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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 2009
Filed:
Oct. 25, 2003
Heinz Focke, Verden, DE;
Doris Focke, Legal Representative, Verden, DE;
Jürgen Focke, Legal Representative, Verden, DE;
Ralf Barkmann, Hamburg, DE;
Alfred Drenguis, Börnsen, DE;
Frauke Illigner, Grönwohld, DE;
Reinhard Hoppe, Tespe, DE;
Tobias Jacobi, Winsen/Luhe, DE;
Christina Ott, Hamburg, DE;
Remo Schulz, Stelle, DE;
Michael Wegmann, Hamburg, DE;
Heinz Focke, Verden, DE;
Doris Focke, legal representative, Verden, DE;
Jürgen Focke, legal representative, Verden, DE;
Ralf Barkmann, Hamburg, DE;
Alfred Drenguis, Börnsen, DE;
Frauke Illigner, Grönwohld, DE;
Reinhard Hoppe, Tespe, DE;
Tobias Jacobi, Winsen/Luhe, DE;
Christina Ott, Hamburg, DE;
Remo Schulz, Stelle, DE;
Michael Wegmann, Hamburg, DE;
Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG), Verden, DE;
Abstract
A distributor or hopper is part of a cigarette production machine and serves for dressing the tobacco in the provision of a continuous tobacco strand. An integral part of a distributor is a metering system which prepares the tobacco for the production of the tobacco strand. To separate out undesirable constituents, such as foreign bodies, stalks or ribs, from the tobacco, at least one sifter () is provided. The latter precedes the metering system of the distributor in the working direction, in particular is arranged outside the distributor, so that sifted tobacco is introduced into the distributor.