System having a robotic functionality for a division process of a pressed and cased tobacco bale inside its original case into 2 or more pieces

A method for dividing and separating a full-size tobacco bale inside its own case by removing an upper half of the full-size tobacco bale across a horizontal width thereof, placing the upper half into an empty case and separating the full-size tobacco bale into two cases, the method comprising:

• positioning the case containing the full-size tobacco bale under a tobacco bale dividing robot;
• moving dividing arms of said tobacco bale dividing robot through side walls of the case and the tobacco bale by traveling downwardly in a vertical direction up to half of a height of the full-size tobacco bale;
• rotating the dividing arms gradually from 0° parallel to an elongated sided of the case to a 90° position perpendicular to the elongated side of the case;
• dividing the full-size tobacco bale by a horizontal rotation of the dividing arms;
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• vertically moving the dividing arm at the 90° position so as to separate the full-size tobacco bale into an upper tobacco bale and a lower tobacco bale.