Global Patent Index - EP 1477074 B1

EP 1477074 B1 20070808 - Method for separating tobacco from a block of tobacco and device for performing the method

Title (en)

Method for separating tobacco from a block of tobacco and device for performing the method

Title (de)

Verfahren zum Trennen von Tabak von einem Tabakkuchen sowie Vorrichtung zur Durchführung des Verfahrens

Title (fr)

Procédé de séparation de tabac d'une bale de tabac ainsi que dispositif pour la mise en oeuvre de ce procédé

Publication

EP 1477074 B1 20070808 (DE)

Application

EP 04090198 A 20040517

Priority

  • EP 04090198 A 20040517
  • EP 03090145 A 20030516

Abstract (en)

[origin: EP1477074A1] The tobacco cutting machine (10) has a rotor (11,12) with four apertures (19) accommodating knives or scraper blades (13,14). The knives may be set at 13-24 degrees to the vertical plane of the rotor disk. The disk turns inside a fixed housing (24) with a flat back-plate. The plate has a breather aperture (30) and the tobacco stick (16) is pushed onto the rotor through a second aperture (29). Tobacco flakes fall through an outlet aperture (26) in the bottom of the housing.

IPC 8 full level

A24B 3/07 (2006.01); A24B 7/00 (2006.01); A24B 7/08 (2006.01); A24B 7/12 (2006.01); B26D 1/29 (2006.01); B26D 1/36 (2006.01)

CPC (source: EP)

A24B 7/08 (2013.01); A24B 7/12 (2013.01)

Designated contracting state (EPC)

AT BE BG CH CY CZ DE DK EE ES FI FR GB GR HU IE IT LI LU MC NL PL PT RO SE SI SK TR

DOCDB simple family (publication)

EP 1477074 A1 20041117; EP 1477074 A8 20050209; EP 1477074 B1 20070808; AT E369046 T1 20070815; CN 100409774 C 20080813; CN 1550162 A 20041201; DE 502004004550 D1 20070920; ES 2289431 T3 20080201; JP 2004337168 A 20041202; JP 4597572 B2 20101215; PL 1477074 T3 20071231

DOCDB simple family (application)

EP 04090198 A 20040517; AT 04090198 T 20040517; CN 200410043216 A 20040514; DE 502004004550 T 20040517; ES 04090198 T 20040517; JP 2004144747 A 20040514; PL 04090198 T 20040517