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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 04, 2006
Filed:
Nov. 04, 2003
Jurgen Focke, Legal Representative, Verden, DE;
Doris Focke, Legal Representative, Verden, DE;
Dietrich Below, Bülstedt, DE;
Kurt Meyer, Kirchlinteln-Neddenaverbergen, DE;
Jurgen Focke, legal representative, Verden, DE;
Doris Focke, legal representative, Verden, DE;
Dietrich Below, Bülstedt, DE;
Kurt Meyer, Kirchlinteln-Neddenaverbergen, DE;
Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co.), Verden, DE;
Abstract
A process for checking rod-like articles, in particular cigarettes (), and an apparatus which is suitable for carrying out the process, a moveable testing element (), with mounted push rods () displaceable in the axial direction being moved in the direction of the articles, and each push rod () being displace as it strikes against an article and an electrically evaluable signal—actuating signal ()—being generated as a result and, upon generation of the actuating signal (), the position of the testing element () is determined, and the determined position is evaluated