A Design of Automatic Equipment for Cigarette Sorting and Stacking

Automatic equipment for cigarette sorting and stacking is applied to a recycling process of tobacco in cigarette factory. It takes the place of manual work, such as sorting and stacking cigarettes to transfer boxes. The equipment realizes the functions such as orientation, sorting, steering, and stacking of the cigarettes in proper order. Omron CP1H type PLC is selected as the control center of the equipment. The paper completes the design of mechanical structures and control system of the equipment, which achieves sorting and stacking automation and solves the problems of large labor input and low sorting efficiency.