Method of and apparatus for accumulating and joining blanks of packets for block-shaped groups of articles

US6694703B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• Topack Verpackungstechnik GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Jürgen Grossmann · Bargteheide, DE
• Frank Bley · Hamburg, DE
• Josef Glosmann · Hamburg, DE
• Michael Wachter · Lankau, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 21, 1998
• Grant date: Feb 24, 2004
• Expiry date: Jan 21, 2018

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65B5/024
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

Blanks for conversion into hinged-lid packets for block-shaped arrays of cigarettes in metal foil envelopes are supplied by a first turntable to an assembling station where successive blanks are overlapped by successive arrays furnished by a second turntable. Each blank is draped around the envelope of the respective array in part at the assembling station and in part at a further station downstream of the assembling station, as seen in the direction of joint advancement of the arrays and the corresponding blanks toward an evacuating station. Each array is moved at the assembling station vertically downwardly from a pocket of the second turntable into a pocket of the first turntable; the latter thereupon advances the arrays and the blanks jointly to the further station, and the finished packets—with the arrays confined therein—to the evacuating station.