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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 24, 1999
Filed:
Feb. 28, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Roberto Osti, Zola Predosa, IT;
Fiorenzo Draghetti, Medicina, IT;
Assignee:
G.D Societa' Per Azioni, Bologna, IT;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
1984751 ; 198800 ;
Abstract
An output unit for a continuous wrapping machine, wherein packets, substantially in the form of a rectangular parallelepipedon and laid flat on respective seats of a continuous conveyor wheel, are fed by the wheel crosswise to a small lateral surface of the packets, and are transferred onto an intermediate conveyor, which receives each packet from the respective seat, feeds the packet parallel to itself along a substantially 90.degree. conveying arc, and unloads the packet onto an output conveyor tangent to the output end of the conveying arc and traveling continuously in a direction crosswise to a large surface of the packet.