Even more preferably, first tobacco materials is shredded into strips having a minimize length of no much less than about 15 mm. In addition, or as an alternative, the primary tobacco materials is ideally shredded into strips having a reduce size of lower than about 60 mm. More preferably, the primary tobacco materials is shredded into strips having a minimize size of lower than about 50 mm. Even extra ideally, the primary tobacco materials is shredded into strips having a reduce length of lower than about forty mm. In preferred embodiments, the first tobacco materials is shredded into strips having a reduce size from about 5 mm to about 60 mm. The term “sectional cut width” is used within the current specification to explain the side- to-side width of one such portion of a minimize strip of tobacco materials.
In addition, a second couple of blends was used, that contained 70 percent by weight of pure tobacco particles and 30 percent by weight of reconstituted tobacco particles cut in accordance with the specs of Figures 1 1 and 12, respectively. Thus, the minimize width of a person cut strip is taken on the level alongside the size of the strip that yields the largest cross-sectional area. Further, the filling power tobacco pipe of the shredded first tobacco materials could be maximised by choosing an appropriate first minimize specification. This leads to an improved filling energy of the reduce filler as an entire, particularly when the first tobacco materials is blended with no much less than one other tobacco materials.
Sensors forty and mass circulate controllers forty two, forty four, if current, are operatively connected with a management unit forty six configured to regulate the operation of the apparatus. In specific, the control unit forty six adjusts the pace to the conveyor belt 38 in view of variations in the velocity at which the net of reconstituted tobacco is fed to the shredding device 36, in order to forestall any undesirable accumulation of cut strips on the conveyor belt. By finely controlling the scale and shape of the strips into which the primary tobacco materials is minimize or shredded, the options of the primary tobacco material can advantageously be higher preserved each time the primary tobacco material is blended, in the shredded state, with another tobacco materials. This is especially advantageous when the first tobacco material is a pre-processed tobacco material, similar to a reconstituted tobacco sheet materials. The “thickness” of a minimize strip of tobacco materials for incorporation in cut fillers based on the present invention refers back to the distance between an upper floor and a lower floor of the portion of fabric forming the reduce strip.
Should one such particle break at a location within the central V-shaped portion, the two ensuing elements of the particles would still be successfully V-shaped. The highest CCV values had been obtained for reduce specification no. three, which substantially corresponds to particles having a Y-shape. However, it was found that when particles were produced from the same sheet of reconstituted tobacco based on cut specification no. three are produced, a major 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 Filling cut tobacco following Table 3 were measured. Tobacco cut fillers in accordance with the present invention could additionally be prepared by a method comprising offering a primary tobacco material and slicing the first tobacco materials in accordance with a first reduce specification setting no less than predetermined first cut width and first cut size. Tobacco reduce filler in accordance with the current invention may be incorporated into quite lots of smoking articles.
A tobacco cut filler in accordance with claim 1 or 2, wherein the primary tobacco materials is a pre- processed tobacco material. In a 3rd experiment, the reduce specification no. 10 was barely modified with a view to improving the resistance of the particles to the stresses concerned by the cigarette-making course of. In particular, there was concern that during the cigarette-making course of the tobacco particle could be uncovered to high tensions and frictions which might trigger Fashion tobacco pipe particles ready in accordance with the cut specification no. 10 to interrupt. This might have lowered the benefit coming from the V-shape and shown by the CCV measurements described above. Figure thirteen depicts a schematic view of an apparatus for forming a tobacco minimize filler in accordance with the current invention. Figures depict several examples of significantly shapes into which tobacco material for forming a reduce filler in accordance with the current invention may be reduce.