Process and apparatus for testing cigarettes
AssigneeFocke & Co. (GmbH & Co.)
InventorsHeinz Focke, Kurt Liedtke
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Abstract
In order to separate out defective cigarettes (29) in an economical way, cigarettes are tested in the region of magazine shafts (11a, 11b, etc.; 12a, 12b, etc.) of a cigarette magazine (10). The defective cigarettes (29) identified are conveyed beyond a lower main pushing-out plane (22) and are separated out below this. For this purpose, supporting members (carrying webs 32) for the cigarettes are movable up and down at the bottom end of the magazine shafts.
Claims9
Process for testing cigarettes and separating out defective cigarettes, the test being conducted in the region of magazine shafts of a cigarette magazine by a test unit which can be advanced to the ends of the cigarettes, and defective cigarettes being separated out in succession, whereas intact cigarettes are pushed out in cigarette groups at the bottom end of the magazine shafts in a main pushing-out plane, each group containing plural layers of cigarettes, said process comprising the steps of conveying defective cigarettes (29) beyond the main pushing-out plane (22) into a secohd region below the latter, and separated out the defective cigarettes in said second region.
Apparatus for testing cigarettes and separating out defective cigarettes, the test being conducted in the region of magazine shafts of a cigarette magazine by a test unit which can be advanced to the ends of the cigarettes, in which defective cigarettes can be separated out in succession, whereas intact cigarettes can be pushed out in cigarette groups at the bottom end of the magazine shafts in a main pushing-out plane, said apparatus being characterized in that the bottom cigarettes (bottom layer 18) of the cigarette group (15) to be pushed out rest on movable cigarette carrying webs (32) which are movable up and down and which are individually movable in order to execute different conveying stages for cigarettes in the magazine shaft (lla, llb, etc., and 12a, 12b, etc.).
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