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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 15, 1979
Filed:
Nov. 18, 1977
Uwe Heitmann, Schwarzenbek, DE;
Heinz-Christen Lorenzen, Hamburg, DE;
Gunter Wahle, Reinbek, DE;
Rolf Dahlgrun, Schwarzenbek, DE;
Hauni-Werke Korber & Co. KG, Hamburg, DE;
Abstract
The wrappers of filter cigarettes wherein wrapper portions surrounding the filter mouthpieces have holes for admission of atmospheric air into the column of tobacco smoke are tested during sidewise movement at the periphery of a rotary drum. A first testing device establishes a first pressure differential between the interior and exterior of successive wrappers, and a second testing device establishes a second pressure differential between the interior and exterior of those wrapper portions which surround tobacco as well as a different third pressure differential between those wrapper portions which surround the filter material. An evaluating circuit has two electropneumatic transducers which furnish first and second signals respectively denoting the pressure differential between the interior and exterior of successive wrappers and the pressure differential between the interior and exterior of successive wrapper portions which surround tobacco. A subtracting circuit furnishes third signals which denote the difference between the first and second signals. The first and third signals are compared with reference signals which respectively denote maximum permissible permeability of wrappers and minimum acceptable permeability of successive wrapper portions surrounding the filter material. Cigarettes wherein the permeability of wrappers is outside of the range between the maximum permissible and minimum acceptable permeability are segregated from acceptable cigarettes.