Process and apparatus for detecting and eliminating defective and/or incorrectly positioned cigarettes

An apparatus for eliminating defective and/or incorrectly positioned cigarettes (16) in a cigarette magazine (10) of a cigarette-production and/or cigarette-packaging machine,

• said apparatus comprising at least one or a plurality of adjacent ejecting units (19), which are arranged in a region of the cigarette magazine (10), for ejecting a plurality of cigarettes (13, 16) located in an ejecting zone (A-D) of an ejecting unit (19),
• wherein each ejecting unit (19) has a front wall (24), of which a surface area defines the ejecting zone (A-D), and a rear wall (25), of which the contour is larger than the contour of the front wall (24) by at least the width of one cigarette, and wherein the front wall (24) and the rear wall (25) of the ejecting unit (19) are spaced apart parallel to one another, essentially by a distance of the length of one cigarette, and are connected to one another by means of a connecting element.

An apparatus for eliminating defective and/or incorrectly positioned cigarettes (16) in a cigarette magazine (10) of a cigarette-production and/or cigarette-packaging machine,

• said apparatus comprising at least one or a plurality of adjacent ejecting units (19), which are arranged in a region of the cigarette magazine (10), for ejecting a plurality of cigarettes (13, 16) located in an ejecting zone (A-D) of an ejecting unit (19),
• wherein the ejecting zone has a width and/or a height which corresponds at least to the length of one cigarette.