According to a facet of the current invention, there is supplied a tobacco reduce filler comprising a first tobacco materials reduce in accordance with a first reduce specification, wherein the first reduce specification sets no much less than predetermined first reduce width and first cut length. U.S. Patent 6,568,104 assigned to Philip Morris Inc., New York, New York, USA. A course of for making ready tobacco stem to be used as filler for a smoking article consists of classifying the green tobacco stem by diameter to provide a plurality of stem grades and rolling each grade individually. Each grade is rolled beneath rolling circumstances optimized for that grade together with rolling the grade via the nip between rollers with the nip dimension being adjusted for every grade in order to attain a uniform rolled stem thickness and the oven volatiles content of the stem being adjusted before the rolling.
By way of example, tobacco stems could additionally be floor to a fantastic powder and then blended with tobacco dust, guar gum, and water to form an aqueous slurry. This aqueous slurry may be solid and dried to kind a reconstituted tobacco sheet. As an alternate, suitable tobacco materials may be combined in an agitated tank with water to obtain a pulp. This web is fed onwards to a press, where the surplus water is squeezed out of the online. Figure 13 illustrates an apparatus 30 for the manufacture of a tobacco minimize filler in accordance with the present invention. A net 32 of reconstituted tobacco having a thickness T is unwound off a bobbin 34 and fed to a shredding device 36.
Suitable pure tobacco leaf materials include tobacco lamina, tobacco stem materials and tobacco stalk materials. The natural tobacco leaf materials used because the second tobacco material could embody any sort of tobacco leaf, together with for instance Virginia tobacco leaf, Burley tobacco leaf, Oriental tobacco leaf, flue-cured tobacco leaf, or a mixture thereof. A tobacco cut filler in accordance with the present invention comprises a first tobacco material minimize in accordance with a first minimize specification, wherein the first minimize specification sets at least predetermined first cut width and first minimize size. The term “filling energy” is used to explain the volume of area taken up by a given weight or mass of a tobacco material. The greater the filling energy of a tobacco material, the decrease the load of the fabric required to fill a tobacco rod of ordinary dimensions.
Conventionally, minimize filler tobacco merchandise for smoking articles are fashioned predominantly from the lamina portion of the tobacco leaf, which is separated from the stem portion of the leaf during a threshing process. Much of the stem portion that continues Filling cut tobacco to be after the lamina has been eliminated and separated just isn’t used. However, it’s not unusual to add some tobacco stems again into the minimize filler along with the lamina.
In addition or as an alternative, the strategy could further comprise a step of adjusting the moisture content material of the second tobacco materials. A home-made cigarette made using fine-cut tobacco could additionally be referred to as both a Roll-Your-Own or a Make-Your-Own. This is determined by whether it’s rolled by hand utilizing paper and tobacco, or whether it is made using a cigarette-tube filling machine. Several completely different tobacco blends, different curing method and slicing techniques are used to make cigarettes. Cutting the first tobacco materials in accordance with a primary minimize specification setting a minimum of predetermined first cut width and first reduce size. [newline]A smoking article comprising a rod of a tobacco cut filler based on any one of claims 1 to thirteen. Figures 9 and 1 1 illustrate two examples of strips having a more complex, “hybrid” form, wherein strip structures having the same or completely different shape substantially department off each other.