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US 6,595,216 B1Granted
Method of cutting sheets of reconstituted tobacco
AssigneeBrown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation
InventorEric W. Wessinger
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Abstract
A process of cutting reconstituted tobacco includes (1) rolling up single sheets of reconstituted tobacco into a plurality of single sheet rolls of reconstituted tobacco, unrolling said sheets and wherein the unrolled sheets are laid on top of one another; or, (2) stacking a plurality of sheets orientated in layers and feeding said sheets to a cutting machine. The cutting machine includes a rotary drum having a plurality of controlled strand cutting knives spaced at preselected intervals along an outer periphery of the drum.
Claims4
A method of cutting reconstituted tobacco comprising the steps of:
- feeding stacked cut reconstituted tobacco sheets orientated in layers to a cutting machine;
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- cutting said layers in said cutting machine, to a preselected length of strands of reconstituted tobacco, said cutting machine comprising a rotary drum having a plurality of controlled-strand length cutting knives spaced at preselected intervals along an outer periphery of said drum.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.