US 11,903,409 B2
Automated deposition of highly viscous fluids into thin-walled cylinders
Nohtal Partansky, Northridge, CA (US); and Paul Skaar, Long Beach, CA (US)
Assigned to Sorting Robotics, Inc., Van Nuys, CA (US)
Filed by Sorting Robotics, Inc., Van Nuys, CA (US)
Filed on Feb. 20, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/111,769.
Application 18/111,769 is a continuation of application No. 17/180,697, filed on Feb. 19, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/984,093, filed on Mar. 2, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0200433 A1, Jun. 29, 2023
Int. Cl. A24C 5/60 (2006.01); A24B 15/28 (2006.01); B67D 3/00 (2006.01)
CPC A24C 5/608 (2013.01) [A24B 15/28 (2013.01); B67D 3/0022 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus comprising:
a reservoir for holding a material;
a first heater configured to heat the material;
a cannula, the cannula having a port;
a second heater configured to heat the cannula;
an individual holder having separate multiple cavities formed within the individual holder, each of the separate multiple cavities shaped for holding a single cigarette; and
wherein the reservoir is pressurized to move the material from the reservoir and through and out of the port of the cannula;
wherein the cannula injects heated material while positioned within one of the separate multiple cavities.