| abstract |
An e-liquid cartridge (20) designed to provide e-liquid for an electronic cigarette vaporiser, or personal vaporiser (PV), the cartridge including two apertures, the first aperture (21) being used to fill the cartridge on a filing line and then being covered with a bung or plug (22) or other form of seal and the second aperture (23) being sealed by a septum (24) or other form of seal that is designed to be penetrated or punctured by a needle or stem that, in use, withdraws e-liquid from the cartridge. Preferably, the first aperture is sized to enable rapid filling with e-liquid on an automated or semi-automated manufacturing line. An anti-tamper strip (26) can cover one or both apertures, and may be removed before use or include a gap over the second aperture to allow for access by the needle. Apertures may be in one face of the cartridge. The cartridge may engage with a fluid transfer mechanism that extracts e-liquid via the needle or stem, and may be adapted to be inserted into a vaporiser case or a vaporiser. Also disclosed is a vaporiser system comprising a PV, a case, a microprocessor, a cartridge and a pump. |