Nozzle for manufacturing flavor capsule of tobacco
AssigneeKt&G Corporation
InventorsIck Joong Kim, Ali Jeong Bang, Jung Seop Hwang, Sang Jin Nam, Jae Gon Lee, Han Joo Chung
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Abstract
A method for manufacturing a flavor capsule of tobacco according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may comprise: a membrane manufacturing step for manufacturing a membrane of a flavor capsule by a membrane manufacturing part that manufactures a membrane; a capsule manufacturing step for manufacturing the flavor capsule using an apparatus for manufacturing a capsule with the membrane manufactured during the membrane manufacturing step and a flavored liquid to be held in the membrane; and a hardening step for hardening the flavor capsule.
Claims2
A nozzle provided in a dual discharge structure and configured to discharge a membrane supplied by a membrane tank and a flavored liquid supplied by a flavored liquid tank such that the membrane wraps the flavored liquid to form an initial form of a flavor capsule, the nozzle comprising:
- a nozzle body;
- a flavored liquid discharge line formed along a center of the nozzle body and configured to form a path to discharge the flavored liquid;
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- at least one membrane discharge line formed in an outer side of the flavored liquid discharge line in the nozzle body and configured to form a path to discharge the membrane,
- wherein an inner diameter and an outer diameter of the flavored liquid discharge line in the nozzle body are determined based on a size of the flavor capsule,
- wherein the inner diameter is 0.5 to 2.0 millimeters (mm) and the outer diameter is 2.0 to 5.0 mm,
- wherein the inner diameter is 20% to 40% of a diameter of the flavor capsule,
- wherein a ratio of the inner diameter to the outer diameter is two and one half to five (2.5:5), and
- wherein the diameter of the flavor capsule is 2.1 to 4.7 mm, and a thickness of the membrane wrapping the flavored liquid in the flavor capsule is 0.50 to 0.80 mm immediately after the flavor capsule is formed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.