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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 07, 1998
Filed:
Jan. 19, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
Marco Brizzi, Zola Predosa, IT;
Antonio Gamberini, Bologna, IT;
Assignee:
G.D Societa' Per Azioni, Bologna, IT;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
19837007 ;
Abstract
A conveyor for step-feeding half packets along a wrapping line for producing twin packets of cigarettes consisting of two half packets with respective foil wrappings and arranged side by side inside an outer wrapping; the half packets being fed through a restoring station and being engaged by a restoring device which, when operated, provides for selectively shifting a half packet from a first location to a second location in the succession of half packets along the conveyor.