Title:
CIGARETTE-INSPECTION APPARATUS
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2989171
Kind Code:
B2
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a cigarette-inspection apparatus capable of readily and precisely detecting lack of chopped tobacco at the tip of a cigarette.
SOLUTION: This cigarette-inspection apparatus has a regulating guide 12 for arranging cigarettes FS by contacting with butt parts of the cigarettes FS conveyed in straight line, and a laser length measuring machine 13 installed at a prescribed distance from the cigarettes FS arranged in line by the regulating guide 12 and conveyed, at the position facing to the tip parts of the cigarettes FS, and measuring the distances to the tip parts of the cigarettes. A judging part 14 of the lack of cut tobacco judges the presence or absence of the lack of the chopped tobacco at the tip part of the cigarette according to the distance measured by scanning the tip part of the cigarette by the laser length measuring machine 13, for example, by calculating an averaged lacking amount from a standard face.
Inventors:
MAKI KATSUMI
HORIKAWA SHOZO
HORIKAWA SHOZO
Application Number:
JP14463398A
Publication Date:
December 13, 1999
Filing Date:
May 26, 1998
Export Citation:
Assignee:
NIPPON TABAKO SANGYO KK
International Classes:
A24C5/34; G01B11/02; (IPC1-7): A24C5/34; G01B11/02
Domestic Patent References:
| JP6197746A | ||||
| JP60114184A | ||||
| JP50157600A | ||||
| JP58101674A | ||||
| JP5632907B2 | ||||
| JP5925594B2 | ||||
| JP585517Y2 |
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Koji Nagato