To improve a device and method so that a rod-shaped article provided for carrying out the predetermined next process is equipped with a clear cross section satisfying requirement for high quality.
In the device and method for polishing a rotary-type cutter (30) for cutting the rod-shaped article in a cigarette manufacturing machine of a tobacco processing industry and/or in a filter mounting machine, in which at least one of rotary-type polishing disks (32, 32a) performs contact-type polishing work to the cutter (30), rotation speed of the polishing disks (32, 32a) is measured, and when the rotation speed of the polishing disks (32, 32a) reaches a predetermined percentage of a reference rotation speed, a production starting signal is generated.
Okumura Yoshimichi
Blacksmith