公开(公告)号：US3616901A

公开(公告)日：1971-11-02

申请号：US3616901D

申请日：1970-03-23

Applicant: INDUSTRIAL NUCLEONICS CORP

Inventor： GROVES CHARLES RICHARD

IPC: B07C5/36 ,  B07C5/02

CPC classification number: B07C5/361

Abstract: Articles, such as cigarettes, are moved successively down a prescribed path past sensing and operating stations. Each article is categorized and the category, such as reject, is recorded in a respective memory cell of an addressable memory according to a memory-addressing signal formed as the difference between a counter signal and the address signal of the respective sensing station. When the article reaches the operating station, the recorded signal is read out from the respective memory cell by addressing it with a memory address signal formed as the difference between the counter signal and the address signal of the operating station. The readout signal is utilized to operate upon the article, as to reject a faulty cigarette from the path.