TOBACCO PILES STEAMING AND HUMIDIFYING PLANT Russian patent published in 2018 - IPC A24B3/02 

FIELD: tobacco industry.

SUBSTANCE: plant for steaming and humifying the tobacco piles, containing the chamber, located in it the feeding conveyor and the storage conveyor with the ability of step by step movement of piles, the steam collector with nozzles, fixed on the rocker, the lever-ratchet mechanism of conveyors drive, differs in that the conveyors drive is located under the storage conveyor and the combined crank lever mechanics is positioned on the drive shaft, providing the steam manifold stroke and the rocker mechanism, driving the conveyors belt, with the rocker swing angle of 52 degrees.

EFFECT: provision of tobacco pile uniformity and greater degree of steaming by increasing the time of the injecting in the steaming and humifying cycle, and also eliminating the contamination of the plant drive.

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