Method for pouching tobacco having a high moisture content

摘要

A method of supplying charges of moist smokeless tobacco includes loading a charge of moist smokeless tobacco (MST) into a cavity (14) in a rotatable metering disk (12), applying a first vacuum to the cavity so as to substantially fill the cavity and applying a second vacuum to the cavity after cessation of the first vacuum, as the cavity rotates to a discharge station. The method also includes removing the MST from the cavity at the discharge station (72).