US Patent Issued to R.J. Reynolds Tobacco on Sept. 23 for "Apparatus for recovering tobacco material and related method" (North Carolina Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,343, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Winston-Salem, N.C.).

"Apparatus for recovering tobacco material and related method" was invented by Balager Ademe (Winston-Salem, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method for recovering tobacco material from tobacco rod sections is provided, each tobacco rod section including a wrapping paper wrapped about the tobacco material. The apparatus includes a centrifugal object-orienting device including a disc disposed at an incline within a cylindrical container, the cylindrical container and the disc being rotatable about a rotation axis such that th...