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A new toilet tank assembly aquarium for housing aquatic creatures.

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Inventor: Gerald Schmekel


Address: Elmshorn, DE
No. of patents: 16
Last patent issue date: 05/03/2011

NumberTitleIssue Date
7934511Processing of tobacco materials containing a proportion of tobacco fines
The invention relates to a method of processing tobacco fines, whereby the tobacco preparation for producing smoking articles from an initial material to be processed, which contains tobacco fines and tobacco material, is subjected to an increased mechanical pressur...
05/03/2011
7934509Defibration of tobacco material
The invention relates to a method of producing cut tobacco material, whereby a tobacco initial material is heated and placed under pressure and once heated and placed under pressure, the material is fed through a shearing gap and expanded and defibrated. It further ...
05/03/2011
7387128Pressure-conditioning method
The invention relates to a continuous method for pressure-conditioning material for food and/or semi-luxury consumables, wherein said material (12) is introduced through an entrance (4) into a hyperbarically pressurized conditioning chamber (2),...
06/17/2008
7380554Pressure-conditioning device
The invention relates to a continuous method for pressure-conditioning material for food and/or semi-luxury consumables, wherein said material (12) is introduced through an entrance (4) into a hyperbarically pressurized conditioning chamber (2),...
06/03/2008
6880814Process gas conditioning for tobacco dryers
The invention relates to process gas conditioning for tobacco dryers. In particular, it relates to a device for conditioning dryer which includes a vaporization unit with a chamber for introducing and vaporizing water to be added to the process gas, wherein the vapo...
04/19/2005
6834653Apparatus for expanding tobacco
The invention concerns a method and an apparatus for expanding foodstuffs and luxury foodstuffs/tobacco materials capable of being expanded, in particular moist tobacco materials, wherein said materials in a carrier flow comprising steam pass through an expansion zo...
12/28/2004
6779527Device for conditioning comminuted tobacco material
The invention relates to a method and a device for conditioning comminuted tobacco material by heating and moistening with water vapor, wherein the comminuted tobacco material free-falls down through a chamber operating in a continuous process and is treated during ...
08/24/2004
6542234Method of detecting the particles of a tobacco particle stream
The invention relates to a method of detecting the particles of a tobacco particle stream in the production of smokable articles by scanning by means of a fine-beam light barrier, the diameter of which is smaller than the dimensions of the tobacco particl...
04/01/2003
6397851Method for expanding tobacco
A method and an apparatus for expanding foodstuffs and luxury foodstuffs/tobacco materials capable of being expanded, in particular moist tobacco materials, wherein said materials in a carrier flow comprising steam pass through an expansion zone, comprisi...
06/04/2002
6067995Coaxial cigarette having cross stream barrier
The invention relates to a coaxial cigarette including a rod comprising a rod core, a rod core wrapping, a rod jacket and a rod jacket wrapping; and a filter comprising a filter core, a filter core wrapping, a filter jacket and a filter jacket wrapping, a...
05/30/2000
5791353Method and apparatus for denitrating tobacco stem material
The invention relates to a method of denitrating tobacco stem material in which the tobacco stem material is input at a first point in a housing, guided through a solvent and output at a second point from the housing, the complete method being implemented...
08/11/1998
5121758Glue and method for its production
A glue for sealing the side seams of smokable articles contains 5 to 40 percent by weight dry substance pectin in an aqueous dispersion; to produce this glue the aqueous dispersion of the pectin is prepared by charging the pectin portion-wise into heated,...
06/16/1992
5119835Method for extracting tobacco alkaloids
A method is described for extracting tobacco alkaloids from tobacco in which the tobacco alkaloids are extracted from the tobacco with carbon dioxide under supercritical conditions and the tobacco alkaloids separated from the carbon dioxide, wherein in th...
06/09/1992
5097851Tobacco sheet and method and apparatus for the production of a tobacco sheet
With the present invention a tobacco sheet or foil is proposed which has an elevated filling force and consists of tobacco particles, water, binders and moisturizers, and relatively gas-impermeable, in particular surface-sealed cover layers being connecte...
03/24/1992
5052415Process for the impregnation of fibers of a tobacco smoke filter with dicarboxylic or polycarboxylic acids or anhydrides thereof
Fibers of tobacco smoke filters which have been impregnated with dicarboxylic or polycarboxylic acids or anhydrides thereof can be obtained by dissolving anhydrides of dicarboxylic or polycarboxylic acids in volatile or physiologically acceptable organic ...
10/01/1991
4641667Process of preparing nicotine N'-oxide and smoking products containing it
Smoking products, for example cigarettes, cut tobacco, pipe tobacco, cigarillos and the like, give an increased yield of nicotine in the tobacco smoke without impairment of the taste of the smoke, when trans-nicotine N'-oxide, which is free or substantial...
02/10/1987
 
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