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US 4,532,946 AGranted
Method and apparatus for tipping tobacco leaves packed in bales
AssigneePhilip Morris Incorporated
InventorFrank C. King, Jr.
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Abstract
A tobacco bale tipping apparatus (10) delaminates tobacco bale (12) into slabs of tobacco. The slabs of tobacco are separated into right hand and left hand wedges (14) by conveyor belts (27) and (26) and by weight chains (24). The wedges (14) are tipped by knives (20) which are adjustable toward or away from the conveyors to accommodate tobacco leaves of various lengths.
Claims7
A tobacco bale tipping apparatus comprising:
- flaking means for removing slabs of tobacco from a tobacco bale;
- spreading means for separating said slabs into right handed and left handed wedges of tobacco;
- and
- tipping means for removing the tips of the tobacco leaves from said right handed and left handed wedges of tobacco.
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A method of tipping tobacco leaves packed in a bale having left handed and right handed wedges of tobacco comprising:
- removing slabs of tobacco from said bale;
- separating said slabs of tobacco into right handed and left handed wedges;
- and
- separately removing the tips of tobacco leaves in said right handed and left handed wedges.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.