Wrapping method and machine, particularly for food products such as chocolates and similar
AssigneeAzionaria Costruzioni Macchine Automatiche A.C.M.A. S.p.A.
InventorMario Spatafora
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Abstract
A wrapping method and machine, particularly for food products such as chocolates and similar, whereby the products are fed in an orderly succession along a first curved path to a pickup station where they are gripped by respective gripping devices moving along a second curved path for feeding the products to a wrapping device; the first and second paths being substantially coplanar and substantially tangent to each other at the pickup station.
Claims15
A wrapping method, particularly for food products, comprising the steps of feeding the products in an orderly spaced succession and along a first path to a pickup station by compacting said products along an input portion of said first path, so as to bring the products into contact with one another, and by accelerating the products along a further portion of the first path extending through the pickup station, so as to separate the products in an equally spaced manner;
- and successively gripping the products at the pickup station via pickup means moving along a second path for feeding the products to wrapping means;
- the first and second paths being curved paths substantially coplanar and substantially tangent to each other at the pickup station.
A wrapping machine, particularly for food products, comprising input feed means to a pickup station along a first path;
- means for wrapping said products;
- and pickup means moving along a second path for successively gripping the products at the pickup station and feeding the products to said wrapping means;
- the first and second paths being curved paths substantially coplanar and substantially tangent to each other at the pickup station;
- and said need means comprising means for compacting said products and means for accelerating said products;
- said compacting means being located upstream from said accelerating means and defining, for the products, in input portion of said first path;
- and said accelerating means being located at a further portion of the first path extending through the pickup station so as to separate the products in an equally spaced manner.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.