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US 8,939,157 B2Granted
Method of packaging tobacco
AssigneeAzionaria Costruzioni Macchine Automatiche A.C.M.A. S.p.A.
InventorFulvio Boldrini
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Abstract
A system (1) for portioning and packaging a tobamel smoking mixture (2) comprises a unit (3) internally of which the mixture (2) is prepared by blending tobacco en masse with agglutinants such as honey or molasses, and an extruder unit (17) by which the mixture (2) is shaped into a continuous rod (20).
Claims9
A method of packaging a tobacco mixture, including:
- preparing the mixture by blending tobacco en masse with at least one agglutinating substance;
- measuring the mixture into sequential individual portions of at least one chosen from predetermined weight and predetermined volume;
- moving the sequential individual portions into respective sequential individual compartments of an extruder to be moved through the extruder;
- causing the individual compartments of the extruder to open up with respect to adjacent individual compartments as the individual portions are moved through the extruder such that at a downstream portion of the extruder, adjacent individual compartments are open with respect to one another to allow the individual portions therein to combine with one another;
- extruding the individual portions combined with one another into a continuous rod of mixture;
- dividing the continuous rod into final portions;
- packaging the final portions.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.