Patent · US Expired

Method of cutting tobacco

US5143095A · kind A · utility

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8References

34Claims

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Assignee

Korber AG · DE

Inventors

Manfred Lasch · Hamburg, DE
Klaus-Georg Hackmack · Hamburg, DE
Reinhard Liebe · Hamburg, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Mar 16, 1990
Grant date	Sep 1, 1992
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Mar 16, 2010

Classification

Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
CPC primaryA24B7/14
WIPO fieldOther consumer goods
WIPO sectorOther fields

Abstract

A method of converting particles of tobacco leaves, particularly bales or portions of bales of compacted tobacco leaf laminae, into cut tobacco involves admitting portions of and/or entire bales into a tobacco cutter while the temperature of compacted particles matches or exceeds the room temperature of 18.degree.-25.degree. C. and the moisture content of the particles is between 10 and 17 percent.

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