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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 1987
Filed:
Nov. 01, 1985
Hauni-Werke Korber & Co. KG., Hamburg, DE;
Abstract
Apparatus for making cartons with arrays of cigarette packs therein has a conveyor which transports the arrays to a transfer station and a feeding unit which delivers successive blanks to the transfer station so that a freshly delivered blank is adjacent to one side of the foremost array on the conveyor. A tubular deforming member is pivotable about a horizontal axis between a first position in which an inlet of its chamber is adjacent to the transfer station so that a plunger can be caused to transfer the foremost array into the deforming member with simultaneous partial draping of the adjacent blank around the transferred array, and a second position in which the inlet is located at a level below an outlet of the deforming member. A pusher is thereupon caused to enter the deforming member by way of the inlet and to move the array and the deformed blank upwardly into a receiving unit with attendant further deformation of the blank. The blanks can also be deformed during travel of the inlet along a stationary folding device while the deforming member pivots between the first and second positions, as well as by the pusher while the latter is in the process of entering the inlet of the deforming member.