Apparatus and method for manufacturing cut reconstituted tobaccos
AssigneeKt&G Corporation
InventorDae Nam Han
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Abstract
Disclosed is an apparatus for manufacturing cut reconstituted tobacco, the apparatus being based on a method whereby: a flavoring solution is supplied on an initial reconstituted tobacco sheet by using a flavoring apparatus; a plurality of intermediate reconstituted tobacco sheets are manufactured by cutting the initial reconstituted tobacco sheet using a primary cutter, a plurality of reconstituted tobacco strands are manufactured by cutting the plurality of intermediate reconstituted tobacco sheets in the longitudinal direction using a plurality of secondary cutters; and a plurality of pieces of cut reconstituted tobacco are manufactured by cutting the plurality of reconstituted tobacco strands in the transverse direction using a plurality of tertiary cutters.
Claims10
An apparatus for manufacturing cut reconstituted tobacco, the apparatus comprising:
- a feed roller configured to supply an initial reconstituted tobacco sheet to a conveyor unit;
- a flavoring apparatus configured to supply a flavoring solution onto the initial reconstituted tobacco sheet;
- a primary cutter configured to manufacture a plurality of intermediate reconstituted tobacco sheets by cutting through the initial reconstituted tobacco sheet supplied with the flavoring solution using the flavoring apparatus in a longitudinal direction;
- a plurality of secondary cutters arranged downstream of the primary cutter, spaced apart from one another by a certain distance, and configured to manufacture a plurality of reconstituted tobacco strands by cutting through the plurality of intermediate reconstituted tobacco sheets in the longitudinal direction;
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- a plurality of tertiary cutters arranged downstream of each of the plurality of secondary cutters and configured to manufacture a plurality of pieces of cut reconstituted tobacco by cutting through the plurality of reconstituted tobacco strands in a transverse direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.