Method of and apparatus for assembling and wrapping arrays of cigarette packets and the like

US4932190A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Korber AG · DE

Inventors

• Herbert Bergner · Reinbek, DE
• Otto Blidung · Geesthacht, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 5, 1988
• Grant date: Jun 12, 1990
• Expiry date: Oct 5, 2008

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65B2220/16
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

Discrete cigarette packets which are supplied by a packing machine are assembled into arrays in successive compartments of a first endless conveyor at a first station, and the pockets of a second conveyor accept arrays from successive filled compartments for stepwise transport to a second station where the arrays are draped into blanks in a wrapping machine to form cartons. The second conveyor is moved stepwise during successive intervals of idleness of the first conveyor, and the first conveyor is normally moved stepwise when the second conveyor is idle. The two conveyors cross each other at the first station. The arrays in the compartments extend transversely of the first conveyor, and the arrays in the pockets extend longitudinally of the second conveyor.