Method of processing tobacco leaves
AssigneePhilip Morris Products S.A.
InventorsBrian Salmon, Osny Gilmar Konrath
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a method of processing whole tobacco leaves with stem, veins, and lamina material. The whole tobacco leaves are tipped, in order to receive tips and butts. The tips and butts are then separated. The separated tips are further processed by cutting or shredding, in order to receive light and heavy tip material. Once the light tip material is separated from the heavy tip material, the light tip material is dried, before it is finally packaged.
Claims20
Method of processing segments of tobacco leaves, the segments of the tobacco leaves being either butts or tips of tobacco leaves, comprising:
- cutting or shredding the butts or tips to obtain light and heavy butt material or light and heavy tip material, respectively,
- guiding the tips or butts of the tobacco leaves separately towards circular blades, which are able to rotate, and
- directing the tips or butts towards the circular blades with a stem of the tips or butts being parallel to the blades rotation.
Method of processing tobacco leaves with stem, veins and lamina material, comprising:
- cutting or shredding the tobacco leaves with circular blades to obtain both light and heavy tobacco material, and wherein the whole tobacco leaves are guided towards the circular blades in an oriented direction relative to the circular blades,
- directing the whole tobacco leaves towards the circular blades with the stem of the whole tobacco leaves being parallel to the blades rotation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.