Within a cut strip of tobacco materials, the sectional minimize width may be the substantially identical for all of the strip parts. While this could be preferable, the sectional cut width may also vary from one strip portion to another. Typically, previous to being minimize, a tobacco materials could bear other mechanical operations, similar to rolling or extrusion.
In apply, one such reduce strip may be described as approximately wave-shaped or zigzag-shaped. Accordingly, geometric parameters corresponding to the peak amplitude, peak-to-peak amplitude, interval of a sine wave could additionally be used to describe the form of one such reduce strips. A tobacco reduce filler contains a primary tobacco materials cut in accordance with a primary tobacco pipe reduce specification, whereby the primary reduce specification sets no much less than predetermined first cut width and first reduce length. A tobacco minimize filler based on any one of many previous claims, whereby the primary tobacco materials is shredded into strips having a minimize width from about zero.2 mm to about 1 mm.
In preferred embodiments, the primary tobacco material is shredded into strips from a sheet materials having a thickness from about zero.05 mm to about 1 mm. Even extra preferably, the primary tobacco materials is shredded into strips from a sheet materials having a thickness from about zero.1 mm to about 0.three mm, most preferably from a sheet material having a thickness of about 0.2 mm. A tobacco minimize filler in accordance with any one of claims 1 to 9, whereby the first tobacco material is shredded into strips each comprising no much less than a primary strip structure comprising a branching node from which a further strip structure branches off, forming an angle with the first strip structure. Figures 10 and 12 show two examples of minimize strips including a number of V-shaped structure. Each V construction comprises two considerably straight parts forming an angle.
In addition or in its place, the tactic may further comprise a step of adjusting the moisture content of the second tobacco materials. A home-made cigarette made utilizing fine-cut tobacco may be known as either a Roll-Your-Own or a Make-Your-Own. This depends on whether it is rolled by hand using paper and tobacco, or whether or not it is made utilizing a cigarette-tube filling machine. Several completely different tobacco blends, completely different curing technique and cutting methods are used to make cigarettes. Cutting the first tobacco materials in accordance with a first cut specification setting no much less than predetermined first reduce width and first cut length. [newline]A smoking article comprising a rod of a tobacco cut filler according to any considered one of claims 1 to thirteen. Figures 9 and 1 1 illustrate two examples of strips having a more complicated, “hybrid” form, wherein strip constructions having the identical or completely different shape substantially branch off each other.
The yield of flat rolled stem which can be used instantly as filler is increased, and the common stem length and thus the common length of reduce filler from stem is elevated. A tobacco cut filler based on any one of the previous claims having a filling power of a minimal of three.5 cubic centimetres per gram at a reference moisture value of 12.5 % oven volatiles. Accordingly, tobacco particles were ready from the identical sheet of reconstituted tobacco according to the reduce specification illustrated in Figure 12, wherein the reduce width SCW1 is of zero.9 millimetres, the cut length CL1 is of 4.ninety four millimetres and the worldwide width CW1 is of 12.50 millimetres.
The shredding device is configured to cut the reconstituted tobacco in accordance to a primary reduce specification, whereby both reduce width and reduce size are predetermined. The reduce strips are dropped onto a conveyor belt 38 arranged beneath the shredding system 36 and defining a set surface upon which the reduce strips fall out of the shredding device. Additional means T could additionally be provided for tensioning the net of reconstituted tobacco as it’s unwound off the bobbin. Further, the apparatus 30 could comprise sensors forty for detecting the moisture content of the web of reconstituted tobacco upstream of the shredding gadget 36. In addition, the equipment 30 might comprise mass flow controllers 42, 44 tailored to adjust the velocity at which the online of reconstituted tobacco is fed to the shredding system 36 and the speed of the conveyor belt 38.
More ideally, the first tobacco material is shredded into strips having a cut width of a minimum of about 0.25 mm. Even more ideally, the first tobacco material is shredded into strips having a minimize width of a minimum of about 0.three mm. In addition, or in its place, the primary tobacco materials is ideally shredded into strips having a minimize width of less than about 1 mm.
More preferably, the primary tobacco materials is shredded into strips having a minimize width of less than about zero.95 mm. Even extra preferably, the first tobacco material is shredded into strips having a reduce width of less than about zero.9 mm. In most well-liked embodiments, the primary tobacco materials is shredded into strips having a cut width from about zero.2 mm to about 1 mm. Preferably, the second tobacco materials is a natural tobacco leaf materials.
In the embodiment of Figure 10, the two straight components are considerably perpendicular. The cut strip of Figure 12 may be considered comprising three V-shaped buildings of the sort illustrated in Figure 1 , wherein adjoining V-shaped constructions are connected by the ends of respective straight parts. In the embodiments of each Figures 10 and 12 the sectional reduce width inside all of the constructions forming the cut strips is substantially fixed. A tobacco reduce filler in accordance with any one of many previous claims, whereby the cut size distribution among the minimize strips of the first tobacco material is ideally unimodal. By method of instance, the minimize strip of Figure 9 contains a primary Y-shaped construction together with a primary branching node from which a second Y-shaped structure branches off.