Improvements in or relating to devices for testing tobacco rods

Abstract

Abstract 506,883. Automatic control systems; cigarette - making machines. SKODA WORKS, PLZEN. Jan. 7, 1938, No. 27915. Convention date, Jan. 7, 1937. [Class 38 (iv)] [Also in Group VI] Linear dimensions.- Variations in thickness of a tobacco rod carried by a belt 16 move a spring-pressed roller 10 mounted on a lever 11 and carrying a contact 8 to engage one or other of two adjustably mounted contacts 9, 9<1> and energize relays to increase or decrease the tobacco feed to the rod forming mechanism. The roller 10 is rotated by a gear-wheel 19. The relays may simultaneously reject the defective cigarettes cut from the rod.

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