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Class 131/324 - Leaf straightening, brushing, smoothing, rolling, corrugating, or flattening with or without stem crushing


Subclass of Class 131 - Tobacco
Definition: Process and apparatus for performing operations on leaf
No. of patents: 9
Last issue date: 05/27/2003


NumberTitleIssue Date
6568401Process 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
5040550Tobacco treatment apparatus and process
Dried tobacco leaves evenly spread by a vibrator, cleaned and sorted out, are directed through the opening of two converging cylinders, and tightly held on between two belts. Now, the belts carrying the leaves, enter into a hot wash basin full of warm wat...
08/20/1991
4672982Process 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
4646764Process for providing roll reconstituted tobacco material
A process for reclaiming tobacco comprises providing tobacco material including relatively large fibrous forming tobacco leaf stem material, passing the tobacco through a pressurized roller system, and forming a reclaimed tobacco material under pressure. ...
03/03/1987
4567903Formation 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
4368744Device for spreading whole tobacco leaves
A device for spreading tobacco leaves comprises a suction box with a perforated wall and a shield composed of a plurality of sections transversely movable outwards from a closed position in which they cover the perforated wall with the exception of a cent...
01/18/1983
4354511Device for spreading tobacco leaves
In a device for spreading tobacco leaves which, subsequent to having been moistened, are smoothed by passage in their transverse direction between a base and a sweeping brush or an analogous smoothing tool, said tool may be "broken" from its normal or str...
10/19/1982
4330002Method of producing cheroots and similar tobacco articles and an apparatus for carrying out this method
In the production of cheroots and similar tobacco articles with a wrapper made from natural tobacco relieved of central rib portions but containing portions of side ribs, the said ribs are flattened solely in the end flap of the wrapper....
05/18/1982
4252134Method and device for spreading out tobacco leaves and for enabling them to be retrieved, flat, after having been spread out
A method for spreading out tobacco leaves and for enabling them to be retrieved, flat, after having been spread out, comprising: placing each leaf on a support generally in the form of a deformable dihedron, the central vein of the leaf extending on the edge o...
02/24/1981
 
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