Tobacco – Tobacco treatment – With fluid or fluent material
Patent
1989-11-13
1992-08-25
Millin, V.
Tobacco
Tobacco treatment
With fluid or fluent material
131108, A24C 500
Patent
active
051410052
ABSTRACT:
A method of and an apparatus for automatically taking a cored sample of tobacco from a bale of tobacco and pneumatically transferring the sample to a remotely located receiving station, such as a stem content analyzer, are disclosed. A sample canister with vacuum-operated end closures for use in the pneumatic transfer of the tobacco sample is also disclosed. A compacted, cored sample of tobacco is delaminated and then deposited into an open sample canister which is closed and pneumatically transported to a stem content analyzer where it is opened, upended to deposit the sample into the stem content analyzer, reclosed and pneumatically returned for another sample of tobacco.
REFERENCES:
patent: 4719928 (1988-01-01), Mitchell, Jr. et al.
Foote Roger A.
Henderson Richard M.
McHone D. Randall
Parkman John D.
Swofford Aubrey L.
Millin V.
Myers Grover M.
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
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