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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 20, 2007
Filed:
Jul. 29, 2004
Applicants:
Mario Spatafora, Granarolo, IT;
Fabrizio Tale′, Bologna, IT;
Alberto Polazzi, Rastignano, IT;
Inventors:
Assignee:
G.D Societa' per Azioni, Bologna, IT;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B32B 37/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method and device for applying a label to a packet of cigarettes travelling in a given direction along a conveying path; to apply the label to the packet, a pickup head is fed along a feed path by rotating the pickup head about two axes parallel to each other, and by moving the pickup head radially with respect to one of the two axes.