Method and apparatus for making wrappers for cigar bunches
AssigneeHauni-Werke Korber & Co. KG
InventorsHelmut Stoffers, Rudolf George
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Abstract
Tobacco leaves are converted into wrappers for cigar bunches by removing the midribs from successive leaves, monitoring each of the thus obtained left-hand and right-hand leaf halves by a pair of photoelectric cells to determine whether the halves can yield one or more wrappers, and transferring the left-hand and right-hand halves to discrete first and second stamping stations where the halves are cut to yield wrappers which are automatically fed to the bunch wrapping unit or units of a cigar making machine.
Claims27
A method of making wrappers for cigar bunches or the like, comprising the steps of monitoring the outlines of tobacco leaves, including comparing the outlines of leaves with the outline of a satisfactory wrapper and producing signals when said comparing step indicates that a monitored leaf is capable of yielding at least one satisfactory wrapper;
- and utilizing said signals for the cutting of wrappers from the respective leaves.
Apparatus for making wrappers for cigar bunches or the like, comprising means for monitoring tobacco leaves, including means for comparing the outlines of tobacco leaves with the outline of a satisfactory wrapper and for producing signals indicative of acceptable leaves which can yield satisfactory wrappers;
- means for cutting wrappers from acceptable leaves;
- and means for actuating said cutting means to remove wrappers from acceptable leaves in response to the respective signals.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.