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US 5,331,980 AGranted
Tobacco stripper apparatus
OwnerHaskel Baileyinventor
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Abstract
A tobacco stripper includes coplanar first and second stripper plates having confronting semi-cylindrical recesses coaxial relative to one another. The first stripper plate is arranged in a spring-biased relationship for contiguous communication with the second stripper plate to receive a tobacco leaf therethrough to effect stripping of tobacco relative to the tobacco leaf stalk as the stalk is drawn through the first and second semi-cylindrical recess by cooperative first and second rollers mounted in a biased relationship towards one another to receive, engage, and draw a tobacco stalk therebetween.
Claims5
A tobacco stripper apparatus, comprising,
- a support table, the support table including first and second parallel plates orthogonally mounted to the support table mounting a first roller and a second roller therebetween, wherein the first roller and second roller are arranged for contiguous communication to define a roller nip therebetween, the first roller having a first roller shaft directed orthogonally through the first support plate and the second support plate, and the second roller having a second roller shaft directed through the first support plate, and the second support plate having a second support plate arcuate slot receiving the second roller shaft therethrough, and
- biasing means mounted to the second roller shaft extending through the second plate arcuate slot to bias the first roller into communication with the second roller, and
- drive means for effecting simultaneous rotation of the first roller and the second roller, and
- stripper plate means mounted to the support table between one end of the support table and the first roller shaft and the second roller for stripping a tobacco stalk directed through the stripper plate means.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.