Method and device for manufacturing hinge-lid packets for cigarettes

US5996321A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Focke & Co. · DE

Inventors

• Heinz Focke · Verden, DE
• Harald Freudenberg · Marklohe, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 1, 1998
• Grant date: Dec 7, 1999
• Expiry date: Jul 1, 2018

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65H2701/176
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

Method and device for manufacturing hinge-lid packets for cigarettes from individual, prefabricated blanks (11) which are delivered as piles (10) of blanks. Before being transferred to a packaging machine, each pile (10) of blanks is laterally aligned in respect of the exact relative position of the blanks (11), by aligning devices (21, 25, 27, 28) acting on all the upright side faces of the pile (10) of blanks. A separate aligning member, namely a slide (37) serves to align a lower, incorrectly positioned blank (11). This slide is effective in the region of a residual pile of the pile (10) of blanks, namely by raising a predominant upper partial pile.