Tobacco – Cigar or cigarette making – Tobacco feeding
Patent
1994-09-28
1996-07-23
Bahr, Jennifer
Tobacco
Cigar or cigarette making
Tobacco feeding
209 21, 209639, A24B 316
Patent
active
055380174
ABSTRACT:
A mixture of tobacco leaf lamina and stem is separated in an apparatus having a first separation chamber in which the mixture is projected through an air stream by a first impeller and an intermediate mixture segment is projected back through the air stream from the bottom of a return impeller on the opposite side of the chamber. A stem segment is discharged directly from the lower part of the first separation chamber into a second separation chamber in which the mixture is projected across the chamber through a second air stream, and a second mixture segment is projected from beneath a return impeller back through the second air stream.
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Monk, Jr. Robert T.
Webb Marshall W.
Bahr Jennifer
Monk-Austin International, Inc.
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