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7445011 Method for improving the loading capacity of tobacco  
The invention relates to a process for enhancing the filling capacity of tobacco, such as cut tobacco leaf or tobacco midribs, or tobacco additional material, by treating the tobacco material...
6834653 Apparatus for expanding tobacco  
The invention concerns a method and an apparatus for expanding foodstuffs and luxury foodstuffs/tobacco materials capable of being expanded, in particular moist tobacco materials, wherein said...
6779527 Device for conditioning comminuted tobacco material  
The invention relates to a method and a device for conditioning comminuted tobacco material by heating and moistening with water vapor, wherein the comminuted tobacco material free-falls down...
6397851 Method for expanding tobacco  
A method and an apparatus for expanding foodstuffs and luxury foodstuffs/tobacco materials capable of being expanded, in particular moist tobacco materials, wherein said materials in a carrier flow...
6227205 Method for treatment of tobacco fine cut  
The invention relates to a method of treating tobacco fine cut in which the cut tobacco is preheating and moistening is moistened to a moisture content of a maximum of 18 to 18.5%, after which it...
6221413 Device and method for puffing products such as foodstuffs and tobacco  
A device for puffing products such as foodstuffs or tobacco comprises an upright puffing reactor having a vessel for receiving product therein. The vessel has a wall provided with a plurality of...
6209546 Apparatus and method for improved hydrate formation and improved efficiency of recovery of expansion agent in processes for expanding tobacco and other agricultural products  
An apparatus and a method for recovering additional expansion agent in a process for the expansion of tobacco or another agricultural product are disclosed. One embodiment is a method for...
6158440 Swollen tobacco material manufacturing method  
6125855 Process for expanding tobacco  
6082369 Process for treating tobacco  
6067994 Tobacco expansion batch forming, unloading and expansion agent purging process and apparatus  
Processes and apparatus are provided for processing tobacco for expansion thereof including process and apparatus for forming a batch of tobacco for delivery to a tobacco impregnation apparatus and...
6053174 Method and apparatus for the enhancement of tobacco  
A tobacco enhancement apparatus and a method of enhancing tobacco using the apparatus comprising a tunnel (12) having a vibratory conveyor floor (18), and an inlet (14) for receiving unexpanded...
5944026 Tobacco products or materials resembling tobacco products containing natural substances having an antioxidative effect and processes for the preparation thereof  
Smokable products made of tobacco and/or another smokable material, which comprise natural substances having an antioxidative effect and/or naturally identical synthetic products thereof. These...
5908032 Method of and apparatus for expanding tobacco  
A method of and an apparatus for expanding tobacco, particularly tobacco impregnated with solid carbon dioxide are disclosed. The apparatus comprises an arcuate, generally C-shaped duct for...
5908033 Tobacco drying apparatus  
A high humidity drying apparatus for cut tobacco is shown. The apparatus has a furnace which heats circulated air within the apparatus. The air is forced through a first arcuate elbow which has a...
5865187 Method and apparatus for expanding tobacco  
A tobacco expansion apparatus and method comprising a source of tower gas, an obloid transport duct (20), in communication with the gas source, a tobacco feeder (18) at a location along the obloid...
5826590 Method and plant for treating tobacco stems for the production of cut tobacco  
The invention relates to a method and plant of treating tobacco stems for the production of cut tobacco for smokable articles, wherein uncut stem are sauced to a moisture content of approximately...
5819754 Tobacco expansion processes and apparatus  
An apparatus for impregnating tobacco with an expansion agent includes a chamber for confining a charge of tobacco under elevated pressure conditions. An accumulator connected to the chamber...
5816264 Bio-humidor  
An apparatus for and method of imparting moisture to a cigar or tobacco product is a bio-humidor. The bio-humidor includes a moisture impervious housing configured to hold the cigar, a moisture...
5810019 Process and apparatus for tobacco batch preparation and expansion  
A tobacco expansion process and apparatus is provided to form a tobacco batch having a predetermined amount of tobacco, contact the batch with steam, load the batch onto a spool assembly, and...
5799665 Process and apparatus for impregnation and expansion of tobacco  
A process for expanding tobacco is provided which employs carbon dioxide gas. Tobacco temperature and OV content are adjusted prior to contacting the tobacco with carbon dioxide gas. The disclosed...
5755238 Method and apparatus for low residence time redrying of tobacco  
A method and apparatus is given for a low residence time redrying of strip tobacco. The apparatus thoroughly and evenly dries and cools the tobacco consistently through the entire tobacco bed as it...
5740817 Processing of smoking material  
A process for treating smoking material comprising the steps of (i) heating smoking material having a moisture content of from 5 to 75% by weight at a temperature of from 70° to 220° C. at about...
5711319 Dry ice expanded tobacco  
In a process for expanding tobacco, an equilibrium pressure within a process vessel (1) containing a mixture of gaseous carbon dioxide and liquid carbon dioxide is selected before charging a sample...
5687748 Spool and shell with pressurizing fluid activated seal  
A process and apparatus for tobacco expansion is employed for expanding tobacco at rapid throughput rates. The apparatus includes a spool and shell assembly wherein the spool is moveable within the...
5682907 Tobacco expansion apparatus  
An apparatus for expanding tobacco includes a chamber having a spool and shell arrangement and a device for compressing tobacco into the shell for impregnation. The spool includes first and second...
5669397 Tobacco expansion processes and apparatus  
This invention provides tobacco expansion processes and apparatus that can be employed for expanding tobacco at rapid throughput rates employing high pressure tobacco impregnation conditions. The...
5647382 Component spool and shell pressure vessel with hydraulic fluid actuated pressure seals  
A process and apparatus for tobacco expansion is employed for expanding tobacco at rapid throughput rates. The apparatus includes a spool and shell assembly wherein the spool is moveable into and...
5638834 Treatment of hygroscopic material  
An apparatus for providing a water vapor-air mixture for treating a hygroscopic material having a mixing chamber, supply for providing air to the mixing chamber at a temperature in the range of 0°...
5590667 Tobacco expansion method  
A tobacco expansion method is provided whereby cured tobacco is first moistened with a humectant solution, as is conventional in the industry, to increase the resident liquids thereof. Next, the...
5379780 Method and system for expanding tobacco  
Steam or high-temperature gas containing steam flows through a gas-flow drying pipe. Tobacco is fed from a feed port into the high-temperature gas flowing through the gas-flow drying pipe, and...
5365950 Expanding apparatus for agricultural product or the like  
An expanding apparatus supplies an expanding agent to an impregnating vessel, and continuously supplies and discharges a material, e.g., a tobacco material to and from the impregnating vessel...
5259403 Process and apparatus for expanding tobacco cut filler  
Tobacco cut filler is volume expanded using the DIET process and equipment. During depressurization of a pressure vessel containing a mixture of cut filler impregnated with liquid carbon dioxide,...
5251648 Method for plumping and moisture regulating cut tobacco  
A method of plumping cut tobacco includes impregnating the cut tobacco with an adjuvant plumping agent and forcing the adjuvant plumping agent to expand in order to inflate the tissues of cut...
5251649 Process for impregnation and expansion of tobacco  
A process for expanding tobacco is provided which employs carbon dioxide gas. Tobacco temperature and OV content are adjusted prior to contacting the tobacco with carbon dioxide gas. A...
5172707 Process for the expansion of tobacco  
A process for the expansion of tobacco, wherein in step (a) the tobacco is cooled by being mixed with cold carbon dioxide; (b) the cooled tobacco is impregnated with liquid carbon dioxide through...
5143096 Method and apparatus for expanding cellular materials  
A process and apparatus for impregnating a cellular material with liquefied gas at a predetermined pressure for subsequent expansion of the impregnated cellular material including the steps of...
5095922 Process for increasing the filling power of tobacco material  
Tobacco cut filler has an extremely high filling capacity. Tobacco cut filler is contacted with tap water under extraction conditions, and resulting aqueous tobacco extract is separated from the...
5076293 Process and apparatus for the treatment of tobacco material  
Process and apparatus for the treatment of tobacco material and other biological materials includes a mechanism comprising a dynamic seal having components having cooperating movable surfaces for...
5065774 Process for expanding tobacco under moderate conditions  
The invention is directed to a process for increasing the filling capacity of tobacco under moderate conditions of temperature and pressure. Tobacco is impregnanted with a low boiling impregnant...
5020550 Apparatus for expanding material of an agricultural origin  
An expanding apparatus of this invention includes a preparatory vessel that is supplied with material of agricultural origin, for example, tobacco material. The tobacco material in the preparatory...
5012826 Method of expanding tobacco  
The invention is directed to a process for increasing the filling capacity of tobacco wherein tobacco is contacted with a mixture of an inert, normally gaseous expansion agent and about 15-35...
4962773 Process for the manufacture tobacco rods containing expanded tobacco material  
Cigarette rods and filter rods are provided by manufacturing rods from tobacco cut filler and a circumscribing paper wrap, and then subjecting the rods to conditions such that the cut filler...
4949735 Treatment of particulate materials  
In a method and apparatus for treating particulate material, the material, when in a mobilization zone bounded by upwardly divergent walls, is subjected to a flow of gaseous mobilizing medium,...
4944316 Process for treating tobacco and similar organic materials  
In order to effect expansion of a shredded material, said material is impregnated with an inert organic liquid, which is subsequently vaporized. The major portion of the impregnation agent is...
4844101 Apparatus for expanding comminiuted tobacco material  
Comminuted tobacco material expanding apparatus which includes a cellular wheel feeder and an expansion chamber integrated in the cellular wheel feeder. A nozzle opening in a wall of the expansion...
4791942 Process and apparatus for the expansion of tobacco  
A process for expanding tobacco includes the steps of adjusting the moisture content of cut tobacco, pressurizing the cut tobacco with or without treatment, releasing the pressurized cut tobacco...
4766912 Method and apparatus for puffing tobacco  
Fragments of tobacco ribs are puffed in an elongated tunnel which is vibrated to advance the particles from the inlet toward the outlet. The particles in the tunnel are contacted by streamlets of...
4760854 Tobacco expansion process  
An improved tobacco treating expansion process involving controlling the moisture content of tobacco and the pre-separator residence time thereof in a treatment of the moisture controlled tobacco...
4709709 Process for the moistening of comminuted smoking materials  
For the moistening of comminuted, more particularly overdried, smoking materials, the requisite quantity of water is applied in at least two spraying sections situated one in succession to the...
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