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US 6,877,516 B2Granted
Apparatus and method for processing winnowers at a cigarette maker
OwnerJohnny K. Cagigasinventor
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Abstract
Size reduction equipment is added at the feed end of a cigarette maker to take separated winnowers and other overages from a tobacco feed to the maker, cut or shred the overages to appropriate size and reintroduce the cut or shred overages into the lamina stream from a tobacco feed hopper for the cigarette maker. The winnowers may be pneumatically or mechanically conveyed back into the feed stream in the cigarette maker.
Claims3
A method for processing winnowers in a cigarette maker consisting essentially of the steps of:
- separating winnowers and oversized particles from a cut lamina stream, upon discharge from a feeder, within a cigarette making machine;
- shredding said winnowers and oversized particles to a pre-selected particle size resulting in a shredded re-feed product,
- Feeding said re-feed product to a trim conveyor;
- and
- conveying said shredded re-feed product from said trim conveyor to the lamina stream, disposed below the tobacco feeder, within said cigarette making machine.
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