METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR LAYING OF ROD-LIKE ELEMENTS Russian patent published in 2014 - IPC A24C5/34 

FIELD: transport.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to tobacco industry. in compliance with proposed method, unordered set of rod-like elements is fed to conveyer to be laid thereat in lengthwise directions into multiple compartments across conveyor travel. Note here that said compartments feature length that allows to receive at least cigarette one filter part and one tobacco part. Note here that type, quantity and arrangement of parts of the element fitted in appropriate compartment of the conveyor are defined by at leas single scanning of every successive compartments of the conveyor. Note here that scanning results are transmitted to control unit S to assign data of contents to every said compartment. Thereafter, the elements are sorted proceeding from the data received from control unit the element type and it components and by their location in the compartment, by displacement of said elements towards appropriate intake devices selected proceeding from the data receive from control unit.

EFFECT: efficient selection and sorting of rejects from the mix of different components.

20 cl, 20 dwg