Feeder for machines for wrapping sheet-like products
AssigneeGima S.P.A.
InventorLorenzo MALDARELLI
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Abstract
A feeder for machines for wrapping sheet-like products includes a track for supplying laminar blanks, a cutting unit for dividing the blanks into sheet-like products, and a channel for supplying a respective wrapping station with the sheet-like products. The feeder includes at least two channels arranged mutually side by side, and lead to respective mutually opposite wrapping elements of distinct wrapping stations. A sorting apparatus is interposed between the channels and the cutting unit for the selective transfer of the sheet-like products that arrive from the cutting unit to one respective channel at a time.
Claims11
1-10. (canceled)
A feeder for machines for wrapping sheet-like products, the feeder comprising a track for supplying laminar blanks, a cutting unit for dividing the blanks into sheet-like products and a channel for supplying a respective wrapping station with said sheet-like products, wherein said channels are at least two in number, are arranged mutually side by side, and lead to respective mutually opposite wrapping elements of distinct wrapping stations, a sorting apparatus being interposed between said channels and said cutting unit for the selective transfer of the sheet-like products that arrive from said cutting unit to one respective channel at a time.
A wrapping machine comprising a channel for supplying sheet-like products, a series of wrapping stations and a line for the exit of wrapped products, wherein said supply channels are at least two in number, each one adapted to supply sheet-like products to a respective series of wrapping stations, upstream of said supply channels at least one magazine for laminar blanks, at least one cutting unit for dividing the blanks into sheet-like products and at least one sorting apparatus for the selective transfer of the sheet-like products that arrive from said cutting unit to one respective channel at a time.
A wrapping process for sheet-like products, which comprises the steps of:
- picking up a laminar blank from a supply track;
- dividing each laminar blank into sheet-like products by means of at least one respective cutting unit;
- transferring selectively the sheet-like products that arrive from said cutting unit to one at a time of at least two distinct supply channels by means of a sorting apparatus;
- wrapping each individual product that arrives from a respective supply channel in a respective contoured sheet by means of a series of consecutive wrapping stations that are aligned with a respective channel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.