Improvement of Domestic Tobacco Guide Strip in KTC80 Tobacco Cutter

In KTC80 tobacco cutter with domestic tobacco guide strips,the output cut tobacco tends to stick together and not flow smoothly,in worst conditions even clamp the knife blade.By analyzing the structural difference between imported and domestic tobacco guide strips,it was found that the different inside radius of cut tobacco chute was the main reason causing the problems.Therefore,the radius was enlarged from 1.75 to 2 mm and the height of tobacco guide strip increased from 28 to 28.3 mm.Comparing with imported tobacco guide strip and unimproved domestic tobacco guide strip,the frequency of knife being clamped reduced by 35 and 60 times,the accumulated downtime for cleaning the clamped knife decreased by 175 and 300 minutes,the number of replaced strips reduced by 1 and 9 pieces,and the cost of strip replacing decreased by 91% and 50%,respectively,in 6 months.