Apparatus for the testing of cigarettes

Details Apparatus for the testing of cigarettes Apparatus for the testing of cigarettes

1989-04-13

1990-10-16

Coan, James F.

Package making

With means responsive to a sensed condition

Of individual contents or group feed or delivery

53151, 209536, B65B 144

Patent

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049626299

ABSTRACT:
An apparatus for the testing of cigarettes.
In the packaging of cigarettes, it is necessary to test these for correct formation, especially for a complete filling of tobacco. For this purpose, a testing unit (13) is arranged within a cigarette magazine (10) and has a plurality of vertical test shafts (18), in the region of which the cigarettes are tested by optoelectrical sensors. The intact cigarettes subsequently pass into a cigarette stock (21) in free fall.
To guarantee an orderly fault-free transfer of the tested cigarettes to the cigarette store (15), guide shafts (b 28) are formed underneath the test shafts (18) as a continuation of these and lead to a point immediately above the cigarette stock (21). The guide shafts (28) limited by vertical plane guide-shaft walls (29) guarantee that the cigarettes are deposited in an orderly manner and without tilting.
There are also measures to clean the sensors for testing the cigarettes.

REFERENCES:
patent: 4574958 (1986-03-01), Manservisi
patent: 4648232 (1987-03-01), Brinker et al.

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