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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 05, 2005
Filed:
Jul. 31, 2003
Luca Borderi, Sasso Marconi, IT;
Mario Spatafora, Bologna, IT;
Luca Borderi, Sasso Marconi, IT;
Mario Spatafora, Bologna, IT;
G.D Societa' per Azioni, Bologna, IT;
Abstract
A method and device for forming groups of products, whereby a substantially continuous input succession of products is fed to an input of an endless conveyor, which has a conveying branch and a return branch extending between the input and an output, and which has a variable speed drive member operated to impart a variable speed to the conveyor at the input, and to generate, along the conveying branch, a succession of equally spaced on-line gaps defining a succession of groups of products; the conveying and return branches are both engaged by a powered compensating device for varying the lengths of the conveying and return branches in complementary manner, so as to maintain a constant speed of the conveyor at the output and compensate for any gaps in the input succession. (FIG.)