A tobacco cut filler in accordance with any one of the previous claims, wherein the primary tobacco materials is shredded into strips having a reduce length from about 5 mm to about 60 mm. A tobacco minimize filler in accordance with any one of claims 2 to 4, whereby the second tobacco materials is a pure tobacco leaf material. An angle of ninety levels was thought of to be undesirable, in that it will lead essentially to a shape quite much like the form of Figure 6, and so an angle of 60 degrees was chosen for the “V” parts. Further, the tactic ideally includes the step of mixing the cut first tobacco material and the cut second tobacco material.
Further, the second Y-shaped structure contains a second branching node from which a rectangular structure branches off. In the embodiment of Figure 1 1 , the minimize strip includes a primary Y-shaped construction including a primary branching node from which a second Y-shaped construction branches off. Further, the second Y-shaped construction comprises a second branching node from which a third Y-shaped construction branches off.
Suitable pure tobacco leaf materials embody tobacco lamina, tobacco stem material and tobacco stalk material. The pure tobacco leaf materials used because the second tobacco materials could embrace any sort of tobacco leaf, including for instance Virginia tobacco leaf, Burley tobacco leaf, Oriental tobacco leaf, flue-cured tobacco leaf, or a mixture thereof. A tobacco minimize filler in accordance with the present invention includes a primary tobacco material minimize in accordance with a primary cut specification, wherein the first reduce specification units a minimal of predetermined first minimize width and first reduce size. The term “filling power” is used to describe the volume of area taken up by a given weight or mass of a tobacco material. The larger the filling energy of a tobacco materials, the decrease the load of the material required to fill a tobacco rod of ordinary dimensions.
In addition, the formation of tobacco mud is reduced compared with conventional manufacturing methods. Accordingly, the need to collect and re-process tobacco dust is significantly reduced and the general efficiency of the manufacturing process is thus advantageously elevated. A tobacco minimize filler according to any one of the preceding claims, whereby the first tobacco material is shredded into strips having a sinusoidal form , whereby a wave length of the sinusoidal shape is from about 1 mm to about 15 mm. A tobacco cut filler based on any one of the preceding claims, wherein the first tobacco materials is shredded into strips from a sheet materials having a thickness from about 0.05 mm to about 1 mm. Table 2 beneath lists the values of CCV measured at a reference moisture worth of 12.5 % oven volatiles for every pattern.
Sensors 40 and mass move controllers 42, 44, if current, are operatively linked with a control unit forty six configured to control the operation of the equipment. In explicit, the control unit forty six adjusts the pace to the conveyor belt 38 in view of variations within the speed at which the net of reconstituted tobacco is fed to the shredding gadget 36, in order to prevent any undesirable accumulation of reduce strips on the conveyor belt. By finely controlling the dimensions and shape of the strips into which the first tobacco material is reduce or shredded, the features of the primary tobacco materials can advantageously be higher preserved every time the primary tobacco material is blended, in the shredded state, with some other tobacco materials. This is especially advantageous when the first tobacco material is a pre-processed tobacco material, such as a reconstituted tobacco sheet material. The “thickness” of a reduce strip of tobacco material for incorporation in minimize fillers according to the current invention refers again to the distance between an upper floor and a lower floor of the portion of fabric forming the cut strip.
Even extra ideally, first tobacco material is shredded into strips having a reduce size of a minimum of about 15 mm. In addition, or as an alternative, the first tobacco materials is preferably shredded into strips having a reduce length of less than about 60 mm. More preferably, the primary tobacco material is shredded into strips having a cut length of less than about 50 mm. Even more preferably, the first tobacco materials is shredded into strips having a reduce size of lower than about 40 mm. In preferred embodiments, the primary tobacco material is shredded into strips having a minimize length from about 5 mm to about 60 mm. The term “sectional cut width” is used in the current specification to describe the side- to-side width of one such portion of a cut strip of tobacco materials.
Conventionally, cut filler tobacco products for smoking articles are fashioned predominantly from the lamina portion of the tobacco leaf, which is separated from the stem portion of the leaf throughout a threshing course of. Much of the stem portion that continues tobacco pipe to be after the lamina has been eliminated and separated is not used. However, it isn’t uncommon to add some tobacco stems back into the reduce filler along with the lamina.
Figures 1 to 12 exhibits reduce strips of a primary tobacco material for incorporation in a cut filler in accordance with the present invention. The strips have been reduce from a sheet of reconstituted tobacco having a thickness from about zero.05 mm to about 1 mm in accordance with a primary cut specification, whereby the primary cut specification sets a predetermined first reduce width CW1 and a predetermined first cut size CL1 . In addition, the first reduce specification could further set a predetermined first sectional minimize width SCW1.
A tobacco minimize filler according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the primary tobacco material is a pre- processed tobacco materials. In a 3rd experiment, the minimize specification no. 10 was slightly modified with a view to bettering the resistance of the particles to the stresses concerned by the cigarette-making process. In explicit, there was concern that in the course of the cigarette-making course of the tobacco particle could be uncovered to excessive tensions and frictions which could cause particles prepared in accordance with the cut specification no. 10 to interrupt. This might have lowered the benefit coming from the V-shape and shown by the CCV measurements described above. Figure thirteen depicts a schematic view of an equipment for forming a tobacco reduce filler in accordance with the current invention. Figures depict several examples of significantly shapes into which tobacco material for forming a reduce filler in accordance with the current invention may be cut.