Device for producing cigarettes in the tobacco processing industry and a method therefore

US9277767B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• TEWS Elektronik GmbH & Co. KG · DE

Inventors

• Rainer Herrmann · Hamburg, DE
• Udo Schlemm · Hamburg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 6, 2011
• Grant date: Mar 8, 2016
• Expiry date: Sep 28, 2034

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01N22/04
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A device for producing cigarettes in the tobacco processing industry that has a tobacco processing unit and a paper feeding unit, which feeds a paper having LIP strips to the tobacco processing unit, wherein the paper feeding unit has a measurement device, which continuously detects the LIP strips, wherein the measurement device has a microwave resonator, through whose measurement region the paper having the LIP strip is passing, and which detects a shift of the resonance curve and/or a broadening of the resonance frequency.