A24C 5/322
Transporting cigarettes during manufacturing
Official title: {Transporting cigarettes during manufacturing}
A24C5/322 (Transporting cigarettes during manufacturing) appears on 209 US grants and 156 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A24C- Granted patents
- 209
- Published applications
- 156
- Assignees
- 50
- Inventors
- 313
- Latest grant
- 4 Aug 2026
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| 2024 | 9 | 17 |
| 2025 | 6 | 6 |
| 2026 | 6 | 9 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Method for checking an aerosol-generating article for manufacturing defects4 Aug 2026US 12,696,924 B2Philip Morris Products S. A.
- Cutting and arranging rods for tobacco industry products21 Jul 2026US 12,685,333 B2British American Tobacco (Investments) Limited
- Arrangement for transversely axially conveying of rod-shaped articles of the tobacco processing industry14 Jul 2026US 12,677,866 B2KöRber Technologies GmbH
- System and method for applying a label for the automated production of e-vapor devices7 Jul 2026US 12,673,797 B2Altria Client Services LLC
- Apparatus and method for aligning rod-shaped aerosol-generating articles16 Jun 2026US 12,653,223 B2Philip Morris Products S. A.
- Variable-capacity store24 Sep 2026US 2026/0283223 A1G. D S.p.A.
- Positioning of segments for aerosol-generating articles with a positioning wheel having adjustable receiving positions27 Aug 2026US 2026/0248171 A1Philip Morris Products S. A.
- Apparatus, components thereof and method for handling rods of aerosol-generating material13 Aug 2026US 2026/0232010 A1Nicoventures Trading Limited
- Apparatus, member and method for transferring products and method for setting up the apparatus13 Aug 2026US 2026/0233942 A1I,M.A. Industria Macchine Automatiche S.p.A.
- Apparatus, components thereof and method for handling rods of aerosol-generating material30 Jul 2026US 2026/0215485 A1Nicoventures Trading Limited
Most cited
By later US patents
- Device for transferring bar shaped articles63US 4,506,779 AG. D. Societa per Azioni · 1985
- Cigarette transfer device32US 4,645,063 AG. D. Societa per Azioni · 1987
- Device for transferring bar-shaped articles24US 4,693,359 AG. D. Societa per Azioni · 1987
- Pipe junction for pneumatic transfer of rod-shaped smokers' products24US 6,516,810 B1Hauni Maschinenbau AG · 2003
- Device for converting the axial movement of cylindrical rod-shaped objects into a lateral translation23US 4,261,236 AArenco-Decoufle, Societe Anonyme Francaise · 1981