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Bull. Spec. CORESTA Congress, Guangzhou 1988, p. 170, T-18

Application of a hydraulic sheetforming principle for the production of reconstituted tobacco

PESCHETZ J.
Austria Tabak, R&D, Vienna, Austria
For the production of reconstituted tobacco a process which is based on the paper-manufacture-method is worldwide in use. By the use of the conventional process the tobacco raw materials have to be separated in soluble and solid components. Then, based on the principle of Robert _ the classical method of sheetforming _ following the general laws of filtration of liquids of transmittation through a compressible porous agent a sheet of solid materials is formed. The liquid flow penetrates the growing fiber sheet always in the same direction. After the sheetforming the fiber sheet is dried and impregnated in an additional step with the soluble component of the tobacco raw material. The wellknown inhomogenous distribution of solid and soluble components of tobacco in the reconstituted tobacco sheet is a real part of the result. A new reconstituted tobacco manufacture process _ working with the paper method _ overcomes this problems by the use of the so called hydraulic sheetforming principle. The sheetforming is done without separating the solid and soluble components of the tobacco raw material and without concentrating tobacco extract according to the method known so far in the paper manufacture. A completly new developed sheetformer produces under the laws of the hydraulic sheet-forming principle and the fact of self-regulation of filtration a homogenous tobacco sheet in one step. A very even distribution of solid and soluble tobacco in the reconstituted tobacco sheet on a low energy consumption is the result.