Japan Tobacco Inc.

Tokyo Automatic Machinery Works, Ltd.

Fujio Fukamizu

Manabu Yamada

Takeshi Bandai

Osamu Tokunaga

Shigemitsu Hirama

A shredded tobacco supply device for a cigarette manufacturing machine includes a separation throat () diverging from a gravity chute () through which shredded tobacco is let fall down, and an extension () extending from the outlet () of the separation throat () and forming an air confluent nozzle () in cooperation with the trough bottom () of a fluid bed trough (). The air confluent nozzle () produces a transport flow by joining together primary and secondary air jets Jand Jused for winnowing the shredded tobacco, and the transport flow causes a shred mixture obtained by the winnowing to be conveyed along a conveyance surface () toward a tobacco band.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Fujio Fukamizu