Jackie C White

US Patent:

6591841, Jul 15, 2003

Filed:

Nov 14, 2001

Appl. No.:

09/993755

Inventors:

Jackie Lee White - Pfafftown NC 27040
Thomas Albert Perfetti - Winston-Salem NC 27103

International Classification:

A24B 310

US Classification:

131300, 131309, 131310

Abstract:

Processes for producing flavorful and aromatic compounds from tobacco material are provided. The processes involve providing a tobacco suspension comprising finely ground tobacco material, and subjecting the tobacco suspension to heat treatment in an enclosed, pressure controlled, and generally inert environment at a temperature of at least 140Â C.

US Patent:

8251060, Aug 28, 2012

Filed:

Sep 21, 2007

Appl. No.:

11/903342

Inventors:

Jackie L. White - Pfafftown NC, US
Thomas A. Perfetti - Winston-Salem NC, US

Assignee:

Perfetti and Perfetti, LLC - Winston-Salem NC

International Classification:

A61M 15/00

US Classification:

12820326, 12820312

Abstract:

A device and method for delivering a therapeutic drug to a patient in the form of an aerosol includes a heat generating chamber and an aerosol forming chamber separated by a heat conductor. A heating element is disposed within the heat generating chamber in heat conducting relation with the heat conductor. A substrate having a therapeutic drug and an aerosol forming agent deposited thereon is disposed within the aerosol forming chamber in heat conducting relation with the heat conductor. The heating element ignites a fuel source consisting essentially of a combustible liquefied gas to generate heat that is conducted to the heat conductor and then to the substrate via the heat conductor. The heat generated by the heating element activates the aerosol forming agent to volatilize the therapeutic drug into an aerosol drug contained within the aerosol forming chamber and made available to be inhaled by the patient.

US Patent:

20030178039, Sep 25, 2003

Filed:

Mar 17, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/389830

Inventors:

Jackie White - Pfafftown NC, US
William Casey - Clemmons NC, US

International Classification:

A24D001/02

US Classification:

131/365000

Abstract:

An improved circumscribing plug wrap and tipping material are provided. The plug wrap and tipping material are a cast sheet which includes 20 to 70 percent by weight water dispersible cellulose material, 20 to 70 percent by weight of a water soluble film forming material and 0 to 10 percent by weight of a humectant. A smoking article (e.g., cigarette) using such plug wrap or tipping material or both is also provided.

US Patent:

20050066986, Mar 31, 2005

Filed:

Sep 30, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/674909

Inventors:

Timothy Nestor - Advance NC, US
Jeffrey Willis - Germanton NC, US
Dwayne Beeson - Kernersville NC, US
Henry Mitchell - Advance NC, US
Paul Brinkley - Winston-Salem NC, US
Elwood Williams - Lewisville NC, US
Dale Poindexter - East Bend NC, US
David McClanahan - Winston-Salem NC, US
Jackie White - Pfafftown NC, US
Donald Newton - Winston-Salem NC, US
Gary Shelar - Summerfield NC, US

International Classification:

A24B001/00

US Classification:

131364000, 131360000

Abstract:

A smokable rod for a smoking article, such as a cigarette, possesses a co-axial or concentric construction. A longitudinally extending inner core of tobacco cut filler is positioned within a smokable rod. The outer material that circumscribes the inner core in an annular fashion is composed of a tobacco material treated with an optional burn suppressing agent, and the outer material acts as a substrate for an aerosol forming material. A preferred aerosol forming material is glycerin. An outer paper wrapper circumscribes the length of the smokable rod, and another paper wrapping material also can circumscribe the inner core material. In use, one end of the smokable rod is lit. When the opposite end of the smokable rod is drawn upon, an aerosol composed of tobacco smoke, thermal decomposition products of tobacco, and volatilized aerosol forming material, is provided. Alternatively, a smokable rod can be provided by positioning the tobacco cut filler in the outer annular region, and by constructing the inner core portion using the tobacco material treated with aerosol forming material and an optional burn suppressing agent. Alternatively, a smokable rod possesses a single blend of smokable materials; at least a portion the smokable material being a tobacco material carrying a relatively high amount of aerosol forming material; and optionally at least a portion of the smokable material being in intimate contact with a burn suppressing agent. A filtered cigarette can be produced by attaching a filter element to one end of any of those smokable rods.

US Patent:

20120067360, Mar 22, 2012

Filed:

Sep 20, 2011

Appl. No.:

13/236962

Inventors:

Billy Tyrone Conner - Clemmons NC, US
Andries Don Sebastian - Clemmons NC, US
Evon Llewellyn Crooks - Mocksville NC, US
Timothy Frederick Thomas - High Point NC, US
James Richard Stone - Advance NC, US
Chandra Kumar Banerjee - Clemmons NC, US
Yi-Ping Chang - Greensboro NC, US
Vernon Brent Barnes - Advance NC, US
Alvaro Gonzalez-Parra - Clemmons NC, US
David Neil McClanahan - Winston-Salem NC, US
Carolyn Rierson Carpenter - Lewisville NC, US
Timothy Brian Nestor - Advance NC, US
Jackie Lee White - Pfafftown NC, US

International Classification:

A24D 1/02
A24C 5/00

US Classification:

131280, 131194, 131361

Abstract:

A cigarette includes lighting and mouth ends. It may include a smokable segment disposed at the lighting end. It also includes a mouth-end segment; an aerosol-generation system disposed between the lighting and mouth ends, which includes (i) a heat-generation segment adjacent the smokable segment, including a heat source and an insulation layer and (ii) an aerosol-generating segment including a substrate, which may include tobacco pellets and aerosol-forming material disposed in a substrate cavity between the heat generation segment and the mouth end; a piece of outer wrapping material that provides an overwrap around at least a portion of the aerosol-generating segment, the heat-generation segment, and at least a portion of the smokable segment and includes a foil strip laminated thereon; those segments being connected together by the overwrap to provide a cigarette rod; that is connected to the mouth-end segment using tipping material.

US Patent:

50762974, Dec 31, 1991

Filed:

Mar 14, 1986

Appl. No.:

6/840113

Inventors:

Ernest G. Farrier - Winston-Salem NC
Jackie L. White - Pfafftown NC

Assignee:

R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company - Winston-Salem NC

International Classification:

A24D 118

US Classification:

131369

Abstract:

The present invention is directed to methods for producing carbon containing fuel elements especially suited for use in cigarette--like smoking articles. One method of the present invention makes use of two separate pyrolysis steps to ensure that the carbon used to form the fuel elements for smoking articles is substantially free of materials which could adversely affect the aerosol delivered by such articles. Also disclosed is a method in which a fuel element formed from carbon and a binder is pyrolyzed after formation to convert the binder to carbon.

US Patent:

58294538, Nov 3, 1998

Filed:

Jun 9, 1995

Appl. No.:

8/489199

Inventors:

Jackie Lee White - Pfafftown NC
Barry Lynn Saintsing - Lexington NC
Thomas Albert Perfetti - Winston-Salem NC
Curtis Dillard McGee - Germanton NC
Milly Mee Lee Wong - Winston-Salem NC

Assignee:

R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company - Winston-Salem NC

International Classification:

A24B 1500

US Classification:

131359

Abstract:

A low-density filler material for cigarettes from either a low-density tobacco composition or an extruded grain or starch composition. The low-density tobacco composition and a method of making the low-density tobacco composition by extruding a mixture of tobacco and flour or tobacco and starch under conditions whereby the solvent in the extruded mixture flashes into vapor upon release from the extrusion head. The low-density tobacco composition is formed without the aid of an added binder. The low-density flour or starch material and a method of making it by extruding flour or starch with a filler material such as calcium carbonate under conditions whereby the solvent in the extruded mixture flashes into vapor upon extrusion through the orifice die. The extruded composition can then be cut and used in place of cut tobacco filler.

US Patent:

47717955, Sep 20, 1988

Filed:

May 15, 1986

Appl. No.:

6/863646

Inventors:

Jackie L. White - Pfafftown NC
Bradley J. Ingebrethsen - Winston-Salem NC

Assignee:

R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company - Winston-Salem NC

International Classification:

A24D 102
A24D 118

US Classification:

131194

Abstract:

The present invention preferably relates to a smoking article which is capable of producing substantial quantities of aerosol, both initially and over the useful life of the product, without significant thermal degradation of the aerosol former and without the presence of substantial pyrolysis or incomplete combustion products or sidestream aerosol. The article employes a dual burn rate fuel element, which utilizes a fast burning segment and a slow burning segment. The use of such a dual burn rate fuel element has several advantages over conventional homogeneous fuels. For example, the fast burning component assists in the ease of lighting the fuel element, and provides rapid heat transfer to the aerosol generating means. This in turn, provides early aerosol delivery. The slow burning component provides for even heat distribution throughout the burn period.