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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7395641 | Method of detecting and rejecting faulty cigarettes A method relates to a production line where cigarettes are arranged in horizontal layers within approximately vertical channel (3) of packing machine feeding system, the width of which is slightly bigger then the cigarette diameter. The cigarettes are moved g... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7079912 | System and method for high speed control and rejection The present invention provides a system and method for high speed control and rejection of out-of-specification products, such as cigarettes, in a manufacturing process. Sensors are placed at strategic locations along a production line, with the signals from the sen... | 07/18/2006 |
| 6808059 | Apparatus for removing rod-like articles A removing apparatus for rod-like articles comprises a removing drum (24) as part of a transport path for the articles such as cigarettes, double filter cigarettes and filter cigarettes in a filter cigarette manufacturing machine, and many transport grooves (... | 10/26/2004 |
| 6394097 | Device and method for inspecting filter rod for cigarette A device for executing an inspection method of a filter rod for cigarettes includes an inspection drum (6), and the inspection drum (6) has plural pickup grooves (8) for receiving one filter rod (F) each in its outer periphery. The filter rod (F) in each ... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6384359 | Inspection system An inspection system detects the presence or absence of desired components of an assembled cigarette after tipping paper has been applied to join a multi-component filter to a tobacco rod. A transport moves the assembled cigarettes having multi-component ... | 05/07/2002 |
| 6213128 | Apparatus and method for making and inspecting multi-component wrapped article In an apparatus for making and inspecting a multi-component cigarettes, each cigarette including two or more different components arranged relative to one another, the apparatus includes a device for advancing a web in a first direction. The apparatus fur... | 04/10/2001 |
| 6173716 | Method and apparatus for inspecting cigarette density A density inspection apparatus and method. The apparatus is disposed downstream of a wrapping section of a cigarette manufacturing machine. In accordance with pulse output signals generated by a rotary encoder in synchronism with the travel of a cigarette... | 01/16/2001 |
| 6130438 | Wrapping paper defect inspection apparatus for a cigarette manufacturing machine A wrapping paper defect inspection apparatus for a cigarette manufacturing machine is provided which permits easy and reliable detection of a defect, such as a pinhole, in elongate wrapping paper continuously transported at high speed and which is suited ... | 10/10/2000 |
| 6123201 | Drum elevator system A drum elevator and method of elevating cigarettes, the apparatus having a series of rotatable cigarette transferring drums including a first plurality of horizontally disposed drums at a first elevation and a second plurality of vertically disposed drums... | 09/26/2000 |
| 6062226 | Cigarette manufacturing apparatus When tobacco shreds continuously supplied while the supply amount thereof is controlled are wrapped continuously with an elongated cigarette paper to form a tobacco rod and the tobacco rod is cut to predetermined lengths to manufacture cigarettes, the fil... | 05/16/2000 |
| 6050424 | Method of checking cigarettes A method of checking cigarettes, whereby cigarettes are fed in steps along a gravity channel in the outlet of a hopper, and are successively arrested substantially at a checking station where a checking device determines the density of the open ends of th... | 04/18/2000 |
| 6024098 | Method of detecting and rejecting poorly filled cigarettes A method of detecting and rejecting poorly filled cigarettes, whereby cigarettes, arranged along a gravity channel forming part of an outlet of a feedbox, are fed successively past a detecting device facing one end of the cigarettes; the detecting device,... | 02/15/2000 |
| 6021782 | Method of and system for cigarette tipping glue skip detection and rejection A method of and system for detecting glue skips on tipping paper used to secure filters to cigarette tobacco rods and the rejection of defective cigarettes based thereon in which a particle radiation sensor is used to monitor the amount of glue applied to... | 02/08/2000 |
| 6020969 | Cigarette making machine including band inspection An optical inspection system mounts on a cigarette making machine or like system and detects the presence of bands having irregular widths or spacings. In response to the detection of irregular bands, the optical inspection system instructs the cigarette ... | 02/01/2000 |
| 5583633 | Device for detecting a defect in charcoal type filters of manufactured filter cigarettes A device for inspecting the filter end face of a filter cigarette is provided with an optical sensor having an aperture ring for emitting a measuring light toward the filter end face and receiving the light reflected from the filter end face and outputtin... | 12/10/1996 |
| 5490527 | Apparatus for sampling filter cigarettes during the manufacturer thereof A sampling apparatus of the present invention comprises a sampling drum located in the vicinity of a drum train of a filter attachment, a suction carrier arranged on the outer peripheral surface of the sampling drum and having a sampling groove, a suction... | 02/13/1996 |
| 5329945 | Apparatus for discharging defective filter cigarettes during the manufacture of filter cigarettes A discharge apparatus of the present invention includes a discharge drum replacing one transportation drum in a drum train of a filter attachment, transportation grooves on a drum shell of the discharge drum, jet holes opening in the bottom of each transp... | 07/19/1994 |
| 5222606 | Device for feeding cigarettes to the wrapping line of a packaging machine In a feed device comprising a chute divided into channels through which the cigarettes descend intermittently in stacks on their way to a wrapping line, the quality of the single cigarettes is controlled by sensors associated with the chute, whereupon any... | 06/29/1993 |
| 5209249 | Cigarette checking apparatus A cigarette checking apparatus having a selector mechanism for selectively withdrawing cigarettes from a first transportation roller, transporting the cigarettes to a conveyor; and a second conveyor for transporting the selected cigarettes to a number of ... | 05/11/1993 |
| 5114015 | Delivery device and sorting machine for rod-like articles A device for sorting rod-like articles, for example cigarettes, according to their weight. The device feeds a single article from a hopper into a channel with the aid of two ribbed drums. The article then drops into a groove in a delivery shaft where it i... | 05/19/1992 |
| 5024333 | Cigarette segregating apparatus Single cigarette rejection, particularly in a passage (10) between vanes (12) in a cigarette packing machine hopper, is performed by axial ejection of faulty cigarettes using suction generated by exhausting high pressure air adjacent an ejection aperture ... | 06/18/1991 |
| 5018539 | Cigarette ejection device A device for feeding cigarettes to a packeting machine. Cigarettes are placed in the lower part of a hopper in stacks mobile stepwise along respective outgoing channels from the hopper. A device is provided for checking the cigarettes descending stepwise ... | 05/28/1991 |
| 5009322 | Process and apparatus for checking/separating out cigarettes In the checking of cigarettes, there is the problem that, for contactless measurement, they have had to be guided at an exactly defined distance from the sensor. It is proposed to measure the distance from the two axial end faces, to form the sum of the d... | 04/23/1991 |
| 5002072 | Cigarette manufacture A cigarette making machine includes one or more conveyor bands (12,14,28) or other parts of non-metallic material from which pieces can break off and become entrained in the tobacco, including means (30,42) for detecting such pieces in the tobacco by dire... | 03/26/1991 |
| 4899889 | Device for monitoring the quality of cigarettes in a packaging machine Packaging is effected in a machine where correct filter-tipping and filling of the ends of the single cigarettes occupying the channels of a feed chute is monitored by a plurality of plungers, one to each channel, that are reciprocated axially toward and ... | 02/13/1990 |
| 4693374 | Device for feeding cigarettes to the wrapping line of a packeting machine The device is of the type comprising a hopper (1), the lower portion of which contains the cigarettes (2) disposed in piles which are mobile stepwise along respective outlet channels (5) of the hopper (1), sensor (13) for checking the individual cigarette... | 09/15/1987 |
| 4667831 | Device for feeding cigarettes to the wrapping line of a packeting machine A device for feeding cigarettes to the wrapping line of a packeting machine comprises a hopper for feeding cigarettes to the machine. The hopper is divided at its lower end into outlet channels having a width substantially equal to the diameter of a cigar... | 05/26/1987 |
| 4612803 | Cigarette testing and/or leveling device The invention relates to a feeler pin device for the quality and/or quantity testing, and/or the levelling of cigarettes. The device comprises a plurality of feeler pins which are set in a substantially co-axial relation with the cigarettes to be tested o... | 09/23/1986 |
| 4592470 | Device for infeeding cigarettes to the wrapping line of a packer Disclosed herein is a device for infeeding cigarettes to the wrapping line of a packer, provided with: a hopper, the lower part of which contains the cigarettes in the form of stacks that are movable in steps along corresponding channels outgoing from the... | 06/03/1986 |
| 4545488 | Device monitoring the quality of cigarettes in a packaging machine A device for monitoring the quality of cigarettes in a packing machine, which may be mounted on an input hopper of a packing machine of cyclic type in order to monitor the quality of the cigarettes of a stack moving in steps along each output channel of t... | 10/08/1985 |
| 4503868 | Cigarette manufacture Apparatus for controlling the timing of control signals concerning operations on conveyed cigarettes or other articles of the cigarette industry comprising means for generating a first control signal; means for measuring the speed of transport of the ciga... | 03/12/1985 |
| 4496055 | Apparatus for forming groups of cigarettes A cigarette packing machine with a plurality of passageways leading from a hopper, includes an ends testing device (16, 16a) for individual cigarettes, so that faulty cigarettes can be rejected from the hopper before the cigarettes are ejected in groups a... | 01/29/1985 |
| 4489736 | Ejection of faulty cigarettes Apparatus for ejecting cigarettes, comprises a conveyor (10) arranged to carry a sideways-moving row of cigarettes (14) through an ejection station at which there is a nozzle (20) arranged, when a cigarette is to be ejected, to direct a jet of air (32, 34... | 12/25/1984 |
| 4445520 | Cigarette detection and rejection device A cigarette testing device (10) detects improperly filled or missing cigarettes in groups of cigarettes in a cigarette packing machine. Tappets (20) are positioned against the ends of cigarettes (11) and the position of tappets (20) is determined by optic... | 05/01/1984 |
| 4417934 | Monitoring a deposit on a travelling web Method of monitoring a line of adhesive deposited on a travelling paper web to check for accidental omission of adhesive wherein the adhesive has a distinguishing relative permittivity and is sensed by a capacitive proximity sensor. The web may be plugwra... | 11/29/1983 |
| 4403619 | Method and apparatus for influencing the permeability of wrappers of filter cigarettes or the like Discrete uniting bands which are used in a filter tipping machine to connect filter plugs with plain cigarettes consist of foraminous material, and the permeability of such material is varied, when necessary, by changing the quantity of adhesive which is ... | 09/13/1983 |
| 4403620 | Method and apparatus for monitoring the functioning of testing devices in machines for the production and/or processing of smokers' products Filter cigarettes which are produced in a filter tipping machine are conveyed past several successive testing devices, each of which monitors different characteristics of the cigarettes, thereupon past a cigarette removing device, past a segregating devic... | 09/13/1983 |
| 4269201 | Cigarette weight control systems Checking system for the scanner station of the nucleonic rod-weight control system of a continuous rod cigarette making machine, in which a stable voltage reference is switched into the circuit in place of the usual ionization chamber balance unit and a m... | 05/26/1981 |
| 4112954 | Testing of cigarettes A cigarette filter attachment machine with a wrapper testing facility includes means for feeding pieces of tipping paper each of which is wrapped around associated tobacco and filter portions to join those portions to one another; means for testing the wr... | 09/12/1978 |
| 4104522 | Apparatus for measuring the weight per unit length of a cigarette rod An apparatus for measuring the weight per unit length of a cigarette rod has a radioactive source to one side of the rod and a detector to the other side of the rod. The source emits a beam of radiation through the rod to the detector. Guide tubes, having... | 08/01/1978 |
