Key Technology Corporation

Hauni Primary Gmbh

Hauni Maschinenbau Ag

Frank Schuster

Harry Drewes

Cliff J Leidecker

Hans Dierken

Bernfried Kutsch

Wolfgang Benz

Peter Funke

J Thomas Higgins

Kai Burfeind

Reiko HÜSER

Thomas J Higgins

Tamás Gerberich

Markus Kleinfeld

Jan Fritzlar

Alexander Bereths

Thomas Dr Salm

Hans Jörg Steffens

An apparatus and method for post-threshing inspection and sorting of tobacco lamina is described and which includes a separation conduit which receives a source of post-threshed tobacco lamina and other contaminants for inspection and sorting, and wherein a source of pressurized air causes the tobacco lamina to move along the separation conduit past an inspection station where it is optically inspected to identify undesirable tobacco lamina or other contaminants; and a downstream reject station is provided which responds to a sorting signal provided by the inspection station and which removes unwanted or undesirable tobacco lamina and other contaminants from an air stream so as to provide a resulting product which is substantially free from contaminants or other defects.

Apparatus and method for post-threshing inspection and sorting of tobacco lamina

Method and apparatus for the separation of foreign bodies from a material flow, in particular a tobacco stream. Method is characterized in that at least a portion of the material from the material flow is conveyed into the area of a foreign-body detection device in the form of a partial material flow, whereby foreign bodies are identified by the foreign-body detection device in the partial material flow and subsequently removed from the partial material flow, whereby the partial material flow is formed by a separation step by an air flow upstream from the foreign-body detection device. Apparatus is characterized in that a material flow conveyor and a separation device arranged diagonal to the material flow conveyor are provided by which a partial material flow can be separated from the material flow. A foreign-body detection device is arranged after the separation device and after this, a foreign-body separation device.

Method and apparatus for foreign-body separation from a material flow

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Hamburg, Germany

Frank Schuster