APPARATUS FOR COMMINUTING AND DRYING OF TABACCO LEAVES

摘要

Several parallel tobacco comminuting machines deliver tobacco shreds onto a conveyor system which transports a stream of such shreds into a drying apparatus. The last comminuting machine is adjustable by a control system connected with a weighing device which is located upstream or downstream of the last machine and causes the control system to regulate the output of the last machine in such a way that the combined output of the machines forms a constant stream of tobacco shreds. The weighing device weighs successive increments of the tobacco stream which includes the output of all machines, the output of all but the last machine, or successive increments of a stream which is being withdrawn from a magazine serving to receive the output of all machines.