Focke & Co.

Tobias Jacobi

Heinz H Focke

Doris Focke, Legal Representative

Jürgen Focke, Legal Representative

Reinhard Hoppe

Gisbert Engel

Alfred Drenguis

Ralf Barkmann

Christina Ott

Michael Wegmann

Stefan Ehlermann

Hagen Geske

Frauke Illigner

Remo Schulz

A method and apparatus of forming portions of tobacco, and of removing the same by an conveyor having at least one path of holders for a respective portion, in which the holders are filled with individual portions of the contents at least two filling lines of one or more filling stations, and, prior to the individual filling operations, individual portions of the contents are weighed and weighed portions that satisfy the predetermined conditions&#x2014;acceptable portions&#x2014;are filled cyclically into the holders and weighed portions that do not satisfy the predetermined conditions are detected and ejected as defective portions, characterized by components and steps of (a) following detection of a defective portion, that holder which the filling line originally predetermined for filling this holder would have filled with the contents portion, on which the defective portion is based, had the contents portion satisfied the predetermined conditions&#x2014;defective-portion holder&#x2014;is sensed, and a filling line other than that originally predetermined for filling the defective-portion holder&#x2014;compensating filling line&#x2014;fills the defective-portion holder, preferably outside the original filling cycle thereof, with an acceptable portion that satisfies the predetermined conditions.

Method and apparatus for forming portions of fibrous material

Transponders are used for identifying objects such as packaging, packaging material or machines and machine elements and are attached to the object to be identified. The transponders contain data which are provided by an electronic write unit and which can be recognized by a read unit. The transponders are provided in a concealed manner on the machines, machine parts, etc. or are embedded in the machine part, for example, inside a recess.

Package particularly a cigarette package, and method and device for the production thereof

A distributor or hopper is part of a cigarette production machine and serves for dressing the tobacco in the provision of a continuous tobacco strand. An integral part of a distributor is a metering system which prepares the tobacco for the production of the tobacco strand. To separate out undesirable constituents, such as foreign bodies, stalks or ribs, from the tobacco, at least one sifter () is provided. The latter precedes the metering system of the distributor in the working direction, in particular is arranged outside the distributor, so that sifted tobacco is introduced into the distributor.

Device for processing tobacco during the production of cigarettes

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Hamburg, Germany

Tobias Jacobi