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

I.m.a. Industria Macchine Automatiche S.p.a in Sigla Ima S.p.a.

Wild Parma S.r.l.

Filippo Furlotti

Paolo Bianchi

Renato Le Brun

Andrea Trevisan

Luca Signifredi

Hans Peter Wild

Luca Catellani

An apparatus for inserting spouted pouches in rectilinear loading profiles, comprising: a pouch feeding station with at least one pouch feeder; a station for loading profiles which are longitudinally parallel to the feeding direction and superimposed; an accumulation station, which is interposed between the feeding station and the loading station and comprises at least one overturning device provided with accumulation guides for the pouches and rotatable about a rotation axis which is substantially parallel to the feeding direction; movement means adapted to perform at least one mutual translation between the feeder and the overturning device, so as to load, during mutual translation, one pouch at a time on the accumulation guides.

Apparatus for inserting spouted pouches in rectilinear loading profiles

A method, a cutting device and an apparatus wherein, at cusp-shaped recesses obtained by die cutting on a ribbon in order to obtain pouches with rounded corners, the ribbon is cut transversely by means of at least two strokes of a blade. A relative translation is performed, between the first stroke and the second stroke, between the cutting plane and the ribbon substantially along a feeding direction of the ribbon, so as to level with the second stroke any cutting defects of the first stroke in the region of the recess.

Method, cutting device and apparatus particularly for manufacturing pouches with rounded corners

A station for feeding closing seals for containers, which includes at least one fixed magazine of seals which is provided with an outlet from which the seals can be taken individually. The station includes a carousel for feeding seals which can rotate with respect to a first central rotation axis and is provided with pickers which are radially spaced apart from the first rotation axis. The pickers are individually rotatable about a second rotation axis which is not parallel to the first axis of the carousel. During the rotation of the carousel, at least one picker can is configured to rotate about the second axis from a position for taking the seal from the magazine to a position for releasing the seal.

Station for thermoforming thermoplastic sheet-like blanks for thermoforming lines and a corresponding method

A station for feeding closing seals for containers includes at least one fixed magazine of seals which is provided with an outlet from which the seals can be taken individually. The station further includes a carousel for feeding seals which can rotate with respect to a first central rotation axis and is provided with pickers which are radially spaced apart from the first rotation axis. The pickers are individually rotatable about a second rotation axis which is not parallel to the first axis of the carousel. During rotation of the carousel, at least one picker is configured to rotate about the second axis from a position for taking the seal from the magazine to a position for releasing the seal.

Station for feeding closing seals and method of sealing containers for a packaging line

A station for heating thermoplastic sheet-like blanks for a thermoforming line includes a heating carousel which can rotate continuously about a central axis and which has a number of heating heads radially spaced apart from the central axis. Each heating head is adapted to receive at least one respective thermoplastic sheet-like blank at a first peripheral region which is outside the carousel, to retain the at least one blank during the rotation of the carousel while supplying heat to it, and to release the at least one blank to a second peripheral region which is outside the carousel and is angularly spaced apart from the first region.

Station for heating thermoplastic sheet-like blanks for thermoforming lines

A method for manufacturing pouches made of at least partly thermoplastic material, including the steps of superimposing at least two webs of at least partly thermoplastic material, joining the webs at adhesion regions or lines, and cutting the webs at cutting regions or lines in order to provide pouches. In a condition in which the webs are superimposed, the method further includes the step of mutually aligning the webs by causing the elongation of at least one of the two webs via the application of heat.

Method and apparatus for manufacturing pouches

An assembly for manufacturing containers by thermoforming, which includes a magazine of thermoplastic sheet-like blanks, a feeding station for feeding the blanks, a heating station for heating the blanks, and a station for thermoforming containers starting from the blanks. The feeding station includes a closed-loop path and at least two conveyor elements, which move, following each other, along the path between a loading position, in which the conveyor element faces the blank magazine, and an unloading position, in which the conveyor element faces the heating station. The heating station includes a heating carousel, wherein, in the active condition, the conveyor element in the unloading position moves with a substantially linear motion with a speed that is substantially equal to a peripheral speed of the heating carousel.

Assembly for manufacturing fillable containers and a packaging line comprising such manufacturing assembly and a corresponding method

A station for sealing thermoformed containers for a packaging line and a method for sealing the containers includes a sealing carousel which rotates continuously about a central axis and includes sealing heads which are radially spaced apart from said central axis. Each sealing head is adapted to The station further releases the container complete with the closing seal at a third, output, peripheral region, which is outside the sealing carousel and angularly spaced from the first and from the second region.

Station for sealing thermoformed containers for packaging lines

A mixing-dosage apparatus for rotary machines for packaging containers includes a mixing portion and a dosage portion. The two portions have a selective fluid connection using a flow control valve, which acts between the two portions so as to feed the dosage duct with consecutive loads of mixed food mass. Each load has a volume that is approximately equal to the volume of the mixing chamber.

Mixing-dosage apparatus for rotary packaging machines

A device for checking pouches adapted to contain a substance such as a liquid, a powder or a pur&#xe9;e, includes at least one carousel adapted to convey the pouches, supporting them along its peripheral region, and at least one duct for supplying a test fluid that is connected to at least one nozzle insertable in a respective pouch conveyed by the carousel. The device further includes elements for detecting a variation in the pressure and/or flow rate of the test fluid in the supply duct after the test fluid has been supplied to, or drawn from, the pouch through the duct and the nozzle.

Device and method for checking pouches for filling lines

An apparatus for transporting a container between stations, for example, from a rotary machine to a conveyor is provided having a rotary apparatus having a plurality of grippers constructed and arranged to receive and retain containers, a mechanism for rotating the grippers by about 90&#xb0;. For example, the containers can be in a vertical position when received by the grippers and in a horizontal position when released by the grippers. A method for transporting a container between stations is provided. For example, the method can include receiving and retaining containers proximate a rotary machine and rotating the container to by about 90&#xb0; proximate a conveyor and releasing the container to fall by gravity onto the conveyor.

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Traversetolo, Italy

Filippo Furlotti