Apparatus for forming a layer of tobacco particles

US5558199A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• HAUNI MASCHINENBAU GMBH · DE

Inventors

• Friedemann Roether · Reinbek, DE
• Heiko Niehues · Hamburg, DE
• Uwe Leckband · Hamburg, DE
• Harry Drewes · Hamburg, DE
• Horst-Udo Christ · Hamburg, DE
• Hans Dierken · Munster, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 20, 1994
• Grant date: Sep 24, 1996
• Expiry date: Jul 20, 2014

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A24C5/397
• WIPO field: Other consumer goods
• WIPO sector: Other fields

Abstract

An apparatus for manipulating a multilayer stream of tobacco particles with randomly intermixed foreign particles has a vibratory conveyor which advances the stream toward and discharges successive increments of the stream onto the upper reach of an endless belt or chain serving to advance the increments at a speed exceeding the speed of advancement of the stream by the vibratory conveyor. The endless belt or chain discharges a single layer of tobaco particles and foreign particles, and such single layer is caused to move past a segregating unit which detects and expels foreign particles therefrom.