Method and device for eliminating imperfect cigarettes in connection with a cigarette packaging machine
CA 1323331 C · Owner: Focke, Heinz · Inventors: Focke, Heinz
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Method and device for eliminating imperfect cigarettes in connection with a cigarette packaging machine, Abstract in conjunction with Fig. 1, To examine cigarettes (11) prior to packaging same a testing unit (17) is, disposed in a cigarette magazine (12) above magazine chutes (13). The testing unit (17) is provided with test chutes (28) for the accommodation of a vertical test line (26) of cigarettes. Guide and support means (36 37) are disposed on, the underside and by means of relative displacements, they produce a stoppage phase of the cigarettes in the test chutes (28) and effect delivery of the tested cigarettes.
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- Granted October 19, 1993. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended October 19, 2010.
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