APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MAKING AND INSPECTING MULTI-COMPONENT WRAPPED ARTICLE

摘要

In an apparatus for making and inspecting a multi-component cigarette (77), each cigarette including two or more different components arranged relative to one another, the apparatus includes a device for positioning at least two different components of a cigarette relative to one another on the web as the advances in the first direction (65). The apparatus further includes a garniture device (63) for wrapping the web around the at least two different components by moving opposite edges of the web transversely to the first direction such that, at a closure point (83) in the garniture device, the opposite edges overlap each other. The apparatus further includes an imaging device (87) disposed upstream of the closure point for generating an image of the at least two different components. The apparatus further includes a processing device (91) connected to the imaging device. A method for manufacturing and inspecting multi-component articles is also disclosed.