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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4567903 | Formation of tobacco material blend Tobacco feed material suitable for cigarette formation is formed by blending shredded tobacco stem material and shredded tobacco lamina material while in partially-dried form and drying the blend to the final moisture content.... | 02/04/1986 |
| 4566470 | Tobacco leaf processing Tobacco leaf is processed into a form suitable for use in the manufacture of cigarettes by first cutting the leaf into strips, air classifying the strips into a lamina fraction and a stem fraction, threshing the stem fraction to separate lamina associated... | 01/28/1986 |
| 4512353 | Tobacco drying procedure Drying of tobacco particles in heated rotary drum drier is improved by flowing air through the drum at a flow rate, usually at least 10 ft./sec. (3.25 m/sec), which imparts translational or linear motion to the particles. The translational motion causes t... | 04/23/1985 |
| 4459999 | Cigarette maker feeder A novel tobacco feed device (10) and method of use thereof for the direct feed of tobacco to rod formation in a cigarette making machine are described. The device (10) includes a reservoir tube (42) containing a reservoir of opened cut tobacco, metering r... | 07/17/1984 |
| 4458698 | Tobacco metering and feeding system A tobacco metering, conveying and separating system (10) is provided for feeding cut tobacco from a source thereof (12) to a cigarette-making machine at a substantially lower rate, with consequential decrease in tobacco degradation than in conventional sy... | 07/10/1984 |
| 4456018 | Feeding tobacco cutting machines The transportation of a tobacco layer, in which the tobacco lamina or leaves are horizontally oriented, on a vertically-reciprocating conveyor surface to a cutting machine wherein tobacco shreds are formed from the tobacco in the layer is assisted, so tha... | 06/26/1984 |
| 4446876 | Tobacco metering and feeding system A tobacco metering, conveying and separating system (10) is provided for feeding cut tobacco from a source thereof (12) to a cigarette-making machine at a substantially lower rate, with consequential decrease in tobacco degradation than in conventional sy... | 05/08/1984 |
| 4386617 | Tobacco stem shredding Novel shredded tobacco stem material having a much lower burn rate than other stem material and other beneficial properties and useful in the formation of cigarettes is formed by a novel procedure which produces only a relatively minor proportion of parti... | 06/07/1983 |
| 4369797 | Feed mechanism for tobacco cutting machines Tobacco shreds of substantially less impaired filling power result from a tobacco lamina shredding machine when the lamina are formed into a tobacco layer in which the lamina are horizontally oriented and which is precompacted without the use of any force... | 01/25/1983 |
| 4349037 | Tobacco moistening and opening apparatus A steaming doffer for use in the moistening and opening of tobacco from bales is described. The device includes a plurality of pairs of arms fixedly mounted to a rotatable axle. Each arm member pair is angularly offset from each adjacent pair so that the ... | 09/14/1982 |
| 4307736 | Tobacco moistening and opening apparatus A steaming doffer for use in the moistening and opening of tobacco from bales is described. The device includes a plurality of pairs of arms fixedly mounted to a rotatable axle. Each arm member pair is angularly offset from each adjacent pair so that the ... | 12/29/1981 |
| 4287897 | Treatment and opening of oriental tobacco bales Burlap-clad bales of turkish or other oriental small leaf tobacco are passed between two upright steam applicators each having a plurality of individual steam jet openings. The openings cause injection of steam through the outer burlap cover and penetrati... | 09/08/1981 |
