701678
    Abstract: A method for the continuous manufacture of cigarillos and other smoking articles comprising a rod of smokable material and a wrapper of tobacco leaf material circumscribing the rod comprises: conveying an elongate web of tobacco leaf material along a pre-determined path; repeatedly severing the elongate web to form a succession of discrete wrappers; contacting each of the succession of discrete wrappers with a respective one of a succession of rods of smokable material; and convoluting the discrete wrappers around the rods of smokable material to form smoking articles. The method may further comprise cutting a plurality of polygonal tobacco leaf portions from at least one tobacco leaf; and tessellating the plurality of polygonal tobacco leaf portions to form the elongate web.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Philip Morris USA Inc.
    Inventor: Manfred Drabner
  • Method for the continuous manufacture of smoking articles
    Publication number: 20070199570
    Abstract: A method for the continuous manufacture of cigarillos and other smoking articles comprising a rod of smokable material and a wrapper of tobacco leaf material circumscribing the rod comprises: conveying an elongate web of tobacco leaf material along a pre-determined path; repeatedly severing the elongate web to form a succession of discrete wrappers; contacting each of the succession of discrete wrappers with a respective one of a succession of rods of smokable material; and convoluting the discrete wrappers around the rods of smokable material to form smoking articles. The method may further comprise cutting a plurality of polygonal tobacco leaf portions from at least one tobacco leaf; and tessellating the plurality of polygonal tobacco leaf portions to form the elongate web.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2007
    Publication date: August 30, 2007
    Applicant: Philip Morris USA Inc.
    Inventor: Manfred Drabner
  • Tobacco slab
    Publication number: 20070163605
    Abstract: The invention relates to a continuous tobacco slab (10) made of shredded tobacco which slab has a substantially uniform composition and a substantially uniform distribution of the shredded tobacco. The invention further relates to a multi-layer structure comprising the tobacco slab and in addition at least one layer, preferably one or two layers, of a smokable material other than shredded tobacco. Furthermore, the invention provides a package comprising the tobacco slab or multi-layer structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2006
    Publication date: July 19, 2007
    Applicant: Philip Morris USA Inc.
    Inventors: Reynald Aeschlimann, Eric De Borst, Manfred Drabner, Gebhard Durner, Lucien Meier, Gurdrun Schwub-Gwinner, Stephanie Tiling, Marcel Van Rijssel, Kerstin Velser