Tobacco trimming and pre-equalizing device

Details Tobacco trimming and pre-equalizing device Tobacco trimming and pre-equalizing device

1997-09-12

2000-01-04

Silverman, Stanley S.

Tobacco

Cigar or cigarette making

Molding or forming

131 841, 131 843, 131 844, A24C 518

Patent

active

060098791

ABSTRACT:
An apparatus for forming a tobacco rod for cigarette manufacture, fitted with a suction-type rod conveyor equipped with a revolving, continuous, porous belt, to which vacuum is applied from the top and on whose underside tobacco shreds are conveyed along a tobacco channel. The apparatus has a pre-equalizer for purposes of equalizing the height of the tobacco rod being conveyed by removing a part of the tobacco rod. The apparatus further has a device that serves to compact the tobacco rod at regular intervals and further has an equalizer that equalizes the height of the tobacco rod after it that is compacted at regular intervals by removing additional tobacco from the tobacco rod. The pre-equalizer has a revolving blade which is positioned directly below the tobacco channel.

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