Continuous wrapping machine
AssigneeG.D Societa' Per Azioni
InventorsMario Spatafora, Antonio Gamberini
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Abstract
A machine for wrapping products, wherein a first conveying means presents a number of seats for successively feeding the products at constant speed and along a predetermined route through a number of fixed work stations for forming about each product at least one tubular wrapping having two opposite end portions projecting from the respective ends of the product, and for closing the end portions of each tubular wrapping about the respective ends of the product; closure of the end portions being performed in a fixed closing station wherein second conveying means reverse each seat in such a manner as to arrest the same for a given length of time.
Claims8
A continuous wrapping machine comprising a number of seats (4), each designed to receive a respective unwrapped product (2);
- first conveying means (3) for successively feeding said seats (4) at constant speed along a predetermined route;
- and a number of work stations (5, 13) located along said route;
- a first (5) of said stations being designed to feed a said product (2) inside each said seat (4), together with a respective portion (6) of wrapping material, for forming, about said product (2), at least a first tubular wrapping (7) comprising two opposite end portions (8) projecting from the respective ends (9) of said product (2);
- and a second (13) of said stations being designed to close said end portions (8) of each said tubular wrapping (7) about the respective ends (9) of said product (2);
- characterised by the fact that said second work station (13) is located in a fixed position along said route, and that second conveying means (68) are provided, at least along a portion of said route extending through said second station (13), for reversing each said seat (4), in said second station (13), in relation to said first conveying means (3) and at said travelling speed.
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