British American Tobacco (Germany) Gmbh

Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation

Hauni Maschinenbau Ag

British American Tobacco Limited

Hans-Werner Fuchs

Gerald Schmekel

Dietmar Franke

Uwe Werner Ehling

Fritz Schelhorn

Frank Plückhahn

Harald Hofmann

Bernd Rabenstein

Andreas Dittrich

Klaus Panthel

Friedhelm Fink

Frank Prauka

The invention relates to a continuous method for pressure-conditioning material for food and/or semi-luxury consumables, wherein said material () is introduced through an entrance () into a hyperbarically pressurized conditioning chamber (), where it is treated with a conditioning agent, and extracted again from said conditioning chamber () at an exit (), wherein the material () is conveyed continuously from said entrance () to said exit () in a conditioning chamber () inclined obliquely upwards, by means of a mixing conveyor, in particular a conveying screw (). It further relates to a device for pressure-conditioning material for food and/or semi-luxury consumables, in particular for comminuted tobacco material, preferably tobacco stem material, comprising: a hyperbarically pressurized conditioning chamber (), into which the material () is introduced through an entrance (); supply nozzles () for treating the material () with a conditioning agent; and an exit () for extracting the material () from said conditioning chamber (), wherein the conditioning chamber () is arranged obliquely inclined upwards and comprises a mixing conveyor, in particular a conveying screw (), by means of which the material () is conveyed continuously from said entrance to said exit. It further relates to corresponding tobacco materials and smoking products.

Pressure-conditioning method

Pressure-conditioning device

The invention relates to a device and a method for marking cigarette packets, comprising a transport device for conveying at least one cigarette packet to a marking station for marking cigarette packets, and the following features: the transport device grasps a batch of adjacent, aligned cigarette packets and moves them to the marking station, where the transport device releases the batch; and the released cigarette packets are marked on at least one exposed area.

Device and method for marking cigarette packets

The invention relates to a method and device for regulating the output moisture content of tobacco conditioned by a loosening/conditioning and optionally casing (saucing) drum comprising injecting a throughflow of water into the infeed region of the drum by a first nozzle regulated depending on the target value for the tobacco output moisture content and the actual values for the tobacco mass flow, the steam throughflow and the tobacco input moisture content; and injecting a throughflow of water in the outlet region of the drum through a second nozzle, the target value of which is computed depending on the target value and actual value for the tobacco output moisture content.

Method and device for regulating the output humidity of tobacco

Method for regulating the output humidity of tobacco

A robot manipulator has an arm with a head which is mounted for movement up and down, along a first horizontal path, along a second horizontal path at right angles to the first path, about a vertical axis and about a horizontal axis so that it can reach all portions of a storage facility for bobbins, stacked blanks and/or other commodities which are to be fed to one or more tobacco processing machines. The head has a jaw chuck which can engage a cylindrical internal surface of a bobbin or the cylindrical internal surface of a tool which is used for the transport of stacks of superimposed blanks of paper or the like. The head further has a vertically movable annular pusher which can strip a bobbin off the chuck or which can actuate one or more pivotable supports forming part of the tool and serving to prop one or more stacks from below. The tool is provided with suction heads which can lift one or more stacks off a pallet in the storage facility preparatory to pivoting of the support or supports to operative positions beneath the lifted stack or stacks. A vertically movable platform cooperates with a conveyor for transferred stacks or bobbins to accept the stacks from the tool preparatory to pivoting of the support or supports to their idle positions and to thereupon deposit the stack or stacks on the conveyor.

Robot manipulator

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Thurnau, Germany

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