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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:
Jul. 22, 2003
Filed:
Mar. 20, 2001
Applicant:
Inventor:
Eric W. Wessinger, Macon, GA (US);
Assignee:
Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation, Louisville, KY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A24B 7/04 ; A24B 7/12 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A24B 7/04 ; A24B 7/12 ;
Abstract
A process of cutting reconstituted tobacco includes (1) rolling up single sheets of reconstituted tobacco into a plurality of single sheet rolls of reconstituted tobacco, unrolling said sheets and wherein the unrolled sheets are laid on top of one another; or, (2) stacking a plurality of sheets orientated in layers and feeding said sheets to a cutting machine. The cutting machine includes a rotary drum having a plurality of controlled strand cutting knives spaced at preselected intervals along an outer periphery of the drum.