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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7204055 | Leg support apparatus for trees and bushes A leg support apparatus comprising a leg comprising a first support and a second support. The leg comprising a pivot end and a spike end. A base comprising a lug side, a ground contact side, and a surrounding wall connecting between the lug side and ground contact s... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7102074 | Photovoltaic attachment system A photovoltaic attachment system for mounting photovoltaic panels on top of a building's roof is disclosed. The attachment system does not require drilling of holes into the roof and does not affect the integrity of the roof. The photovoltaic attachment system compr... | 09/05/2006 |
| 6755200 | Method for reduction of tobacco specific nitrosamines Tobacco is treated before or during curing to lower or eliminate bacterial populations and/or activity, fungal growth, and/or tobacco-specific nitrosamine or bacterial endotoxin levels in the cured tobacco, wherein the tobacco is treated with an effective amount of ... | 06/29/2004 |
| 6571801 | Tobacco treatment process In a process to reduce fines and objectionable stem from tobacco in a smoking article, a humectant, particularly glycerin, is added to whole leaf tobacco prior de-stemming. After de-stemming, stems are separated from lamina and the stems and lamina are fu... | 06/03/2003 |
| 6568401 | Process for providing cut filler for cigarettes A process for preparing tobacco stem for use as filler for a smoking article includes classifying the green tobacco stem by diameter to provide a plurality of stem grades and rolling each grade separately. Each grade is rolled under rolling conditions opt... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6481441 | Apparatus and process for threshing tobacco An apparatus for threshing tobacco includes a rotatable stripper and a feeder which includes a pair of cooperating counter-rotatable elements for delivering tobacco leaves to the stripper. The feeder and the stripper are arranged such that, in use, the to... | 11/19/2002 |
| 6297583 | Gas discharge lamp assembly with improved r.f. shielding An inductively driven gas discharge lamp assembly (40) includes an electrodeless lamp (42), an inductive drive coil (44) disposed about the lamp, and a shield (10) disposed over an end portion (50) of the lamp. The shield (10) has a number of turns (12) o... | 10/02/2001 |
| 5813413 | Method and plant for treating tobacco leaves for the production of cut tobacco The invention relates to a method and a plant for the treatment of tobacco leaves for the production of cut tobacco for smokable articles, in which stems and the lamina material of the tobacco leaves are conditioned and cut separately from each other. The... | 09/29/1998 |
| 5564444 | Processing tobacco leaf stem Tobacco leaf stem is separated into large-stem and small-stem fractions, the large-stem fraction is cut in a stem cutter and the small-stem fraction is shredded in a mill, whereafter the cut and shredded materials are mixed.... | 10/15/1996 |
| 5402804 | Tobacco harverter A tobacco harvester for automatically harvesting only tobacco leaves in which leaf stripping claws of leaf stripping chains descend along a stem of a tobacco plant to strip down the tobacco leaves and transporting conveyors transport the tobacco leaves to... | 04/04/1995 |
| 4898189 | Method of and apparatus for treating uncured tobacco Uncured tobacco leaves are heated by microwaves or in an electric high-frequency field prior to subdivision into ribs and strips. The strips are separated from the ribs, preferably with a stream of conditioned air, and are thereupon heated again and conde... | 02/06/1990 |
| 4773434 | Tobacco leaf sorting system for picking and sorting leaves of tobacco plants A sorting system according to the present invention comprises a leaf picking apparatus for picking off tobacco leaves from tobacco plants and dropping the leaves while the plants are being passed through the leaf picking apparatus, a collecting vessel dis... | 09/27/1988 |
| 4723560 | System for controlling lamina size in raw material treatment process for tobacco leaves A system for controlling the lamina size in a raw material treatment process for tobacco leaves comprising measuring means for measuring the production rate of the laminae larger than a given size in the raw material treatment process in which the tobacco... | 02/09/1988 |
| 4719928 | Method and apparatus for determining stem content of baled tobacco An apparatus for determining the stem content of a mass of plant leaves including a size reduction and classifying mechanism for separating the leaves into a stem and lamina portion and a means for introducing the leaves into the reduction and classifying... | 01/19/1988 |
| 4696312 | Method and apparatus for producing cigarette filler A method and apparatus for producing tobacco filler by cutting whole tobacco leaves, including stems, is provided. The leaves, with stems in, are cut to produce strands of lamina and strands of stem and lamina. The strands are carded to disentangle them a... | 09/29/1987 |
| 4672982 | Process for the production of a smoking material from cigarette maker winnowings and apparatus A process for converting cigarette tobacco winnowings into usable form for cigarette making, comprises crushing the winnowings, which have a moisture content compatible with cigarette making, effecting a first sieving operation on the resulting crushed wi... | 06/16/1987 |
| 4620556 | Loose leaf chewing tobacco A loose leaf chewing tobacco product is prepared from leaf tobacco by removing the stems and major veins, then cutting the leaves across the grain of the remaining veins in a uniform manner with the cuts being spaced no greater than 1/4 inch apart, then c... | 11/04/1986 |
| 4618415 | Tobacco separator A tobacco separator is provided for separating light fractions (laminae) from heavy fractions (mid-rib or stem) from threshed tobacco. The separator comprises a separating chamber (10) having an upper first inlet (8) for receiving the material to be separated ... | 10/21/1986 |
| 4449540 | Separation of lamina from stems in baled tobacco Disclosed is a method and apparatus for processing baled tobacco leaves to separate the lamina portions of the leaves from the stem portions. The bale is cut symmetrically, crosswise to its length, into three or preferably five separate sections, of diffe... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4233996 | Cutting leaf tobacco Leaf tobacco is processed to form cut tobacco suitable for direct formation of cigarettes therefrom. The leaf is cut into shreds dimensioned for direct use in cigarette rod-forming, the shreds are air classified into a heavier stem containing fraction and... | 11/18/1980 |
| 4192324 | Process for constituting a large surface of natural tobacco, in particular for making cigar wrappers A process for constituting a large surface of natural tobacco, in particular for making cigar wrappers comprising the steps of: (a) stripping the biggest rib of natural tobacco leaves; (b) dividing each leaf into two half-leaves; (c) arranging the half-leaves in a ... | 03/11/1980 |
| 3970091 | Cryogenic threshing of tobacco A process is disclosed for separating tobacco stems from tobacco leaves which comprises freezing the leaves, subjecting them to flexing to break the lamina free from the stems, and then separating the stems from the lamina. Generally, it is preferable to ... | 07/20/1976 |
