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7584758 Device for processing tobacco during the production of cigarettes  
A distributor or hopper is part of a cigarette production machine and serves for dressing the tobacco in the provision of a continuous tobacco strand. An integral part of a distributor is a...
7383840 Apparatus for scanning and sorting tobacco leaves  
An apparatus for scanning and sorting tobacco leaves includes a conveyor to convey a flow of tobacco leaves. The flow of tobacco leaves includes acceptable and unacceptable leaves and undesirable...
7335847 Method and apparatus for foreign-body separation from a material flow  
Method and apparatus for the separation of foreign bodies from a material flow, in particular a tobacco stream. Method is characterized in that at least a portion of the material from the material...
7185658 Apparatus for producing and/or packaging cigarettes  
During the production of cigarettes, but in particular in the region of a cigarette-packaging machine, a comparatively large amount of tobacco accumulates as waste. This is specifically removed by...
6877515 Method of making a tobacco rod  
Apparatus for making one or more rod-like fillers of shredded tobacco for use in the making of cigarettes or the like employs one or two pneumatic conveyors having endless foraminous belts trained...
6877516 Apparatus and method for processing winnowers at a cigarette maker  
Size reduction equipment is added at the feed end of a cigarette maker to take separated winnowers and other overages from a tobacco feed to the maker, cut or shred the overages to appropriate size...
6814080 Apparatus for making a tobacco rod  
Apparatus for making one or more rod-like fillers of shredded tobacco for use in the making of cigarettes or the like employs one or two pneumatic conveyors having endless foraminous belts trained...
6782890 Apparatus for building tobacco rods in cigarette making machines  
The distributor of a cigarette rod making machine employs a zig-zag sifter which receives a mixture of tobacco ribs and shreds from a reservoir by way of a duct or an elevator conveyor. The shreds...
6634365 Method of and apparatus for homogenizing streams of particulate fibrous material  
A shower of tobacco particles is fed into the upper end of a downwardly sloping and downwardly tapering funnel-shaped part of a conveyor wherein the particles gather into a flow of interlaced...
6516810 Pipe junction for pneumatic transfer of rod-shaped smokers' products  
Apparatus for pneumatically conveying filter rod sections from a sender to a remote cigarette filter tipping machine has a first switching device which receives filter rod sections from a single...
6514014 Method and apparatus for collecting and transporting cigarettes and cigarette rejects  
An apparatus for receiving and transporting cigarette rejects in a cigarette manufacturing process comprises a receptacle having a receiving opening and an insertion opening for receiving rejects,...
6435191 Tobacco separator  
Apparatus for separating particles contained in threshed leaf tobacco includes a plurality of separating chambers, each including a separation chamber and having a fan system for establishing a...
6321758 Tobacco leaf handling assembly  
The present invention relates to a method for transferring harvested tobacco leaves from an amorphous mass of harvested tobacco leaves to a bulk curing container component for subsequent transfer...
6273093 Incorporating smoke-modifying agents in smoking material rods  
A method of, and apparatus for, incorporating particulate smoke-modifying agent in a smoking material rod, wherein said agent is introduced into a flow of filamentary smoking material to the...
5901709 Method of and apparatus for processing exhausted air in tobacco processing plants  
A first stream of contaminated air containing solid impurities including reusable tobacco particles is exhausted from a machine for the making of smokers' products and is caused to pass first...
5806531 Method and apparatus for automatic and continuous pneumatic feeding of tobacco  
A continuous pneumatic tobacco conveyance system is described which automatically controls the rate at which tobacco is fed into the conveyance system and automatically controls the velocity of the...
5645086 Apparatus for evacuating surplus air for the distributor of a tobacco processing machine  
The distributor of a cigarette rod maker has a chamber bounded at least in part by a concave guide for a flow of fragments of smokable material in a stream of transporting fluid, such as air. The...
5538017 Tobacco leaf separator  
A mixture of tobacco leaf lamina and stem is separated in an apparatus having a first separation chamber in which the mixture is projected through an air stream by a first impeller and an...
5476109 Apparatus for separating threshed leaf tobacco  
Apparatus for separating lighter particles such as lamina containing little or no stem from tobacco particles contained in threshed leaf tobacco which comprises a plurality of tobacco particle...
5460189 Apparatus for separating threshold leaf tobacco  
A method is provided for separating lighter particles from heavier particles in a mixture thereof utilizing a separation chamber for continuous movement of particles therethrough. The chamber has a...
5398703 Method of simultaneously producing two continuous cigarette rods  
In a machine for simultaneously producing two continuous cigarette rods from respective layers of tobacco, shredded tobacco is fed by an air current along an upfeed duct, closed off at the top by a...
5394893 Modular style multi-separator  
Apparatus for separating lighter particles from tobacco particles contained in threshed leaf tobacco includes a plurality of tobacco particle separating units, each including a separation chamber...
5331978 Method and apparatus for separation of heavy and light particles from particulate material  
Apparatus for the separation of heavy and light particles from material which includes means for fluidising and agitating the material to cause heavy particles to sink from the acceptable material...
5294218 Centrifugal discharger for waste materials having a low weight/area ratio  
A centrifugal discharger, particularly for cigarette manufacturing and/or packing machines, for disposing of waste fibrous and/or sheet material inside a fluidtight bin; wherein a centrifugal...
5267576 Method of and apparatus for separating foreign objects from moving tobacco particles in a rod making machine  
A cigarette rod making machine wherein the flow of loosely intermingled tobacco shreds, tobacco ribs and foreign objects (such as nuts, bolts, pieces of wire and/or particles of plastic material)...
5199448 Method and apparatus for separation of objectionable particles from tobacco material  
A method of separating objectionable particles from host tobacco material which includes fluidizing the tobacco material with a fluidizing air stream to allow heavy unwanted particles to fall, to...
5188128 Apparatus for classifying particles of tobacco and the like  
Apparatus for separating longer tobacco particles from shorter tobacco particles has an elongated vibratory trough for the advancement of a stream containing a mixture of shorter and longer...
5188127 Apparatus for feeding tobacco to distributors of rod making machines  
Apparatus for feeding batches or a continuous stream of tobacco particles into the magazine of the distributor in a cigarette or cigar rod making machine has a container which can receive a stream...
5148816 Method of and apparatus for making a tobacco stream with a core containing tobacco ribs  
Smaller and larger fragments of tobacco ribs are sifted out of a mixture of tobacco ribs and tobacco shreds before the shreds are converted into a rod-like filler which is ready to be draped into a...
5083577 Apparatus for metering tobacco  
An apparatus for metering a measured amount of tobacco to, for example, a cigarette making machine to provide a uniform feed of tobacco to the cigarette making machine thereby reducing variations...
5072741 Method of and apparatus for simultaneously making plural tobacco filler streams  
A relatively wide first layer of tobacco particles is broken up into several narrower second and several narrower third layers. The second layers are converted into a first tobacco filler stream...
5072742 Method of and apparatus for making a filler of smokable material  
A cigarette rod making machine wherein the surplus of smokable material which is removed by the trimming device is returned into the magazine of the distributor next to the supply of fresh tobacco....
5027835 Apparatus for pneumatic transportation of particulate material such as tobacco  
An apparatus for transporting particulate material, such as cut tobacco, including a duct having an inlet for receiving material to be transported, an outlet for transported material, air inlet...
5022415 Machine for simultaneously manufacturing two continuous cigarette rods  
A machine for simultaneously manufacturing two continuous cigarette rods, whereby a continuous stream of shredded tobacco particles is fed to the bottom end of conveying means by which it is fed on...
5018538 Cigarette making machine  
Apparatus for feeding tobacco in or to a cigarette making machine comprises a number of carded rollers (10, 11, 12, 18) which transfer a metered stream of tobacco from one to the other while...
5009238 Apparatus for supplying fibrous material to machines for simultaneously producing a plurality of cigarette rods  
Apparatus for supplying comminuted tobacco leaves to the only distributor of a machine for simultaneously producing two cigarette rods employs several gates which can admit batches of tobacco into...
4998540 Method of and apparatus for eliminating irregularities from a stream of fibrous material  
A tobacco stream which is built at the underside of the lower reach of an endless foraminous belt conveyor is monitored by a detector which generates a signal in response to detection of excessive...
4964500 Tabacco processing pneumatic alignment method and apparatus  
A conveyor system for automatically orienting a majority of tobacco leaves received thereby in a lengthwise direction so that their stems are substantilly parallel to a final direction of...
4953570 Cigarette making machine hopper  
Degradation of tobacco brought about by refuser and recycle procedure in conventional cigarette-making machine operations is eliminated by feeding, metering and opening tobacco from a reservoir...
4938235 Separator for separating tobacco particles from a tobacco/gas mixture  
A separator for separating tobacco particles from a tobacco/gas mixture comprises a hood, a circular deflection space disposed in the hood, an inlet for the tobacco/gas mixture to be separated...
4932423 Tobacco feeding apparatus  
In apparatus for feeding tobacco to cigarette-making machines, the tobacco (9) is conveyed by suction from a feed receptacle (1). One end (14) of a duct (3) facing the receptacle above the level...
4922932 Tobacco feeder  
A tobacco feeder assembly utilizes a column of tobacco and a rotary conveyor to feed tobacco particles to a treatment zone which is maintained at above atmospheric pressure. The column of tobacco...
4895174 Tobacco particle separator  
A tobacco particles separator utilizes turbulent air flow, flow vortices, and a random spread matrix in an air circulation path to separate and singularize tobacco particles. A moving porous web is...
4883077 Apparatus for transporting and treating particles of tobacco and the like  
A stream of air is circulated by a blower along an endless path a portion of which is defined by an upright duct having an air inlet at its lower end, an air outlet at its upper end, and an inlet...
4875495 Separation of light particles from heavy particles in a stream of particulate matter  
A method and apparatus for separating light particles from heavy particles in a stream of particulate matter, particularly for separating stems from the stream of tobacco filler fed to a cigarette...
4852589 Cigarette making machine  
A cigarette making machine includes a channel (10; 100; 204) through which tobacco is pneumatically conveyed to form a cigarette filler stream (15; 209) on a conveyor (12; 130; 220) at the outlet...
4832058 Cigarette manufacture  
A method of and apparatus for feeding tobacco pneumatically from a common supply station and substantially continuously to a number of cigarette making machines, in which tobacco is drawn from a...
4756315 Cigarette manufacturing machine with an auxiliary tobacco feed unit  
A cigarette manufacturing machine having an auxiliary recycled tobacco feed unit communicating with a downflow duct for feeding tobacco to a continuous cigarette rod forming section; the...
4755284 Elutriator  
An elutriator (1) for separating different grades of leaf vegetable material comprises an elutriation zone (17) disposed above a flow distributor, and gaseous supply means (13) for supplying a...
4729388 Cigarette manufacturing machine with a tobacco particle separator  
A cigarette manufacturing machine having a shredded tobacco supply unit, a unit for wrapping the shredded tobacco, an air permeable conveyor belt extending from the supply unit and the wrapping...
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