Topack Verpackungstechnik Gmbh

Topak Verpackungstechnik Gmbh

Hauni Maschinenbau Ag

Wolfgang Schnabel

Siegfried Schlisio

Jürgen Pehmöller

Bernhard Brinkmann

Torsten Lembke

Nirian Junge

Joachim Dittrich

Thomas Meins

Ilmar Jonat

Ronald Putzke

Nils Hofmann

Niko Roßfeldt

Roman Kosorog

Dennis Wieczorek

Apparatus for transporting cartons of cigarette packets or analogous block-shaped commodities employs an indexible turret which advances a series of successive equidistant commodities along an arcuate horizontal path into the inlet of a straight horizontal second path defined by an elongated reach of an endless belt conveyor. The conveyor carries spaced-apart receptacles each defined in part by an outwardly extending retaining element affixed to the belt conveyor, and in part by a two-armed lever which is pivotably mounted on the conveyor and is biased by one or more springs to an idle position in which the respective receptacle can receive a commodity from the turret during travel past the inlet of the second path. A commodity which is in the process of entering a receptacle at the inlet bears upon one arm of the lever against the spring bias to thus move the other arm to a position in which the other arm cooperates with the retaining element to advance the commodity along the second path. The other arm and the retaining element cooperate with one or more fixed rails to confine the commodity in a filled receptacle to movement along the second path.

Transporting apparatus

Cardboard blanks with fold lines between their panels are partially draped around arrays of cigarette packets in an apparatus wherein successive arrays which are being advanced along an elongated path at a first speed strip discrete blanks off a mouthpiece which is advanced along such path at a lesser second speed. Additional panels of a blank which is being transported by the mouthpiece, and a first panel of which is to be engaged and entrained by the front side of an oncoming array, are pivoted relative to the first panel along the respective fold lines by pivotable prefolding members which share the movement of and are caused to pivot relative to the mothpiece while the latter transports a blank at the second speed. The prefolding members cooperate with further folding members to pivot further panels of a blank relative to the additional panels while the blank is being transported by the mouthpiece.

Method of and apparatus for wrapping articles of the tobacco processing

First and second conveyors transport discrete rows of cigarette packets to one or more elevators which lift successive packets of the two rows into an assembling plane wherein the packets are caused to form a succession of arrays each containing a first group of packets from one of the conveyors and a second group of packets from the other conveyor. The first groups of successive arrays are lifted to a first additional plane above, and the second groups of successive arrays are lowered into a second additional plane below the assembling plane. The thus lifted and lowered first and second groups of successive arrays are shifted in their respective additional planes onto a third conveyor between the first and second conveyors so that the first groups overlap but are spaced apart from the respective second groups, and the third conveyor transports the first and second groups of successive arrays in such a way that the first groups descend onto the respective second groups. The thus modified arrays are ready for introduction into cartons. A fresh array is formed in the assembling plane while the groups of the preceding array are being manipulated in the respective additional planes.

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Oststeinbek, Germany

Wolfgang Schnabel