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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 27, 1983
Filed:
Jan. 22, 1981
Giovanni Pezzi, Bologna, IT;
CIR S.p.A. Divisione SASIB, Bologna, IT;
Abstract
For the electropneumatic inspection of the longitudinal and/or transversal permeability of the ventilated cigarettes, each cigarette is subjected in any order of succession to at least three of the four inspections consisting in applying a pneumatic pressure alternatively to each of the two cigarette ends, while keeping the opposite end open and subsequently closed. Each of these inspections determines the pneumatic resistance met at the respective cigarette inlet and the values of these resistances are converted into electric signals and used for determining the longitudinal and/or transversal permeability of the cigarette. For this purpose use is made of four-terminal network theory, by considering that the cigarette pneumatic resistance can be regarded as composed of an equivalent transversal resistance, derived from two equivalent longitudinal resistances in series with each other.