Process and apparatus for improving raw tobacco

    公开(公告)号:US10098377B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-10-16

    申请号:US15277664

    申请日:2016-09-27

    摘要: Disclosed are a process and an apparatus for improving tobacco raw material. The process mainly comprises performing an extraction from at least one of tobacco leafs, tobacco flakes, tobacco powder, stalks and cut stems by mixed solvents, conducting a solid-liquid separation for the tobacco raw material, applying the extract liquor of tobacco leaves, flakes and cuts for manufacturing tobacco extract and that of stalks and cut stems for manufacturing fertilizer, diluting and mixing a given amount of tobacco aqueous extract and ethanol extract and removing harmful components so as to get feed liquid, backfilling the feed liquid to the tobacco raw material, and drying the tobacco raw material to a certain dryness to obtain the products. The apparatus is a system composed of a plurality of interconnected independent devices such as extractor, solid-liquid separator, a feed liquid backfiller, etc.

    Flue-curing apparatus and associated method

    公开(公告)号:US09918491B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-03-20

    申请号:US14662599

    申请日:2015-03-19

    IPC分类号: A24B3/12 A24B3/04

    CPC分类号: A24B3/12 A24B3/04

    摘要: A flue-curing apparatus and a related method are provided. The flue-curing apparatus includes a circulation chamber and a curing chamber that are separated by a divider wall. An air circulation system includes a blower positioned in the circulation chamber that directs air to a heater device and a lower passage into the curing chamber. The air may be received from one or both of an inlet and an upper passage extending from the curing chamber to the circulation chamber. A humidity control system humidifies the air directed into the curing chamber. A controller may receive signals from wet and dry bulb thermometers to determine the conditions in the curing chamber and the condition of tobacco leaves being cured therein. The controller may adjust various operational parameters to cause the tobacco leaves in the curing chamber to cure at a desired rate.

    Method Of Manufacturing Standardized Cannabis Cigarettes

    公开(公告)号:US20170188623A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-07-06

    申请号:US15360989

    申请日:2016-11-23

    申请人: Jason Cranford

    发明人: Jason Cranford

    摘要: A method of manufacturing standardized cannabis cigarettes that may comprise drying harvested cannabis plants at room temperature with a humidity of between approximately 45% and 75%; plant material, including at least one of stems and seeds, may be removed to produce a refined cannabis. The method may further include chopping the refined cannabis into cannabis particles with a median value of particle area between approximately 1.5 mm2 and approximately 4.5 mm2. The cannabis particles may be homogenized to produce a blended cannabis. One or more cannabis contact points of a commercial cigarette rolling machine may then be lubricated to preventing the adherence of cannabis resin to the cannabis contact points. The method may further include packing the blended cannabis into a paper rolling tube at a packing pressure of approximately 40 psi to approximately 120 psi to form the standardized cannabis cigarette assuring the controlled delivery of cannabinoids during combustion.

    Process gas conditioning for tobacco dryers
    6.
    发明授权
    Process gas conditioning for tobacco dryers 有权
    烟草干燥机的过程气体调节

    公开(公告)号:US06880814B2

    公开(公告)日:2005-04-19

    申请号:US10120002

    申请日:2002-04-10

    摘要: The invention relates to process gas conditioning for tobacco dryers. In particular, it relates to a device for conditioning dryer which includes a vaporization unit with a chamber for introducing and vaporizing water to be added to the process gas, wherein the vaporization unit is arranged before the tobacco dryer and before the tobacco is introduced into the process gas. Furthermore, the invention relates to a vaporization unit for introducing water vapor into the flow of process gas in a tobacco dryer which includes a through-flow tank in which water introduced via a number of spray jets is completely vaporized, in contact with the process gas, and to a method for conditioning process gas for a tobacco dryer, in particular a flow dryer, wherein vapor is added to the process gas by introducing and vaporizing water, the water in the flow of process gas being vaporized in an vaporization unit before the tobacco dryer and before the tobacco is introduced into the process gas.

    摘要翻译: 本发明涉及烟草干燥机的工艺气体调节。 具体地说,本发明涉及一种用于调节干燥器的装置,其包括具有用于引入和蒸发加入到工艺气体中的水的室的蒸发单元,其中蒸发单元布置在烟草干燥器之前并且在烟草被引入到 工艺气体。 此外,本发明涉及一种用于在烟草干燥器中将水蒸汽引入工艺气体流中的蒸发单元,其包括通过多个喷射流引入的水被完全汽化的通流罐,其与处理气体接触 以及一种用于调节用于烟草干燥器,特别是流动干燥器的处理气体的方法,其中通过引入和蒸发水将蒸气加入到处理气体中,处理气体流中的水在蒸发单元之前蒸发 烟草干燥器之前和烟草被引入工艺气体之前。

    Method of controlling moisture of material and apparatus therefore
    7.
    发明申请
    Method of controlling moisture of material and apparatus therefore 有权
    因此控制材料和设备的水分的方法

    公开(公告)号:US20050034321A1

    公开(公告)日:2005-02-17

    申请号:US10923032

    申请日:2004-08-23

    IPC分类号: A24B3/04 F26B11/02

    摘要: An apparatus for carrying out a method of controlling the moisture of tobacco material comprises a hollow rotating cylinder (6) having an inlet (4) and an outlet (8) for tobacco material, and a feeding device for supplying a moist air flow into the rotating cylinder (6) such that the moist air flow runs out from the inlet (4) toward the outlet (8) within the rotating cylinder (6). Temperature and relative humidity of the moist air flow supplied into the rotating cylinder (6) are within the range of 40-80° C. and 80-95%, respectively.

    摘要翻译: 用于实施烟草材料的湿度控制方法的装置包括:具有用于烟草材料的入口(4)和出口(8)的中空旋转圆筒(6)和用于将湿空气流供应到 旋转圆筒(6),使得湿气流从入口(4)向旋转圆筒(6)内的出口(8)流出。 供应到旋转圆筒(6)中的湿气流的温度和相对湿度分别在40-80℃和80-95%的范围内。

    Method of and apparatus for applying a conditioning agent to tobacco
    8.
    发明授权
    Method of and apparatus for applying a conditioning agent to tobacco 失效
    将调理剂施用于烟草的方法和装置

    公开(公告)号:US06158441A

    公开(公告)日:2000-12-12

    申请号:US131733

    申请日:1998-08-10

    IPC分类号: A24B3/04 A24B3/18

    CPC分类号: A24B3/04 A24B3/182

    摘要: A shower of tobacco particles is admitted into the inlet at the top of and descends by gravity and/or under the action of a driven cell wheel in a generally upright duct. The particles are moisturized prior to admission into the duct or due to contact with droplets of water in the inlet, and are thereupon caused to traverse an orbiting shower of steam, water and/or another conditioning medium in an intermediate portion of their path in the duct. Such treatment entails a swelling and thus increases the volume of the particles. The conditioning medium is discharged via orifices radially outwardly from at least one substantially horizontal conduit which is rotated about its axis and can be provided with external pins or analogous mechanical impellers serving to cause the particles of tobacco to orbit about the conduit prior to descending into the range of a dryer at a level below the intermediate portion of the path, e.g., at the outlet of the duct.

    摘要翻译: 烟雾颗粒的淋浴通过重力和/或在大致直立的导管中的驱动单元轮的作用下进入入口的入口并下降。 颗粒在进入管道之前被保湿或者由于与入口中的水滴接触而被润湿,并且随后在其路径的中间部分中穿过蒸汽,水和/或其它调理介质的旋转淋浴, 管。 这种处理需要膨胀,从而增加了颗粒的体积。 调理介质通过孔口从至少一个基本上水平的管道径向向外排出,该导管围绕其轴线旋转并且可以设置有用于使烟草颗粒在下降到 干燥器的范围在路径的中间部分以下,例如在管道的出口处。

    Tobacco products having reduced nitrosamine content

    公开(公告)号:US6135121A

    公开(公告)日:2000-10-24

    申请号:US879905

    申请日:1997-06-20

    摘要: Methods of reducing the content of and preventing formation of carcinogenic nitrosamines in harvested leafy plants such as tobacco and marijuana, are disclosed. The methods are directed to subjecting the plant to microwave radiation, at appropriate times in the cure cycle. With tobacco, products suitable for human consumption, such as cigarettes, cigars, etc., can be made in accordance with the present invention, having contents of tobacco-specific nitrosamines on a par with fresh-cut, green tobacco. In preferred embodiments, the resultant tobacco products are dried, golden-yellow leaves having almost negligible amounts of the known carcinogens NNN and NNK, in comparison to conventionally cured tobacco.

    Method for self cleaning of tobacco drying apparatus
    10.
    发明授权
    Method for self cleaning of tobacco drying apparatus 有权
    烟草干燥设备自动清洗方法

    公开(公告)号:US6062238A

    公开(公告)日:2000-05-16

    申请号:US249533

    申请日:1999-02-11

    摘要: After several drying cycles in a pneumatically conveying tobacco drying apparatus, the interior of the drying apparatus becomes built-up with tobacco including casings and other additives thereby causing decreased flow of air entrained with tobacco as well as potential contamination with tobacco pieces from previously dried tobacco. Cleaning of the built-up materials is accomplished by recirculating superheated air through the tobacco drying apparatus. The air is heated to a preselected high temperature of at least 430.degree. F. at a rate, generally not to exceed 4.degree. F. per minute and circulated through the drying apparatus for a predetermined period of time. During heating and recirculating air at the preselected temperature, the tobacco materials built up on the drying apparatus are cooked and removed by continual purging with the recirculating air.

    摘要翻译: 在气动输送烟草干燥装置中经过若干干燥循环之后,干燥装置的内部由烟草包括壳体和其它添加剂组成,由此导致烟草夹带的空气的流动减少,以及来自先前干燥的烟草的烟丝的潜在污染 。 通过将过热空气再循环通过烟草干燥装置来实现清理积层材料。 空气以每分钟通常不超过4°F的速率加热至至少430°F的预选高温,并通过干燥装置循环预定的时间。 在预定温度下加热和再循环空气期间,通过用再循环空气连续吹扫,将在干燥装置上积累的烟草材料烹饪和除去。