Packaging machine for producing cigarette packs

US11505346B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG) · DE

Inventors

• Michael Schlenker · Hiddestorf, DE
• Henry Buse · Rotenburg (Wümme), DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 6, 2018
• Grant date: Nov 22, 2022
• Expiry date: May 4, 2039

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65B2230/04
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A packaging machine for producing packs with a group of cigarettes as pack content, having individual manufacturing units which are arranged adjacent to one another on a manufacturing line and which are (non-destructively) separable from one another in each case in the region of or along (imaginary) parting planes between them and are removable from the manufacturing line as required, wherein the packaging machine can be converted from a first configuration, in which a first pack type can be manufactured, into a second configuration, in which a second pack type which differs from the first pack type can be manufactured, by removing at least one separable manufacturing unit from the manufacturing line, by replacing at least one separable manufacturing unit with another separable manufacturing unit and/or by adding at least one further separable manufacturing unit to the manufacturing line.