Patents by Inventor Sydney Keith
Sydney Keith 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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Publication number: 20120276634Abstract: Described herein are methods and media for facilitating somatic embryogenesis and for collecting, conditioning, and transferring the washed embryos onto a substrate and into an environment suitable for conditioning the embryos for a desired period of time so they become germination-competent for plant production. The described plant embryo cleaning apparatus and method are used for preparing multiple plant embryos for plant production. The apparatus and method can use a cleaning fluid source, a fluid-conditioning system, a fluid-delivery structure, a cleaning station, an outlet mechanism, a negative pressure source, and a controller.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2012Publication date: November 1, 2012Inventors: John Joseph CLARK, Narender Singh NEHRA, Mark Russell RUTTER, Jessica S. SAGE, Sydney Keith SEYMOUR, Timothy Joel STOUT, George SURRITTE, Ronald W. WINKLES
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Patent number: 8216841Abstract: Described herein are methods and media for facilitating somatic embryogenesis and for collecting, conditioning, and transferring the washed embryos onto a substrate and into an environment suitable for conditioning the embryos for a desired period of time so they become germination-competent for plant production. The described plant embryo cleaning apparatus and method are used for preparing multiple plant embryos for plant production. The apparatus and method can use a cleaning fluid source, a fluid-conditioning system, a fluid-delivery structure, a cleaning station, an outlet mechanism, a negative pressure source, and a controller.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2009Date of Patent: July 10, 2012Assignee: Arborgen Inc.Inventors: Narender Singh Nehra, Mark Russell Rutter, John Joseph Clark, Jessica S. Sage, Sydney Keith Seymour, Timothy Joel Stout, Ronald W. Winkles, George W. Surritte
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Patent number: 7775217Abstract: 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 19, 2006Date of Patent: August 17, 2010Assignee: R. J. Reynolds Tobacco CompanyInventors: Sydney Keith Seymour, Balager Ademe
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Patent number: 7665243Abstract: Described herein are methods and media for facilitating somatic embryogenesis and for collecting, conditioning, and transferring the washed embryos onto a substrate and into an environment suitable for conditioning the embryos for a desired period of time so they become germination-competent for plant production. The described plant embryo cleaning apparatus and method are used for preparing multiple plant embryos for plant production. The apparatus and method can use a cleaning fluid source, a fluid-conditioning system, a fluid-delivery structure, a cleaning station, an outlet mechanism, a negative pressure source, and a controller.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2006Date of Patent: February 23, 2010Assignee: ArborGen, LLCInventors: Narender Singh Nehra, Mark Russell Rutter, John Joseph Clark, Jessica S. Sage, Sydney Keith Seymour, Timothy Joel Stout, Ronald W. Winkles, George W. Surritte
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Publication number: 20100024081Abstract: Described herein are methods and media for facilitating somatic embryogenesis and for collecting, conditioning, and transferring the washed embryos onto a substrate and into an environment suitable for conditioning the embryos for a desired period of time so they become germination-competent for plant production. The described plant embryo cleaning apparatus and method are used for preparing multiple plant embryos for plant production. The apparatus and method can use a cleaning fluid source, a fluid-conditioning system, a fluid-delivery structure, a cleaning station, an outlet mechanism, a negative pressure source, and a controller.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2009Publication date: January 28, 2010Inventors: John Joseph Clark, Narender Singh Nehra, Mark Russell Rutter, Jessica S. Sage, Sydney Keith Seymour, Timothy Joel Stout, George Surritte, Ronald W. Winkles
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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: 7195019Abstract: 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, are applied to a continuous paper web on the cigarette making apparatus. The formulation can be 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. The automated cigarette making apparatus can comprise multiple components. A first component of the assembly provides a source of paper web, applies additive material to that web in a pattern and dries the paper web; while a second component receives the paper web, supplies tobacco filler and manufactures a cigarette rod from the paper web and tobacco filler.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2002Date of Patent: March 27, 2007Assignee: R. J. Reynolds Tobacco CompanyInventors: Lloyd Harmon Hancock, Sydney Keith Seymour, Balager Ademe, Travis Eugene Howard
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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: 7077145Abstract: Cigarettes manufactured using modified automated cigarette making apparatus can possess smokable rods having paper wrapping materials having additive materials applied as patterns. The additive materials, which can have the forms of liquid or paste formulations, are applied to a continuous paper web. The formulation 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 applied to the paper web. The radiant dryer can be located on one component of a two component assembly used to manufacture cigarettes.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2002Date of Patent: July 18, 2006Assignee: R.J. Reynolds Tobacco CompanyInventors: Sydney Keith Seymour, Lloyd Harmon Hancock
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Patent number: 7047982Abstract: 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: May 23, 2006Assignee: R.J. Reynolds Tobacco CompanyInventors: Sydney Keith Seymour, Balager Ademe
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Publication number: 20050037901Abstract: An exercise method and apparatus employing an exercise shaft such as a golf club of sufficient length to be gripped by a user's two hands in a spaced apart parallel position to extend the arms and shoulders, and having distal ends structured such that removable strap weights may be attached to the distal ends to provide added exercise resistance for inner core muscle strength.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2003Publication date: February 17, 2005Inventor: Sydney Keith
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Publication number: 20040237979Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2003Publication date: December 2, 2004Inventors: Sydney Keith Seymour, Balager Ademe
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Publication number: 20040237978Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2003Publication date: December 2, 2004Inventors: Vernon Brent Barnes, Lloyd Harmon Hancock, Carl Carlton Greene, Sydney Keith Seymour, Balager Ademe, John Larkin Nelson
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Publication number: 20040118416Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2002Publication date: June 24, 2004Inventors: Sydney Keith Seymour, Lloyd Harmon Hancock
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Publication number: 20040118418Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2002Publication date: June 24, 2004Inventors: Lloyd Harmon Hancock, Carl Carlton Greene, John Larkin Nelson, Vernon Brent Barnes, Sydney Keith Seymour, Balager Ademe
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Publication number: 20040118417Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2002Publication date: June 24, 2004Inventors: Lloyd Harmon Hancock, Sydney Keith Seymour, Balager Ademe, Travis Eugene Howard
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Publication number: 20040122547Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2002Publication date: June 24, 2004Inventors: Sydney Keith Seymour, Calvin Wayne Henderson, Balager Ademe
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Patent number: 6021782Abstract: A method of and system for detecting glue skips on tipping paper used to secure filters to cigarette tobacco rods and the rejection of defective cigarettes based thereon in which a particle radiation sensor is used to monitor the amount of glue applied to the tipping paper and a laser edge detector is used to monitor for proper alignment of the tipping paper during cigarette tipping operations in a typical cigarette manufacturing machine. The signals output from the particle radiation sensor are fed to a skip detection system which produces an output signal upon detecting a glue skip or a loss of glue.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 1997Date of Patent: February 8, 2000Assignee: R.J. Reynolds Tobacco CompanyInventors: Sydney Keith Seymour, Balager Ademe, Gary Lee Wood, Ford Mitchell Shore