Method and appliance for producing extruded lengths of tobacco involve charging lock, inlets, feeder, shunt as flexible pipe and sealing elements,

摘要

The at least one charging-lock (10) comprises at least two tobacco-inlets (13,14) to at least one of which the tobacco is conveyed by at least one downward-pointing feeder (22,23). The tobacco is supplied to the inlets alternately by means of a shunt (24) in the form of a flexible pipe (26) with sealing element.