Extractor for an aerosol-generating device

• US 9,693,587 B2
• Filed: 11/20/2012
• Issued: 07/04/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 11/21/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Philip Morris Products SA (Philip Morris Limited)
• Original Assignee: Philip Morris Products SA (Philip Morris Limited)
• Inventors: Greim, Olivier, Plojoux, Julien, Ruscio, Dani
• Primary Examiner(s): CALANDRA, ANTHONY J
• Application Number:
  US14/359,832
• Publication Number:
  US 20150013696A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,687 Days
• CPC Class Codes: A24F 40/20 Devices using solid inhalable precursors
• CPC Class Codes: A24F 40/40 Constructional details, e.g. connection of cartridges and battery parts
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 15/06 Inhaling appliances shaped like cigars, cigarettes or pipes

Abstract

There is provided an extractor for an aerosol-generating device configured to receive a smoking article including an aerosol-forming substrate and including a heater for heating the aerosol-forming substrate to form the aerosol. The extractor is configured to extract the smoking article received in the device, and includes a sliding receptacle configured to receive the smoking article, and a sleeve configured to receive the sliding receptacle. The sliding receptacle is slidable in the sleeve between a first position in which the substrate of the smoking article is positioned so as to be heated by the heater, and a second position in which the substrate is substantially separated from the heater. The sliding receptacle includes a support configured to support the substrate when the sliding receptacle and the smoking article are moved from the first position to the second position. There is also provided an electrically heated smoking system including the extractor.

Claims

1. An aerosol-generating device configured to receive an aerosol-forming substrate, the device comprising:

a heater configured to heat the aerosol-forming substrate and configured to penetrate an internal portion of the aerosol-forming substrate; and

an extractor configured to extract the aerosol-forming substrate received in the aerosol-generating device,

wherein the extractor is movably coupled to the aerosol-generating device between a first position and a second position,

the first position being an operating position defined by the heater being in contact with the aerosol-forming substrate, and

the second position being an extraction position defined by the aerosol-forming substrate being separated from the heater, and

wherein the extractor remains coupled to the aerosol-generating device in both the first position and the second position.

2. The device according to claim 1, wherein the extractor comprises a sliding receptacle configured to receive the aerosol-generating device, an aperture being defined through a wall of the sliding receptacle and being configured to allow the heater to penetrate the aerosol-forming substrate received within the sliding receptacle when the extractor is in the first position.

3. The device according to claim 2, further comprising a sleeve configured to receive the sliding receptacle, such that the sliding receptacle is configured to slide in the sleeve between the first and second positions.

4. The device according to claim 3, wherein the sliding receptacle includes a flange arranged to abut the sleeve.

5. The device according to claim 2, further comprising a stopper configured to prevent the sliding receptacle from sliding out of the device.

6. The device according to claim 2, further comprising a guide pin configured to guide the sliding receptacle as the sliding receptacle is moved between the first and second positions.

7. The device according to claim 2, wherein the aerosol-forming substrate is provided in a smoking article, and the sliding receptacle is in the first position when the smoking article is received in the extractor.

8. The device according to claim 2, wherein a support configured to support the aerosol-forming substrate comprises a face of the sliding receptacle, the face including at least one aperture for allowing through-flow of air.

9. The device according to claim 2, wherein the sliding receptacle comprises a grip configured to grip the aerosol-forming substrate when the aerosol-forming substrate is received in the sliding receptacle and the sliding receptacle is in the first position.

10. The device according to claim 2, wherein the sliding receptacle comprises a face against which the aerosol-forming substrate abuts when the aerosol-forming substrate is positioned so as to be heated by the heater.

11. The aerosol-generating device according to claim 1, wherein the extractor is an aerosol-forming substrate extractor configured to remove the aerosol-forming substrate from the aerosol-generating device, the aerosol-forming substrate extractor being configured to removably couple to the aerosol-generating device and comprising a sliding receptacle configured to receive the aerosol-forming substrate, an aperture being defined through a first wall of the receptacle such that the first wall is configured to engage with the aerosol-forming substrate while allowing the heater of the aerosol-generating device to penetrate the receptacle and contact the aerosol-forming substrate.

12. A method for extracting a smoking article including an aerosol-forming substrate from a heated aerosol-generating device, the heated aerosol-generating device comprising a heater configured to heat the aerosol-forming substrate to form an aerosol, and an extractor being coupled to the aerosol-generating device and comprising a sliding receptacle for receiving the smoking article, the method comprising:

sliding the sliding receptacle, with the smoking article received in the sliding receptacle, from a first position in which the aerosol-forming substrate of the smoking article is positioned so as to be heated by the heater, to a second position in which the aerosol-forming substrate of the smoking article is substantially separated from the heater, the aerosol-forming substrate of the smoking article being supported during the sliding by a support on the sliding receptacle, the extractor remaining coupled to the aerosol-generating device in both first and second positions; and

removing the smoking article from the sliding receptacle.

13. The method according to claim 12, in which the heated aerosol-generating system is an electrically heated aerosol-generating system comprising an electric heater.

14. The method according to claim 12, in which the smoking article comprises tobacco.