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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 16, 1991
Filed:
May. 31, 1989
Heinz Focke, Verden, DE;
Oskar Balmer, Verden, DE;
Focke & Co., (GmbH & Co.), Verden, DE;
Abstract
The feeding of web-shaped wound packaging material (reels) and/or prefabricated blanks to high-performance packaging machines has hitherto required considerable manual involvement. Above all, the sometimes considerable dead weight of the packaging material has an adverse effect here. To allow a virtually full automatic feed of the packaging machines with packaging material, a conveyor track (31) leads to the individual consumption points at the packaging machines is arranged above the packaging machines. Individual reels (26, 27, 28) or blanks (82) stacked in cassettes (84) are transported along this conveyor track (31) by means of respective material conveyors (41) which are each equipped with material holders (44) that consist solely of rigid immovable supporting members for the reels or cassettes (84). The feed and discharge of these material holders (44) take place automatically as a result of an appropriate relative movement of feed and discharge members.