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Azionaria Costruzioni Macchine Automatiche A.c.m.a. S.p.a.

Azionaria Construzioni Macchine Automatiche A.c.m.a. S.p.a.

Azionaria Costruzioni Macchine Automotive S.p.a.

Luca Cerati

Andrea Biondi

Luca Cavazza

Gaetano De Pietra

Stefano Sinigardi

Fiorenzo Draghetti

Armando Neri

Marco Ghini

Alessandro Minarelli

Ivan Eusepi

Massimo Scrivani

Giacomo Noferini

Alberto Bonechi

Claudia De Maria

Eura Trivisonno

Noemi Zordan

Enrico Campagnoli

Antonio Gigante

Franco Spisni

Marco Bencivenni

Massimo Bichicchi

Eura Trevisonno

A support for transporting containers in a microwave inspection device, including a supporting body which can be moved along a feed path and at least two receiving seats connected to the top of the supporting body to be moved along said feed path, wherein said supporting body has two or more supporting portions (S, S) which are at least partly separated from each other by one or more openings and each carrying at least one respective receiving seat, said supporting portions (S, S) being connected or integral with each other in a lower region of the supporting body.

Support for transporting containers in a microwave inspection device and a device and method of inspection of containers using the support

An inspection device for inspecting containers comprises a rotary conveyor, provided with a plurality of receiving cavities, and a measuring station configured to inspect each container while the container is being supported and moved by the conveyor, wherein the conveyor has continuous motion and the measuring station comprises a microwave detector provided with a measuring zone through which each container passes in order to generate an information item relating to at least one of the following: weight of the container as a whole or of the dose of product contained therein, type of product inside the container, presence of foreign bodies in the container.

Device and method for inspecting containers

A method for performing operations on items (A) transported along a manufacturing line including feeding a sequence of items (A) with respective resting portions along a first feed path onto a first transport surface, arranging a gripping assembly having a first gripping head and a second gripping head, picking up a first item (A) from the first feed path using the first gripping head, rotating the first item (A) around a first rotation axis (R), performing at least one operation on the item (A) during the rotation thereof around the first rotation axis (R), swapping the positions of the first gripping head and the second gripping head, resting the first item (A) on a second transport surface and releasing the first item (A), and picking up a further item (A) from the first feed path using the second gripping head.

Method and device for performing operations on items transported along a manufacturing line

A machine for making capsules of the type including a container and a dose of product inside the container, includes a feed system for feeding at least a first container along a feed path in a direction of feed; at least one filling station for supplying a dose of said product into said first container, at least one detecting station positioned along said feed path downstream of said filling station in the direction of feed and comprising a detecting sensor operating at said first seat configured to detect the moisture of the product supplied into the first container.

Capsule making machine

A food products packaging automatic plant can have at least a first food products packaging conveying line having a plurality of first connection areas. The plant further comprises a plurality of operative units. Each operative unit has a movable base able to move at the connecting areas; a processing device placed on the movable base and connectable to the conveying line at the connection areas; a plurality of sensors; and a wireless communication device. The plant further includes a maintenance station of the operative units; a preparation station of the operative units; and a control and managing central unit. The control and managing central unit commands the operative units so that they move from and towards the first food products packaging conveying line and from and towards the operative units maintenance and preparation stations.

Food products packaging automatic plant

A machine for making capsules of the type including a container and a dose of product inside the container, including a feed system for feeding at least a first container along a feed path in a direction of feed; at least one filling station for supplying a dose of said product into said first container, at least one detecting station positioned along said feed path downstream of said filling station in the direction of feed and including a detecting sensor operating at said first seat configured to detect the moisture of the product supplied into the first container.

Tobacco products (), typically cigarettes, are manufactured on a line () including a cigarette maker () and a filter tip attachment machine (), both equipped with a number of production devices and units connected to respective master control units () and visual display units (). Key characteristics of sample tobacco products () are tested by an auxiliary inspection unit () forming part of a monitoring and control system associated with the manufacturing line (), and connected up to a common interface network () so that signals reflecting the monitored characteristics can be fed back to a number of control units () associated respectively with the devices and the units of the line () on which the characteristics in question depend, and programmed to pilot corrective actions in response to the feedback signal.

System for monitoring and controlling machines used in the manufacture of tobacco products

A laser marking unit for marking packets, having: a marking conveyor for feeding the packets successively along a marking path; and a marking station located along the marking conveyor, and having a laser marking device for marking a code on the outer surface of each packet conveyed on the marking conveyor. The laser marking device has a laser beam generator which emits a laser beam by means of an emitter; and a deflection box which deflects the laser beam onto the packet at the marking station by directing the laser beam along a focusing path that starts at the emitter and terminates on the outer surface of the packet.

Laser packet marking unit

A method and device for quality controlling packets of cigarettes, whereby, as a packet is fed, in use, through a quality control station, an optical detecting unit acquires data relative to given portions of the packet, which portions are coated with material optically detectable at wavelengths outside the visible range; the data detected by the optical detecting unit is compared with reference data, and the outcome of the comparison is used to determine acceptance or rejection of the packet; in this way, the condition of the packet can be determined regardless of the graphics on the packet.

Method and device for quality controlling packets

In a method of detecting and eliminating foreign bodies in tobacco, a flow of tobacco advances first through a preparation zone where it is gathered into a continuous ribbon of tobacco filler, then through a forming station at which the filler is used to fashion a continuous cigarette rod, and finally through a cutter device that divides the rod into cigarette sticks; the advancing flow is directed at a given point through a detection device and exposed to electromagnetic radiation of microwave frequency emitted and received in such a way as to generate output signals reflecting any variations in moisture content along the flow of tobacco, caused by the inclusion of foreign bodies and associated with given portions of the flow each coinciding with a singly identifiable cigarette stick.

Method of detecting and eliminating foreign bodies in a flow of tobacco

A package of tobacco articles, having a container; a group of tobacco articles housed inside the container; and a marker, which is housed inside the container, has a resonating body resonating at a given resonance frequency, and is remotely detectable by a shoplifting detector device by means of an electromagnetic field having a frequency substantially equal to the resonance frequency.

Package of tobacco articles featuring a shoplifting marker

A continuous cigarette rod advancing along a set path is directed through an electro-optical scanning station where its entire cylindrical surface is inspected by a unit comprising an illumination device of which the function is to shed light in substantially uniform manner on a given annular area of the surface, a line scan television camera positioned relative to the path in such a way as to enable acquisition of a direct image from a first portion of the annular area, and a reflecting element located on the side of the path opposite to the camera, embodied and oriented in such a way as to reflect two images back toward the camera which combine with the direct image to make up the entire annular area.

Electro-optical unit for scanning the entire lateral surface of articles substantially cylindrical in shape

A method of measuring the intensity of radiation transmitted through a body of given shape and material, the method including the steps of directing an incident beam of electromagnetic radiation crosswise onto the body to obtain an output beam coaxial with the incident beam; and measuring the energy of the output beam by correcting the energy transmitted by each of the rays of at least one of the two beams as a function of the length (d) of an optical path through the body and aligned with the ray.

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Bologna, Italy

Luca Cerati