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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:
Nov. 24, 1992
Filed:
Sep. 11, 1990
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
British-American Tobacco Company Limited, London, GB;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A24B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
131311 ; 131290 ;
Abstract
Lamina and stem components of tobacco leaf are fed simultaneously to a milling machine such that there is produced a fluent mixture of lamina and stem particles. The mixture, with little or no further particle size reduction can be fed to a cigarette making machine.