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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 27, 1982
Filed:
Jan. 14, 1980
Applicant:
Inventors:
Tibor S Laszlo, Arlington, VA (US);
John F Nienow, Midlothian, VA (US);
John F Sherwood, Richmond, VA (US);
Christopher L Irving, Richmond, VA (US);
Assignee:
Philip Morris Incorporated, New York, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A24C / ; A24C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
131280 ; 131906 ; 131908 ;
Abstract
A practice for controlling cigarette rod firmness in a cigarette maker wherein a detected cigarette rod firmness signal is corrected for firmness variations resulting from changes in rod moisture relative to a preselected or target moisture via a suitably processed detected moisture signal and the corrected firmness signal is compared with a preselected or target firmness to derive an error signal for tobacco content control.