METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING AND SORTING OUT OF FOREIGN MIXTURES FROM CIGARETTES

摘要

FIELD: cigarette industry. ^ SUBSTANCE: method involves exposing tobacco in cigarette zone of cigarette making machine to microwave radiation; generating signal indicative of tobacco density and signal indicative of tobacco moisture content; processing tobacco density and tobacco moisture content signals in joint combination for detecting presence of foreign mixtures in tobacco or absence thereof from tobacco. ^ EFFECT: increased efficiency in detecting and sorting out of foreign mixture from tobacco. ^ 5 cl, 14 dwg