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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 27, 2001
Filed:
Sep. 25, 2000
Applicant:
Inventor:
Fritz Schelhorn, Bayreuth, DE;
Assignee:
Brown & Williams on Tobacco Corporation, Louisville, KY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65G 4/718 ; B65G 6/532 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B65G 4/718 ; B65G 6/532 ;
Abstract
The invention relates to a method and a device for feeding layers of tobacco to an intermediate reservoir, including feeding a continual falling, horizontal shifting stream of tobacco to the intermediate reservoir, the falling stream of tobacco being deflected by web-type separators, below, which predetermined break points form in the tobacco mass in the intermediate reservoir, resulting in vertical columns of tobacco separable from each other, the columns of tobacco separating individually from the tobacco mass and dropping onto a dispensing conveyor.