Thomassen & Drijver-verblifa N.v.

Henrik J Hamer

Gerrit H Ter Horst

Hendrik C Vrind

An apparatus is disclosed for packaging a row of mutually coaxially placed disc-shaped lids, in a sheet of packing material, comprising successively in the direction of progress of packaging: a feeding station for the row of members; a wrapping station for wrapping the row of members in the sheet; a folding station for the folding of the wrapped sheet; a sticking station for the sticking of the folded flaps to the package; further transportation members for transportation of the row of members; and a unit for supplying the packing material, situated between the feeding station and the wrapping station, characterized in that the feeding station is provided with at least two feeding units for the lids, and with a feeding table which is slidable between each of the two feeding units and the wrapping station. Preferably the transportation unit in the respective feeding unit detaches a row of lids from a given accreting row of lids, transports this detached row at increased speed through a certain distance into an intermediate station situated in the feeding unit, and brings it from the intermediate station to in front of the pusher.

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Nijverdal, Netherlands

Henrik J Hamer