GB419971A - Improved means for removing tobacco from spoilt cigarette rod and spoilt cigarettes - Google Patents

Abstract

419,971. Recovering tobacco from cigarettes. LEGG, 0., 21, Goswell Terrace, Goswell Road, London. July 28, 1933, No. 21240. [Class 130.] In a machine for removing the tobacco from damaged cigarettes or damaged lengths of cigarette rod after they have been ripped open, a plate extends from a point substantially beneath ripping knives and drawing and wiping means comprising one or more rotating members are arranged transversely above the plate to engage the ripped lengths of cigarette rod with sufficient friction to draw them over a sieve and thus loosen the tobacco from the paper. The damaged material is fed along a grooved plate 2 beneath knives 1 to one or more rotating members which draw the ripped cigarettes across a downwardly inclined sieve 4 and loosen the tobacco from the paper. One or more members may be arranged, as at 9, along the sieve 4 which is resiliently mounted, and a pair of rollers may be arranged at the end of the sieve to withdraw the paper. The rotating members consist either of arms 8 of flexible material or a pair of toothed rollers geared together to rotate in opposite directions and spaced apart to provide a sinuous path between them; wires, which pass through circumferential slots in the rollers prevent the paper from winding around the rollers.