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US 10,897,927 B2Granted
Nonlinear flexible magnetic filter element
AssigneeFrog Creek Partners, LLC
InventorsBrian Deurloo, Terry Lowe
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Abstract
A magnetizable object within a smoking article or tobacco product that has magnetic properties optimized to enable efficient magnetic retrieval of the smoking article from the environment in a manner that is independent of spatial orientation of the article with respect to the magnetic field.
Claims16
A nonlinear magnetizable object, wherein:
- the object has a nonlinear shape and is magnetizable,
- the object is comprised of a material that is flexible, and
- the object is incorporated into a disposable tobacco article configured such that the object is reclaimable from an environment,
- wherein the nonlinear shape is a three-dimensional shape that is solid or hollow, and material is contained inside the three-dimensional shape that is releasable when force is applied.
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A tobacco related product comprising:
- a nonlinear magnetizable object of magnetizable material incorporated into the tobacco related product such that the tobacco related product is retrievable from an environment;
- and
- another material proximate the object, distinct therefrom, and secured thereto to be recovered therewith;
- wherein the object comprises a mesh of wires or ribbon with a plurality of rings attached via corrugated wires or ribbon.
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An object for retrieving a tobacco related article, wherein:
- the object is in a nonlinear shape, magnetizable, flexible, and incorporated into a disposable tobacco article;
- and
- the object is selected from a wire, a foil, or a ribbon formed as two rings or disks attached at a single point along a circumference thereof so that the axes of each are misoriented with respect to one another by an angle ranging from 0 to 90 degrees.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.