Optical inspection of rod-shaped articles from the tobacco processing industry

摘要

A rod-shaped or strand-shaped article (12) is translationally and/or rotationally moved with respect to center longitudinal axis of article for gradually detecting brightness values and/or gray values and/or color values of sections of surface of article in the circumferential direction of the article by camera system (11) of measuring unit (10). The topography of the sections of the surface is detected in a circumferential direction during rotating of the article. An independent claim is included for assembly for optical examination of rod-shaped article of tobacco processing industry.