PROCEDURE AND MACHINE FOR RECONSTITUTING POWDERS OF VEGETAL ORIGIN

摘要

A procedure and machine for reconstituting powders of vegetal origin by lamination process, in which the machine includes a lamination device, a set of frontal and posterior drag rolls, a hot air insufflator, a thermal chamber and a conveyor, so that the vegetal mass is pressed by laminating rolls to obtain a pellicle of vegetal material that is deposited over the conveyor circulating inside a terminal chamber for drying the formed pellicle of vegetal material, which can be reinserted in industrial process.

主权项

1. A procedure for reconstituting tobacco by-products, wherein the procedure consists of the steps of:
milling said tobacco by-products; mixing 100 Kg of said milled tobacco by-products with an agglutinant compound, with flavorings and with non-tobacco vegetal powders, and with from 5 to 100 Kg of water, resulting in a homogeneous substrate; laminating said substrate between two linear and parallel lamination rolls until obtaining a continuous pellicle having a thickness between 0.05 to 2.5 mm, wherein the pellicle is free of marks, holes and deformities; drying said pellicle by passing it through a heating chamber at a temperature between 100° C. and 400° C., by means of a plurality of conveyors, which move so as to occupy all internal extensions of the thermal chamber and wherein the conveyers are arranged to allow the pellicle to travel a zigzag direction within the heating chamber, wherein the passing of said pellicle through the heating chamber reduces the moisture of the pellicle to 8-20%; and fragmenting or cutting said pellicle; wherein the tobacco by-products are selected from the group consisting of tobacco powder, tobacco particles, tobacco granules, tobacco pieces and combinations thereof.