Method and device for producing cigarette packs

US7908825B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG) · DE

Inventors

• Martin Stiller · Verden, DE
• Burkard Roesler · Langwedel, DE
• Jens Schmidt · Höflaweg, DE
• Jürgen Schwecke · Hilgermissen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 3, 2007
• Grant date: Mar 22, 2011
• Expiry date: Oct 31, 2027

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65B53/02
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

Cigarette packs of the hinge-lid-box type with an outer wrapping of shrinkable film are transported through a shrinkage station (22) in two pack rows (26, 27), in each case comprising individual packs. In the region of said shrinkage station, shrinkage elements, namely heating plates (24, 25; 45, 46), subject the upper side and/or lower side of the packs (10), during a standstill phase of the same, to (contact) heat. The packs (10) are transported such that the lower side and the upper side are simultaneously or consecutively exposed for contact by the heating plates.