The Filling Value of Cigar Tobacco: Examination of Different Cutting Widths of Cigarillo Filling Tobacco / Die Füllfähigkeit von geschnittener Zigarreneinlage: Ergebnisse einer Untersuchung von Zigarillos mit Einlagen verschiedener Schnittbreiten

For the purpose of producing cigarillos of optimum filling value measurements have been taken by two instruments, i.e. the impact volumeter and the Borgwaldt compressimeter, in order to examine whether the respective methods are suitable for cigar tobacco. The authors intended to determine the optimum width of cut for the filling of cigarillos as well as the optimum weight conditioned by the width of cut under the different circumstances. The measurements were taken with widths of cut of 1, 1 ½, 2, 2 ½ and 3 millimetres. The data furnished by the two instruments showed a relation between width of cut and filling capacity. The measurements taken by means of the compressimeter were more precise than those taken by the impact volumeter. Allowance has to be made, however, for the fact that the conditions to which the tobacco is exposed in both instruments are not the same as those of manufactured cigarillos. There is a relation between the distribution of strand dimensions of cut tobacco and the compression volume. The compression volume increases with increasing proportions of coarse particles and decreases with increasing proportions of fine particles. Subjective manual estimation of the filling capacity by experienced examiners corresponds fairly to the results obtained by mechanical determination