Tobacco – Cigar or cigarette making – Tobacco feeding
Patent
1994-07-15
1996-05-14
Bahr, Jennifer
Tobacco
Cigar or cigarette making
Tobacco feeding
131108, A24C 539
Patent
active
055158730
ABSTRACT:
A hopper for a cigarette making machine has a carded roller (14;52;54;60) arranged to feed a carpet of tobacco, a generally horizontally extending conveyor band (32) for receiving the tobacco from the carded roller, and means for removing the tobacco from the carded roller, for delivery onto the conveyor band, comprising an air pressure source (26;66) and one or more air passages (22;24;56;58;64;68) extending from the air pressure source for directing one or more jets of air into the tobacco to project the tobacco in a generally horizontal direction as a shower onto and along the conveyor band.
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patent: 5009238 (1991-04-01), Heitmann
Dawson John
Dyett Derek H.
Stembridge James R.
Bahr Jennifer
Molins PLC
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