Abstract: A dielectricity measurement device and method for determining dielectric properties of portioned material of a capsule end package with the aid of an electrical field is described, where the device receives an electrically conductive package wall of the capsule end package as a component of the measurement arrangement and where the device maybe arranged into a series measurement device having several such dielectricity measurement devices.

Abstract: A dielectricity measurement device and method for determining dielectric properties of portioned material of a capsule end package with the aid of an electrical field is described, where the device receives an electrically conductive package wall of the capsule end package as a component of the measurement arrangement and where the device maybe arranged into a series measurement device having several such dielectricity measurement devices.

Abstract: At least one characteristic, such as the mass/density and/or moisture content and/or dielectric constant, of a substance (such as the rod-like tobacco filler of a continuously advancing cigarette rod or a continuously advancing rod-like filler of filter material for tobacco smoke) is ascertained by an evaluating circuit receiving high-frequency signals from a resonator arrangement which receives microwave signals at least at two different frequencies from one or more microwave generators. The substance is caused to advance through a dielectric resonator of the resonator arrangement, and the high-frequency signals are influenced by the substance. For example, the circuit can compare first and second curves of high-frequency signals which respectively are and are not influenced by a selected substance; the curves can have sloping flanks and each of the two frequencies can be allocated to a sloping flank of a curve.