Classifying – separating – and assorting solids – Sorting special items – and certain methods and apparatus for... – Sorting cigarettes – cigars – or packages thereof
Patent
1995-05-10
1997-12-09
Nguyen, Tuan
Classifying, separating, and assorting solids
Sorting special items, and certain methods and apparatus for...
Sorting cigarettes, cigars, or packages thereof
209538, 209906, 209919, 209932, 1984711, 406 34, 406 68, 131282, 131908, B07C 500, B65G 5308, A24C 114
Patent
active
056950705
ABSTRACT:
A unit for sampling and quality controlling tobacco items, in particular cigarettes, wherein a sample item, fed by a first conveyor along a first given path, is transferred automatically by a selectively operated spoon-shaped diverter along a second path to a second conveyor tangent to the first path. The sample item is fed to a support in which it is supported in facing relation to an optical control device. The sample item is inspected in the support and the optical control device emits signals as a function of the surface characteristics of the sample item.
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G.D Societa Per Azioni
Nguyen Tuan
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