Packaging machine with rotary wrapping assembly

A packing machine comprising a rotary assembly which is adapted to receive articles traveling along a path which is adjacent one region of the periphery of the rotary assembly, and means for receiving a wrapper at a different peripheral region of the rotary assembly, the wrapper then being oriented in a plane tangential to the rotary assembly;

• the rotary assembly further comprising means for reorienting the wrapper into a plane which is perpendicular to said tangential plane at a subsequent rotary position of the rotary assembly, where it is suitably aligned with a cooperating article wrapping means, in which the rotary assembly comprises a plurality of article wrapping stations, each comprising a wrapper forming pocket having an entry aperture which, in its operative position, is axially aligned with an aperture in a corresponding wrapper receiving pad, and an exit aperture from which the wrapped article is ejected.

A packing machine comprising a rotary assembly, including means for receiving a wrapper oriented in a plane substantially tangential to the rotary assembly at a first rotary position of the rotary assembly, means for reorienting the wrapper at a second rotary position into a plane which is substantially perpendicular to the axis of the rotary assembly, means for advancing an article to be wrapped in a direction axial of the rotary assembly so as to intercept a wrapper in said perpendicular plane and become partially wrapped therein, and means for receiving said partially wrapped article,

• wherein the receiving means includes a support surface for the wrapper which is formed on a pad which is pivotable between said tangential and perpendicular planes on rotation of said rotary assembly and suction means for retaining the wrapper on said surface.