Tobacco – Cigar or cigarette making – Tobacco feeding
Patent
1994-11-01
1996-04-09
Bahr, Jennifer
Tobacco
Cigar or cigarette making
Tobacco feeding
A24C 539
Patent
active
055052134
ABSTRACT:
A tobacco threshing apparatus, and related method, including a plurality of tobacco threshers, each thresher including a housing having an inlet and an outlet, a rotor adapted to be rotated at a constant speed; conveyor for conveying a stream of tobacco leaves; a plurality of doffers positioned to sequentially remove secondary streams from the primary stream, and direct the secondary streams to the threshers; a plurality of measuring devices adapted to measure the ratio of tobacco fed to each thresher; a doffer controller adapted to compare the desired ratio to the actual ratio of tobacco within each secondary stream; and plurality of doffer positioners operable to move the doffers relative to the primary tobacco stream in response to signals from the doffer controller.
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Rooks Paul S.
Webb Marshall W.
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