Apparatus and method for feeding stacks of tissues or similar folded products to an automatic packaging system
AssigneeRent S.R.L.
InventorRenzo Tommasi
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Abstract
An apparatus for feeding tissues or similar folded paper articles towards an automatic packaging system, comprises means for forming stacks of articles with one or more sets of separating wheels, and means for radially ejecting and feeding the stacks to the packaging system; the ejection means comprise at least one ejection device with two or more pushing members inserted between a wheel and the other; article stop means are adjustable in a direction that is substantially tangential with respect to the separating wheel, and orthogonal with an ejection direction.
Claims20
An apparatus for feeding tissues or similar folded paper articles to an automatic packaging system, the apparatus comprising:
- means for forming stacks of articles on one or more sets of separating wheels provided with radial blades, each set being formed by two or more wheels,
- feeding means for feeding the stacks from the separating wheels to said packaging system, wherein said feeding means comprise for each set at least one ejection device with at least two pushing members, at least one of the pushing members being inserted between two adjacent ones of the wheels, and the pushing members being movable with a motion having a reciprocating component along an ejection direction, and
- an article stop element for engaging with said stacks on said wheels at least in a step preliminary to the ejection, said article stop element being operatively independent from said ejection device, and adjustable along a stop direction, substantially tangential with the separating wheels and orthogonal with the ejection direction.
A method for feeding stacks of tissues or similar folded paper articles to an automatic packaging system, comprising the steps of:
- forming the product stacks on one or more sets of separating wheels with radial blades, each set consisting of two or more wheels,
- ejecting the stacks from said wheels according to a radial ejection direction, and
- prior to the ejection from said wheels, stopping said stacks by a stop surface in an independent manner from the action of said blades, along a plane parallel with the ejection direction.
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