Apparatus for verifying the correct formation of the two opposite ends of cigarettes in a cigarette magazine

US5675144A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Focke & Co. · DE

Inventors

• Heinz Focke · Verden, DE
• Dietrich Below · Gardelegen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 22, 1995
• Grant date: Oct 7, 1997
• Expiry date: Jun 22, 2015

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A24C5/3412
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

The ends of cigarettes (10) are verified in a cigarette magazine (12) by testing units (24, 25) coordinated with the ends of cigarettes (10) at a testing level (20). The testing units (24, 25) consist of mutually adjacent and removable testing elements (33) with transmitters (28, 29) and planar receivers (30, 31) at the sides of the cigarettes. The testing units (24, 25) are fitted so that they can move parallel to the axis of the cigarettes (10) relative to the cigarette magazine (12), so that the testing unit (25) can moved back in order to advance the cigarettes from the cigarette magazine (12).