GRINDING TOBACCO LEAVES MAKING PROCESS, FILLING MATERIAL FOR SMOKING ARTICLES THAT IS PRODUCED ACCORDING TO THIS PROCESS AND SMOKING ARTICLE CONTAINING IT THEREOF

摘要

Whole tobacco leaf is fed to a milling machine such that there is produced a mixture of lamina flakes and intact stem lengths. The lamina fraction, with little or no further particle size reduction can be fed to a cigarette making machine. The stem fraction can be discarded or processed according to conventional methods.