G.d Societa' Per Azioni

G.d S.p.a.

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

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

G.d Societa&prime; Per Azioni

Marco Ghini

Roberto Polloni

Stefano Negrini

Andrea Biondi

Fiorenzo Draghetti

Mario Spatafora

Stefano Cavallari

Eros Stivani

Antonio Gamberini

Marco Brizzi

Fulvio Boldrini

Armando Neri

Luca Federici

Alessandro Minarelli

Ivanoe Bertuzzi

Lorena D'Alfonso

Michele Squarzoni

Luca Petrucci

Luca Paradiso

Patrizio Roila

Giuseppe Di Stefano

Luca Cavazza

Ivan Eusepi

Roberto Osti

Luca Cerati

Gaetano De Pietra

Giuseppe Marchitto

Domenico Polidori

Michele Ferrari

Franco Carini

Franco Spisni

Stefano Serafini

Stefano Sinigardi

Fabrizio Ronzani

Giuseppe Venturi

Claudia De Maria

Lucio Librio

Mauro Varotto

Giordano Gamberini

Giuseppe Marcante

Fabrizio Tal&eacute;

Luca Gonzato

A method and relative apparatus for testing the tightness of a container closed by a membrane are described. The method includes steps of: submitting the container to a deforming action to increase the pressure inside the container; submitting the membrane to an abutting action to counteract the deformation of the membrane caused by the deforming action; maintaining the action of abutting the membrane at the same time as the action of deforming the container for a set period of time; interrupting the action of abutting the membrane at the end of the period of time; detecting at least one parameter related to a membrane profile when the abutting action has ceased; and comparing the at least one parameter related to the membrane profile with a predefined threshold to verify whether the tightness of the container is to be classified as defective.

Method and apparatus for testing the tightness of a container closed by a membrane

Described are a machine and a method for forming containers from blanks, including a plurality of shaping hoppers, an endless conveyor which defines a feed path and on which the hoppers are mounted in succession and a plurality of pushing elements which are movable in such a way as to follow the respective shaping hoppers along at least a stretch of the feed path and which have a to-and-fro operating movement towards and away from the respective hopper along a direction transverse, preferably perpendicular, to the feed path. The machine also includes folding means disposed along the feed path downstream of the pushing elements and configured to produce, respectively, a top closure and/or a bottom closure of the tubular blank.

Machine and method for forming containers from blanks

A pack for smoking articles having a group of smoking articles; an inner element with at least one wall; and a cup-shaped rigid outer container, housing the inner element and the group of smoking articles, and having an open upper end, a lower wall, oppositely disposed front and rear walls, and oppositely disposed side walls. A cup-shaped lid is hinged to the outer container to rotate, relative to the outer container, between open and closed positions to open and close the open upper end and has: an open lower end, an upper wall, oppositely disposed front and rear walls, and oppositely disposed side walls. The inner element is longitudinally shorter than the outer container coupled to the lid in the closed position and, keeping the lid in the closed position, can linearly slide inside the outer container along a longitudinal sliding direction, perpendicular to the outer container lower wall.

Rigid pack for smoking articles provided with a hinged lid

Hinged-lid packet

A rigid package for tobacco articles with a hinged lid having: a group of tobacco articles; an inner container which houses the group of tobacco articles; an outer container which houses the inner container in a movable manner, so as to allow the inner container itself () to move relative to the outer container; a hinged lid; and a moving mechanism, which moves the inner container relative to the outer container using the rotation movement of the lid and has a rigid connection tab, which connects a wall of the inner container inner to a wall of the lid; a lower wall of the inner container has an extension that is coplanar to the lower wall and extends from the opposite side of the rear wall of the inner container relative to the lower wall.

Rigid package with a hinged lid and with an inner container provided with a lower extension

A filter-tipped cigarette having: a tobacco portion having an outer end and an inner end; a filter butt-connected to the inner end of the tobacco portion; a first sleeve wound about the tobacco portion and the filter to connect the filter permanently and non-detachably to the tobacco portion; a cap butt-connected to the outer end of the tobacco portion, at the opposite end from the filter, and removable to smoke the filter-tipped cigarette; and a second sleeve, which is wound about the cap and the tobacco portion, is integral with the cap, and is at least partly removable axially from the tobacco portion together with and to remove the cap.

Filter-tipped cigarette with a removable cap, and relative manufacturing method and machine

An embossing device comprises a first embossing roller and a second embossing roller forming a passage for a web of wrapping material to be embossed, which has a main line of extension and a direction of feed; the first embossing roller comprises on its outer surface toothings to make an imprint on the web; a first toothing having a first impression to imprint on said web a first segment of a reference for identifying a section of the web and a second toothing to imprint a decorative pattern on the web; the second toothing comprises a zone without teeth for defining on the web a second, unembossed segment of the reference; the first toothing and the zone without teeth are offset from each other along a directrix of the first roller.

Embossing device and packaging machine comprising the device

Display container for disposable capsules for the preparation of beverages

Package for food products

A packet for tobacco products includes an inner container housing a group of tobacco products. A bottom wall is positioned at end portions of the tobacco products. An outer container houses the inner container slidably in parallel with axes of the tobacco products, thus allowing the inner container to slide between a retracted position, and an extracted or raised position. The bottom wall of the inner container forms a supporting portion abutting the end portion of one of the tobacco products. The top wall of the outer container includes an opening, and each sliding action of the inner container towards the raised position causes an axial movement towards the top wall of the outer container of the tobacco product abutting the supporting portion and causing a pickup portion of the tobacco product to come out through the opening in the outer container.

Packet for tobacco products

A packet for tobacco products, includes a mobile container to receive the tobacco products, and a box-shaped body, housing the mobile container such that the mobile container can slide relative to the box-shaped body between a position in which the mobile container is completely inserted in the box-shaped body and a position in which a part of it is extracted from the box-shaped body. Each mobile container includes an inner container housing a group of tobacco products, and an outer container housing the inner container slidably in parallel with axes of the tobacco products, thus allowing the inner container to slide between a retracted position, and an extracted or raised position, in which the inner container is positioned close to a top wall of the outer container and a portion of a tobacco product is accessible through an opening in the outer container.

A rigid, swing-open packet of cigarettes having: an inner package containing a group of cigarettes; an inner container housing the inner package and having a hinged lid; an outer container housing the inner container and having at least one open lateral end; a connecting hinge connecting the inner container and outer container to allow the inner container to rotate between a closed position and an open position; and a control tab connecting the lid to the outer container so that rotation of the inner container with respect to the outer container and about the connecting hinge produces a corresponding rotation of the lid about a lid hinge.

Rigid swing-open packet of cigarettes with a self-opening hinged lid, and relative production method

Set of boxes for tubes and soaps

Described is a packet for tobacco products comprising two containers of tobacco products each substantially having the shape of a parallelepiped and provided with two larger side walls, two smaller side walls, a bottom wall and a top wall, the packet has an outer wrapper having at least one connection panel and at least two additional panels, in particular the containers are connected to the outer wrapper at the at least one connection panel; the packet is provided with a lid, hinged along a first hinge to one of the additional panels, which is able to rotate between a closed position and an open position of the packet and, in the closed position, keeping each of the two additional panels in contact with a respective larger side wall of each container.

A packet () of cigarettes having: an inner package () defined by a group () of cigarettes wrapped in a sheet () of wrapping material having at least one tear line () defining a tear-off top portion (); an inner container () housing the inner package () and having an extraction opening () for access to the tear-off top portion (); an outer container () housing the inner container () in sliding manner, to allow the inner container () to slide, with respect to the outer container (), between a closed position, in which the inner container () is inserted inside the outer container (), and an open position, in which the inner container () is extracted partly from the outer container (); and a tear-off lid () connected to the inner container () by at least one tear line (), and covering at least part of the extraction opening ().

Packet of cigarettes, and method of producing a packet of cigarettes

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