US 12,439,948 B2
Casting apparatus and method for the production of a cast sheet of a material containing alkaloids
Silvia Capo, Capaccio-Paestum (IT); and Marc A. F. Van Den Boogaart, Giez (CH)
Assigned to Philip Morris Products S.A., Neuchatel (CH)
Filed by PHILIP MORRIS PRODUCTS S.A., Neuchatel (CH)
Filed on May 21, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/669,647.
Application 18/669,647 is a division of application No. 16/973,086, granted, now 12,048,323, previously published as PCT/EP2019/067470, filed on Jun. 28, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 18181032 (EP), filed on Jun. 29, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2024/0298692 A1, Sep. 12, 2024
Int. Cl. A24B 3/14 (2006.01); A24B 15/167 (2020.01)
CPC A24B 3/14 (2013.01) [A24B 15/167 (2016.11)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method to cast a sheet of a material containing alkaloids, the method comprising:
providing a casting box;
providing a casting element connected to the casting box;
providing a movable support facing the casting element;
introducing a slurry in the casting box through an inlet and along a supply direction forming an angle with a horizontal plane comprised between about −45 degrees and about +45 degrees; and
casting the slurry on the movable support by means of the casting element,
wherein introducing the slurry in the casting box comprises introducing the slurry up to a level above the inlet.