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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 04, 2021
Filed:
Oct. 24, 2019
Multivac Sepp Haggenmüller SE & Co. KG, Wolfertschwenden, DE;
Tobias Guggenberger, Memmingen, DE;
Peter Kovacs, Memmingen, DE;
Robert Maier, Babenhausen, DE;
Konrad Mößnang, Kempten, DE;
Christian Lau, Heimenkirch, DE;
MULTIVAC SEPP HAGGENMUELLER SE & CO. KG, Wolfertschwenden, DE;
Abstract
A method for operating a packaging machine including one or more of the method steps advancing a transport chain along a chain deflection pulley, wherein chain clips are arranged on the transport chain and moved during the advancing motion of the transport chain along a run-on contour, to open at least one of the chain clips; introducing a flat material blank into the at least one open chain clip using a feed device or by entraining the flat material blank using a connection to a second material blank preceding the flat material blank, wherein the material blank enters the open chain clip during an advancing motion of the transport chain; closing the chain clip by leaving the run-on contour, to grip and secure the material blank in the chain clip; and transporting the material blank to a work station using the transport chain.