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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 |
| 7364052 | Unit for feeding cigarettes to a packer machine A unit for feeding cigarettes to a packer machine is equipped with a hopper containing a mass of cigarettes and a device serving to compensate the depletion of the mass as groups of cigarettes are removed from the hopper and directed into a plurality of boxes carrie... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7127315 | Method and apparatus for acting on articles in the tobacco-processing industry A method is provided for acting on a product in a machine operating in a machine cycle in the tobacco-processing industry in dependence on information about the product. Information about the product is detected synchronously with the machine cycle. The information ... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7117653 | Flavoring system and method A flavoring system has a portioning device such as a weigher for receiving unflavored food items and sequentially supplying batches of a specified quantity of them, dispenses measured quantities of a flavoring material with a dispenser, applies these measured quanti... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7107741 | Method and apparatus for selecting and feeding articles According to a method for selecting and feeding articles to blisters or containers, a first hopper filled with unselected articles feeds a second main hopper with selected size-matching articles, by means of a tapered inlet section. Size non-matching articles get ja... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7059478 | Method and a device for the rejection of commodities A cigarette packer (1) incorporates a station at which cigarettes (2) are formed into groups (12) and from which the groups (12) are advanced by a first conveyor (13) along a first feed path (P) toward a wrapping station (16... | 06/13/2006 |
| 6763838 | Device for detecting a filling density of filler forming a rod-shaped article A device for detecting a shredded tobacco filling density in a tobacco rod includes four light sources (18, 20, 22 and 24) arranged separately from one another at an angle of 45° around a tobacco rod (T) and causing infrared rays to enter the tobacco ... | 07/20/2004 |
| 6637598 | Foreign substance eliminating apparatus A foreign substance eliminating apparatus transfers raw material by passing the raw material between an upstream conveyor (6) and a downstream conveyor (8), and detects a foreign substance on the upstream transfer conveyor with a foreign substance detecto... | 10/28/2003 |
| 6531693 | Method for monitoring that cigarettes groups are complete and that the cigarettes are filled The invention relates to a method for checking that batches of cigarettes are complete and that the cigarettes are sufficiently filled. In spite of careful manufacturing, when cigarettes are produced and batches of cigarettes are filled in cigarette packs... | 03/11/2003 |
| 6446632 | Process and apparatus for detecting and eliminating defective and/or incorrectly positioned cigarettes A process and an apparatus for detecting and eliminating, defective and/or incorrectly positioned, in particular transversely located, cigarettes in the cigarette magazine of a cigarette-production and/or a cigarette-packaging machine. Thus, the avoidance... | 09/10/2002 |
| 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 |
| 6396017 | Method of and apparatus for monitoring the outlines of finished containers Successive packets of cigarettes or the like are monitored to ascertain the integrity or absence of integrity of their outer envelopes by conveying them across at least one curtain of radiation so that a packet having an improperly glued flap or tuck or l... | 05/28/2002 |
| 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 |
| 6054665 | Apparatus for checking (cigarette) packs Following a process or handling apparatus, in particular following a drying turret (11), (cigarette) packs (10) are transported along a horizontal conveying section. The latter has a checking section (30). In the region of this checking section, the camer... | 04/25/2000 |
| 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 |
| 5524414 | Machine for packaging fragile cylindrical products, particularly cigarettes A machine for packaging fragile cylindrical products, particularly cigarettes, comprising a unit for forming and transporting ordered groups of cigarettes, and a station for transferring the groups to a following processing unit by mean synchronized with ... | 06/11/1996 |
| 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 |
| 5406376 | Apparatus for testing end portions of rod-shaped articles of the tobacco processing industry Apparatus for testing the end portions of cigarettes to detect end portions containing insufficient quantities of tobacco has a conveyor which transports the cigarettes sideways past at least two testing stations each of which accommodates a discrete capa... | 04/11/1995 |
| 5383322 | Single pack reject mechanism for cigarette packaging machine and method A cigarette packaging machine is provided with a mechanism for rejecting defective cigarette packs of a two pack stack of cigarette packs. A defective top pack of the stack is rejected at a first rejection station by a blast of pressurized air or a pusher... | 01/24/1995 |
| 5366096 | Apparatus for and method of automatically detecting and eliminating cigarettes with visual defects during cigarette manufacture An apparatus for inspecting cylindrically-shaped articles includes the transporting and aligning of cylindrical objects from a random stacked order, carrying them vertically through three visual inspection stations wherein each of the visual inspection st... | 11/22/1994 |
| 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 |
| 5284165 | Statistical ventilation control device for ventilated cigarettes A statistical ventilation control device for ventilated cigarettes, wherein an annular conveyor presents a number of seats, each receiving a respective ventilated cigarette arranged perpendicular to the traveling direction of the conveyor; one of the afor... | 02/08/1994 |
| 5232079 | Article transfer rejection apparatus and method An apparatus and method for selectively removing articles, such as cigarettes, from a transfer conveyor system in which the transfer of the selected articles to a receiver conveyor from a transfer conveyor is rejected within a transfer zone. Vacuum suctio... | 08/03/1993 |
| 5228462 | Cigarette inspection device Inspection of completed cigarettes is accomplished by the cigarettes traveling on a rolling drum past a single stationary rolling block with preferably two cameras connected to a vision system. The first camera views the cigarette before the rolling block... | 07/20/1993 |
| 5224811 | Restraining device for a hopper Cigarettes are restrained by arresting a cigarette oriented askew relative to the other cigarettes flowing into a hopper before that cigarette blocks the distribution channels of the hopper, thus stopping the manufacturing process. An arrested cigarette i... | 07/06/1993 |
| 5223915 | Cigarette end group inspection system A system for inspecting the ends of cigarettes prior to their packaging on a conveyor line. The system provides telecamera units which produce images of the ends of a group of cigarettes. A processing unit then analyses the brightness level of a given are... | 06/29/1993 |
| 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 |
| 5209127 | Device for receiving and transferring cylindrical filter rods from a mass flow of filter rods being conveyed A device for receiving and transferring cylindrical filter rods one at a time from a mass flow of filters. The receiving and transferring device is used to remove filter rods from the mass flow of filter rods to conduct, for example, quality control check... | 05/11/1993 |
| 5156279 | Product feeding apparatus An apparatus (1) for feeding products, in particular packets of cigarettes (3) comprising a feeder (5) for feeding a succession of packets (2), a first conveyor (9) driven with intermittent motion and provided with seats (1) for receiving respective packe... | 10/20/1992 |
| 5127737 | Cigarette end group inspection system A system for inspecting the ends of cigarettes prior to their packaging on a conveyor line. The system provides telecamera units which produce images of the ends of a group of cigarettes. A processing unit then analyses the brightness level of a given are... | 07/07/1992 |
| 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 |
| 5110213 | Method and apparatus for measuring concentration of a material in a sample A method and apparatus for nondestructively, quickly and accurately measuring concentration of a material in a sample, for example carbon concentration in a carbon-containing sheet, by optically sensing a two-dimensional portion of the carbon-containing s... | 05/05/1992 |
| 5101609 | Cigarette package inspection indexing wheel Apparatus for removing cigarette packages from a packaging machine for the purpose of inspection by a Machine Vision System includes an index wheel and machine vision machine for detecting defective packages and returns only good packages to the machine o... | 04/07/1992 |
| 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 |
| 5000323 | Cigarette segregating apparatus Moving cigarettes are inspected, particularly in the passages (10, 30) between the vanes (12, 32) in a cigarette packing machine hopper, by an optical ends inspector (74, 76) which is switched by a position detector (84, 86) responding to passage of indiv... | 03/19/1991 |
| 4972494 | Package inspection system The invention provides package inspection systems which are capable of high speed sensing and evaluation of package integrity as packages are continuously conveyed in the manufacturing process. The systems are capable of measuring predetermined parameters... | 11/20/1990 |
| 4953711 | Method and device for eliminating imperfect cigarettes in connection with a cigarette packaging machine To examine cigarettes (11) prior to packaging same, a testing unit (17) is disposed in a cigarette magazine (12) above magazine chutes (13). The testing unit (17) is provided with test chutes (28) for the accommodation of a vertical test line (26) of ciga... | 09/04/1990 |
| 4938237 | Apparatus for testing cigarettes and separating out defective cigarettes For the testing of cigarettes (11, 11a, 11b) within a cigarette magazine (10), there is a test unit (21) which is arranged at a distance above magazine shafts (17) or a cigarette store (14) for these. In the test unit (21), the cigarettes run in vertical ... | 07/03/1990 |
