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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 16, 2010
Filed:
Mar. 26, 2004
Gianfranco Cavilli, San Vito, IT;
Omar Succi, Modena, IT;
Gabriele Borasi, Savignano Sul Panaro, IT;
Danilo Veroni, Rubiera, IT;
Bruno Sonzogni, Treviglio, IT;
Gianfranco Cavilli, San Vito, IT;
Omar Succi, Modena, IT;
Gabriele Borasi, Savignano Sul Panaro, IT;
Danilo Veroni, Rubiera, IT;
Bruno Sonzogni, Treviglio, IT;
Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance SA, Puly, CH;
Abstract
A unit for applying opening devices to packages of pourable food products having a rupturable portion includes a conveyor for feeding the packages successively along a given path; and a gripping device for receiving the opening devices at a pickup station, and which move cyclically between the pickup station and an application station interfacing with the path and where the opening devices are applied to respective packages; the trajectory of the gripping device from the application station to the pickup station is distinct from the path of the packages; and the unit also includes a pressure device generating a contact pressure between the packages and the opening devices as of the application station and along at least a portion of the path of the packages.