A tobacco cut filler according to any one of many preceding claims, wherein the primary tobacco material is shredded into strips having a cut size from about 5 mm to about 60 mm. A tobacco reduce filler according to any certainly one of claims 2 to 4, wherein the second tobacco material is a pure tobacco leaf material. An angle of ninety degrees was thought-about to be undesirable, in that it will lead essentially to a form quite just like the form of Figure 6, and so an angle of 60 degrees was chosen for the “V” parts. Further, the method ideally comprises the step of blending the cut first tobacco material and the minimize second tobacco materials.
More ideally, the primary tobacco material is shredded into strips having a minimize width of no much less than about 0.25 mm. Even extra ideally, the primary tobacco material is shredded into strips having a minimize width of at least about 0.3 mm. In addition, or as an alternative, the primary tobacco materials is preferably shredded into strips having a reduce width of lower than about 1 mm.
Even extra ideally, first tobacco materials is shredded into strips having a reduce length of at least about 15 mm. In addition, or in its place, the primary tobacco materials is preferably shredded into strips having a cut length of lower than about 60 mm. More preferably, the first tobacco material is shredded into strips having a cut size of lower than about 50 mm. Even extra ideally, the primary tobacco materials is shredded into strips having a minimize length of less than about forty mm. In most popular embodiments, the primary tobacco material is shredded into strips having a cut size from about 5 mm to about 60 mm. The time period “sectional cut width” is used in the current specification to describe the side- to-side width of 1 such portion of a minimize strip of tobacco materials.
For instance, a bimodal distribution might correspond effectively to two groups of minimize strips having different common minimize lengths , one group being larger than the opposite. Preferably, the primary tobacco material is shredded into strips from a sheet material having a thickness of at least about zero.05 mm. More preferably, the first tobacco material is shredded into strips from a sheet material having a thickness of at least about 0.1 mm.
By way of example, tobacco stems could additionally be ground to a nice powder after which mixed with tobacco dust, guar gum, and water to type an aqueous slurry. This aqueous slurry could also be solid and dried to kind a reconstituted tobacco sheet. As an alternative, suitable tobacco supplies may be combined in an agitated tank with water to obtain a pulp. This net is fed onwards to a press, the place the surplus water is squeezed out of the net. Figure thirteen illustrates an apparatus 30 for the manufacture of a tobacco cut filler in accordance with the present invention. A net 32 of reconstituted tobacco having a thickness T is unwound off a bobbin 34 and fed to a shredding device 36.
Sensors 40 and mass flow controllers 42, forty four, if present, are operatively related with a control unit 46 configured to manage the operation of the equipment. In particular, the management unit 46 adjusts the speed to the conveyor belt 38 in view of variations within the velocity at which the net of reconstituted tobacco is fed to the shredding device 36, so as to stop any undesirable accumulation of reduce strips on the conveyor belt. By finely controlling the scale and form of the strips into which the primary tobacco materials is reduce or shredded, the features of the primary Fashion tobacco pipe tobacco materials can advantageously be higher preserved each time the first tobacco materials is blended, in the shredded state, with another tobacco materials. This is particularly advantageous when the primary tobacco material is a pre-processed tobacco material, similar to a reconstituted tobacco sheet material. The “thickness” of a minimize strip of tobacco materials for incorporation in reduce fillers based on the present invention refers again to the distance between an higher floor and a lower surface of the portion of fabric forming the reduce strip.
Alternative strategies for the manufacture of reconstituted tobacco sheets are additionally known to the skilled person. Throughout this specification, the expression “reconstituted tobacco sheet” is used to refer to an internet, preferably with substantially uniform thickness, which could be produced by the rolling or casting of an aqueous slurry or pulp formed from tobacco particles by certainly one of several strategies recognized within the artwork. Suitable by-products embody tobacco stems, tobacco stalks, leaf scraps, and tobacco dust produced through the manufacturing course of.
In addition, the formation of tobacco dust is lowered compared with traditional manufacturing methods. Accordingly, the want to gather and re-process tobacco dust is significantly lowered and the general efficiency of the manufacturing process is thus advantageously increased. A tobacco minimize filler according to any one of the previous claims, wherein the primary tobacco materials is shredded into strips having a sinusoidal form, whereby a wave size of the sinusoidal shape is from about 1 mm to about 15 mm. A tobacco reduce filler based on any one of the preceding claims, wherein the primary tobacco material is shredded into strips from a sheet materials having a thickness from about zero.05 mm to about 1 mm. Table 2 below lists the values of CCV measured at a reference moisture worth of 12.5 percent oven volatiles for every sample.