Package making – Methods – Applying a partial cover
Patent
1992-02-10
1993-06-01
Culver, Horace M.
Package making
Methods
Applying a partial cover
53415, 53447, 531361, 53157, 53540, 53580, B65B 3550, B65B 1302, B65B 3524
Patent
active
052149013
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus and method for manufacturing dual cigarette packs having a spacer therebetween. The apparatus of one preferred embodiment includes: an assembly station to receive sequentially in stacked relationship a first pack of cigarettes, a spacer, and a second pack of cigarettes, the assembly station including means to transport said cigarette packs through the assembly station; means to feed cigarette packs at first and third positions along the assembly station; means to place a spacer on the cigarette packs at a second position of the assembly station, the second position being located between the first and third positions of the assembly station; and, means to place cigarette packs onto the spacer at the third position of the assembly station, thereby creating a dual cigarette pack having a spacer therebetween. One method for forming a dual cigarette pack having spacer therebetween includes the steps of: delivering a first cigarette pack to a first position of an assembly station; transporting the first cigarette pack from the first position to a second position of the assembly station; applying a spacer upon the first cigarette pack at the second position; delivering a second cigarette pack to a third position of the assembly station; and, transporting the first cigarette pack having a spacer thereupon to the third position, the cigarette pack having a spacer applied thereupon being transported beneath the second cigarette pack already delivered to the third position, thereby creating a dual cigarette pack having a spacer therebetween.
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Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp.
Culver Horace M.
Lamb Charles G.
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