Suitable pure tobacco leaf materials embrace tobacco lamina, tobacco stem materials and tobacco stalk material. The pure tobacco leaf materials used because the second tobacco materials could embody any kind of tobacco leaf, together with for example Virginia tobacco leaf, Burley tobacco leaf, Oriental tobacco leaf, flue-cured tobacco leaf, or a combination thereof. A tobacco cut filler according to the present invention contains a primary tobacco material reduce in accordance with a first Filling cut tobacco minimize specification, whereby the first reduce specification units at least predetermined first reduce width and first minimize length. The term “filling power” is used to describe the amount of space taken up by a given weight or mass of a tobacco material. The greater the filling power of a tobacco materials, the lower the load of the material required to fill a tobacco rod of normal dimensions.
The yield of flat rolled stem which can be used instantly as filler is increased, and the typical stem size and thus the common size of cut filler from stem is elevated. A tobacco cut filler according to any one of the preceding claims having a filling power of at least three.5 cubic centimetres per gram at a reference moisture value of 12.5 percent oven volatiles. Accordingly, tobacco particles had been prepared from the same sheet of reconstituted tobacco in accordance with the reduce specification illustrated in Figure 12, wherein the cut width SCW1 is of 0.9 millimetres, the reduce size CL1 is of 4.94 millimetres and the global width CW1 is of 12.50 millimetres.
Sensors 40 and mass circulate controllers forty two, forty four, if current, are operatively connected with a management unit 46 configured to manage the operation of the equipment. In specific, the management unit 46 adjusts the velocity to the conveyor belt 38 in view of variations in the pace at which the online of reconstituted tobacco is fed to the shredding system 36, so as to forestall any undesirable accumulation of minimize strips on the conveyor belt. By finely controlling the scale and form of the strips into which the first tobacco material is minimize or shredded, the options of the primary tobacco materials can advantageously be higher preserved every time the first tobacco material is blended, within the shredded state, with some other tobacco material. This is especially advantageous when the primary tobacco materials is a pre-processed tobacco material, similar to a reconstituted tobacco sheet materials. The “thickness” of a reduce strip of tobacco material for incorporation in cut fillers according to the present invention refers to the distance between an higher surface and a lower floor of the portion of fabric forming the reduce strip.
A tobacco cut filler in accordance with any one of the previous claims, wherein the first tobacco materials is shredded into strips having a minimize size from about 5 mm to about 60 mm. A tobacco reduce filler in accordance with any certainly one of claims 2 to four, wherein the second tobacco material is a pure tobacco leaf material. An angle of ninety levels was thought-about to be undesirable, in that it might lead basically to a form quite similar to the form of Figure 6, and so an angle of 60 degrees was chosen for the “V” elements. Further, the strategy ideally includes the step of blending the cut first tobacco materials and the cut second tobacco material.
Should one such particle break at a location in the central V-shaped portion, the two resulting parts of the particles would nonetheless be successfully V-shaped. The highest CCV values were obtained for cut specification no. 3, which considerably corresponds to particles having a Y-shape. However, it was found that when particles had been produced from the identical sheet of reconstituted tobacco in accordance with reduce specification no. 3 are produced, a significant 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 in the tobacco pipe following Table 3 have been measured. Tobacco minimize fillers based on the current invention may be prepared by a method comprising offering a first tobacco materials and cutting the first tobacco material in accordance with a primary reduce specification setting at least predetermined first cut width and first cut length. Tobacco minimize filler in accordance with the current invention may be integrated into a wide selection of smoking articles.
Further, the second Y-shaped construction comprises a second branching node from which a rectangular structure branches off. In the embodiment of Figure 1 1 , the reduce strip contains a primary Y-shaped structure including a first branching node from which a second Y-shaped construction branches off. Further, the second Y-shaped structure includes a second branching node from which a 3rd Y-shaped structure branches off.