The values of filling energy are expressed by means of corrected cylinder quantity which is the cylinder quantity of the tobacco materials at a reference moisture level of 12.5 percent oven volatiles. The cylinder volume may be determined utilizing Fashion tobacco pipe a Borgwaldt densimeter DD60 or DD60A kind fitted with a measuring head for minimize tobacco and a tobacco cylinder container. The time period “sinusoidal” is used to explain a cut strip of tobacco material shaped substantially like a portion of a sine wave.
Without wishing to be bound to concept, it goes to be appreciated that during any cutting, rolling or extruding operation, the tobacco fibres usually align in a given course, which can thus be recognized as the longitudinal path of the tobacco material. The “minimize size” of a reduce strip of tobacco materials for incorporation in cut fillers based on the present invention could therefore be measured alongside the main direction of fibre alignment, which typically corresponds to the longitudinal path. Thus, the minimize length of an individual cut strip can be precisely measured using a conventional measuring gadget underneath a microscope. In a traditional process, reconstituted tobacco or tobacco stem materials or both are usually blended with threshed tobacco lamina to bear a series of treatments, such as conditioning and drying. To this objective, a reconstituted tobacco sheet is typically ripped into randomly formed sheet-like pieces having a non-uniform dimension, usually of several square centimetres.
The thickness subsequently corresponds considerably to the thickness of the tobacco materials fed to the slicing or shredding equipment. The thickness of a person cut strip can be measured using a traditional measuring device under a microscope. In some embodiments, the thickness of a tobacco material forming the minimize strip may be considerably fixed. In different embodiments, the thickness of the tobacco material forming the minimize strip may range along the longitudinal direction, along a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal course, or alongside each. The thickness of a person cut strip is measured on the point alongside the longitudinal path of slicing that yields the most important cross-sectional space.
The expressions “last cut width” and “last reduce size” are used herein to describe the minimize width and cut length of a tobacco materials as present in a tobacco reduce filler utilized in a tobacco product. The method might additional comprise a step of conditioning the primary tobacco material previous to cutting the first tobacco material. Further, the tactic might comprise a step of controlling the moisture content material of the cut filler by adjusting the moisture content material of the primary tobacco materials.
Experiments had been carried out in order to assess the impact of different shapes and reduce specs to key parameters of tobacco minimize filler particles, such as the filling power. In more detail, Figure 1 shows a zigzag-shaped strip and Figure 2 exhibits a wave-shaped strip. Where the reduce strip is zigzag-shaped or wave- shaped, it is potential to measure a wave length of the cut strip, which considerably corresponds to the strip cut size divided by the variety of repetitions of the zigzag or wave. For occasion , in the minimize strip of Figure 1 the zigzag is repeated 10 occasions. Preferably, a wave size of the sinusoidal form is from about 1 mm to about 15 mm, more preferably from about 2 mm to about 12 mm, much more preferably from four mm to 10 mm. Preferably, the tobacco minimize filler further comprises a second tobacco materials cut in accordance with a second reduce specification differing from the primary minimize specification for a minimum of considered one of reduce length and minimize width.