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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7322171 | Method and apparatus for constructing carton A method and apparatus for packaging articles such as pouches which do not have rigid structures. The method includes the steps of placing first and second sets of the articles onto spaced apart loading panels of a carton blank so that the article sets are spaced ap... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7287361 | Machine for packaging products Device for packaging products having a head and a stick, such as lollipops (P), in wraps, includes a frame having first supply elements (2) for supplying the products, second elements (4) for supplying a web (5) of wrapping material, elements ( | 10/30/2007 |
| 7107737 | Machine and method for producing a package by folding a sheet of packing material about a respective article A machine and method for producing a package by folding a sheet of packing material about a respective article; a packing conveyor feeds along a packing path a folding head, which houses the package and has an electrically heated activating member for applying heat ... | 09/19/2006 |
| 6901721 | Unit for overwrapping packets Packets are overwrapped in a cellophaner unit equipped with a wheel by which the packets are directed through an assembly station together with leaves of wrapping material and toward a folding station where the leaves are bent around the packets, also a suction roll... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6799410 | Conveying device for machines for packaging rolls and the like A conveying device for machines for packaging rolled articles includes a series of carriages, fastened, regularly spaced apart, to conveying means moved stepwise along an endless path. Each pair of adjacent carriages define holding seats for respective groups of art... | 10/05/2004 |
| 6553742 | Method and machine for wrapping cigars A method and machine for wrapping cigars provides for feeding the cigars continuously along a given path, along which a sheet of wrapping material is folded about each cigar, the sheet of wrapping material is closed about the cigar and at the opposite end... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6408601 | Apparatus for filling packaging containers A pocket belt is continuously advanced by a drive at a variable pocket-belt speed, and a package supply feeds packages at a variable spacing one after another to a transfer station offset from the pocket belt. A feeding system has an intermediate belt ext... | 06/25/2002 |
| 6381920 | Packaging machine with rotary wrapping assembly A packing machine comprising a rotary assembly (2) which is adapted to receive articles (4) travelling along a path which is adjacent one region of the periphery of the assembly, and means (26) for receiving foil (14) or other wrapping material, at a diff... | 05/07/2002 |
| 6381921 | Wrapping wheel of a cigarette packing machine A wrapping wheel of a continuous cigarette packing machine has at least one seat for a respective group of cigarettes having two end surfaces and enclosed in a tubular wrapping having two projecting tubular end portions, each having two minor walls; the w... | 05/07/2002 |
| 6324817 | Method for applying a wrapping material to a product A method for wrapping an elongated, substantially parallelepiped product (2) having two opposite longitudinal end bases (8), by engaging the bases (8) of the product (2) by a conveyor head (6) fed continuously by a conveyor (7) along a wrapping path (P1) ... | 12/04/2001 |
| 5775064 | Cartoning machine The present invention relates to a cartoning machine in which box-like (i.e., generally rectangular) contents with a carton positioned therearound are fed, and when the box-like contents with the carton have passed a pivotable face of a conveyance pocket ... | 07/07/1998 |
| 5566531 | Napkin wrapping machine and method for wrapping napkins A machine and process for wrapping workpieces, typically napkins. The machine having an infeed conveyor from which workpieces are feed to a poly film supply apparatus, via a conveyor assembly, that distributes a predetermined portion of the poly film supp... | 10/22/1996 |
| 5533323 | Method and a device for the formation of tubular overwrappings in heat-sealable material A method of fashioning tubular overwrappings with a heat-sealable material, and a device in which single commodities are directed in succession together with respective sheets of heat-sealable material into a set of pockets spaced apart at a constant pitc... | 07/09/1996 |
| 5465550 | Quick-release conveying arm in machines for assembling and wrapping packs of rolls The conveying arm is composed of a first lower portion by which products assembled for wrapping are restrained, and a supporting upper portion embodied integrally with the first, which affords two slots occupying the full width of the arm as measured tran... | 11/14/1995 |
| 5373681 | Lug folding apparatus for a packaging device A lug folding apparatus for a packaging machine in which box-like items, fed into pockets, are continuously circularly conveyed, during which a packaging sheet is wound or wrapped along the surface of each of the box-like items, the wound box-like items a... | 12/20/1994 |
| 5309697 | Chewing gum packaging machine A packaging machine for individual flat strip-like articles, in particular chewing gum strips (10), comprises means for cutting (110) and supplying (100), wrapping (300) and grouping (400; 500) of the individual articles. The packaging machine comprises a... | 05/10/1994 |
| 5129209 | Apparatus for stabilizing the shape of cuboidal (cigarette) packs In the production of packs with adhesively bonded folding tabs, especially of (soft) cup packs for cigarettes, it is necessary to keep the just finished packs for a while in an environment which preserves or improves their shape before they are discharged... | 07/14/1992 |
| 5003755 | Method and device for producing tubular wrappings A method and device for producing tubular wrappings for products of parallelepiped shape or similar; whereby the products are fed successively, and in a substantially radial direction, to a wrapping wheel turning at substantially constant speed and having... | 04/02/1991 |
| 4866912 | Method of an apparatus for packing rod-shaped articles of the tobacco processing industry Apparatus for draping blanks around blocks of parallel cigarettes has a continuously driven turret with radially inwardly extending pockets in its peripheral surface. Successive pockets of the turret receive blocks of cigarettes from successive pockets of... | 09/19/1989 |
| 4689934 | Apparatus for and method of applying wrap to article clusters A wrapping machine wherein article units are wrapped by a shrinkable web to form a package. The machine includes a conveyor which includes an upper article supporting run. The conveyor has regularly spaced openings and associated with the rear of each ope... | 09/01/1987 |
| 4663914 | Wrapping machine for applying a web to one or more articles to form a package This relates to a wrapping machine of the type wherein a web is automatically wrapped about one or a group of articles to form a package. A continuous web is provided and this web has at regular intervals a series of transversely aligned cutouts. After th... | 05/12/1987 |
| 4633647 | Wrap for article clusters and apparatus for and method of applying same This relates to the forming of shrink wrap packages. A continuous web predivided into wrap sections is delivered to moving article clusters and is drawn thereabout by a puller apparatus while article clusters are supported on a moving conveyor having open... | 01/06/1987 |
| 4367618 | Variable capacity buffer storage conveyor for cigarette packaging apparatus A variable capacity buffer storage device 20 is disposed in series between a metal foil wrapping unit 16 and a paper blank enclosing unit 18 in a cigarette packaging apparatus. The storage device is in the form of an endless belt conveyor 31 having a plur... | 01/11/1983 |
| 4352265 | Apparatus for producing bar packages of preferably individually wrapped sweets or similar pieces of confectionery The invention relates to an apparatus for producing bar packages from individually wrapped sweets. The apparatus comprises a sweets holder extending into the path of movement of the sweet grippers of the packing head and revolving continuously at the same... | 10/05/1982 |
| 4223509 | Film tucking packaging machine A package preferably of cube shape is supported and moved by a series of notched rollers (5-9) and a film (F) is disposed in overlying relation to the package with its leading part (FL) underneath the leading part of the package and a movable tucking bar ... | 09/23/1980 |
| 4006577 | Gum stick wrapping machine A single gum stick wrapping machine has a rotary transfer mechanism for successively conveying single sticks of gum from breaker wheels to a folding wheel where each stick picks up a wrapper and is conveyed through folding and creasing sections where the ... | 02/08/1977 |
