METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INSPECTING AND CUTTING CIGAR WRAPPERS

摘要

T I T L E Method and apparatus for inspecting and cutting cigar wrappers A system for analyzing and cutting tobacco leaves for cigar wrappers in which each leaf is conveyed to a scanner which scans discrete areas in parallel lines to produce sequences of digital signals, each sequence representing a line and each signal indicating the presence or absence of a hole. The signals of each line, after a delay, are superimposed and the composite signal checked to ascertain if one or more hole free parallelograms of at least one given size can be cut from the leaf. After scanning the leaf is conveyed to another location and cut.