Apparatus and method for processing winnowers at a cigarette...

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2005-04-12

2005-04-12

Walls, Dionne A. (Department: 1731)

Tobacco

Cigar or cigarette making

Tobacco feeding

C131S108000, C131S109300

Reexamination Certificate

active

06877516

ABSTRACT:
Size reduction equipment is added at the feed end of a cigarette maker to take separated winnowers and other overages from a tobacco feed to the maker, cut or shred the overages to appropriate size and reintroduce the cut or shred overages into the lamina stream from a tobacco feed hopper for the cigarette maker. The winnowers may be pneumatically or mechanically conveyed back into the feed stream in the cigarette maker.

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