Stickless Burley Tobacco Curing Frames

摘要

The invention is an apparatus developed to suspend burley tobacco on a curing frame without the use of sticks. A plurality of individual retainer members are affixed to a rigid base member. Each retainer member comprises a base slab of resilient material with two perpendicular cross cuts in the center thereof. A hole is centered on the intersection of the two perpendicular cross cuts giving four lips which will bear on a tobacco stalk when the tobacco stalk is inserted through the center of each cross cut. This deforming resilient material will then assert pressure around the circumference of the stalk of sufficient force to hold the tobacco stalk in a verticle position throughout the tobacco curing process.