Apparatus for air drying tobacco leaves

Details Apparatus for air drying tobacco leaves Apparatus for air drying tobacco leaves

1983-09-28

1985-10-15

Millin, Vincent

Tobacco

Tobacco treatment

With fluid or fluent material

131302, 131306, A24B 310

Patent

active

045467803

ABSTRACT:
An apparatus for air drying tobacco leaves is provided. The apparatus comprises a vertical hopper section disposed beneath the discharge end of a tobacco leaf supply conveyor, an air-permeable conveyor to transport supplied tobacco leaves oriented in parallel to a direction of air flow, a drying chamber provided to cover the air-permeable conveyor, drying air circulating means, tobacco leaf layer level sensors, and means for controlling the rate of supply of tobacco leaves according to the signals provided from said sensors. The apparatus can obtain a good drying efficiency for air drying tobacco leaves.

REFERENCES:
patent: 1551676 (1925-09-01), McConnell
patent: 3399462 (1968-09-01), Koch et al.
patent: 3482328 (1969-12-01), Larkham
patent: 4177576 (1979-12-01), Psaras
patent: 4452256 (1984-06-01), Wochnowski et al.

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