Device for measuring the compactness of cigarettes or the like
AssigneeService d'Exploitation Industrielle des Tabacs et des Allumettes
InventorsMichel Morin, Alain Rousseau
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Abstract
A device for measuring the compactness of cylindrically shaped smoking articles, such as cigarettes and the like, comprising a supply unit for bringing the articles to a positioning and delivering assembly, two units for measuring the compactness mounted on either side of said assembly, which assembly defines a rectilinear path extending substantially from one measuring unit to the other to allow each article to be moved from a central reception position towards an outermost measuring position, means for positioning the articles when in said reception position alternately in two different angular positions and means for displacing the articles along said path alternately towards one and the other measuring unit.
Claims6
A device for measuring the compactness of cylindrically shaped smoking articles such as cigarettes and the like, comprising a supply unit for bringing the articles to a positioning and delivering assembly,
- two units for measuring the compactness mounted on either side of said assembly, which assembly defines a rectilinear path extending substantially from one measuring unit to the other to allow each article to be moved from a central reception position towards an outermost measuring position,
- means for positioning the articles when in said reception position alternately in two different angular positions, and
- means for displacing the articles along said path alternately towards one and the other measuring unit.
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