Patent ID: 6308492
Filing Date: 2001-10-30
Classification: B65B

Abstract:
An apparatus for producing cigarette packs using blanks which are produced by being severed from a material web (37) wound as a reel (27),a) wherein the reel (27) is provided with an optoelectronically detectable marking, and said apparatus comprises:b) a stub (29) on which the reel (27) is mounted for drawing off the material web (37); andc) an optoelectronic sensing element (37), assigned to the reel, for sensing the marking on the reel while the reel (27) is mounted on the stub (29), andwherein the marking is a code (38) on a lateral end surface of the reel (34), and wherein the optoelectronic sensing element is a laser scanner (32) located laterally next to the reel (27,) in a stationary manner in such a way that a laser diode (33) of said scanner is directed at the code (38).