A tobacco minimize filler according to any one of the preceding claims, whereby the first tobacco material is a reconstituted tobacco sheet. Preferably, the cut filler has a filling energy of a minimal of about three.5 cubic centimetres per gram at a reference moisture worth of 12.5 percent oven volatiles. More preferably, the reduce Filling cut tobacco filler has a filling energy of no less than about 4 cubic centimetres per gram at a reference moisture value of 12.5 p.c oven volatiles. In addition, or as an alternative, the cut filler ideally has a filling power of lower than about 8 cubic centimetres per gram at a reference moisture value of 12.5 % oven volatiles.
In specific, one such strip may comprise no less than a primary strip construction comprising a branching node from which an extra strip construction branches off, forming an angle with the first strip construction. The moisture content material of the tobacco reduce filler is expressed herein as “percent oven volatiles”, which is set by measuring the share weight loss from the cut filler upon drying the material in an oven at 103 degrees Centigrade (°C) for a hundred minutes. It is assumed that a significant majority of the burden loss from the cut filler results from the evaporation of moisture. A method in accordance with any certainly one of claims 15 to 17, whereby the second tobacco material is a reconstituted tobacco sheet.
In other embodiments, the reduce size distribution among the many reduce strips of the primary tobacco materials may be multimodal, together with in particular bimodal and trimodal. The “minimize length” of a strip of minimize tobacco material for incorporation in reduce fillers based on the current invention refers to the maximum dimension of the strip of the tobacco materials tobacco pipe ensuing from the slicing operation, that is the maximum measurable distance between two factors on the reduce strip. When taking a glance at a cut strip beneath a microscope, it’ll generally be attainable to look at the course along which the cut strip extends over such greater size .
Further, the second Y-shaped structure comprises a second branching node from which a rectangular construction branches off. In the embodiment of Figure 1 1 , the minimize strip contains a primary Y-shaped structure together with a first branching node from which a second Y-shaped construction branches off. Further, the second Y-shaped construction contains a second branching node from which a 3rd Y-shaped structure branches off.
The expressions “last minimize width” and “final minimize length” are used herein to describe the cut width and minimize size of a tobacco materials as found in a tobacco minimize filler used in a tobacco product. The methodology could further comprise a step of conditioning the primary tobacco materials prior to chopping the first tobacco materials. Further, the tactic could comprise a step of controlling the moisture content of the reduce filler by adjusting the moisture content material of the first tobacco materials.
The yield of flat rolled stem which can be used immediately as filler is increased, and the common stem size and thus the common length of minimize filler from stem is elevated. A tobacco cut filler based on any one of the preceding claims having a filling energy of at least three.5 cubic centimetres per gram at a reference moisture value of 12.5 percent oven volatiles. Accordingly, tobacco particles were ready from the same sheet of reconstituted tobacco in accordance with the cut specification illustrated in Figure 12, wherein the cut width SCW1 is of 0.9 millimetres, the cut size CL1 is of 4.94 millimetres and the global width CW1 is of 12.50 millimetres.
In preferred embodiments, the primary tobacco material is shredded into strips from a sheet materials having a thickness from about 0.05 mm to about 1 mm. Even more ideally, the first tobacco materials is shredded into strips from a sheet materials having a thickness from about zero.1 mm to about 0.3 mm, most ideally from a sheet material having a thickness of about zero.2 mm. A tobacco reduce filler according to any certainly one of claims 1 to 9, whereby the first tobacco material is shredded into strips every comprising a minimum of a primary strip structure comprising a branching node from which an additional strip structure branches off, forming an angle with the first strip construction. Figures 10 and 12 show two examples of cut strips together with a quantity of V-shaped construction. Each V construction includes two substantially straight elements forming an angle.
Figures 1 to 12 shows reduce strips of a primary tobacco material for incorporation in a minimize filler in accordance with the current invention. The strips have been cut from a sheet of reconstituted tobacco having a thickness from about zero.05 mm to about 1 mm in accordance with a first cut specification, whereby the primary minimize specification units a predetermined first reduce width CW1 and a predetermined first minimize size CL1 . In addition, the primary reduce specification might additional set a predetermined first sectional reduce width SCW1.
Reconstituted tobacco is fashioned from tobacco material such as tobacco stems, tobacco stalks, leaf scraps and tobacco dust, which are produced through the manufacturing processes of tobacco products. Such tobacco materials might, for instance, be floor to a fantastic powder and then blended with water and sometimes with a binder, corresponding to guar gum, to kind a slurry. This slurry is then cast onto a supportive surface, such as a belt conveyor, and dried to kind a sheet (so called ‘forged leaf) that can be removed from the supportive floor and wound into bobbins.