G.d Societa' Per Azioni

G.d S.p.a.

Luca Federici

Roberto Polloni

Massimo Sartoni

Luca Testoni

Luca Lanzarini

Giuliano Gamberini

Carlo Moretti

Ivan Eusepi

Marco Esposti

Sergio Morelli

Giovanni Madera

Gabriele Benni

Roberto Claudio Franco Ghiotti

Alver Tacchi

Giuseppe Marchitto

Luca Paradiso

Nicola Baldanza

Davide Parazza

Eugenio Navacchia

Lorena D'Alfonso

Franco Spisni

Luca Mariani

Alberto Casagrande

Maria Eleonora Cesarini

Fiorenzo Draghetti

Marco Ghini

Stefano Negrini

Andrea Biondi

Luca Cavazza

Eros Stivani

Michele Squarzoni

Gaetano De Pietra

Francesco Milandri

Massimo Fortini

Luca Petrucci

Enrico Medina

Salvatore Carboni

Roberto Ghiotti

Michele Ferrari

Paolo Degliesposti

Gilberto Spirito

Michael Andre Lemay

Angelo Li Vigni

Fausto Mengoli

Simone Scagliarini

Stefano Serafini

Vittorio Sgrignuoli

Mirco Legnani

Fabrizio Ronzani

Stefano Romagnoli

Andrea Dondini

Catello Sorrentino

Marcello Tenaglia

Giampaolo Gianese

Luca Vecchietti

Angelo LiVigni

Eura Trivisonno

Daniele Salvadeo

Francesco Renco

Luca Calzolari

Daniela Albertini

Massimo Malavolta

Manuele Cucchi

Andrea Grimandi

Stefano Sarti

Armando Turrini

Emanuele Giovannini

Fabrizio Fazzioli

Gaetano Balboni

Paolo Zanni

Daniele Grosso

Vincenzo Ponticelli

Massimo Romagnoli

Giulia Corte Coi

Franco Serventi

Fabio Pasquino

Mattia Meccagni

Marco Mazzoni

Fabrizio Alessandri

Massimo Bichicchi

Gianluca Bertinelli

Ivano Montoleone

Franco Falcinelli

Alessandro Brizzi

Antonio Tarantino

Flavio Trebbi

Fabio Gaudenzi

Stefano Villa

Stefano Bruni

Gianpiero Lamborghini

Marco Cesari

Alessandro Faggi

Farzin Khairkhah Masooleh

Simone Lazzaroni

Andrea Tallerico

Stefano Salmi

Valerio Amorati

Alessandro Venturi

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A diagnostic method for analysing the operation of an automatic machine which processes products in the tobacco industry includes the following steps: introducing into the machine an endoscopic probe whose shape and size correspond to the shape and size of the products the machine is designed to process and which the machine processes as if it were a real product. During processing in the machine, the probe acquires data through a sensor of its own. The method also includes determining the positions adopted by the probe while it is being processed in the machine and associating them with the data acquired by the probe while it is being processed in the machine.

Diagnostic method for analyzing the operation of an automatic machine which processes products in the tobacco industry

A device for combining filter segments with cigarette rod segments includes a first feed device for feeding a succession of gummed connecting strips and a second feed device for feeding a succession of groups, each including at least one cigarette rod segment and one filter segment, abutted end to end. A combining conveyor receives the groups in a first receiving station and the succession of strips in a second receiving station downstream of the first receiving station so that each gummed connecting strip is applied in flag-like manner on a respective group to connect the cigarette rod segment to the filter segment. A rolling drum receives the group with strip and rolls the strip round the group. A compression device downstream of the second receiving station and upstream of the release station produces compression between each group and the respective strip.

Device and method for combining filter segments with cigarette rod segments in a machine for making cigarettes

A system for assembling electronic cigarette parts comprising cartridges and for filling the cartridges includes a first conveyor; a first group of carrier units connected to the first conveyor to be movable independently along the first conveyor and to receive and hold the parts; a first group of working stations for assembling/inspecting the cigarette parts on the first conveyor; a second conveyor, downstream of the first conveyor; and a second group of carrier units connected to the second conveyor to be movable independently along the second conveyor and to receive and hold the parts; a second group of working stations for assembling/inspecting the parts on the second conveyor; and a filling station, disposed between the first and second conveyors to receive the parts from the first conveyor, fill the respective cartridges, and feed the parts with the filled cartridges towards the second conveyor.

System for assembling and filling electronic cigarettes

A capping station has a first conveying system designed to move a plurality of full bottles; a second conveying system, arranged above the first conveying system, designed to move a plurality of caps; a capping device designed to pick up at least one cap from the second conveying system in order to apply the cap to a bottle carried by the first conveying system; and a heating unit comprising at least one heating device, a support beam carrying the heating device, a main operating device designed to move the support beam between a rest position in which the heating device is far from the bottles and a work position in which the heating device is close to the bottles to heat at least the neck of the bottles, and a safety operating device independent of the main operating device, designed to move the support beam between the work and rest positions.

Bottle capping station, in particular for products of the pharmaceutical industry

A method to restore the functional state of an automatic machine for the production or the packaging of consumer products. The method comprises the steps of: storing a first knowledge base containing a plurality of problematic operating conditions having a corresponding known fault; training the data processing system by associating ate least one solution to each problematic operating condition and storing a second knowledge base containing the solution; identifying a current operating condition; searching, among all the problematic operating conditions stored in the first knowledge base, for the problematic operating condition that is the most similar to the current operating condition; and communicating to an operator the solution associated with the corresponding problematic operating condition and stored inside the second knowledge base.

Method to restore the functional state of an automatic machine for the production or the packaging of consumer products

A machine for making sub-units of smoking articles includes a conveyor, a feed unit and an applicator. The conveyor conveys a succession of tubular segments transversely along a conveying direction. The feed unit feeds and conveys a continuous web and advances the web along a feed direction parallel to the conveying direction of the tubular segments so that the web faces respective application ends of the tubular segments. The applicator is movable along an application direction parallel to an axis of predominant extension of the succession of tubular segments and is configured to engage the web so as to separate respective closing elements from it. The applicator is also configured to apply the closing element internally or externally on an application end of a respective tubular segment in such a way as to form a closing wall to at least partly close the application end.

Machine and method for making a sub-unit of a smoking article

A method and a feeding apparatus for feeding spacers for cigarette packs are disclosed, in which each spacer comprises a substantially rectangular flat body, the spacers being insertable in cartons for cigarette packs to space out packs with dimensions smaller than the standard dimensions; the spacers are stacked on a pallet that is positioned in a withdrawal station; the stacks of spacers are withdrawn from the withdrawal station and transferred to a respective hopper by passing each stack of spacers through an upper opening of the hopper, to then unload the spacers one by one through a lower opening of the hopper.

Feeding method and apparatus

Apparatus for performing operations on semi-finished devices for producing disposable cartridges for electronic cigarettes includes: a guide having a branch extending along a forming direction, and having a longitudinal plane; carriages movable along the guide, each guide includes a retaining element to retain a semi-finished device during operations thereon; a drive system for advancing the carriages along the guide; and operating stations spaced from each other along the forming direction, each having an operating arrangement for performing operations on the semi-finished devices carried by the retaining elements applying stresses on the semi-finished devices; wherein: the retaining element is arranged laterally relative to the longitudinal plane, the apparatus includes a stationary support located at the operating stations, and each of the carriages includes a contrast element cooperating with the stationary support and arranged to transfer stresses applied by the operating arrangement on the semi-finished devices to the stationary support.

Apparatus and method for carrying out operations on semi-finished devices, in particular for producing disposable cartridges for electronic cigarettes

A container for articles, including: an upper end and a lower end; a first lateral wall and a second lateral wall; a bottom, including a first bottom wall and a second bottom wall. The container includes means for blocking the bottom, including a first abutment flap fixed to the inner surface of the first lateral wall and including a lower abutment edge; and a second abutment flap including an upper abutment edge and connected to the second bottom wall. The second abutment flap is folded against the inner surface of the first lateral wall for abutting, with the relative upper abutment edge, the lower abutment edge of the first abutment flap.

Container for articles, relative blank and method of making

A conveyor for aligning rod-shaped articles and including a succession of flutes which are movable along a feed path and which are configured to hold respective rod-shaped articles or groups of rod-shaped articles. For each flute, the conveyor has an abutment portion, disposed at least at one end of the flute to define an abutment surface for one end of the rod-shaped article or group of rod-shaped articles housed in the suction flute. The abutment portion is provided with at least one suction zone to hold the end of the rod-shaped article or group of rod-shaped articles by suction against the abutment portion. The suction zone is defined by a plurality of suction perforations, connected or connectable to a negative pressure source and whose transverse size is, for example, smaller than 1 mm, preferably smaller than 0.8 mm and, still more preferably, smaller than 0.6 mm.

Conveyor and method of aligning rod-shaped articles

A method for making a sub-unit of a smoking article, specifically an HNB smoking article, includes preparing a rod segment, of the tobacco industry and wrapping a connecting strip of wrapping material round that rod segment, about a wrapping axis, in such a way that a first portion of the connecting strip is superposed on a first end of the rod segment and a second portion of it is axially protruding from the first end of the rod segment thereby defining a tubular wrapping which encloses a containment chamber. Then a filling material of the tobacco industry is placed inside the containment chamber. The method also includes a step of making a wall, transverse to the wrapping axis, defining an at least partial closure of the containment chamber, specifically by folding an end portion of the second portion the connecting strip.

Method for making a sub-unit of a smoking article

Transport assembly of the smoking products manufacturing industry; the transport assembly comprises: a first conveying system for feeding components of the smoking products along a first conveying path to a first input station of a first manufacturing machine; and a second conveying system for conveying articles obtained from the components along a second conveying path from a first output station of the first machine to an input station of a second manufacturing machine (for example, a packaging machine); the first conveying system is configured to change the length of a stretch of the first conveying path; the second conveying system is configured to change the length of a stretch of the second conveying path; the mentioned stretches of the first path and of the second path are arranged overlapping one another and/or side by side.

Assembly for transporting different types of articles of the smoking products manufacturing industry and relative plant

An extraction station for the extraction from a transport system for an at least partially complete cartridge; the extraction station has: a collecting device; at least one holding head, which is designed to grab at least one end of the cartridge; and a moving device which supports the holding head and moves the holding head between a pick-up position, in which the holding head is in the area of the transport system and grabs the cartridge, and a release position, in which the holding head releases the cartridge.

Extraction station for the extraction from a transport system for an at least partially complete cartridge, in particular for an electronic cigarette

A method for applying adhesive on a wrapping band of a smoking article includes moving the band along a feed direction, the band has a longitudinal direction of extension, opposing first and second surfaces, a first plurality of portions having a first thickness and a second plurality of portions having a second thickness greater than the first thickness, the portions of the first and second pluralities being disposed alternately along the direction of extension. A nozzle having a delivery end, and the band are moved towards/away from each other between a first position, where the delivery end and the second surface are at a first distance which is less than or equal to the second thickness, and a second position, where the delivery end and the second surface are at a second distance greater than the second thickness. An adhesive is delivered on the first surface through the nozzle.

Method for applying an adhesive on a wrapping band of a smoking article

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Bologna, Italy

Luca Federici