Patent ID: 11882868
Assignee: KÖRBER TECHNOLOGIES S.P.A.
Field: Other consumer goods (Other fields)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 0:
1. An apparatus for making a sheet of material comprising vegetable and/or alkaloid substances, the apparatus including:
a roller rolling mill system comprising a plurality of rollers rotatable about respective rotation axes parallel to each other,
the rollers being operatively adapted to receive the material adhering to respective working surfaces, and
the rollers being further arranged in succession one adjacent and substantially tangent to the other defining a rolling mill path having a rolling mill direction, wherein a rotation direction of a roller is opposite to the rotation direction of the adjacent roller,
along the rolling mill path being provided between two adjacent rollers respective pressure lines substantially adapted to press the material so as to provide the latter with a sheet-like shape,
a scraping system configured to engage by contact the working surface of a transfer roller of the plurality of rollers along a contact line so as to detach the material having the sheet-like shape from the transfer roller,
wherein
the scraping system comprises a closed-loop endless scraping band operatively adapted to engage the working surface of the transfer roller along the contact line by means of a scraping edge,
the endless scraping band being movable at the contact line parallel to the rotation axis of the transfer roller by means of an actuating assembly.