Classifications

• • G—PHYSICS
  • G09—EDUCATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; ADVERTISING; SEALS
  • G09F—DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; LABELS OR NAME-PLATES; SEALS
  • G09F3/00—Labels, tag tickets, or similar identification or indication means; Seals; Postage or like stamps
• • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
  • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
  • Y10S—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
  • Y10S131/00—Tobacco
  • Y10S131/908—Sensing unique characteristic or specific condition of finished product

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• the invention relates to a method for producing packs by wrapping a packaging material consisting of one or more individual articles, in particular a cigarette block formed from a plurality of cigarettes, with a wrapping material.
• the object on which the invention is based is therefore to identify the association of packaging and content and to provide the possibility of checking this association.
• this object is achieved in that a clear characteristic feature is detected in the packaged goods and one or more corresponding signals are formed, in that the signal or the signals are coded and characters corresponding to the coded signals are attached to the packaging material.
• the signal or the signals are coded and characters corresponding to the coded signals are attached to the packaging material.
• the articles of the packaged goods are provided with a unique characteristic that can be measured through the packaging during or after their manufacture.
• the articles are subjected to a Assigned a characteristic feature that is identifiable outside of the pack, a coding being generated from this feature or from the entirety of the features and the result of the coding being applied to the packaging.
• the objects are assigned a random feature or a random feature pattern. These random characteristics are expediently recorded before the package is closed.
• alternative options that are still proposed may be preferred from case to case, in that the coding is generated either from a feature pattern formed from feature properties or from feature locations.
• the feature pattern is composed of features that can be detected by high frequency, microwave or X-ray radiation.
• the proposed test method allows, according to the proposal, different labeling options for the objects, in that the feature pattern is formed by attaching or omitting features inside or on the inner or outer surfaces of the objects or their components.
• the present invention also encompasses a system for monitoring the integrity of packages and their contents consisting of one or more articles, which is used to prepare these articles during their manufacture. process and for checking the identity of the finished packs that are commercially available with regard to matching features of the pack print and content.
• Means for detecting clear characteristic features of the articles put together for a pack content and for generating corresponding signals, means for coding the signals, means for Applying characters corresponding to the coded signals to the package, means for reading and decoding the characters attached to the package and for generating signals corresponding to the unique characteristic features of the articles, and means for comparing these signals with the unique characteristic features of the Pack included items are provided.
• the functionality and safety of the test results of the proposed monitoring system can be optimized by means of further proposed measures by additionally introducing a material particle with different properties from the other material of the article.
• Such preparation can according to other
• Proposals consist, for example, that a metal particle is introduced into non-metallic articles or that the covering of non-metallic articles is provided with a metallic print. In any case, clearly recognizable, distinctive signals are obtained in this way.
• the invention also encompasses products in the form of appropriately prepared cigarettes which, according to the proposal, have a clear characteristic feature that can be measured.
• a cigarette preferably contains, as a unique characteristic feature, a piece of metal which, for example, according to a preferred arrangement, is integrated in the filter of a filter cigarette in a random position.
• FIGS. 1 and 2 end and side view of a cigarette packet containing marked filter cigarettes
• Figure 3 shows the overall view of a filter manufacturing machine with a counterfeit protection, schematically indicated
• FIG. 4 shows a cigarette block which is open on the face side and which is open at the front
• Figure 5 shows a detector device for generating or reading a coded label.
• filter cigarettes 1 have been provided with unambiguous characteristic features in the form of a magnetically detectable metallic overlay or a metal-containing imprint 2 during the manufacturing process or thereafter.
• a corresponding feature pattern can also be recognized by a magnetic detector device 8 that detects the end face of the package 4 or the block formation 6 on the end face from the outside.
• a signal is obtained from the respectively recognized feature pattern, which is encoded with a code and applied to the package 4 in a visible or advantageously invisible manner.
• a signature is either immediately destroyed if the package is opened improperly and indicates a corresponding unauthorized manipulation of the package and its contents or deviations when comparing the detected, coded printed information with the actual, externally detected characteristic pattern of the filter cigarettes within the package reveals abusive interventions.
• other markings can be set or test media that respond to other marking substances can be used.
• FIG. 3 shows a filter manufacturing machine described in more detail, for example, in our US Pat. No.
• 4,412,505 consisting of a first assembly in the form of a processing device 11 for processing a filter tow strip 13 pulled from a bale 12 by stretching, loosening and spraying using a plasticizer in a spraying device 14 and a second assembly in the form of a processing device 16 for the production of coated filter rods by gathering the filter tow strip 13 in an inlet funnel 17, covering the filter strand obtained with a supplied covering strip 18 in a format 19 and separation into individual filter rods 3.
• the filter tow strip 13 is subtracted from a reel 21 between the assembly 11 and the assembly 16, b for example, metallic or color-contrasting marking strips 2, which can be recognized as an embedded foreign body with a corresponding detector on the long side or front of the filter cigarettes 1.
• the filter cigarettes 1 prepared in this way assume a random position with respect to the stored markings 2 during their packaging process in a packaging machine and thus have an overall position within a transport chamber 22 of the packaging machine according to FIG. 4, which contains a cigarette block and is disclosed, for example, in US Pat a random feature pattern.
• This characteristic feature pattern which is unique for each cigarette block 6 or for each cigarette pack 4, is detected, for example, on the front side of the transport chamber 22 by means of a detector device 7.
• a detector device 7 for example, a commercially available matrix camera that can be activated in a holding phase or dwell phase of the transport chamber 22, which is cyclically moved by means of a chamber belt 23, or as in the present embodiment 5 example, a CCD line camera 26 which scans the end face of the cigarette block 6 located in the passing transport chamber 22 and is provided with a lens 24, for example the JR2048 series from Shufter & Krichhoff, Hamburg, Germany.
• each evaluation window is subdivided into four quadrants 1 to 4 in a clockwise direction, whereby the subdivision can of course be refined as desired.
• the processing unit 28 can assign the marking 2 recognized at each filter end to a specific quadrant, so that for each article position within the transport chamber 22 according to FIG.
• the processing unit 28 can obtain an encoded identification representing the specific feature pattern, for example, by forming the sum signal 47 by adding the position numbers 15, 14 and 18.
• This coded marking is output to a marking device in the form of a stamping mechanism 29 which, depending on the specific packaging materials to be marked, for example an ink jet printer or a marking laser of conventional design, such as from IWKmaschinestechnik GmbH, DE or from Domino Laser Inc. can be.

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• General Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
• Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
• Theoretical Computer Science (AREA)
• Wrapping Of Specific Fragile Articles (AREA)
• Packaging Of Annular Or Rod-Shaped Articles, Wearing Apparel, Cassettes, Or The Like (AREA)
• Auxiliary Devices For And Details Of Packaging Control (AREA)
• Details Of Rigid Or Semi-Rigid Containers (AREA)
• Cigarettes, Filters, And Manufacturing Of Filters (AREA)
• Image Processing (AREA)

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