Curing basket
AssigneeBritish American Tobacco (Investments) Limited
InventorsValdir Milak, Daniel Ritt, Vando Braz De Oliveira, Jeronimo Scremin
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Abstract
There is provided a basket (10) for receiving, transporting and curing tobacco leaves, the basket having a substantially cuboidal shape, having a base (110), opposing side walls (120, 130) rigidly attached to the base (110), and a back wall (140) rigidly attached to the base (110) and to the side walls (120, 130), the basket (10) being open to the front and to the top.
Claims24
A basket for receiving, transporting and curing tobacco leaves, the basket having a substantially cuboidal shape, comprising a base, opposing side walls rigidly attached to the base, a back wall rigidly attached to the base and to the side walls, the basket being open to the front and to the top, and a frame, wherein the frame forms the edges of the cuboid except for the edge joining the two adjacent open sides.
A method for receiving, transporting and curing tobacco leaves using a basket having a substantially cuboidal shape, comprising a base, opposing side walls rigidly attached to the base, and a back wall rigidly attached to the base and to the side walls, the basket being open to the front, opposite the back wall, and to the top, opposite the base, the method comprising:
- orientating the basket to a loading position;
- loading the tobacco leaves into the basket from the open top and front;
- securing the open front side of the basket;
- orientating the basket to a curing position;
- transporting the basket to a curing barn;
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- curing the tobacco leaves loaded into the basket in the curing barn.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.