Unit for forming groups of cigarettes

Details Unit for forming groups of cigarettes Unit for forming groups of cigarettes

1997-02-19

1998-07-07

Millin, Vincent

Package making

Group forming of contents unit and subsequent or further...

Long slender articles

53236, 131281, 131282, B65B 1904, B65B 306, A24C 138, A24C 114

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057750548

ABSTRACT:
The unit for forming groups of cigarettes has at least one substantially U-shaped pocket designed to receive in succession at least two layers of cigarettes, in which the cigarettes are parallel with a longitudinal axis of the pocket, the two layers being arranged one above the other to define a respective group; the unit having at least one holding element and, if the group has at least one gap, the unit having at least one dummy positioned parallel with the axis, both being mobile, under the thrust of an actuator, between a home position and an operating position, in which the element and the dummy are positioned respectively outside and inside the pocket, to respectively lock the group of cigarettes within the pocket, and to compensate the gap.

REFERENCES:
patent: 4700825 (1987-10-01), Mattei et al.
patent: 5548941 (1996-08-01), Portaro et al.

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