US 2004/0200489 A1Published application

System for manufacturing tobacco products and a procedure for transferring heat between two or more stations of such a system

OwnerFiorenzo Draghetti, Davide Dall`Ossoinventors

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Abstract

A system for manufacturing tobacco products, typically cigarettes, includes a primary processing station in which the tobacco is conditioned, and a station in which the cigarettes are made and packed. Both of the stations are served by a single heat exchange device using a fluid procured from a convenient source, which is circulated initially through the one station to cool the cigarette making and packing machinery, then directed into the other station so that the thermal energy recovered from the preceding exchange of heat can be exploited to maintain the temperature required for the primary processing treatments. The fluid is released ultimately from the primary processing station to a discharge station.

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Dependent claims

1) A system for manufacturing tobacco products, comprising:

at least one manufacturing station supplied with at least one forming material used to make the tobacco products, designed to fashion a plurality of marketable and saleable tobacco products composed at least in part of the forming material;
at least one heat exchange device actively associated with the manufacturing station in such a way as to cool the station by means of at least one heat exchange fluid circulated within a fluodynamic circuit extending at least in part through the selfsame manufacturing station, wherein the fluodynamic circuit of the heat exchange device is an open circuit comprising at least one feed pipeline connectable to a source from which the heat exchange fluid is supplied, at least one discharge station to which the heat exchange fluid is released ultimately from the circuit, also a first heat exchange pipeline connected to the feed pipeline and to the discharge pipeline and extending at least partly through the manufacturing station.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.