Tobacco – Cigar or cigarette making – Tobacco feeding
Patent
1975-09-05
1977-08-30
Michell, Robert W.
Tobacco
Cigar or cigarette making
Tobacco feeding
131136, 131140P, A24B 318
Patent
active
040447804
ABSTRACT:
Apparatus for increasing the filling capacity of a total blend of cut tobacco comprising first unit for elevating the temperature and moisture content of the tobacco such that the heating and moisturizing are performed for a time sufficient to permit cut tobacco to open from its crimped and compressed condition, an assembly for forming a relatively thin dispersion of the opened tobacco in a gas, and an apparatus operatively connected to said first unit for rapidly lowering the moisture content of the thin dispersion of tobacco to about its making moisture within about five seconds such that the tobacco has achieved an expanded and opened condition.
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American Brands, Inc.
Michell Robert W.
Millin V.
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