Tobacco – Cigar or cigarette making – Tobacco feeding
Patent
1989-02-10
1991-05-28
Millin, V.
Tobacco
Cigar or cigarette making
Tobacco feeding
131 841, 1311092, 131110, A24C 514, A24C 518, A24C 539
Patent
active
050185381
ABSTRACT:
Apparatus for feeding tobacco in or to a cigarette making machine comprises a number of carded rollers (10, 11, 12, 18) which transfer a metered stream of tobacco from one to the other while allowing relatively short strands or particles of tobacco to drop out from the transfer point or points, means (29, 30, 31, 32) for collecting and metering the tobacco shorts, and means (23, 24, 26, 28) for collecting and metering longer particles of tobacco which travel beyond the transfer point or points from which tobacco shorts drop out, the metered streams of tobacco shorts and longer particles being combined to form a cigarette filler stream which is to be enclosed in a continuous wrapper to form a continuous cigarette rod.
REFERENCES:
patent: 4223685 (1980-09-01), Labbe
patent: 4616663 (1986-10-01), Lorenzen et al.
Stewart David B.
Wood Godfrey A.
Millin V.
Molins PLC
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