摘要 |
Apparatus for threshing tobacco comprises rotatable stripping means (3) and a feeder comprising a pair of co-operating counter-rotatable elements (1,2) for delivering tobacco leaves to the stripping means. The feeder and the stripping means are arranged such that, in use, the tobacco leaves experience shearing forces as they pass from between the counter-rotating elements to the rotating stripping means which forces at least partially strip the lamina from the stem. <IMAGE> |