B65B 19/30
Responsive to presence of faulty articles
Official title: responsive to presence of faulty articles, e.g. incorrectly filled cigarettes
B65B19/30 (Responsive to presence of faulty articles) appears on 64 US grants and 23 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B65B- Granted patents
- 64
- Published applications
- 23
- Assignees
- 27
- Inventors
- 99
- Latest grant
- 10 Mar 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Method to set up a movable operating member of an automatic machine for manufacturing or packaging consumer articles10 Mar 2026US 12,570,421 B2G. D. Societa per Azioni
- Aerosol-generating article collation forming with increased number of hoppers6 Jan 2026US 12,515,835 B2Philip Morris Products S. A.
- Method and device for examining rod-shaped products of the cigarette industry25 Nov 2025US 12,478,092 B2Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co.)
- Assistance method for the execution of a format change in an automatic machine for manufacturing or packing smoking, hygiene, food, or pharmaceutical products and respective automatic machine16 Sep 2025US 12,416,915 B2G. D. Societa per Azioni
- Transferring and inspecting unit of a group of elongated elements5 Jul 2022US 11,375,743 B2G. D S.p.A.
- Aerosol-generating article collation forming with increased number of hoppers3 Jul 2025US 2025/0214727 A1Philip Morris Products S. A.
- A method to set up a movable operating member of an automatic machine for manufacturing or packaging consumer articles29 Feb 2024US 2024/0067375 A1G. D. Societa per Azioni
- Method and device for examining rod-shaped products of the cigarette industry9 Mar 2023US 2023/0073296 A1Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co.)
- Assistance method for the execution of a format change in an automatic machine for manufacturing or packing smoking, hygiene, food, or pharmaceutical products and respective automatic machine24 Nov 2022US 2022/0374007 A1G. D. Societa per Azioni
- Transferring and Inspecting Unit of a Group of Elongated Elements30 Jul 2020US 2020/0236987 A1G. D S.p.A.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Cigarette detection and rejection device42US 4,445,520 APhilip Morris Incorporated · 1984
- Optoelectronic device for automatically inspecting a group of cigarettes or the like32US 4,266,674 ARichard Equipment Company, Inc. · 1981
- Cigarette quality control device17US 4,574,958 ASasib S.p.A. · 1986
- Cigarette inspection method17US 5,235,649 AVidek, Inc. · 1993
- Smoking article package inspection system and associated method16US 10,063,814 B2R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company · 2018