Focke & Co.

Dietrich Below

Heinz H Focke

Kurt Meyer

Doris Focke, Legal Representative

Jurgen Focke

Michael Czarnotta

Doris Focke

A process for checking rod-like articles, in particular cigarettes (), and an apparatus which is suitable for carrying out the process, a moveable testing element (), with mounted push rods () displaceable in the axial direction being moved in the direction of the articles, and each push rod () being displace as it strikes against an article and an electrically evaluable signal&#x2014;actuating signal ()&#x2014;being generated as a result and, upon generation of the actuating signal (), the position of the testing element () is determined, and the determined position is evaluated

Process and apparatus for checking rod-like articles, in particular cigarettes

The invention relates to a method and apparatus for the inspection of objects, such as cigarette packs (), with respect to the proper positioning of blanks placed upon them, such as band strips (), by means of an inspection means (). Known inspection means have the disadvantage that they are very expensive. The invention provides a cost-efficient alternative. To this end, blanks are illuminated laterally at one or more border edges () while the inspection means () scans the blank () at an essentially frontal aspect.

Method and apparatus for the inspection of objects

Method of, and device for, checking cigarettes

With rapidly-operating packaging machines for cigarette packages, monitoring of blanks is becoming increasingly necessary, such a system supervising the feed of correct blanks in the correct relative position. The same applies to monitoring systems for revenue seals. In the method according to the invention for monitoring blanks or revenue seals with the aid of a sensor, contours of an edge and of a surface of the blank or of the revenue seal are scanned. Pulses obtained thus are compared with a reference value by an evaluating unit.

Method and device for monitoring blanks or revenue seals for cigarette

Apparatus for verifying the correct formation of the two opposite ends

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