| 摘要 |
There is described cigarettes and a method for their manufacture. The cigarettes have a specific, desired firmness and include tobacco that has a high filling power. The method to produce the cigarettes involves use of a raw tobacco starting material consisting of tobacco components, which are comprised of mixtures of several tobacco grades, which components are processed individually and combined, particularly mixed, in a cut state in connection with feeding thereof into a cigarette machine. The tobacco material is dried to a desired moisture content of the cigarette at a late stage of the cigarette manufacturing process, preferably immediately prior to feeding the tobacco material into the cigarette machine. This facilitates combining of the components, particularly the mixing of the components, and enables the manufacturing conditions to be controlled in a manner to produce continuously cigarettes of a constant, desired firmness. There is also described an apparatus for carrying out the method, in which the tobacco components are roughly mixed during air transportation to the feed part of the cigarette machine, wherein the roughly mixed components are finely divided and homogeneously mixed mechanically. |
