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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 12, 1989
Filed:
Mar. 29, 1988
Hartmut Federle, Ahrensburg, DE;
Meinhard Meyer, Appen-Unterglinde, DE;
Jorn Ulrich, Bonningstedt, DE;
Friedrich Walther, Bargteheide, DE;
Friedrich Weinhold, Norderstedt, DE;
B.A.T. Cigarettenfabriken GmbH, Hamburg, DE;
Abstract
An apparatus for the continuous determination of two physical properties of the constituents of a smokable article from the mechanical properties of a rod of tobacco or filter fibres during the production of said rod employs a format finger for compacting the rod of tobacco or filter fibres to a predetermined diameter; the format finger made from hard metal comprises at a first point, at which the diameter of the rod corresponds substantially to the diameter of the finished rod, at least one opening for subjecting the rod to a gas stream; the one or each opening is connected via a critically traversed nozzle in a supply conduit to a gas source; a measuring-value transducer determines the pressure drop of the gas stream with constant volume occurring at the rod and thus the draw resistance. At a second point of the format finger a transducer of the temperature of the format finger caused by the friction heat at a predetermined conveying speed of the rod is disposed in a blind bore; said temperature represents a measure for the hardness of the smokable article.