Process and apparatus for checking rod-like articles, in particular cigarettes

US7021125B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Focke & Co. · DE

Inventors

• Dietrich Below · Gardelegen, DE
• Kurt Meyer · Kirchlinteln, DE
• Heinz Focke · Verden, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 4, 2003
• Grant date: Apr 4, 2006
• Expiry date: Nov 4, 2023

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65B19/32
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A process for checking rod-like articles, in particular cigarettes (12), and an apparatus which is suitable for carrying out the process, a moveable testing element (20), with mounted push rods (21) displaceable in the axial direction being moved in the direction of the articles, and each push rod (21) being displace as it strikes against an article and an electrically evaluable signal—actuating signal (31)—being generated as a result and, upon generation of the actuating signal (31), the position of the testing element (20) is determined, and the determined position is evaluated