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US 11,866,211 B2Granted
Handling device and method for handling web-shaped packaging material
AssigneeUhlmann Pac-Systeme GmbH & Co. KG
InventorsYannick Niederbacher, Sebastian Scharpf
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Abstract
A handling device having a holder for gripping web-shaped packaging material, which holder has a curvature in the longitudinal direction of the holder. When the packaging material is gripped by the handling device, a free end section of the packaging material is arched in the transverse direction of the packaging material and projects out from the handling device to be inserted into a processing station of a packaging machine.
Claims14
A packaging machine comprising:
- a web-shaped packaging material, which extends farther in a longitudinal direction of the packaging material than in a transverse direction of the packaging material;
- a first processing station for processing the packaging material in the packaging machine;
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- a handling device for handling the packaging material and for inserting a free end section of the packaging material into the first processing station;
- wherein the handling device comprises a holder configured to grip the packaging material, wherein the holder is in engagement at least temporarily with the free end section of the packaging material;
- wherein the holder extends farther in a longitudinal direction of the holder than in two transverse directions of the holder, wherein the two transverse directions of the holder are perpendicular to each other and each of the two transverse directions of the holder is perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the holder, and wherein the longitudinal direction of the holder is perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the packaging material and parallel to the transverse direction of the packaging material;
- wherein the holder has a contact area, which is defined by at least one contact site for contacting the packaging material, wherein the contact area has a curvature in the longitudinal direction of the holder.
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A method for inserting a web-shaped packaging material into a packaging machine, comprising the steps of:
- providing the packaging material;
- gripping the packaging material by means of a handling device, wherein a free end section of the packaging material is arched in a transverse direction of the packaging material and projects out from the handling device, wherein the handling device comprises a holder, which is configured to grip the web-shaped packaging material, the holder extending farther in a longitudinal direction than in transverse directions perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the holder and comprises a contact area, which is defined by at least one contact site for contacting the web-shaped packaging material, the contact area comprising a curvature extending in the longitudinal direction of the holder;
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- inserting the free end section of the packaging material into a first processing station of the packaging machine by way of the handling device.
1 more element
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.