Should one such particle break at a location in the central V-shaped portion, the two ensuing parts of the particles would still be successfully V-shaped. The highest CCV values were obtained for cut specification no. 3, which substantially corresponds to particles having a Y-shape. However, it was discovered that when particles had been produced from the same sheet of reconstituted tobacco based on minimize specification no. 3 are produced, a big fraction of the tobacco material went to waste. These correspond to the shapes illustrated in Figures 9 and 10, respectively, for which the values of CCV listed within the following Table 3 had been measured. Tobacco cut fillers in accordance with the present invention may be ready by a technique comprising offering a primary tobacco materials and cutting the first tobacco material in accordance with a first minimize specification setting no less than predetermined first minimize width and first minimize length. Tobacco minimize filler in accordance with the present invention could additionally be included into a wide range of smoking articles.
Within a reduce strip of tobacco materials, the sectional cut width will be the considerably same for all the strip parts. While this might be preferable, the sectional cut width can also differ from one strip portion to another. Typically, prior to being cut, a tobacco material could undergo other mechanical operations, similar to rolling or extrusion.
Even more preferably, first tobacco material is shredded into strips having a minimize size of no much less than about 15 mm. In addition, or as an alternative, the first tobacco material is ideally shredded into strips having a minimize length of lower than about 60 mm. More ideally, the first tobacco material is shredded into strips having a reduce length of lower than about 50 mm. Even more ideally, the first tobacco materials is shredded into strips having a minimize length of lower than about 40 mm. In preferred embodiments, the primary tobacco material is shredded into strips having a minimize size from about 5 mm to about 60 mm. The time period “sectional cut width” is used in the current specification to explain the side- to-side width of one such portion of a cut strip of tobacco material.
In apply, one such cut strip could also be described as roughly wave-shaped or zigzag-shaped. Accordingly, geometric parameters similar to the height amplitude, peak-to-peak amplitude, interval of a sine wave could also be used to describe the form of one such cut strips. A tobacco reduce filler contains a first tobacco materials cut in accordance with a primary Fashion tobacco pipe reduce specification, wherein the primary reduce specification sets a minimum of predetermined first reduce width and first cut length. A tobacco minimize filler according to any one of the preceding claims, whereby the first tobacco materials is shredded into strips having a reduce width from about zero.2 mm to about 1 mm.
Because of the decreased tobacco fibre length within the reconstituted tobacco material, publicity to the identical therapies as tobacco lamina could degrade, to some extent, the reconstituted tobacco. By way of example, throughout drying, the moisture content of reconstituted tobacco is significantly decreased, leading to shrinkage of the tobacco particles forming the reconstituted tobacco sheet. Additionally, the cutting strategies usually employed to transform the tobacco material mix into filler could result in some lamination and compression of the reconstituted tobacco materials tobacco pipe. All this causes a discount in the filling energy of the handled reconstituted tobacco and, accordingly, of the tobacco reduce filler as an entire. A mode of a discrete likelihood distribution, as is the case with the cut size distribution among the reduce strips of the primary tobacco material is a value at which the probability mass function takes a maximum value. Thus, in a unimodal distribution, the probability mass function only has one most worth, and that corresponds to the most probably worth of cut length .