Process and apparatus for producing (cigarette) packs

US6449926B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• Focke & Co. · DE

Inventors

• Heinz Focke · Verden, DE
• Henry Buse · Rotenburg (Wümme), DE
• Gisbert Engel · Kirchlinteln, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 21, 2000
• Grant date: Sep 17, 2002
• Expiry date: Jan 21, 2020

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S493/911
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

Process and apparatus for producing (cigarette) packs with supporting protrusions (17), formed within the pack, above a base wall (16), the supporting protrusions (17) being formed by folding webs (19). The folding webs (19) or folding tabs are pre-folded or folded definitively, during the (customary) transportation of the blanks along a blank path (25), by corresponding folding elements, in particular by a folding wheel (32) with a folding protrusion (34) which folds the folding web (19).