Krones Ag

Florian Kaestner

Herbert Spindler

Juergen Werner

Thomas Wimmer

Peter Koch

Christian Napravnik

Marcus Kreis

Volker Drahuniak

Helmut Kaps

A method for formation of a compacted arrangement of articles to be packaged within a packaging machine, whereby the group of articles come into contact with and is guided through the packaging machine via at least one profiled bar, at least in a partial section of its transport route, which comes into contact with an end face of the group of articles and in doing so at least some of the articles of the group are pushed together in the compacted arrangement. A device for implementation of the method for formation of a compacted group of a plurality of the same type of articles to be packaged. A symmetrically or asymmetrically profiled thrust bar for transforming a group of articles being conveyed in a horizontal direction into a compacted arrangement.

Method and device for formation of groups of articles to be packaged and a profiled thrust bar to use for this purpose

A wrapping device () for an apparatus () for enveloping and packaging a group () of articles () while they are being moved on a conveyor device () with a web-shaped material (). The wrapping device () includes a rod-shaped wrapping element (), which is laterally fixed to two parallely disposed circulating traction elements () on both sides of the conveyor device, whereby said wrapping element () is moved by these traction elements (). The wrapping element () is further fixable largely form-lockingly and without play in corresponding receiving elements () of the respective traction elements (), whereby at least one of the receiving elements () includes a securing element () that can be moved against the return force of a spring locking device ().

Wrapping device with a rod-shaped wrapping element

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Rosenheim, Germany

Florian Kaestner