公开(公告)号：US4697604A

公开(公告)日：1987-10-06

申请号：US874020

申请日：1986-06-13

申请人： Ian C. Brown ,  Roger W. Hedge ,  David J. Molyneux

发明人： Ian C. Brown ,  Roger W. Hedge ,  David J. Molyneux

IPC分类号： A24B3/04 ,  A24B3/18 ,  F26B3/10 ,  F26B17/10

CPC分类号： A24B3/182 ,  F26B17/106 ,  F26B3/10

摘要： Tobacco expansion apparatus comprises a transport duct in which can be established a flow of hot gaseous medium and into an upstream end of which can be fed particulate tobacco. The downstream end of the duct opens into the casing of a tobacco/gaseous medium separator comprising a separation screen.

摘要翻译： 烟草膨胀装置包括输送管道，其中可以建立热气体介质流并且其上游端可以供给颗粒烟草。 管道的下游端通向包括分离筛的烟草/气体介质分离器的壳体中。

公开(公告)号：US4696313A

公开(公告)日：1987-09-29

申请号：US615998

申请日：1984-05-31

申请人： Ian C. Brown ,  Roger W. Hedge ,  David J. Molyneux

发明人： Ian C. Brown ,  Roger W. Hedge ,  David J. Molyneux

IPC分类号： A24B3/18 ,  A24B15/32

CPC分类号： A24B3/182 ,  A24B15/32 ,  A24B3/18

摘要： The method for expanding tabacco lamina comprises contacting the tobacco with an organic expansion agent, heating the thus contacted tobacco in a closed first vessel so that the temperature of the agent is above the boiling point of the agent at a lower release pressure, and suddenly venting the first vessel into a second vessel which is at said release pressure prior to the venting. By this means the fill volume of the tobacco is increased by a least 50%.

摘要翻译： 用于膨胀烟草薄片的方法包括使烟草与有机膨胀剂接触，在封闭的第一容器中加热如此接触的烟草，使得试剂的温度在较低的释放压力下高于试剂的沸点，并且突然放出 第一容器进入第二容器，其在排气之前处于所述释放压力。 通过这种方式，烟草的填充体积增加了至少50％。

公开(公告)号：US4641665A

公开(公告)日：1987-02-10

申请号：US744806

申请日：1985-06-14

申请人： Roger W. Hedge ,  Ian C. Brown

发明人： Roger W. Hedge ,  Ian C. Brown

IPC分类号： A24B3/18

CPC分类号： A24B3/182

摘要： A tobacco expansion agent capable of synergistic tobacco expansion comprises a first organic compound which is volatile, non-polar and substantially water insoluble and a second organic compound which is volatile, water soluble, oxygen containing and of a polarity in excess of that of the first compound.

摘要翻译： 能够协同烟草膨胀的烟草膨胀剂包括挥发性，非极性和基本上不溶于水的第一有机化合物和挥发性，水溶性，含氧和极性超过第一有机化合物的第一有机化合物 复合。

公开(公告)号：US4693264A

公开(公告)日：1987-09-15

申请号：US873989

申请日：1986-06-13

申请人： Roger W. Hedge

发明人： Roger W. Hedge

IPC分类号： A24B3/04 ,  A24B3/18 ,  F26B3/10 ,  F26B17/10

CPC分类号： A24B3/182 ,  F26B17/106 ,  F26B3/10

摘要： In the expansion of tobacco, the tobacco is entrained in hot gaseous medium, separated from the gaseous medium and re-introduced and re-entrained in the gaseous medium before being once again separated from the medium.

摘要翻译： 在烟草膨胀中，烟草被夹带在热气体介质中，与气体介质分离，并再次引入并重新夹带在气体介质中，然后再次从介质中分离。

公开(公告)号：US4815482A

公开(公告)日：1989-03-28

申请号：US938023

申请日：1986-12-04

申请人： Roland Clift ,  Roger W. Hedge ,  Robert Legros ,  Clive A. Millington

发明人： Roland Clift ,  Roger W. Hedge ,  Robert Legros ,  Clive A. Millington

IPC分类号： A24B3/00 ,  A24B3/04 ,  A24B3/12 ,  B01F13/02 ,  B01J8/00 ,  B01J8/18 ,  B01J8/24 ,  F26B3/092 ,  F26B3/10 ,  F26B17/10 ,  A24B3/10

CPC分类号： A24B3/04 ,  B01F13/0283 ,  B01J8/0025 ,  B01J8/1818 ,  B01J8/245 ,  F26B17/101 ,  F26B3/0926 ,  F26B3/10

摘要： Mobilization apparatus for the treatment, drying for example, of particulate material comprises a mobilization zone bounded by upwardly divergent walls. Particulate material in the zone is mobilized by being subjected to a flow of gaseous mobilizing medium supplied at a multiplicity of sites of the divergent walls. The material is simultaneously subjected to a flow of gaseous accelerating medium supplied in an upward direction from a lower region of the mobilization zone. The obtains in the mobilization zone of circulatory pattern comprising downward flow at the divergent walls and upward flow from a lower region of the zone.In order to discharge the particulate material from the apparatus, a mask extending outwardly from the lower end of an upwardly extending discharge duct is brought to the upper end of the mobilization zone. The result is that the circulatory pattern is destroyed and the material is pneumatically transported up the discharge duct.

摘要翻译： 用于处理，干燥例如颗粒材料的动员装置包括由向上发散的壁限定的动员区。 通过在发散壁的多个位置处供应的气态移动介质的流动来调动区域中的颗粒物质。 该材料同时经受从动员区的下部区域沿向上方向供给的气态加速介质流。 在循环图案动员区获得包括在发散壁处的向下流动并且从该区域的下部区域向上流动。 为了从装置中排出颗粒材料，从向上延伸的排放管道的下端向外延伸的掩模被带到移动区的上端。 结果是循环图案被破坏，并且材料被气动地输送到排放管道上。

公开(公告)号：US4583559A

公开(公告)日：1986-04-22

申请号：US615886

申请日：1984-05-31

申请人： Roger W. Hedge

发明人： Roger W. Hedge

IPC分类号： A24B3/04 ,  A24B3/18

CPC分类号： A24B3/04 ,  A24B3/18

摘要： A method and apparatus for reordering hot, dry expanded tobacco comprises a first reordering step in which the tobacco moisture content is raised to a first value, an intermediate cooling stage in which the tobacco is cooled to about ambient temperature (20.degree.-25.degree. C.) followed by a final reordering step in which the tobacco moisture content is raised to a final desired value.

摘要翻译： 用于重新排序热，干膨胀烟草的方法和装置包括将烟草水分含量提高到第一值的第一重排序步骤，将烟草冷却至约环境温度（20°-25℃）的中间冷却阶段 ），然后进行最终重新排序步骤，其中烟草含水量提高到最终期望值。

公开(公告)号：US4109664A

公开(公告)日：1978-08-29

申请号：US773342

申请日：1977-03-01

申请人： Roger W. Hedge

发明人： Roger W. Hedge

IPC分类号： A24B15/16 ,  A24D1/18

CPC分类号： A24B15/16

摘要： A smoking material comprises a binder consisting wholly or in part of a thermo-gelling substituted cellulose having a degree of substitution of at least 1.5 methoxyl groups per anhydroglucose unit, and an inert water-insoluble inorganic diluent such as chalk, which material has a density reduced by the entrainment and dispersion of air therein. The binder may comprise a thermo-gelling methyl cellulose having a degree of substitution of at least 1.5 methoxyl groups per anhydroglucose unit and/or an additionally substituted methyl cellulose having a degree of substitution of at least 1.5 methoxyl groups per anhydroglucose unit. It may additionally include a thermo-gelling cellulose having a lower degree of substitution or a non-thermo-gelling substituted cellulose.

摘要翻译： 吸烟材料包括全部或部分由每个脱水葡萄糖单元取代至少1.5个甲氧基取代度的热胶凝取代纤维素以及惰性水不溶性无机稀释剂如白垩的粘合剂，该材料具有密度 由于其中的空气的夹带和分散而减少。 粘合剂可以包含每个脱水葡萄糖单元具有至少1.5个甲氧基取代度的热胶凝甲基纤维素和/或每个脱葡萄糖单元具有至少1.5个甲氧基取代度的另外取代的甲基纤维素。 它还可以包括具有较低取代度的热胶凝纤维素或非热胶凝取代的纤维素。