I.m.a. Industria Macchine Automatiche S.p.a.

Antonio Caporale

Fiorenzo Draghetti

Luca Tarozzi

Adriano Di Monte

Luca Galletti

Guglielmo Dosi

Fabio Gnugnoli

Loris Sacrati

An apparatus for automatically producing tubular elements to make smoking articles and/or products for food use includes at least one forming unit configured to form the tubular elements starting from shaped flat sheets. The forming unit includes one or more forming devices which are moved by movement means along a work path closed in a loop, in order to form the tubular elements.

Apparatus and method for automatically producing tubular elements

A feed apparatus for automatically feeding casings for smoking articles toward a transport member includes a feed unit disposed in a position above the transport member and configured to temporarily support the casings before they are fed to the transport member below, and a conveyor unit interposed between the feed unit and the transport member to selectively pick up the casings from the feed unit and send them to the transport member.

Feed apparatus and method for automatically feeding casings for smoking articles

A device () for feeding blanks () to a packaging machine (M), includes at least one rotating group (G) for picking up flat folded carton blanks from the bottom of a stack () of blanks (), in a picking up position (P), by the use of a picking up vacuum device () supported by the group (G). Then, the picked up folded blanks are erected into box-like configurations (A) in an erecting position (K). Then, the group (G) feeds the blanks () to an inlet station () of the machine (M), to place them one by one in the station () in a placing position (ID). The group (G) includes one first kinematic series (C) for determining the movement of the picking up vacuum cups () along a closed path (T), extending between the picking up position (P) and the placing position (ID). A second kinematic series (C) controls and maintains constant the orientation of the picking up vacuum cups (, V).

Device for feeding carton blanks to a packaging machine

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Antonio Caporale