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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 15, 1991
Filed:
Oct. 28, 1988
Heinz Focke, Verden, DE;
Jurgen Focke, Verden, DE;
Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co.), Verden, DE;
Abstract
When testing the cigarettes (10, 11) of cigarette groups (16, 17) in pockets (13, 14) of a conveyor, particularly a cigarette turret (12), difficulties relating to adequate spacing of the testing members (29 . . . 32) from one another arise when the cigarettes (10, 11) have an especially small diameter. In order to make undisturbed testing by means of moving the testing members (29 . . . 32) near to the end faces of the cigarettes (10, 11) nevertheless possible, these are tested successively in several, especially two steps, whereby during these testing cycles cigarettes, spaced a somewhat greater distance apart from one another in each case, are acted upon by the testing members (29 . . . 32). Particularly within cigarette rows (18 . . . 21) only every other cigarette is tested in each case.