Method for forming a packet of cigarettes
AssigneeG.D Societa' Per Azioni
InventorsMario Spatafora, Fabrizio Talé, Franco Carini, Marco Ghini
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Abstract
To pack a group of cigarettes in a rigid packet, a collar, a respective inner sheet of wrapping material and a respective group of cigarettes are fed successively into a same conveying seat in which the collar and the inner sheet are at least partly folded together about the group of cigarettes as of respective flat initial configurations.
Claims7
A method of forming a packet of cigarettes;
- the packet comprising a group of cigarettes, an inner sheet of wrapping material wrapped about said group to form an inner wrapping, and a collar on the outside of said inner wrapping;
- the method comprising:
- the step of feeding the collar, the inner sheet and the group individually to a same seat on a same wrapping conveyor;
- the collar and the inner sheet being fed individually to said seat in respective flat initial configurations;
- and
- a first folding step for folding said collar and said inner sheet of wrapping material, inside said seat, so as to simultaneously assume respective L-shaped configurations about the relative group as of said respective flat initial configurations.
A method of forming a packet of cigarettes, the packet comprising a group of cigarettes, an inner sheet of wrapping material wrapped about said group to form an inner wrapping, and a collar on the outside of said inner wrapping, the method comprising:
- the step of feeding the collar, the inner sheet and the group individually to a same seat on a same wrapping conveyor;
- the collar and the inner sheet being fed individually to said seat in respective flat initial configurations;
- and
- at least part of the collar and at least part of the inner sheet are folded together about the respective group and inside said seat.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.