US 11,659,856 B2 · Method for casting an alkaloid material including changing a height of a casting blade in response to variations in sensed movable support height

Abstract

The invention relates to a method to cast a sheet (2) of a material containing alkaloids, the method comprising: Providing a container (6) having an aperture; providing a casting blade (9); Providing a movable support (3) running below the aperture of the container (6); Filling the container (6) with slurry (5); Casting the sheet (2) of tobacco material containing alkaloids material by means of the casting blade (9) onto the movable support (3); Sensing variations in a height of the movable support (3); and changing a height of the casting blade (9) if such variations in the height of the movable support (3) are present.

Claims14

Dependent claims

Method to cast a sheet of a material containing alkaloids, the method comprising:

Providing a container having an aperture;
providing a casting blade;
Providing a movable support running below the aperture of the container;
Filling the container with slurry;
Casting the sheet of tobacco material containing alkaloids material by means of the casting blade onto the movable support;
Sensing variations in a height of the movable support, wherein sensing variations in the height of the movable support includes positioning a sensing surface in contact to the movable support;
and
Changing a height of the casting blade based on the sensed variations in the height of the movable support.

5 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

16/614,413Filed 18 May 2018

Priority

EP 1717198019 May 2017

Published

US 2020/0178592 A111 Jun 2020

Granted

30 May 2023

Term ends

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Classification14 codes

A24B 3/14
Preparing tobacco in the factory: forming reconstituted tobacco products, e.g. wrapper materials, sheets, imitation leaves, rods, cakes; Forms of…
A24B 15/167
Of tobacco substitutes: in liquid or vaporisable form, e.g. liquid compositions for electronic cigarettes
A24C 5/39
Making cigarettes; Making tipping materials for, or attaching filters or mouthpieces to, cigars or cigarettes: tobacco feeding devices
A24F 40/70
Electrically operated smoking devices; Component parts thereof; Manufacture thereof; Maintenance or testing thereof; Charging means specially…:…

Method for casting an alkaloid material including changing a height of a casting blade in response to variations in sensed movable support height

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Method for casting an alkaloid material including changing a height of a casting blade in response to variations in sensed movable support height

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Abstract

Claims14