Abstract: An apparatus for making a sheet of material including vegetable and/or alkaloid substances including a roller rolling mill system including a plurality of rollers rotatable around respective rotation axes defining a rolling mill path provided with pressure lines adapted to substantially press the material so as to provide the latter with a sheet-like shape, and a scraping system configured to engage by contact the working surface of a transfer roller along a contact line so as to detach the material. Specifically, the scraping system including a closed-loop endless scraping band movable at the contact line parallel to the rotation axis of the transfer roller via an actuating assembly.

Abstract: An apparatus for making and/or treating a sheet made of material including vegetable and/or alkaloid substances. The apparatus includes a heating unit, a cooling unit, and a collecting unit arranged in this order along an advancement direction of the sheet. Specifically, the cooling unit can receive the sheet in a cooling space and herein to cool it by forced gas cooling which can provide a first forced cooling gas flow and a second forced cooling gas flow at the cooling space, and operatively direct each forced cooling gas flow on at least a portion of a respective face of the sheet.

Abstract: An apparatus for making a sheet of material including vegetable and/or alkaloid substances including a roller rolling mill system including a plurality of rollers rotatable around respective rotation axes defining a rolling mill path provided with pressure lines adapted to substantially press the material so as to provide the latter with a sheet-like shape, and a scraping system configured to engage by contact the working surface of a transfer roller along a contact line so as to detach the material. Specifically, the scraping system including a closed-loop endless scraping band movable at the contact line parallel to the rotation axis of the transfer roller via an actuating assembly.

Abstract: A method for production of reconstituted vegetable and/or reconstituted alkaloid substances, including the steps of: producing powdered material with predetermined particle size and including powders of vegetable and/or alkaloid substances mixed with vegetable fibres and/or powdered additives, high viscosity and water-based humectant gel; mixing powdered material with humectant gel obtaining a pasty compound based on the vegetable and/or alkaloid substances, substantially solid and with low water content; extruding the pasty compound based on the vegetable and/or alkaloid substances producing an extruded dough section based on the vegetable and/or alkaloid substances, substantially solid and with low water content; cutting the extruded section producing solid and compact small blocks/slabs of dough; rolling the various dough blocks/slabs forming a single dough sheet of predetermined thickness, substantially solid and strip-like; and lastly drying the dough sheet to obtain a sheet of reconstituted vegetable an

Abstract: The Rotary dryer comprises a dryer receptacle having an inner space for receiving herbaceous material, a driving device for rotating the dryer receptacle about a rotation axis of the dryer receptacle, and a channel-shaped collector being at least partially open in its upper portion provided in the inner space of the dryer receptacle for collecting dried herbaceous material.

Abstract: Method for producing a tobacco paste and reconstituted tobacco, a tobacco-containing film, film sections and films scraps, and a system for producing reconstituted tobacco. The method includes supplying a powdered material having a predefined particle size of less than 350 ?m, wherein the powdered material comprises tobacco powder, supplying a highly viscous, water-based binder gel having a viscosity of at least 1000 cP, a water content of at least 50%, and at least one binder; and mixing the powdered material with the binder gel to form the tobacco paste that is substantially solid, wherein the tobacco paste has a water content or moisture content of at most 50%.

Abstract: The dryer comprises a dryer receptacle having an inner space for receiving herbaceous material and a driving device for rotating the dryer receptacle about a rotation axis of the dryer receptacle. Vanes for engaging herbaceous material received in the inner space of the dryer receptacle extend from an inner surface of the dryer receptacle into the inner space of the dryer receptacle. In a cross-section with a sectional plane perpendicular to the rotation axis, the vanes are inclined with respect to the radial direction. Vane heating elements are incorporated into the vanes.

Abstract: A fixing device for moulds for plastic articles, where a pair of half-moulds (3, 4) in which a force plug (11) can be inserted, comprises at least one tie rod (6) for keeping the two half-moulds in a closed position, the said tie rod being hinged, at one end, to the mobile half-mould and having a second end of a hammer-headed shape which hooks to two gripping jaws (60, 61). The tie rod (6) is hinged to a connecting rod which rotates on a pivot fixed to the resting base (14), which, in the movement of rotation, sets the tie rod (6) along the line corresponding to the centroid of the pressure forces produced during the moulding operation.

Abstract: A fixing device for moulds for plastic articles, where a pair of half-moulds (3, 4) in which a force plug (11) can be inserted, comprises at least one tie rod (6) for keeping the two half-moulds in a closed position, the said tie rod being hinged, at one end, to the mobile half-mould and having a second end of a hammer-headed shape which hooks to two gripping jaws (60, 61). The tie rod (6) is hinged to a connecting rod which rotates on a pivot fixed to the resting base (14), which, in the movement of rotation, sets the tie rod (6) along the line corresponding to the centroid of the pressure forces produced during the moulding operation.