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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 07, 1999
Filed:
Jul. 01, 1998
Heinz Focke, Verden, DE;
Harald Freudenberg, Marklohe, DE;
Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co.), Verden, DE;
Abstract
Method and device for manufacturing hinge-lid packets for cigarettes from individual, prefabricated blanks (11) which are delivered as piles (10) of blanks. Before being transferred to a packaging machine, each pile (10) of blanks is laterally aligned in respect of the exact relative position of the blanks (11), by aligning devices (21, 25, 27, 28) acting on all the upright side faces of the pile (10) of blanks. A separate aligning member, namely a slide (37) serves to align a lower, incorrectly positioned blank (11). This slide is effective in the region of a residual pile of the pile (10) of blanks, namely by raising a predominant upper partial pile.