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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 25, 1992
Filed:
Nov. 13, 1989
Richard M Henderson, Winston-Salem, NC (US);
Roger A Foote, Winston-Salem, NC (US);
Aubrey L Swofford, Greenwood, SC (US);
Henry H Warren, Jr, Clemmons, NC (US);
D Randall McHone, Winston-Salem, NC (US);
John D Parkman, Ware Schoals, SC (US);
Harvey E Williams, Jr, Iva, SC (US);
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Winston-Salem, NC (US);
Abstract
A method of and an apparatus for automatically taking a cored sample of tobacco from a bale of tobacco and pneumatically transferring the sample to a remotely located receiving station, such as a stem content analyzer, are disclosed. A sample canister with vacuum-operated end closures for use in the pneumatic transfer of the tobacco sample is also disclosed. A compacted, cored sample of tobacco is delaminated and then deposited into an open sample canister which is closed and pneumatically transported to a stem content analyzer where it is opened, upended to deposit the sample into the stem content analyzer, reclosed and pneumatically returned for another sample of tobacco.