A24B 5/00
Stripping tobacco
Official title: Stripping tobacco; Treatment of stems or ribs
A24B5/00 (Stripping tobacco) appears on 119 US grants and 45 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A24B- Granted patents
- 119
- Published applications
- 45
- Assignees
- 59
- Inventors
- 263
- Latest grant
- 18 Aug 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- A24B 5/16Stripping tobacco: other treatment of stems or ribs40
- A24B 5/10Stripping tobacco: by crushing the leaves with subsequent separating39
- A24B 5/06Stripping tobacco: by stripping leaf-parts from the stem13
- A24B 5/14Flattening machines for leaves or stems8
- A24B 5/04Stripping tobacco: by cutting out the stem6
- A24B 5/02Stripping tobacco: by plucking out the stem4
- A24B 5/12Auxiliary devices for stripping3
- A24B 5/08Stripping tobacco: by cutting-off, shaving off, pressing flat the thick parts of0
Recent patents
- Method of processing tobacco fines into a non-continuous tobacco material18 Aug 2026US 12,708,134 B2Nicoventures Trading Limited
- Method and plant for treating tobacco leaves24 Mar 2026US 12,582,151 B2Comas - Costruzioni Macchine Speciali - S.P.A.
- Device for grinding and mixing of herbs and/or tobacco and/or spices, preparing and dispensing of paper cones and method for the application thereof19 Aug 2025US 12,389,935 B2Jroll Tech Ltd.
- Method of aging smoking material by utilizing oak barrel and smoking article manufactured using the same3 Jun 2025US 12,317,916 B2Kt&G Corporation
- Smoking article machine1 Apr 2025US 12,262,730 B2
- Aerosol-generating compositions20 Feb 2025US 2025/0057205 A1Nicoventures Trading Limited
- Method for improving sensory quality of cut rolled stem using ganoderma lucidum fermentation broth28 Nov 2024US 2024/0389633 A1China Tobacco Sichuan Industrial Co., Ltd.
- A method of processing tobacco fines into a non-continuous tobacco material23 Nov 2023US 2023/0371573 A1British American Tobacco Exports Limited
- A method of processing tobacco fines into a non-continuous tobacco material9 Nov 2023US 2023/0354876 A1British American Tobacco Exports Limited
- Method and plant for treating tobacco leaves17 Aug 2023US 2023/0255255 A1Comas - Costruzioni Macchine Speciali - S.P.A.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Process for expanding tobacco45US 4,366,824 APhilip Morris Incorporated · 1983
- Pneumatic classifier for tobacco and method39US 4,915,824 A1990
- Tobacco stem treatment and expanded tobacco product38US 4,388,933 APhilip Morris Incorporated · 1983
- Threshed tobacco lead separator33US 4,465,194 AUniversal Leaf Tobacco Company, Inc. · 1984
- Process for expanding tobacco24US 4,366,823 APhilip Morris Incorporated · 1983