Method and apparatus for increasing the volume of tobacco

Details Method and apparatus for increasing the volume of tobacco Method and apparatus for increasing the volume of tobacco

1983-05-03

1985-04-30

Millin, V.

Tobacco

Tobacco treatment

Puffing

131296, 131300, 131302, 131304, 131306, A24B 318

Patent

active

045137587

ABSTRACT:
Tobacco ribs, whose moisture content is at least 38 percent and which are heated to a temperature of at least 60 degrees C., are admitted into a cylindrical chamber containing a centrally located nozzle which is surrounded by a driven impeller having arcuate vanes serving to direct tobacco particles at a uniform rate into a high-speed stream of air or steam which issues from the orifice of the nozzle and leaves the chamber through a tapering outlet to pass through a Laval nozzle and into a dryer. The latter is designed to heat a stream of air to a temperature of approximately 350 degrees C. and to mix such air with the stream which admits the particles of tobacco whereby the particles are heated to a temperature of approximately 80 degrees C. and their moisture content is reduced to or below 20 percent.

REFERENCES:
patent: 4407306 (1983-10-01), Hibbitts

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