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US 10,308,435 B2Granted
Apparatuses and methods for producing containers
AssigneeSarong S.p.A.
InventorsAndrea Bartoli, Alberto Bartoli
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Abstract
The apparatus includes an operating unit, which can be a welding unit for welding a closing film to an edge zone of a containing element or a separating unit for separating containing elements from portions of sheet material. The apparatus includes a control unit programmed to enable the operating unit to selectively process a continuous strip of containing elements or discrete groups of containing elements.
Claims32
Apparatus for producing containers, comprising
- (a) a coupling device configured to couple a portion of a closing film in the form of a continuous web with a sheet material having a plurality of containing cavities, said coupling device including a lower plate interacting with an upper plate,
- (b) a cutting unit for removing a portion of said closing film to define a zone of said sheet material which remains uncovered by said closing film when said closing film is coupled with said sheet material,
- (c) a supply device supplying said closing film in a supply direction through said cutting unit, and
- (d) an adjusting device for regulating the position of said cutting unit along said supply direction, said adjusting device including a locking device for locking said cutting unit in a desired position along said supply direction.
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A method for producing containers, comprising the steps of
- (a) supplying a closing film in the form of a continuous web in a supply direction through a cutting unit,
- (b) removing a portion of said closing film in said cutting unit,
- (c) coupling said closing film with a sheet material having a plurality of containing cavities in a coupling device including a lower plate interacting with an upper plate,
- (d) adjusting the position of said cutting unit to adjust the position of the removed portion of the closing film, whereby after said coupling step, a preset zone of said sheet material faces a region of said closing film from which said portion has been removed, and
- (e) immobilizing said cutting unit in a desired position along said supply direction after said adjusting step.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.