Process and apparatus for testing cigarettes
CA 1304717 C · Owner: Focke & Co. (G.M.B.H. & Co.) · Inventors: Liedtke, Kurt; Focke, Heinz
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A process and apparatus to separate out defective cigarettes in an economical way, where cigarettes are tested in the region of magazine chutes of a cigarette magazine. The defective cigarettes identified are conveyed beyond a lower main expulsion plane and are separated out below this plane. For this purpose supporting members for the cigarettes are movable up and down at the bottom end of the magazine chutes. In prior art processes and apparatus, cigarettes are tested when the cigarettes are packaged.
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- Granted July 7, 1992. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended July 7, 2009.
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