Automatic testing of a plurality of smoking articles
    3.
    发明授权
    Automatic testing of a plurality of smoking articles 失效
    多种吸烟文章的自动测试

    公开(公告)号:US5214969A

    公开(公告)日:1993-06-01

    申请号:US657677

    申请日:1991-02-19

    IPC分类号: A24C5/32 A24C5/34

    摘要: A flexible automatic test facility for measuring physical parameters of smoking articles and components of smoking articles, e.g., filter portions. The test facility includes a microprocessor based controller device, apparatus for severing the filter portion from the article, a plurality of instruments for performing the desired measurements and a computer-controlled robot for gripping and maneuvering one cigarette at a time to one or more of the instruments or severing apparatus to measure one or more physical characteristics of each article or its components in accordance with software instructions. A hopper feeder device containing a plurality of sample sets in separate bins in an indexing mechanism may be provided for extended unattended operation. Each sample set is provided with a code and a database including the nominal physical characteristics of the samples in the set and the test sequence for the cigarettes in the sample set. The test sequence and parameters for each article in each set are obtained from the database, and the controller instructs the robot to grip a fed cigarette and to advance that cigarette to one or more of the instruments for performing measurements or processing station for severing filter in accordance with the predetermined sequence of measurements. At the conclusion of the samples in a given sample set, the next sample set is loaded, identified, and the process continues in accordance with the predetermined sequence for that sample set.

    Method and apparatus for controlling the supply of energy to a heating
load in a smoking article
    4.
    发明授权
    Method and apparatus for controlling the supply of energy to a heating load in a smoking article 失效
    用于控制向吸烟制品中的加热负载供应能量的方法和装置

    公开(公告)号:US5372148A

    公开(公告)日:1994-12-13

    申请号:US21965

    申请日:1993-02-24

    IPC分类号: A24F47/00

    CPC分类号: A24F47/008

    摘要: A method and an apparatus for controlling energy flow into a heating load array of a smoking article are provided. In response to a pressure drop in the mouthpiece of the smoking article, a selected load in the heating load array is switchably connected to a power supply. Energy delivered to the load is measured and the load is disconnected when a predetermined amount of energy has been delivered.

    摘要翻译: 提供了一种用于控制进入吸烟制品的加热负载阵列的能量流的方法和装置。 响应于吸烟物品的接口管中的压力降,加热负载阵列中的选定负载可切换地连接到电源。 测量输送到负载的能量,并且当已经递送预定量的能量时负载被断开。