Wrapping machine, particularly for food products such as sweets and similar
AssigneeAzionaria Costruzioni Macchine Automatiche A.C.M.A. S.p.A.
InventorMario Spatafora
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Abstract
A wrapping machine wherein a wrapping device is supplied with an orderly succession of products by a transfer device which, at an input station, successively removes the products off a feed device traveling through the input station in a given direction. The transfer device presents at least a gripping device in turn presenting jaws moving in a plane for gripping a respective product at the input station, and which rotates about an axis for selectively positioning the plane of the jaws in a first position substantially parallel and in a second position substantially perpendicular to the traveling direction of the feed device.
Claims10
A wrapping machine, particularly for food products, comprising an input station for an orderly succession of said products supplied to the input station in a given direction lying in a first plane, said input station being arranged on said first plane;
- a device for wrapping said products;
- a loading station for loading said products on to the wrapping device, said loading station being arranged on said first plane;
- and a transfer device for transferring said succession in said first plane from the input station to the loading station;
- the transfer device comprising at least a gripping device moving between the input and loading stations;
- and the gripping device comprising jaw means mounted for movement in a second plane for gripping a respective product at the input station, wherein said gripping device is rotated about a first axis lying in said first plane for selectively positioning said plane in a first position substantially coplanar, and in a second position substantially perpendicular, to said first plane.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.