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AssigneePhilip Morris Products S.A.
InventorMarc A.F. Van Den Boogaart
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The present invention is related to a casting apparatus (100) for the production of a cast web of a material containing alkaloids, said casting apparatus (100) including: —a casting box (101) adapted to contain a slurry; —a movable support (102) having a surface and moving along a casting direction; —a casting blade (103), adapted to cast the slurry contained in the casting box (101) onto the surface of the movable support (102) along the casting direction so as to form the cast web of a material containing alkaloids; wherein the casting blade (103) includes a corrugated portion. The invention also relates to a casting method for producing a cast web of a material containing alkaloids and to cast a web of a material containing alkaloids from said method.
A casting apparatus for the production of a cast web of a material containing alkaloids, said casting apparatus including:
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A method for producing a cast web of a material containing alkaloids, comprising:
A web of a material containing alkaloids having a free surface including a corrugated portion, wherein the corrugated portion includes ridges or troughs extending in a direction orthogonal to a thickness of the web and having a pitch comprised between about 0.2 millimeters and about 2 millimeters, and wherein the web has a water content comprised from about 20 percent to about 80 percent by weight of the web.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.