Treatment of tobacco

Details Treatment of tobacco Treatment of tobacco

1976-08-06

1979-04-10

Michell, Robert W.

Tobacco

Cigar or cigarette making

Tobacco feeding

131136, 131140R, 34 68, A24B 300

Patent

active

041483251

ABSTRACT:
The invention concerns a method and apparatus for conditioning and/or drying or otherwise treating tobacco, in which cut tobacco is treated with a liquid and/or vapour medium in a chamber in which a columnar bed of the tobacco is maintained in a fluidized state by air, which may be heated. The treatment medium may comprise water, which is introduced as a spray into the bed and/or in co-current with the fluidizing air through diffusing means at the bottom of the bed, and/or steam. The tobacco may be treated in continuous flow or batchwise.

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