Even extra ideally, the first tobacco material is shredded into strips from a sheet materials having a thickness of at least about 0.2 mm. In addition, or instead, the primary tobacco material is ideally shredded into strips from a sheet material having a thickness of lower than about 1 mm. More preferably, the first tobacco material is shredded into strips from a sheet materials having a thickness of lower than about zero.95 mm. Even more ideally, the primary tobacco materials is shredded into strips from a sheet material having a thickness of less than about zero.eighty five mm.
Sensors forty and mass move controllers 42, forty four, if present, are operatively linked with a management unit 46 configured to regulate the operation of the equipment. In specific, the management unit 46 adjusts the pace to the conveyor belt 38 in view of variations within the velocity at which the web of reconstituted tobacco is fed to the shredding gadget 36, in order to stop any undesirable accumulation of reduce strips on the conveyor belt. By finely controlling the dimensions and shape of the strips into which the primary tobacco material is minimize or shredded, the options of the first tobacco material can advantageously be better preserved every time the primary tobacco materials is blended, in the shredded state, with another tobacco material. This is particularly advantageous when the first tobacco material is a pre-processed tobacco material, corresponding to a reconstituted tobacco sheet materials. The “thickness” of a minimize strip of tobacco material for incorporation in cut fillers based on the current invention refers again to the distance between an higher surface and a decrease surface of the portion of material forming the cut strip.
Should one such particle break at a location in the central V-shaped portion, the two ensuing parts of the particles would still be effectively V-shaped. The highest CCV values have been obtained for minimize specification no. 3, which considerably corresponds to particles having a Y-shape. However, it was discovered that when particles have been produced from the same sheet of reconstituted tobacco in accordance with cut specification no. three are produced, a big fraction of the tobacco materials went to waste. These correspond to the shapes illustrated in Figures 9 and 10, respectively, for which the values of CCV listed in the following Table 3 have been measured. Tobacco minimize fillers in accordance with the current invention may be ready by a way comprising offering a primary tobacco materials and chopping the primary tobacco materials in accordance with a first minimize specification setting at least predetermined first minimize width and first reduce length. Tobacco minimize filler in accordance with the present invention could also be included into a variety of smoking articles.
Further, the second Y-shaped structure comprises a second branching node from which an oblong structure branches off. In the embodiment of Figure 1 1 , the reduce strip contains a first Y-shaped structure together with a primary branching node from which a second Y-shaped structure branches off. Further, the second Y-shaped construction comprises a second branching node from which a third Y-shaped construction branches off.
Suitable natural tobacco leaf materials embody tobacco lamina, tobacco stem material and tobacco stalk material. The pure tobacco leaf materials used because the second tobacco materials could embrace any type 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 reduce filler in accordance with the present invention contains a first tobacco material cut in accordance with a primary Fashion tobacco pipe reduce specification, wherein the first minimize specification sets at least predetermined first minimize width and first minimize size. The term “filling power” is used to describe the amount of area taken up by a given weight or mass of a tobacco materials. The higher the filling power of a tobacco materials, the lower the load of the material required to fill a tobacco rod of normal dimensions.