B65B 19/10
Arranging cigarettes in layers each comprising a predetermined number
B65B19/10 (Arranging cigarettes in layers each comprising a predetermined number) appears on 86 US grants and 31 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B65B- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 31
- Assignees
- 28
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- 116
- Latest grant
- 6 Jan 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Aerosol-generating article collation forming with increased number of hoppers6 Jan 2026US 12,515,835 B2Philip Morris Products S. A.
- Feeding apparatus for feeding single-layer stream of tobacco industry's rod-like articles5 Sep 2023US 11,744,279 B2INTERNATIONAL TOBACCO MACHINERY POLAND Sp.z.o.o.
- Cigarette filter rod boxing machine26 Oct 2021US 11,155,376 B2Zhengzhou Haiyi Technology Co. ltd.
- Method of forming groups of smoking articles30 Mar 2021US 10,961,000 B2British American Tobacco Mexico, S.A. De C.V.
- Forming and transporting apparatus for conveying and forming a group of rod-like articles, and feeding apparatus for feeding a group of rod-like articles24 Nov 2020US 10,842,183 B2INTERNATIONAL TOBACCO MACHINERY POLAND Sp.z.o.o.
- Method to control a hopper for a packaging machine for smoking articles30 Jul 2026US 2026/0217402 A1G. D S.p.A.
- Aerosol-generating article collation forming with increased number of hoppers3 Jul 2025US 2025/0214727 A1Philip Morris Products S. A.
- Apparatus and method for feeding and forming organized groups of smoking articles7 Nov 2024US 2024/0365843 A1I,M.A. Industria Macchine Automatiche S.p.A.
- Cigarette filter rod boxing machine25 Mar 2021US 2021/0086930 A1Zhengzhou Haiyi Technology Co. ltd.
- A feeding apparatus for feeding single-layer stream of tobacco industry's rod-like articles11 Feb 2021US 2021/0037879 A1INTERNATIONAL TOBACCO MACHINERY POLAND Sp.z.o.o.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Apparatus for the formation of cigarette groups23US 4,306,648 ACir S.p.A. Divisione Sasib · 1981
- Process and apparatus for packaging cigarettes in particular21US 4,718,216 AFocke & Co. (GmbH & Co.) · 1988
- Apparatus for assembling arrays of cigarettes or the like20US 4,362,235 AHauni-Werke Korber & Co. KG · 1982
- Packing cigarettes17US 4,079,575 AFocke & Pfuhl · 1978
- Device for forming groups of cigarettes16US 6,484,867 B2G. D S.p.A. · 2002