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US 5,203,354 AGranted
Restructured tobacco dryer
AssigneePhilip Morris Incorporated
InventorJohn N. Hickle
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Abstract
An apparatus and method for manufacturing reconstituted tobacco sheet in which a tobacco containing slurry is metered on to the outer surface of a rotating heated cylindrical dryer and then, after sufficient drying, is removed from the cylindrical dryer.
Claims11
A method of making reconstituted tobacco sheet comprising the steps of:
- metering a tobacco-containing slurry onto the outer surface of a cylindrical dryer;
- drying the tobacco-containing slurry on the outer surface of the cylindrical dryer such that it forms a coherent reconstituted sheet;
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- removing the reconstituted sheet from the outer surface of the cylindrical dryer at a doctoring point.
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