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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6955597 | Apparatus for threshing legumes An apparatus for threshing legumes has a frame, which is movable over a ground surface. A drum, which is rotatable about its at least substantially horizontally oriented axis of rotation, is mounted on the frame and has a drum surface provided with one or more openi... | 10/18/2005 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 5664585 | Apparatus for cutting tie elements of hands of tobacco Method and apparatus for removing tie elements from hands of tobacco leaves on a conveyor belt involve a rotating drum having radially emergent cutting blades that contact the tie elements without contacting the belt. The axle of the drum is disposed at a... | 09/09/1997 |
| 5240013 | Relating to sliced bale conditioning Apparatus for slicing tobacco bales comprising a plurality of parallel sharp prongs or lances (1) which can be moved to penetrate the bale (7) in a horizontal plane while the bale is supported on a lift device (14). A retractable pusher (9) is arranged to... | 08/31/1993 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 4323084 | Method and apparatus for tobacco leaf destemming The disclosure is of a method and apparatus for stripping leaf lamina from tobacco leaf stems. The apparatus comprises two pairs of opposed rollers in tandem relationship. The first set of rollers is driven at a fixed speed and serves to engage and feed t... | 04/06/1982 |
| 4237909 | Method and apparatus for tobacco leaf destemming The disclosure is of a method and apparatus for stripping leaf lamina from tobacco leaf stems. The apparatus comprises two pairs of opposed rollers in tandem relationship. The first set of rollers is driven at a fixed speed and serves to engage and feed t... | 12/09/1980 |
