System for sealing cigarette packages

Package making – With means responsive to a sensed condition – Of package and filled receptacle closing or opening

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53234, 533759, 74568R, 74838, 156350, 156359, B65B 5708, B65B 5114

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051232260

ABSTRACT:
A system is disclosed for sealing thermoplastic transparent overwraps on packages, in particular cigarette packages, using axially shiftable cylindrical cams enabling variable contact times dependent upon variable rotational speeds of the driving shaft of the overwrap machine as transferred to the cam support shafts. An encoder reads the rotational speed of each cylindrical cam and sends a signal representing that speed to a programmable controller which in turn sends a signal representative of an axial position of the cylindrical cam corresponding to the rotational speed to a reversible servo motor which functions to axially shift the cam support shaft to shift the cam relative to a cam follower. This in turn changes the dwell time of the cam follower and accordingly the contact time between the cam-controlled heater and the seam to be sealed over a variable range, while enabling the contact pressure and the temperature of the heater to remain constant. The servo motor rotates a threaded screw which translates a nut operatively connected to the cam support shaft to in turn shift the cam support shaft and the cam. Similar mechanisms control the contact time of both the heater for sealing the side seam and the heaters for sealing the end seams.

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