Title: Modular tobacco handling and curing system and method

Abstract: A tobacco handling and curing system and method is provided and in one aspect includes a curing container of generally rectangular solid configuration of which four side walls are generally imperforate and a pair of opposed side walls are perforate for the passage of curing gas therethrough. Such container may include one or more perforate interior transverse walls parallel to the opposed walls; adjustable edge baffles for the perforate side walls; and means carried by a pair of imperforate side walls to assist in handling the container. In another aspect of the present invention, novel curing mechanism is provided to receive a plurality of the containers and to direct gas therethrough at predeterminable temperature, humidity and volume.

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Inventors: Johnson, William H. (Raleigh, NC, US)

Application Number: 425848
Filing Date: 1973-12-18
Publication_date: 1976-01-20
Assignee: Research Corporation (New York, NY)
Primary Class(es): 34/201 34/219, 34/236, 131/302, 220/1.5, 294/5.5, 432/500
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US Patent Ref:

1216442	Feb, 1917	Haley	34/193.
2035838	Mar, 1936	Reeder et al.	220/1.
2109409	Feb, 1938	Bogaty	131/136.
3337967	Aug, 1967	Smith	34/225.
3399680	Sep, 1968	Egri	34/219.
3855451	Dec, 1974	Lee	34/219.

Other Refs: 1,065,600

Sep, 1959	DT

Primary Examiner: Sprague, Kenneth W.
Assistant Examiner: Yeung, James C.
Attorney: Stowell; Harold L.