Apparatus for manufacturing and packaging products in roll form
US6463713B1 · kind B1 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Oct 5, 1999 |
| Grant date | Oct 15, 2002 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 5, 2019 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
- CPC primaryB65G47/647
- WIPO fieldHandling
- WIPO sectorMechanical engineering
Abstract
Mass manufacturing and packaging apparatus (10) of products in roll form, in particular paper products including, from upstream to downstream, a cutting station (12) for cutting very long consecutive logs (20) of a specified diameter into consecutive sequences of several rolls (22) of shorter length, and an upstream conveyor (14) to move the sequences of rolls (22) from the cutting station (12) to a feeder station (16) distributing the rolls (22) to several automated packaging stations (18) characterized in that a roll-switching system (26, 37) of the feeder station (16) allows directing each sequence of rolls (22) toward a specific set of packaging stations (18) which is different from the set towards which the previous sequence of rolls (22) was directed.
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