When the leaf has been correctly withered and becomes flaccid it is read for the next important operation of rolling. The rolling room is situated in a cool part of the factory, protected from the heat of driers and away from the direct rays of the sun. Good ventilation should be provided. Care should be taken to see that the floors of the lofts have been swept clean before the leaf is taken down from the tats.

Only sufficient quantities of leaf as are required for charging the rollers should be taken down at a time, and leaf taken down in excess should not be allowed to lie in heaps, but must be returned to the tats. 

 

 Roll breaking is an important operation in tea manufacture. During the process of rolling, the leaf cakes into balls, and its temperature rises as rolling progresses under pressure. Roll breaking helps to break up the lumps of leaf formed during rolling, to cool and aerate it and at the same time it separates the finer dhools from the coarse. The leaf emptied from the roller at the end of each roll should be passed over the roll-breaker without delay, but it is good to spread out the load from the roller while waiting to be sieved as this helps to cool the leaf, and it also prevents the heating effect of bulked leaf.