Appliance for sorting dry tobacco leaves at the outlet from a drier, in an efficient way, in which the sorting is manual

摘要

Device limiting the handling of tobacco leaves (or the like) on a leaf sorting chain in which the sorting is manual. The invention relates to a device making it possible to supply, separate, remove sand from and exhibit the leaves evenly over a sorting belt. It is made up A of a loading table which receives the mass of leaves directly extracted from its loading rack. The table A conveys the mass towards B, the unbundler, which detaches small packets from the mass, throwing them onto C, the loosening vibrator which spreads out these packets of leaves, removes sand via its vibrations, regulates the flow via its tobacco-aligning waves, deposits them on the belt D where, once selected, they are deposited on the shelves E. The device according to the invention is intended for the sorting of all materials, such as tobacco leaves. IMAGE