In most popular embodiments, the first tobacco materials is shredded into strips from a sheet materials having a thickness from about zero.05 mm to about 1 mm. Even more ideally, the primary tobacco material is shredded into strips from a sheet materials having a thickness from about 0.1 mm to about zero.three mm, most ideally from a sheet material having a thickness of about 0.2 mm. A tobacco reduce filler in accordance with any one of claims 1 to 9, whereby the primary tobacco materials is shredded into strips every comprising a minimum of a first strip construction comprising a branching node from which an extra strip construction branches off, forming an angle with the primary strip structure. Figures 10 and 12 present two examples of minimize strips together with a number of V-shaped structure. Each V structure contains two considerably straight elements forming an angle.
In addition, a second couple of blends was used, that contained 70 % by weight of pure tobacco particles and 30 % by weight of reconstituted tobacco particles reduce in accordance with the specifications of Figures 1 1 and 12, respectively. Thus, the minimize width of an individual reduce strip is taken on the level along the size of the strip that yields the most important cross-sectional area. Further, the filling power of the shredded first tobacco materials may be maximised by selecting an appropriate first cut specification. This ends in an improved filling power of the minimize filler as an entire, significantly when the primary tobacco materials is mixed with no much less than another tobacco materials.
In addition, the formation of tobacco mud is lowered compared with conventional manufacturing strategies. Accordingly, the want to acquire and re-process tobacco dust is significantly lowered and the overall 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 shape , whereby a wave size of the sinusoidal shape is from about 1 mm to about 15 mm. A tobacco reduce filler according to any one of many previous claims, wherein the first tobacco materials is shredded into strips from a sheet material 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 % oven volatiles for every pattern.
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 process. Much of the stem portion that remains after the lamina has been eliminated and separated isn’t used. However, it is not unusual to add some tobacco stems again into the reduce filler along with the lamina.
Alternative methods for the manufacture of reconstituted tobacco sheets are also known to the expert person. Throughout this specification, the expression “reconstituted tobacco sheet” is used to discuss with a web, preferably with considerably uniform thickness, which could be produced by the rolling or casting of an aqueous slurry or pulp formed Fashion tobacco pipe from tobacco particles by one of a quantity of strategies identified within the art. Suitable by-products embody tobacco stems, tobacco stalks, leaf scraps, and tobacco mud produced in the course of the manufacturing course of.
A tobacco minimize filler according to declare 1 or 2, wherein the first tobacco materials is a pre- processed tobacco materials. In a third experiment, the cut specification no. 10 was barely modified with a view to enhancing the resistance of the particles to the stresses involved by the cigarette-making process. In explicit, there was concern that through the cigarette-making process the tobacco particle could be uncovered to high tensions and frictions which might cause particles ready in accordance with the minimize specification no. 10 to break. This may have lowered the benefit coming from the V-shape and shown 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 several examples of particularly shapes into which tobacco material for forming a minimize filler in accordance with the present invention may be reduce.
For example, a bimodal distribution may correspond successfully to two teams of reduce strips having different common minimize lengths , one group being bigger than the other. Preferably, the first tobacco material is shredded into strips from a sheet materials having a thickness of no much less than about 0.05 mm. More ideally, the primary tobacco materials is shredded into strips from a sheet material having a thickness of a minimum of about 0.1 mm.