Tobacco – Tobacco treatment – Extraction of component – other than moisture – by contact...
Patent
1990-02-23
1991-11-19
Millin, V.
Tobacco
Tobacco treatment
Extraction of component, other than moisture, by contact...
131298, 131352, 131356, 131310, A24B 1524, A24B 1526
Patent
active
050657755
ABSTRACT:
Denicotinized tobacco cut filler is provided by (i) providing an aqueous denicotinized tobacco extract, (ii) providing tobacco cut filler which has been extracted with an aqueous liquid, (iii) contacting the aqueous extract with the extracted cut filler, (iv) deliquoring the mixture of aqueous extract and extracted cut filler such that a certain level of the tobacco extract remains in contact with the extracted cut filler, and (v) drying the deliquored cut filler to provide a processed cut filler. Greater than 90 percent of the nicotine present in tobacco cut filler can be removed therefrom using such process steps.
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Millin V.
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
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