Patent ID: 8862264
Filing Date: 2014-10-14
Classification: A24C,A24D,G05B,Y02P

Abstract:
1. A method of at least supplying filter elements for smoking articles, the method comprising: having first information that is, or is associated with, an identifier of a group of filter elements; reading, with at least one automated data reader, second information that is, or is associated with, an identifier of a container, wherein the second information is read from a source that is for traveling with the container; associating, in a computer database, the identifier of the group of the filter elements with the identifier of the container; transporting the container while the group of filter elements is at least partially contained in the container, so that both the group of filter elements and the source of the second information travel with the container to a predetermined location; then verifying that the group of filter elements, which is at least partially contained by the container, is at the predetermined location, comprising then unloading the group of filter elements from the container in response to the verifying that the group of filter elements is at the predetermined location, wherein