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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 1983
Filed:
Jan. 22, 1981
Giovanni Pezzi, Bologna, IT;
Cir S.p.A. Divisione Sasib, Bologna, IT;
Abstract
A method and device for the electropneumatic testing of the air permeability of filter plugs for filter cigarettes. At one end of the filter plug there is applied a pneumatic pressure, the other end of the filter cigarette being connected, through a bore with the atmosphere. The pneumatic pressure applied at the inlet end of the cigarette plug is transformed into an electric test signal, and the signal is compared with an upper alarm threshold and with a higher upper reject threshold respectively, as well as with a lower alarm threshold and an inferior lower reject threshold. The test signal emitted upon reaching of the upper or lower alarm threshold initiates the operation of alarm indicators and/or sends a signal for the control of the filter plug producing machine, so as to modify the air permeability of the filter plugs. Upon reaching the upper or lower reject threshold, it causes rejection of the defective filter plugs.