In addition, the formation of tobacco dust is lowered in contrast with conventional manufacturing methods. Accordingly, the want to collect and re-process tobacco mud is considerably reduced and the general effectivity of the manufacturing course of is thus advantageously elevated. A tobacco reduce filler in accordance with any one of the preceding claims, wherein the primary tobacco material is shredded into strips having a sinusoidal form, wherein a wave length of the sinusoidal form is from about 1 mm to about 15 mm. A tobacco reduce filler in accordance with any one of many previous claims, whereby the primary tobacco material is shredded into strips from a sheet material having a thickness from about zero.05 mm to about 1 mm. Table 2 under lists the values of CCV measured at a reference moisture value of 12.5 p.c oven volatiles for each pattern.
A tobacco cut filler based on declare 1 or 2, wherein the first tobacco material is a pre- processed tobacco material. In a 3rd experiment, the minimize specification no. 10 was barely modified with a view to enhancing the resistance of the particles to the stresses involved by the cigarette-making course of. In specific, there was concern that through the cigarette-making course of the tobacco particle could be exposed to high tensions and frictions which could cause tobacco pipe particles ready in accordance with the minimize specification no. 10 to interrupt. This might have reduced the profit coming from the V-shape and proven by the CCV measurements described above. Figure 13 depicts a schematic view of an apparatus for forming a tobacco reduce filler in accordance with the current invention. Figures depict a quantity of examples of significantly shapes into which tobacco material for forming a minimize filler in accordance with the current invention could additionally be cut.
Even more ideally, first tobacco materials is shredded into strips having a reduce size of a minimal of about 15 mm. In addition, or instead, the first tobacco materials is ideally shredded into strips having a cut size of less than about 60 mm. More ideally, the primary tobacco material is shredded into strips having a reduce length of lower than about 50 mm. Even extra preferably, the primary tobacco material is shredded into strips having a minimize length of less than about 40 mm. In most well-liked embodiments, the primary tobacco materials is shredded into strips having a minimize size from about 5 mm to about 60 mm. The time period “sectional minimize width” is used within the current specification to explain the side- to-side width of 1 such portion of a minimize strip of tobacco materials.
The shredding gadget is configured to chop the reconstituted tobacco in accordance to a primary reduce specification, whereby each minimize width and reduce size are predetermined. The cut strips are dropped onto a conveyor belt 38 organized beneath the shredding system 36 and defining a group floor upon which the cut strips fall out of the shredding device. Additional means T may be supplied for tensioning the web of reconstituted tobacco as it is unwound off the bobbin. Further, the equipment 30 might comprise sensors forty for detecting the moisture content material of the web of reconstituted tobacco upstream of the shredding device 36. In addition, the equipment 30 could comprise mass move controllers 42, forty four adapted to adjust the pace at which the net of reconstituted tobacco is fed to the shredding system 36 and the velocity of the conveyor belt 38.
The yield of flat rolled stem which can be used directly as filler is increased, and the common stem length and thus the average size of reduce filler from stem is elevated. A tobacco reduce filler based on any one of many previous claims having a filling power of no less than 3.5 cubic centimetres per gram at a reference moisture value Filling cut tobacco of 12.5 percent oven volatiles. Accordingly, tobacco particles have been prepared from the same sheet of reconstituted tobacco according to the minimize specification illustrated in Figure 12, whereby the reduce width SCW1 is of 0.9 millimetres, the cut length CL1 is of four.ninety four millimetres and the worldwide width CW1 is of 12.50 millimetres.
By means of instance, tobacco stems may be floor to a fantastic powder after which combined with tobacco mud, guar gum, and water to form an aqueous slurry. This aqueous slurry may be forged and dried to type a reconstituted tobacco sheet. As an alternative, appropriate tobacco materials could additionally be blended in an agitated tank with water to acquire 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 equipment 30 for the manufacture of a tobacco minimize filler in accordance with the current invention. A net 32 of reconstituted tobacco having a thickness T is unwound off a bobbin 34 and fed to a shredding gadget 36.
For example, a bimodal distribution may correspond effectively to two groups of minimize strips having completely different common minimize lengths , one group being bigger than the opposite. Preferably, the first tobacco material is shredded into strips from a sheet material having a thickness of no much less than about 0.05 mm. More ideally, the first tobacco material is shredded into strips from a sheet material having a thickness of at least about 0.1 mm.