Classifying – separating – and assorting solids – Sorting special items – and certain methods and apparatus for... – Sorting cigarettes – cigars – or packages thereof
Patent
1989-11-14
1991-03-19
Skaggs, H. Grant
Classifying, separating, and assorting solids
Sorting special items, and certain methods and apparatus for...
Sorting cigarettes, cigars, or packages thereof
209588, 209644, 209535, 209250, 209223R, B07C 500
Patent
active
050003232
ABSTRACT:
Moving cigarettes are inspected, particularly in the passages (10, 30) between the vanes (12, 32) in a cigarette packing machine hopper, by an optical ends inspector (74, 76) which is switched by a position detector (84, 86) responding to passage of individual cigarettes. Faulty cigarettes are arrested by a suction aperture (26) or an arrestor are (122, 222) and subsequently rejected from the passage, either in an axial direction or sideways through an opening (116, 244) in the vane. The position detector (84, 86) may activate the suction or arm for arresting the faulty cigarette.
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Cahill Michael J.
Dawson John
Gardner Julian W.
Molins PLC
Reiss Steven M.
Skaggs H. Grant
Smith, Jr. John C.
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