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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 1987
Filed:
Jun. 13, 1986
Applicant:
Inventor:
Roger W Hedge, Lymington, GB;
Assignee:
British-American Tobacco Company Limited, London, GB;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A24B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
131296 ; 131304 ;
Abstract
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.