Tobacco leaf portion stamping machine - has fully-rotary unrolling mechanism performing complete revolution per stroke

摘要

The machine (10) stamps out and deposits portions from a tobacco leaf. It includes a stamping knife on which the leaf is placed, and an unrolling mechanism swinging on a vertical axis and moving once over the knife each working cycle. The unrolling mechanism (3) is fully rotary; it performs a complete revolution for each working stroke and its speed of rotation may be steplessly adjustable. The tobacco leaf material is stored in a big roll (9) from which it is pulled out in a band (9).