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Article: German Inventors Develop Winnowing Adjusting Method
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- January 11, 2007
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 11 -- Volker Kuhl and Thomas Muller, both of Bayreuth, Germany, Heinz-Werner Masurat of Neuenmarkt, Germany, and Bernd Rabenstein of Heinersreuth, Germany, have developed a method for continually adjusting the separating out of winnowings from usable tobacco particles during the manufacture of smokable products.
According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for adjusting the selecting out of winnowings in the manufacture of smokable products, in particular cigarettes, wherein the current size distribution of a stream of tobacco particles passing a measuring point, per unit of time, is detected and compared with a settable ...