G.d Societa' Per Azioni

Philip Morris Products S.a.

Valerio Fiorini

Alessandro Minarelli

Stefano Romagnoli

Roberta Brintazzoli

Andrea Corsini

A method and unit for folding a reinforcing flap of the lid of a rigid, hinged-lid packet of cigarettes, wherein at least one reinforcing flap of the lid is folded 180&#xb0; with respect to a blank and about a fold line onto the blank; the reinforcing flap is prefolded about the fold line by means of a first folding device having a movable folding body; and folding of the reinforcing flap about the fold line is completed by means of a second folding device having fixed folding rails.

Method and unit for folding a lid reinforcing flap of a rigid, hinged-lid packet of cigarettes

A method and unit for flexing a flat blank having preformed fold lines; the flat blank is fed by a seat on a conveyor along a path through a flexing station, where a rigid folding body is rolled over the seat to fold the blank against two fixed folding spindles of the seat and about the preformed fold lines; and, on leaving the flexing station, the blank is allowed to spring back to its flat shape.

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Bologna, Italy

Valerio Fiorini