A24B 3/06
Loosening tobacco leaves or cut tobacco
Official title: Loosening tobacco leaves or cut tobacco (A24B3/07 takes precedence)
A24B3/06 (Loosening tobacco leaves or cut tobacco) appears on 38 US grants and 13 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A24B- Granted patents
- 38
- Published applications
- 13
- Assignees
- 23
- Inventors
- 87
- Latest grant
- 18 Aug 2026
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| 2025 | 4 | 2 |
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Slide measuring system for filling pouches and associated method18 Aug 2026US 12,708,133 B2Altria Client Services LLC
- System having a robotic functionality for a division process of a pressed and cased tobacco bale inside its original case into 2 or more pieces2 Dec 2025US 12,484,609 B2
- Slide measuring system for filling pouches and associated method29 Jul 2025US 12,369,614 B2Altria Client Services LLC
- Tobacco flavoring machine8 Jul 2025US 12,349,721 B2Xiamen Tobacco Industrial Co., Ltd
- Water control method for loosening and conditioning process based on neural network model and double parameter correction1 Apr 2025US 12,262,728 B2Zhangjiakou Cigarette Factory Co., Ltd.
- Slide measuring system for filling pouches and associated method23 Oct 2025US 2025/0325016 A1Altria Client Services LLC
- A System Having a Robotic Functionality for a Division Process of a Pressed and Cased Tobacco Bale Inside its Original Case into 2 or More Pieces10 Jul 2025US 2025/0221443 A1Adeba Muhendislik Danismanlik Halkla Iliskiler Insaat Sanayi Ve Ticaret Anonim Sirketi
- Slide measuring system for filling pouches and associated method14 Dec 2023US 2023/0397645 A1Altria Client Services LLC
- Water control method for loosening and conditioning process based on neural network model and double parameter correction2 Mar 2023US 2023/0067754 A1Zhangjiakou Cigarette Factory Co., Ltd.
- Tobacco flavoring machine2 Jun 2022US 2022/0167655 A1Xiamen Tobacco Industrial Co., Ltd
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method of and apparatus for manipulating bales of condensed tobacco particles15US 5,139,035 ABritish-American Tobacco Company Limited · 1992
- Tobacco separation pretreatment system13US 4,756,317 AHallmark Fabricators, Inc. · 1988
- Method and apparatus for making tobacco shreds9US 4,799,501 AKorber AG · 1989
- Tobacco separation pretreatment system8US 4,600,024 A1986
- Apparatus for slicing compression molded product of sheet-shaped material and split knife7US 6,418,826 B1Japan Tobacco Inc. · 2002