US 7,073,655 B2Granted

Device for processing substantially parallelepiped -shaped products

AssigneeG.D Societa' Per Azioni

InventorsStefano Bruni, Fiorenzo Draghetti

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Abstract

A device for processing packets of cigarettes has a transportation unit for conveying a line of packets from an input station to an output station in a direction perpendicular to the line; a conveyor unit for feeding the line to the input station in a direction parallel to the line; and a transfer unit for transferring the line from the conveyor unit to the transportation unit; the transfer unit has a first pusher for transferring the line from the conveyor unit to an intermediate conveyor which reduces the longitudinal speed of the line to zero, and a second pusher for transferring the line from the intermediate conveyor to the transportation unit.

Claims25

Dependent claims

A device for processing substantially parallelepiped-shaped products, the device (1) comprising a conveyor unit (3;

8) for feeding a line (4) of said products (2) in a first direction (A) parallel to the line (4) and at a first speed (V3);
a transportation unit (6) for conveying the line (4) along a transportation path (16) in a second direction crosswise to the first direction (A);
and a transfer unit (9;
9a) for transferring the line (4), at a transfer station (5;
7), between the transportation unit (6) and the conveyor unit (3;
8);
the device (1) being characterized in that the transfer unit (9;
9a) comprises an intermediate conveyor (34;
34a) located between the conveyor unit (3;
8) and the transportation unit (6);
and first transfer means (33;
33a) for moving the line (4) between the intermediate conveyor (34;
34a) and the transportation unit (6);
the intermediate conveyor (34;
34a) moving the line (4) in the first direction (A) at a variable second speed (V5) which, in use, during transfer between the conveyor unit (3;
8) and the intermediate conveyor (34;
34a), is substantially equal to said first speed (V3), and, during transfer between the intermediate conveyor (34;
34a) and the transportation unit (6), is substantially zero.

15 more elements

A device for processing substantially parallelepiped-shaped products, the device (1) comprising a transportation and storage unit (6);

a first conveyor unit (3) for feeding a line (4) of said products (2) in a first direction (A) to the transportation and storage unit (6) at an input station (5);
and a second conveyor unit (8) for receiving said line (4) from the transportation and storage unit (6) at an output station (7);
said transportation and storage unit (6) comprising transportation assemblies (15) movable, in a second direction crosswise to the first direction, along a transportation path (16) to transfer the products (2) from the input station (5) to the output station (7);
each transportation assembly (15) having at least one respective elongated pocket (19), which receives a respective said line (4) and has a respective longitudinal axis (20);
the longitudinal axes (20) being substantially parallel to one another and crosswise to the second direction;
and the device (1) being characterized in that said transportation path (16) is of a given fixed length;
and in that each transportation assembly (15) is movable substantially independently of the other transportation assemblies (15) along at least a portion of the transportation path (16).

4 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 10/942,751Filed 16 Sep 2004
Priority: IT BO03A053917 Sep 2003
Published: US 2005/0186052 A125 Aug 2005
Granted: 11 Jul 2006
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification6 codes

B65G 35/06
Mechanical conveyors not otherwise provided for: comprising a load-carrier moving along a path, e.g. a closed path, and adapted to be engaged by…
B65G 35/066
The traction element being a rotating bar or tube: the bar or the tube being provided with a helical or annular channel
B65G 47/5109
For articles: first In - First Out systems: FIFO
B65G 47/82
Feeding, transfer, or discharging devices of particular kinds or types: rotary or reciprocating members for direct action on articles or…

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