Chewing gum packaging machine

US5309697A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• PVT Piepenbrock Verpackungstechnik GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Heinz-Peter Hammacher · Bamberg, DE
• Herbert Backes · Riegelsberg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 22, 1993
• Grant date: May 10, 1994
• Expiry date: Jan 22, 2013

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65G47/841
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

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 first fast section through which the articles pass continuously, i.e. substantially without retardations or accelerations. In this machine section the chewing gums are first cut from sheets (20) to strips (10) in a cutting device (110) and thereafter individually wrapped, a turning drum (340) possibly being employed. Subsequently, they are combined to groups in a grouping means (400; 500). In this second machine section the chewing gum groups are further conveyed intermittently in cycles with lower speed to a collective packing machine. By exchanging components in the grouping means of the fast machine section the articles can be combined to groups different in number and arrangement.