Packaging machine for producing hinge-lid boxes

US5983595A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Focke & Co. · DE

Inventors

• Heinz Focke · Verden, DE
• Hermann Blome · Thedinghausen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 30, 1998
• Grant date: Nov 16, 1999
• Expiry date: Mar 30, 2018

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65B19/223
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A packaging machine for producing hinge-lid boxes for cigarettes has a rotating folding turret which has a plurality of pockets (21) which are open in the radial direction. For the purpose of securing blanks (11) or partially completed hinge-lid boxes (10) in the pockets (21) of the folding turret, protrusions (32) are arranged in the pockets (21) and have a supporting surface (34) for abutting a closure edge (18) of an inner side tab (14) of the blank (11). For the purpose of discharging a hinge-lid box (10) from the pocket (21), the retaining force which is exerted by the protrusion (32) is overcome.