US 2003/0119644 A1Published application

Method for the preparation of wrapping material used in the manufacture of packs for tobacco products

OwnerFiorenzo Draghetti, Roberto Polloni +1inventors

InventorsFiorenzo Draghetti, Roberto Polloni, Imelde Bertinelli

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Abstract

In a method of preparing the wrapping materials used to fashion packs (20) for tobacco products, typically cigarette packets and cartons, without installing extra machine units on the packer, a sliver (28) or continuous stripe (44) of pre-encoded or recordable magnetic ribbon (25) is applied to selected areas (29) of the wrapping material (21; 35), whereupon the material is divided into smaller strips (31) or sheets (37); these are then coiled into rolls (33) or ordered into stacks (42) of sheets (46) or blanks (41), serving as temporary storage units (34) that can be loaded onto the packer as and when needed. Each pack (20) will consist in at least one specific and essential packaging component (4, 8, 12, 13, 16, 19) obtained from the temporary storage unit (34) and bearing at least one sliver (28) or stripe (44) of the magnetic ribbon (25).

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Dependent claims

1) A method for the preparation of wrapping material used in the manufacture of packs for tobacco products, each pack (20) comprising at least one specific packaging component (4, 8, 12, 13, 16, 19), characterized in that it comprises the steps of advancing a wrapping material (21;

35) in a first predetermined direction (D1) along a predetermined feed path (22) to a first operating station (23);
applying a medium (25) to respective predetermined areas (29) of the wrapping material (21), at the first operating station (23), having magnetic properties and capable of retaining data;
advancing the wrapping material (21), furnished with the medium (25) having magnetic properties, to a second operating station (30);
ordering the wrapping material (21) at the second operating station (30) into respective temporary storage units (34) such as can be utilized on respective machines for manufacturing the packs (20) of tobacco products;
and in that each pack (20) consists in the specific packaging component obtained from the temporary storage unit (34) and furnished with at least one medium (25) having magnetic properties capable of retaining data.

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