INSPECTION DEVICE FOR THE QUALITY CONTROL OF ROD-SHAPED ARTICLES

    公开(公告)号:US20230393160A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-12-07

    申请号:US18032970

    申请日:2021-10-20

    Abstract: The present invention relates to an inspection device for the quality control of rod-shaped articles, the device comprising: ⋅a drum (4) defining an outer surface (13,40) and including a plurality of seats (41), each seat (41) of the plurality adapted to receive a rod-shaped article; ⋅an inductive sensor (5) located at a seat (41) of the plurality, the inductive sensor (5) including a coil (51) defining an inner volume (50) large enough to receive therein an end of the rod-shaped article, the inductive sensor (5) being adapted to sense a characteristic of a susceptor (12) in the rod-shaped article; ⋅wherein the coil (51) includes a first semi-coil and a second semi-coil, the first semi-coil and/or the second semi-coil being movable from a first operative position where the first semi-coil and the second semi-coil are in contact to each other forming the coil (51) where current can flow to a second operative position where the first semi-coil and the second semi-coil are separated from each other and no current can flow, and vice-versa; ⋅the first semi-coil being located below the outer surface (13,40) of the drum (4) and the second semi-coil being located above the outer surface (13,40) of the drum (4); and ⋅an actuator (6) adapted to move the first semi-coil and the second semi-coil from the first operative position to the second operative position and vice-versa.

    Apparatus for transferring filter rods containing pulverulent, granular and analogous ingredients
    2.
    发明授权
    Apparatus for transferring filter rods containing pulverulent, granular and analogous ingredients 有权
    用于转移含有粉状,颗粒状和类似成分的滤棒的装置

    公开(公告)号:US06371125B1

    公开(公告)日:2002-04-16

    申请号:US09536322

    申请日:2000-03-27

    CPC classification number: A24C5/323

    Abstract: Apparatus for transporting rod-shaped tobacco smoke filters which contain and/or carry particles of charcoal and/or other solid particulate tobacco smoke filtering and/or flavoring material. A sender directs a series of successive filters lengthwise into a pneumatic conduit wherein the filters advance toward a receiving station. A section of the conduit has an arcuate shape and advances successive filters from a lower level to a higher level. The underside of the section has an elongated arcuate opening which is overlapped by a cover in such a way that any solid particles which became separated from the filters can be expelled into a neighboring chamber due to fluid pressure in the section as well as under the action of gravity and/or centrifugal force. Such particles are evacuated by way of an outlet at the lower end of the chamber, either by manually operated valves which control the admission of particles from the chamber into a compartment and from the compartment, or by automatically operated valves which open at close at predetermined intervals.

    Abstract translation: 用于运输棒状烟草烟雾过滤器的装置,其包含和/或携带木炭和/或其它固体颗粒烟草烟雾过滤和/或调味材料的颗粒。 发送者将一系列连续的过滤器纵向地引导到气动管道中,其中过滤器朝向接收站前进。 管道的一部分具有弓形形状,并且将连续的过滤器从较低级别提升到较高级别。 该部分的下侧具有细长的弓形开口,其与盖重叠,使得与过滤器分离的任何固体颗粒可由于该部分中的流体压力以及作用下的流体压力而被排出到相邻的室中 的重力和/或离心力。 这样的颗粒通过手动操作的阀通过手动操作的阀排出,通过控制从腔室进入隔室和隔室的手动操作的阀,或者通过在预定的关闭处打开的自动操作阀 间隔

    Pneumatic bar conveying apparatus
    3.
    发明授权
    Pneumatic bar conveying apparatus 失效
    气动杆输送装置

    公开(公告)号:US5709507A

    公开(公告)日:1998-01-20

    申请号:US577471

    申请日:1995-12-22

    CPC classification number: A24C5/323 B65G51/02 B65G51/28

    Abstract: A pneumatic bar conveying apparatus in which compressed air is supplied from an air injection port towards a bar-like material in each of a plurality of holding grooves is intermittently supplied by an intermittent air supply mechanism, so that the compressed air will be shut off by a tooth-shaped section protrudingly provided between the holding grooves for a longer period than an air shut-off period. After a specific period of compressed air supply into the holding groove, the supply of the compressed air is shut off to decrease the outlet pressure of the compressed air remaining in the holding groove and the conveying pipeline, resulting in an increased pressure difference as compared with the inlet pressure of the compressed air supplied into the holding groove from the air injection port. Consequently the compressed air flows at a higher rate from the holding groove into the conveying pipeline, thus imparting a large initial flow velocity to the bar-like material in the holding groove.

    Abstract translation: 一个气动棒输送装置,其中压缩空气从多个保持槽中的空气注入口朝向棒状材料供应,间歇地由间歇供气机构供给,从而压缩空气将被 一个齿形部分,突出地设置在所述保持槽之间比空气截止时间段更长的周期。 经过一定时间的压缩空气供应到保持槽中后,关闭压缩空气的供应,以减少保留在保持槽和输送管道中的压缩空气的出口压力,导致与 从空气喷射口供给到保持槽的压缩空气的入口压力。 因此,压缩空气以较高的速率从保持槽流入输送管道,从而对保持槽中的棒状材料施加大的初始流速。

    Method and apparatus for transporting filter rod sections
    4.
    发明授权
    Method and apparatus for transporting filter rod sections 失效
    用于运输过滤杆部分的方法和装置

    公开(公告)号:US5641250A

    公开(公告)日:1997-06-24

    申请号:US397349

    申请日:1995-03-02

    CPC classification number: A24C5/31 A24C5/323 A24C5/328

    Abstract: Filter rod sections are transported sideways from a magazine containing a pile of parallel sections toward positions of alignment with the inlet of a pneumatic conveyor and are propelled into the conveyor at a transfer station where they continue to move sideways. In order to avoid damage to sections during propulsion into the conveyor, the duration of complete transfer of successive sections into the inlet is monitored in order to generate signals denoting the intervals of axial advancement of successive sections all the way into the conveyor. Such signals are compared with signals denoting those intervals of sidewise movement of sections past the transfer station during which the sections can move axially without being damaged by the stationary inlet of the conveyor. The evaluating circuit which compares the signals generates defect signals when the transfer of sections in unsatisfactory, and such defect signals are used to reestablish the possibility to advance undamaged sections into the conveyor or to expel the fragments of destroyed or partially destroyed sections from the conveyor and/or from those parts of the apparatus which supply articles to the transfer station.

    Abstract translation: 过滤杆部分从包含一堆平行部分的料仓向侧面转移到与气动输送机的入口对准的位置,并且在转移站处被推进到输送机中,在转运站处它们继续向侧面移动。 为了避免在推进进入输送机期间损坏部件,监测连续部分完全转移到入口中的持续时间,以产生表示连续部分一直进入输送机的轴向前进的间隔的信号。 将这样的信号与表示经过转运站的区段的侧向运动间隔的信号进行比较,在此期间,这些区段可以轴向移动而不被输送机的静止入口损坏。 比较信号的评估电路在不满意的部分传送时产生缺陷信号,并且使用这样的缺陷信号来重新建立将未损坏的部分推进到输送机中的可能性或将输送机的破坏或部分破坏的部分的碎片排出, /或从供应物品到转运站的设备的那些部分。

    Transport system for transporting rod-shaped objects in an air flow
    5.
    发明授权
    Transport system for transporting rod-shaped objects in an air flow 失效
    用于在空气流中输送棒状物体的运输系统

    公开(公告)号:US4883078A

    公开(公告)日:1989-11-28

    申请号:US910667

    申请日:1986-09-23

    CPC classification number: B65G51/02 A24C5/323 B65G51/20

    Abstract: A transport system for rod-shaped objects, according to the present invention, comprises a feeder unit for delivering the rod-shaped objects, one by one, a transport pipe connected at one end to the feeder unit, and adapted to transport the objects, a receiving unit connected to the other end of the transport pipe, a blower unit for circulating compressed air in the transport pipe, from the feeder unit toward the receiving unit, so that the objects therein are transported through the pipe, from the feeder unit to the receiving unit, by the current of compressed air; a detecting switch for detecting any jamming of the objects in a transport path, extending from the feeder unit into the receiving unit, and a pressure relief unit mounted on a part of the transport pipe near the receiving unit, whereby the compressed air is released from the transport pipe into the atmosphere, the pressure relief unit being adapted to be actuated when jamming of the objects is detected by the detecting switch.

    Apparatus for transporting filter rod sections or the like
    6.
    发明授权
    Apparatus for transporting filter rod sections or the like 失效
    用于输送过滤杆部分等的装置

    公开(公告)号:US4377172A

    公开(公告)日:1983-03-22

    申请号:US237752

    申请日:1981-02-24

    CPC classification number: B65G43/08 A24C5/323

    Abstract: Apparatus which transports filter rod sections from a maker to a processing machine has a pneumatic sender which admits a file of sections into the inlet of a pneumatic conveyor whose outlet delivers sections to a receiver wherein the file of sections is converted into a row which is admitted into the magazine of the processing machine. A first photoelectronic detector monitors the travel of sections at the inlet of the conveyor and a second photoelectronic detector monitors the sections in the region of an accelerating device forming part of the receiver and serving to separate successive sections of the file from each other. The transducers of the detectors are connected with an evaluating circuit having several logic circuits one of which generates defect signals in response to detection of absence of delivery of sections from the sender into the conveyor, another of which generates defect signals in the absence of proper delivery of sections into the receiver, a third of which compares the numbers of impulses transmitted by the two detectors and generates a defect signal when the result of comparison indicates the presence of a pileup of sections in the outlet of the conveyor, and a fourth of which activates a pneumatic ejector if the width of gaps between successive sections downstream of the accelerating device is insufficient. The fourth logic circuit further serves to arrest the receiver when the spacing between the sections downstream of the accelerating device is insufficient to convert the file into a row, and to arrest the sender when the spacing between successive sections downstream of the accelerating device equals or approaches zero.

    Abstract translation: 将过滤杆部分从制造商运送到加工机器的装置具有气动发送器,该气动发送器允许将部分文件插入到气动输送机的入口中,该气动输送机的出口将部分输送到接收器,其中部分文件被转换成被允许的行 进入加工机的杂志。 第一光电子检测器监测输送机入口处的部分的行程,第二光电子检测器监测构成接收器的一部分的加速装置的区域中的部分,并用于将文件的连续部分彼此分开。 检测器的换能器与具有多个逻辑电路的评估电路连接,其中一个逻辑电路产生缺陷信号,以响应于检测到不存在从发送器到输送机的部分的传送,另一个在没有适当的传送的情况下产生缺陷信号 的三分之一进入接收器,其中三分之一比较两个检测器传输的脉冲数,并且当比较结果指示在输送机的出口处存在部分堆积时产生缺陷信号,其中第四个 如果加速装置下游的连续部分之间的间隙宽度不足,则启动气动喷射器。 第四逻辑电路还用于当加速装置下游的部分之间的间距不足以将文件转换成行时停止接收器,并且当加速装置下游的连续部分之间的间距等于或接近时阻止发送器 零。

    Article-feeding system
    7.
    发明授权
    Article-feeding system 失效
    文章进料系统

    公开(公告)号:US3614166A

    公开(公告)日:1971-10-19

    申请号:US3614166D

    申请日:1968-12-20

    Inventor: SPITZ WOLFGANG

    CPC classification number: A24C5/323

    Abstract: The invention is concerned with a pneumatic conveyance system in which rod-shaped articles such as filter rods are dispatched into a pipeline at a point of supply, pneumatically conveyed to a point of consumption, extracted from the pipeline and fed to a storage bin from which consumption takes place. In the system of the invention rods can be fed into the pipeline at two rates, one of which is higher than the expected rate of consumption and the other of which is lower. If the bin level goes too high, the second rate is applied and if the bin level drops, the first rate is applied. Thus conveyance is never completely interrupted.

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