Method and apparatus for drying a strip of pasty material intended for the production of smoking articles
AssigneeComas - Costruzioni Macchine Speciali - S.P.A.
InventorsGiulio GOBBO, Tiziano MENEGALDO
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Abstract
A method for drying a strip of pasty material intended for the production of smoking articles, including the steps of: feeding the strip of pasty material into a drying chamber; conveying the strip of pasty material inside the drying chamber between an infeed station and an outfeed station of the drying chamber. In particular, the step of conveying includes rolling the strip on a plurality of conveying surfaces arranged in succession along a first conveying path extending between the infeed and outfeed stations.
Claims28
A method for drying a strip of pasty material intended for the production of smoking articles, comprising the steps of:
- feeding the strip of pasty material into a drying chamber;
- conveying the strip of pasty material inside the drying chamber between an infeed station and an outfeed station of the drying chamber
- wherein
- said step of conveying comprises rolling the strip of pasty material on a plurality of conveying surfaces arranged in succession along a first conveying path extending between the infeed station and the outfeed station of the drying chamber.
An apparatus for drying a strip of pasty material intended for the production of smoking articles, comprising:
- a drying chamber;
- feeding means to feed the strip of pasty material into said drying chamber;
- conveying means, for conveying the strip of pasty material inside the drying chamber between an infeed station and an outfeed station of the drying chamber, said apparatus being wherein said conveying means comprise a plurality of conveying surfaces, which are arranged in succession along a first conveying path extending between the infeed station and the outfeed station to roll on the strip of pasty material while it is being conveyed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.