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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 02, 1986
Filed:
Jul. 13, 1983
Applicant:
Inventor:
Ronald D Rothchild, South Orange, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A24B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
131296 ; 131302 ; 131304 ; 131305 ; 131306 ;
Abstract
A method and preferred apparatus for expanding moisture containing tobacco. Tobacco is very rapidly heated by a stream of heated gas, by contacting a high speed downdraft flow of said gas with said tobacco while said tobacco is in transit on a gas porous conveyer. The conveyer is preferably configured as a cylindrical drum with a gas porous cylindrical surface, rotating about its axis.