Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Material compression and portioning
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Application No.: US16275927Application Date: 2019-02-14
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Publication No.: US11213967B2Publication Date: 2022-01-04
- Inventor: Dwight David Williams , James David Evans , Patrick Sean McElhinney , Jarrod Wayne Chalkley , Christopher R. Newcomb , Robert V. Powell
- Applicant: Altria Client Services LLC
- Applicant Address: US VA Richmond
- Assignee: Altria Client Services LLC
- Current Assignee: Altria Client Services LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US VA Richmond
- Agency: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C.
- Main IPC: B26D7/08
- IPC: B26D7/08 ; B26D7/18 ; B26D5/00

Abstract:
An apparatus includes channel assemblies in a rotatable section, a cutting assembly, a discharge assembly, and a cleanout assembly. The channel assembly holds a bulk instance of compressible material extending through upper and lower channels of a continuous channel. The cutting assembly moves in relation to the channel assembly to isolate the upper and lower channels, severing upper and lower material portions of the bulk instance. The discharge assembly directs gas into the lower channel of a channel assembly to discharge the lower material portion from the lower channel, based on radial alignment of a conduit assembly of the channel assembly with a conduit assembly of the discharge assembly. The cleanout assembly supplies a fluid through the conduit assembly of the channel assembly, based on radially alignment of the conduit assembly of the channel assembly with a conduit assembly of the cleanout assembly.
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