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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 1987
Filed:
Nov. 14, 1986
G.D. Societa per Azioni, Bologna, IT;
Abstract
A machine for boxing items in groups, in particular sticks of sweets or similar, on which the sticks are fed in successive layers into a compartment for forming the aforementioned groups, which compartment is open vertically and designed to move, along a supporting surface, between a loading position and a bending position; in which bending position, each group is placed on the center portion of a respective blank which is bent about the group by a box-shaped bending assembly; the aforementioned bending operation being performed in two stages, during the first of which, the aforementioned bending assembly moves in relation to the blank and the group which are stationary, and during the second of which, the group and the blank are moved through the bending assembly by virtue of two opposed pushers.