Method and machine for packing a product in at least one sheet of packing material
AssigneeG.D Societa' Per Azioni
InventorsRoberto Osti, Alessandro Minarelli, Andrea Biondi
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Abstract
A machine for packing a product in at least one sheet of packing material has a number of conveyors, each of which has a number of pockets, each for receiving and conveying a respective product; the products are transferred from each conveyor to the next conveyor at a transfer station defined between the two conveyors; the pockets on each conveyor are divided into a first number of groups, each containing an equal second number, greater than one, of pockets; and, at each transfer station, a second number of products are transferred simultaneously from the pockets in a group of pockets on the releasing conveyor to the pockets in a group of pockets on the receiving conveyor.
Claims34
A packing machine for packing a product in at least one sheet of packing material;
- the packing machine comprising:
- at least two conveyors, each of which comprises at least two pockets movably positioned relative to the conveyors, the conveyors being arranged along a path and each pocket configured for receiving and conveying at least one respective product;
- and
- a number of transfer stations for transferring the products and each of the transfer stations situated between each conveyor and a following conveyor in the path;
- wherein the pockets of each conveyor are divided into a first number (N1) of groups, each of the groups comprising an equal second number (N2), of at least two of the pockets;
- wherein at each transfer station, a transfer device simultaneously transfers a second number (N2) of products from the respective pockets in a group of pockets on a releasing conveyor to the respective pockets in a group of pockets on a receiving conveyor;
- and
- wherein at least one conveyor comprises an actuating device for aligning, at least one transfer station, all the pockets in a group of pockets on the releasing conveyor, and all the pockets in a group of pockets on the receiving conveyor in a straight line by moving at least one pocket relative to the conveyor to which it is associated, so that the pocket is positioned in a given transfer position at the transfer station.
A packing machine for packing a product in at least one sheet of packing material;
- the packing machine comprising:
- at least two conveyors, each of which comprises at least two pockets, the conveyors being arranged along a path, with each pocket being configured for receiving and conveying at least one respective product;
- and
- a number of transfer stations for transferring the products;
- each of the transfer stations situated between each conveyor and a following conveyor in the path,
- wherein the pockets of each conveyor are divided into a first number (N1) of groups, each of the groups comprising an equal second number (N2), of at least two, of the pockets;
- wherein at each transfer station, a transfer device simultaneously transfers a second number (N2) of products from the respective pockets in a group of pockets on a releasing conveyor, to the respective pockets in a group of pockets on a receiving conveyor;
- and
- wherein at least one conveyor is rotary, and comprises a drum rotating about a respective central axis to move the pockets along a circular path;
- all the rotary conveyors rotate in steps about their respective central axes, to move the respective pockets along a respective circular path;
- wherein all the rotary conveyors comprise the same first number (N1) of groups of pockets;
- and, at each step, all the rotary conveyors rotate by the same angle which is equal to a full turn of the rotary conveyor divided by the first number (N1).
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.