BLACK TEA PRODUCTION Russian patent published in 2012 - IPC A23F3/12 

FIELD: food industry.

SUBSTANCE: inventions group relates to food industry. Tea leaves are air-dried till moisture content is equal to 64-70%. The leaves are macerated by way of their passing through a rotary lobed machine wherein some of lobes are replaced with lobes invertedly reversed. Tea leaves leaving the rotary lobed machine are additionally cut by way of passing through a CTC-machine. The machine blade has 2-6 teeth per inch. Tea leaves are fermented and fire-dried for fermentation termination. Leaves are dried and sorted to produce black leafy tea. Black leafy tea has the appearance of orthodox leafy tea sized Broken Orange Pekoe or bigger.

EFFECT: inventions group allows to manufacture a product with brewing rate and degree typical of CTC tea keeping the appearance of orthodox tea.

7 cl, 16 dwg, 17 tbl, 13 ex