US Patent Issued to COMAS-COSTRUZIONI MACCHINE SPECIALI-S.P.A on March 24 for "Method and plant for treating tobacco leaves" (Italian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,151, issued on March 24, was assigned to COMAS-COSTRUZIONI MACCHINE SPECIALI-S.P.A (Silea, Italy).

"Method and plant for treating tobacco leaves" was invented by Roberto Maurutto (Silea, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of treating tobacco leaves for separating the lamina from rib, includes: collecting the leaves in mannochi, and subjecting them to a shredder, where portions of the lamina of each leaf are torn from the remaining part of the leaf, separating portions of lamina from the remaining part of the leaf, by air, in at least one classification chamber, directly transferring portions of torn lamina to subsequent d...