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US 2022/0053818 A1Published application
Method of making tobacco rod using tongue of compression box
AssigneeAltria Client Services LLC
InventorsDwight D. WILLIAMS, Charles David HOWE
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Abstract
The method includes transporting tobacco into and through a shaft of a tongue of a compression box, and compressing the tobacco into a tobacco rod as the tobacco is transported through the compression box, the compression box including a first plate, a first portion of the first plate being formed over an upper portion of the shaft, the first portion running along a majority of a longitudinal length of the shaft.
Claims20
A method, comprising:
- transporting tobacco into and through a shaft of a tongue of a compression box;
- and
- compressing the tobacco into a tobacco rod as the tobacco is transported through the compression box, the compression box including a first plate, a first portion of the first plate being formed over an upper portion of the shaft, the first portion running along a majority of a longitudinal length of the shaft.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.