Patent ID: 7395641
Filing Date: 2008-07-08
Classification: B65B,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method of detecting and rejecting faulty cigarettes, comprising the steps of: arranging where cigarettes in horizontal layers in channels of a feeding system, gravitationally moving said cigarettes in said feeding system toward a bottom plate, from which said cigarettes are transferred to a packing machine, detecting faulty cigarettes with sensors according to defined defects of faulty cigarettes, and rejecting said faulty cigarettes with a rejecting device, wherein while the cigarettes are in the channels of said feeding system, the cigarettes in all channels of said feeding system are inspected by movable sensors reciprocally moving along a predetermined trajectory, wherein said movable sensors are coupled with the rejecting device, wherein said detection and rejection of faulty cigarettes takes place along said predetermined trajectory in which said movable sensors reciprocally move, and wherein rejection of one of said faulty cigarettes is executed in the same place where the faulty cigarette has been detected.