Abstract

The invention relates to a method for feeding groups (10) of products (13) of the cigarette industry to pockets (11) of a conveyor (12), wherein the products (13) are ejected in groups (10) from a slot (15) of a magazine (14) for the products (13) by means of a pusher (16) allocated to the slot (15) and are pushed through a mouth piece (17) allocated to the slot (15) into a pocket (11) of the conveyor (12), in particular of a pocket-chain conveyor or a revolver, and wherein the magazine has a plurality of slots to which an individually actuatable pusher (16) is allocated in each case, by means of which pusher a group (10) of products (13) can be pushed out of the respective slot (15) into a pocket (11) of the conveyor (12) allocated to the respective slot (15), and wherein, in a normal operating state, groups (10) of products (13) are pushed into pockets (11) of the conveyor (12) from a predefined number of slots (15) by means of a respective allocated pusher (16). According to the invention, in the event of a malfunction which results in a complete group (10) of products (13) no longer being able to be pushed out of one of the slots into a pocket (11) of the conveyor (12) such that said pocket (11) would not be completely filled, by way of replacement a group (10) of products (13) from a replacement slot (30) is pushed into the unfilled pocket (11) of the conveyor (12).

IPC Classes  ?

• B65B 19/10 - Arranging cigarettes in layers each comprising a predetermined number
• B65B 19/32 - Control devices for cigarette or cigar packaging machines responsive to incorrect grouping of articles or to incorrect filling of packages
• B65B 35/32 - Arranging and feeding articles in groups by gravity
• B65B 57/16 - Automatic control, checking, warning or safety devices responsive to absence, presence, abnormal feed, or misplacement of articles or materials to be packaged and operating to stop, or to control the speed of, the machine as a whole

Goods & Services

Packaging machines for the tobacco industry; cigarette packaging machines; carton packers for the tobacco industry; film wrapping machines for the tobacco industry; packaging machines for cellulose products for the tobacco industry; tobacco pouch packers; conveyors for the tobacco industry; belt conveyors, roller conveyors, chain conveyors and overhead conveyors for machines, for packaging machines and for the transport of materials for packaging for the tobacco industry; robots for loading and unloading of packaging machines, containers, pallets and conveyors for the tobacco industry; transmission gears for the tobacco industry; gear motors for the tobacco industry; machine couplings (not for land vehicles) for the tobacco industry; parts for above mentioned machines, appliances and units, namely shafts, axles, toothed wheels, gear wheels, mechanical control and regulating apparatus, valves, pumps, pipes, machine foundations, hydraulic and pneumatic telescopic cylinders, bearings, drives, driving belts, adhesive tape dispensers, cutting tools (as far as included in this class) for the tobacco industry. Weighing, measuring, signalling, checking [supervision] apparatus and instruments; magnetic data carriers; data processing apparatus; computers; computer programmes [stored], all for the tobacco, cigarette and packaging industries and for packaging machines and robots for the tobacco industry; scales. Maintenance and repair of packaging machines and robots for the tobacco industry and weighing, measuring, signalling, checking [supervision] apparatus and instruments for packaging machines and robots for the tobacco industry.

Abstract

The invention relates to a method and to a device for producing packets for products of the cigarette industry, wherein the device is designed to wrap a group of products of the cigarette industry in an inner casing (10), and wherein the device is designed to interconnect folding flaps of the inner casing (10) by forming seams so that an inner casing (10) is formed which surrounds the group of products and is preferably completely sealed, and wherein the device is preferably designed to arrange the inner casing (10) inside an outer casing. According to the invention, the method and the device are designed to produce at least two different types of inner casings (10).

IPC Classes  ?

• B65B 9/067 - Enclosing successive articles, or quantities of material, in a longitudinally-folded web, or in a web folded into a tube about the articles or quantities of material placed upon it the web advancing continuously
• B65B 19/02 - Packaging cigarettes
• B65B 19/22 - Wrapping the cigarettesPackaging the cigarettes in containers formed by folding wrapping material around formers
• B65B 35/24 - Feeding, e.g. conveying, single articles by endless belts or chains
• B65B 35/58 - Turning articles by positively-acting means, e.g. to present labelled portions in uppermost position
• B65B 41/18 - Registering sheets, blanks, or webs
• B65B 49/14 - Folders forming part of, or attached to, conveyors for partially-wrapped articles
• B65B 51/02 - Applying adhesives or sealing liquids
• B65B 59/00 - Arrangements to enable machines to handle articles of different sizes, to produce packages of different sizes, to vary the contents of packages or to give access for cleaning or maintenance purposes
• B65B 59/04 - Machines constructed with readily-detachable units or assemblies, e.g. to facilitate maintenance
• B65B 65/00 - Details peculiar to packaging machines and not otherwise provided forArrangements of such details

Abstract

The invention relates to a multipack having at least one group (12) made up of a plurality of products (11), wherein the products (11) of the at least one group (12) are arranged in a preferably ordered formation, and wherein the group (12) of products (11) is at least partially enclosed by a wrapper (13) made of a packaging material. Provision is made according to the invention for the wrapper (13), preferably made of a paper-based packaging material, to have a material weakening (14) in the form of an opening aid for the wrapper (13).

IPC Classes  ?

• B65D 71/06 - Bundles of articles held together by packaging elements for convenience of storage or transport, e.g. portable segregating carrier for plural receptacles such as beer cans or pop bottlesBales of material comprising a plurality of articles completely or mainly held together by packaging elements, e.g. under tension
• B65D 75/58 - Opening or contents-removing devices added or incorporated during package manufacture

Abstract

A multi-pack for packs for products of the cigarette industry, and a corresponding device and a packaging method, wherein a plurality of packs for products of the cigarette industry is arranged in ordered formation and wherein the packs are wrapped in a blank made of packaging material as an outer casing. At least one filler piece is arranged, together with the packs, in the outer casing, wherein the filler piece is arranged opposite from a bottom side of the outer casing or from a bottom side of the packs, and wherein the bottom sides of the packs directly abut the inside of the bottom side of the outer casing.

IPC Classes  ?

• B65D 85/10 - Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for compressible or flexible articles rod-shaped or tubular for cigarettes
• B65B 19/14 - Inserting the cigarettes, or wrapped groups thereof, into preformed containers into pocket boxes, e.g. boxes of rectangular form closed at one end by a flap adapted to be inserted into a slot in the body
• B65B 19/22 - Wrapping the cigarettesPackaging the cigarettes in containers formed by folding wrapping material around formers

Abstract

The invention relates to a method and a device for separating blanks, in particular collars (26), for packages for products of the cigarette industry from a material web (52), comprising a rotatable cutter roller (64), the surface of which is equipped with one or more cutting blades, and comprising a preferably rod-shaped counter cutting element (65). The material web (52) can be passed between the cutter roller (64) and the counter cutting element (65), and by way of an interaction between a cutting blade and the counter cutting element (65), blanks can be cut out from the material web (52) during a rotation of the cutting roller (64). According to the invention, the counter cutting element (65) is supported in a mounting, the mounting can be adjusted with respect to its distance from the cutting roller (64) via a first wedge-shaped positioning element (74), and the cutting roller (64) can be adjusted with respect to its inclination relative to the counter cutting element (65) via a second wedge-shaped positioning element (80). The invention also relates to a device for handling blanks from a material web (52), and the blanks previously cut out can be gripped by advancement rollers (113), frictionally gripped between meandering belts (88) and conveyed towards a transfer unit.

IPC Classes  ?

• B26D 1/38 - Cutting through work characterised by the nature or movement of the cutting memberApparatus or machines thereforCutting members therefor involving a cutting member which does not travel with the work having a cutting member moving about an axis with a non-circular cutting member moving about an axis parallel to the line of cut and coacting with a fixed blade or other fixed member
• B26D 7/18 - Means for removing cut-out material or waste
• B26D 7/26 - Means for mounting or adjusting the cutting memberMeans for adjusting the stroke of the cutting member
• B65H 29/12 - Delivering or advancing articles from machinesAdvancing articles to or into piles by means of the nip between two, or between two sets of, moving tapes or bands
• B65H 29/20 - Delivering or advancing articles from machinesAdvancing articles to or into piles by contact with rotating friction members, e.g. rollers, brushes, or cylinders
• B65H 5/02 - Feeding articles separated from pilesFeeding articles to machines by belts or chains

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for handling packs (52) for products of the cigarette industry, wherein blanks made of packaging material are each folded about the pack content of the packs (52) on a folding turret (32), and wherein the partially finished packs (52) are discharged from the folding turret (32) and conveyed along a transport path (44), and wherein folding tabs of the blanks are provided with adhesive and connected to each other in the region of the folding turret (32) and/or of the adjoining transport path (44). According to the invention, provision is made that the packs (52) are conveyed from the transport path (44) into a preferably upright drying tower (48), wherein the packs (52) in the drying tower (48) are conveyed, transversely with respect to the transport direction in the transport path (44), along a drying path (60) which extends along the drying tower (48), and wherein folding tabs (57) of the blanks for forming narrow-side walls of the packs (52) are brought to rest on each other in a transfer station (77) upon transfer of the packs (52) from the transport path (44) into the drying path (60), such that the resulting adhesive connection of the folding tabs (57) sets during the transport of the packs (52) along the drying path (60).

IPC Classes  ?

• B65B 19/02 - Packaging cigarettes
• B65B 19/22 - Wrapping the cigarettesPackaging the cigarettes in containers formed by folding wrapping material around formers
• B65B 61/00 - Auxiliary devices, not otherwise provided for, for operating on sheets, blanks, webs, binding material, containers or packages
• B65B 19/20 - Inserting the cigarettes, or wrapped groups thereof, into preformed containers into boxes with hinged lids

Abstract

The invention relates to a packet for cigarette industry products, comprising a tray (11) for receiving at least two groups (10) of products, wherein a separating element (20) for delimiting at least two receiving spaces for one group (10) of products each is arranged in an interior space of the tray (11), and the separating element (20) is formed by a wall of the tray (11). According to the invention, the separating element (20) is fixed in place by a securing tab (22) of the tray (11) in a position delimiting the receiving spaces, the securing tab being designed such that it can be brought into a position fixing the separating element (20) in place when it is swiveled by in particular 90° to 180°.

IPC Classes  ?

• B65D 5/489 - Partitions integral formed by folding inwardly portions cut in the container body
• B65D 85/10 - Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for compressible or flexible articles rod-shaped or tubular for cigarettes

Abstract

A method and device for forming groups of compressed hygiene products, wherein uncompressed hygiene products are supplied by a first conveyor and are transferred to a compressing apparatus having a compartment for a group of uncompressed hygiene products, and a plurality of uncompressed hygiene products are transferred from the first conveyor into the compartment while the compartment is moved, together with the first conveyor, in a transport direction. The group of uncompressed hygiene products is compressed in the compartment during the transporting in the transport direction such that, after compression, a group of compressed hygiene products is situated in the compartment, and the group of compressed hygiene products is discharged to a compartment of a second conveyor during the further transporting of the compartment of the compressing apparatus, wherein the compartment of the compressing apparatus is moved in the transport direction with the compartment of the second conveyor.

IPC Classes  ?

• A61F 13/15 - Absorbent pads, e.g. sanitary towels, swabs or tampons for external or internal application to the bodySupporting or fastening means thereforTampon applicators
• B65B 35/24 - Feeding, e.g. conveying, single articles by endless belts or chains
• B65B 63/02 - Auxiliary devices, not otherwise provided for, for operating on articles or materials to be packaged for compressing or compacting articles or materials prior to wrapping or insertion in containers or receptacles
• B65G 47/26 - Devices influencing the relative position or the attitude of articles during transit by conveyors arranging the articles, e.g. varying spacing between individual articles
• B65G 47/68 - Devices for transferring articles or materials between conveyors, i.e. discharging or feeding devices adapted to receive articles arriving in one layer from one conveyor and to transfer them in individual layers to more than one conveyor, or vice versa, e.g. combining the flows of articles conveyed by more than one conveyor
• B65G 57/03 - Stacking of articles by adding to the top of the stack from above

Abstract

A method for applying individual portions of adhesive to a substrate, in which the portions of adhesive are applied successively by means of a valve, a coil of an electromagnet being energized with an actuation voltage pulse for each successive dispensing of portions of adhesive from the valve, which causes a valve opening of the valve for an actual opening duration during which adhesive can flow out of the valve for dispensing the respective adhesive portion by moving a closure member of the valve from a closed position into an open position. The actual opening duration of at least one valve opening which follows a valve opening which precedes it in time is shortened in accordance with one or more valve operating parameters to compensate for electromagnetic interference effects which extend the actual opening duration of the subsequent valve opening.

IPC Classes  ?

• B05C 5/02 - Apparatus in which liquid or other fluent material is projected, poured or allowed to flow on to the surface of the work from an outlet device in contact, or almost in contact, with the work

Abstract

The invention relates to a device and method for handling packaging material for wrapping (12) of cigarette industry products (11), wherein a line of weakness (18) is provided in the packaging material, in particular as an opening aid. According to the invention, the line of weakness (18) is formed (only) by embossing the packaging material, preferably on a continuous material web (28) of the packaging material. The invention also relates to a packet (10) for cigarette industry products (11) comprising such a line of weakness (18).

IPC Classes  ?

• B65B 19/00 - Packaging rod-shaped or tubular articles susceptible to damage by abrasion or pressure, e.g. cigarettes, cigars, macaroni, spaghetti, drinking straws or welding electrodes
• B31B 50/88 - PrintingEmbossing
• B31B 70/88 - PrintingEmbossing
• B31F 1/07 - Embossing

Abstract

The invention relates to a method and a device for handling products (10), in particular for blanks (13) made of packaging material for packaging products (10) in the cigarette industry, comprising a deflection device (18), wherein the products (10) can be supplied to the deflection device (18) in a first transport direction (16), and wherein the deflection device (18) is designed to redirect the products (10) in a second transport direction (19), running transverse, preferably perpendicular, to the first transport direction (16), and wherein the deflection device (18) is designed to redirect the products (10) via transportation along a curved transport route (35), and wherein the products (10) can be conveyed in the region of the curved transport route (35) via transport means of the deflection device (18), with which the products (10) are in contact in the region of opposing lateral surfaces. According to the invention, the speed of the transport means is adapted to the speed of the products (10) in the region of the respective lateral surfaces.

IPC Classes  ?

• B65H 5/02 - Feeding articles separated from pilesFeeding articles to machines by belts or chains

Abstract

The invention relates to a device and a method for handling a continuous material web (25, 45) for producing blanks for packets (10) for products of the cigarette industry, wherein blanks (15) are separated from the continuous material web (25, 45) and are wrapped around a packet content in a packaging machine for products of the cigarette industry, especially in order to form an inner packet (12) as a sealed packet. According to the invention, a barrier layer (16) is applied inline to the continuous material web (25, 45).

IPC Classes  ?

• B65B 19/22 - Wrapping the cigarettesPackaging the cigarettes in containers formed by folding wrapping material around formers

Abstract

The invention relates to a device and a method for handling a continuous material web (14) for producing blanks (15) for packets for products of the cigarette industry, wherein blanks (15) are separated from the continuous material web (14) and are processed in a packaging machine (39) for products of the cigarette industry. According to the invention, the continuous material web (14) is printed inline.

IPC Classes  ?

• B65B 19/02 - Packaging cigarettes
• B65B 19/22 - Wrapping the cigarettesPackaging the cigarettes in containers formed by folding wrapping material around formers
• B65H 19/18 - Attaching, e.g. pasting, the replacement web to the expiring web

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for handling web-form packaging material (15) within a packaging machine (10) preferably for products in the cigarette industry, wherein the packaging material (15), more particularly a continuous material web, is fed from a supply, more particularly from a reel (16), to the packaging machine (10) and is guided through the packaging machine (10) along a predefined conveying path (23), wherein the packaging material (15) is in contact with elements of the packaging machine (10) along the predefined conveying path (23), said elements serving to guide, transport, handle and/or process the material web, and wherein the packaging material (15), more particularly at the start of a packaging process and/or after interruptions in the packaging process, is threaded into the packaging machine (10) along the predefined conveying path (23) or at least a part of same up to a predefined element of the packaging machine (10), more particularly a predefined consumption point (24). According to the invention, the packaging material (15) is at least partially, preferably to a large extent, more preferably substantially, more particularly exclusively, threaded into the packaging machine (10) by an operator along the predefined conveying path (23) or at least a part of same up to a predefined element of the packaging machine (10), more particularly a predefined consumption point (24), and elements of the packaging machine (10) that are in contact with the packaging material (15) during the threading-in procedure and/or the packaging process are set at least partially into an operating state that simplifies threading-in procedure for the operator.

IPC Classes  ?

• B65H 19/12 - Lifting, transporting, or inserting the web rollRemoving empty core

Abstract

A device and a method for filling bags with products, wherein the bags have an opening via which the bags are each filled with at least one product, wherein walls of the bag are spaced apart from one another in the region of the opening in order to introduce the at least one product into the bag via the opening, and wherein, after the walls are spaced apart and before the at least one product is supplied, holding elements are introduced into the bag through the opening in order to hold the open bag in the region of the opening. At least some holding elements have at least one shaping element against which a wall of the bag bears in each case such that the material of the wall is preferably plastically deformed in order to hold the wall on the respective holding element via the respective shaping element.

IPC Classes  ?

• B65B 67/12 - Sack holders, i.e. stands or frames with means for supporting sacks in the open condition to facilitate filling with articles or materials
• B65B 5/06 - Packaging groups of articles, the groups being treated as single articles
• B65B 43/30 - Opening or distending bagsOpening, erecting, or setting-up boxes, cartons, or carton blanks by grippers engaging opposed walls, e.g. suction-operated
• B65B 43/46 - Feeding or positioning bags, boxes, or cartons in the distended, opened, or set-up stateFeeding preformed rigid containers, e.g. tins, capsules, glass tubes, glasses, to the packaging positionLocating containers or receptacles at the filling positionSupporting containers or receptacles during the filling operation using grippers
• B65B 25/20 - Packaging garments, e.g. socks, stockings, shirts
• B65B 63/02 - Auxiliary devices, not otherwise provided for, for operating on articles or materials to be packaged for compressing or compacting articles or materials prior to wrapping or insertion in containers or receptacles
• B65B 35/40 - Arranging and feeding articles in groups by reciprocating or oscillatory pushers

Abstract

The invention relates to a device for handling rod-like products (11) of the cigarette industry, comprising a hopper (12), to which the products (11) can be supplied via a supply opening (22), which is preferably above, and to which shafts (14) are connected, which are preferably underneath, to which shafts the products (11) can be transferred from the hopper (12), wherein the products (11) are conveyed inside the hopper (12) as a mass flow (10), at least in part by gravity, from the supply opening (22), which is preferably above, to the connected shafts (14), which are preferably underneath, along a transport path (29) in a conveying direction (30), and wherein one or more guide elements (20) are arranged in the transport path (29). According to the invention, the at least one guide element (20) is mounted on the hopper (12) so as to swing about a centre point of rotation (25), and the guide element (20) is mounted magnetically on the hopper (12) for flexible positioning of the corresponding guide element (20) in the hopper (12).

IPC Classes  ?

• A24C 5/32 - Separating, ordering, counting or examining cigarettes Regulating the feeding of tobacco according to rod or cigarette condition
• B65B 19/04 - Arranging, feeding, or orientating the cigarettes
• B65G 47/19 - Arrangements or applications of hoppers or chutes having means for controlling material flow, e.g. to prevent overloading

Abstract

A method for handling flat objects, in particular sanitary products, such as nappies, sanitary towels or the like, wherein a group of objects is subjected to a compression operation in a compression device so that the group of objects has a degree of compression as a result of the compression. A plurality of compression devices are arranged one after the other so that the group of objects which is compressed with a compression device is supplied to the following compression device with the respective degree of compression thereof and is further compressed in this compression device in order to achieve a higher degree of compression.

IPC Classes  ?

• B65G 15/06 - Conveyors having endless load-conveying surfaces, i.e. belts and like continuous members, to which tractive effort is transmitted by means other than endless driving elements of similar configuration with oppositely-moving parts of the endless surface located in the same plane and parallel to one another
• B65G 15/22 - Conveyors having endless load-conveying surfaces, i.e. belts and like continuous members, to which tractive effort is transmitted by means other than endless driving elements of similar configuration comprising a series of co-operating units

Abstract

An application device for applying a flowable medium onto a substrate, having a discharge valve having a closure member which, in its open position, releases a metering opening of the discharge valve, such that the flowable medium can flow through the metering opening in the direction of the substrate, wherein the closure member is movable by an electromagnet of the discharge valve from a closing position, in which it closes the metering opening, to an open position, and having a main control unit, which is connected to the discharge valve, and which delivers electrical output voltage signals which moves and maintains the closure member to the open position. A modification unit is arranged between the main control unit and the discharge valve, which is configured such it receives output voltage signals from the main control unit, modifies these signals and relays the latter in a modified form to the electromagnet.

IPC Classes  ?

• B05C 11/10 - Storage, supply or control of liquid or other fluent materialRecovery of excess liquid or other fluent material
• F16K 31/06 - Operating meansReleasing devices electricOperating meansReleasing devices magnetic using a magnet
• F16K 37/00 - Special means in or on valves or other cut-off apparatus for indicating or recording operation thereof, or for enabling an alarm to be given

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for operating a machine, in particular a cyclically operating machine, in particular a packaging machine for packaging products, such as products of the tobacco industry, wherein the machine has at least one automation device (21) for controlling, influencing and/or monitoring the machine, which automation device has at least one multicore processor (26) having a plurality of processor cores (22 a - 22 d), in particular as part of an industrial PC of the automation device (21), to which calculation tasks of the automation device (21) are distributed and are executed thereby. The method is characterized in that the same or the identical time slots (time periods) which are arranged in temporal succession, in particular each directly succeed one another, are preferably permanently assigned to each processor core (22 a - 22 d) of those processor cores (22 a - 22 d) to which these calculation tasks are distributed, in each case in particular with regard to the starting time, end time and duration, in which time slots the processor cores each execute the calculation tasks assigned to each of them in succession, preferably using a predetermined timing scheme (timing diagram).

IPC Classes  ?

• G06F 9/48 - Program initiatingProgram switching, e.g. by interrupt

Abstract

The invention relates to a device for transporting products (10), more particularly packages for products (10) in the cigarette industry, with a continuous conveyor (11), more particularly a belt conveyor, on the conveying strand (14) of which drivers (15) for transporting the products (10) in a conveying direction (12) are arranged, wherein the drivers (15) are preferably designed to rest against a product (10) or to hold the product (10) between two successive drivers (15), and wherein the continuous conveyor (11) is guided over deflecting means (13), more particularly deflecting rollers or deflecting wheels. According to the invention, the drivers (15) on the conveying strand (14) of the continuous conveyor (11) are each releasably fastened by means of at least one fastening means (16) and an underside (24) of the drivers (15) facing the continuous conveyor (11) is in each case concave, wherein the drivers (15) are each fastened on the conveying strand (14) by means of the fastening means (16) in such a manner that the fastening strand (14) is curved in the region of the drivers (15) in the direction of the concave underside (24) of the drivers (15) and at least partially rests against the underside (24) of the drivers.

IPC Classes  ?

• B65G 15/44 - Belts or like endless load-carriers made of rubber or plastics having ribs, ridges, or other surface projections for impelling the loads
• B65G 19/24 - Attachment of impellers to traction element

Goods & Services

Maintenance and repair of packaging machines and robots and of weighing, measuring, signalling, testing apparatus and instruments for packaging machines and robots; installation, repair and maintenance services for industrial apparatus, instruments and machines. Science and technology services; design and development of computer hardware and software; scientific and technological analytics; technological consultancy, advisory services relating to industrial engineering; technological consultancy and industrial advisory services, in relation to the following goods: machines and apparatus for packaging and closing; technological consultancy and industrial advisory services, in relation to the following goods: packaging machines for foodstuffs and luxury foods, alcohol and tobacco; technical advice relating to industrial machinery; design, development and consultancy relating to industrial machines; software development, for others, for use in relation to the following goods: industrial machines; design of industrial machinery; engineering in the field of the planning and development of automation projects, development of hardware and software in the field of automation engineering; construction engineering services [construction design], in relation to the following goods: industrial machines; all the aforesaid services included in this class being limited to use in connection with packaging machines, industrial robots, machines, devices and units for applying adhesives, automation installations and machines, machines for the pharmaceutical industry.

Abstract

The invention relates to a device and a method for applying tear strips (10) onto a running material web (11) in order to form casings for groups of products of the cigarette industry. A running material strip (16) for tear strips (10) is drawn from a bobbin (20), preferably in a continuous manner, and tear strips (10) of a specified length are detached from the material strip and are applied onto the running material web (11) in spaced relation to each other. According to the invention, the material strips (16) are brought into contact with the lateral surface (21) of an application drum (19), which has a polygonal cross-section and is preferably driven in an intermittent manner, such that the material strip (16) side which is provided with adhesive faces outwards, a tear strip (10) is then detached from the material strip (16) on the circumference of the application drum (19), and the material web (11) is then preferably moved towards the lateral surface (21) of the application drum (19) such that the detached tear strip (10) is applied onto the material web (11) by means of adhesion.

IPC Classes  ?

• B31B 70/81 - Forming or attaching accessories, e.g. opening devices, closures or tear strings
• B65B 61/18 - Auxiliary devices, not otherwise provided for, for operating on sheets, blanks, webs, binding material, containers or packages for applying or incorporating package-opening or unpacking elements, e.g. tear-strips

Abstract

The invention relates to an apparatus and a method for the handling of bags (10) for (hygiene) products (11), wherein the bags (10) have an opening (25) via which these bags are each filled with at least one product (11), forming the bag contents, and wherein walls of the bags (10) are spaced apart from one another in the region of the opening (25) in order for the bag contents to be introduced into the respective bag (10) via the opening (25), and wherein, once the bag contents have been fed into a bag (10), the respective opening (25) is closed, preferably by sealing of the walls of the bag (10) in the region of the opening (25). Provision is made according to the invention that, once the bag contents have been fed into a bag (10), the filled bag (10) is conveyed in a conveying direction (13) along a conveying route (22) into a closing station (19), in which the filled bag (10) is closed, wherein, in the closing station (19), the filled bag (10) is stopped in a predetermined position along the conveying route (22) by a stopper device (29) in order for the filled bag (10) to be closed in the closing station (19), and that the filled and closed bag (10) is then transferred in the conveying direction (13) by a conveying device (33) to a conveying means (32), in particular a removal belt.

IPC Classes  ?

• B65B 5/06 - Packaging groups of articles, the groups being treated as single articles
• B65B 25/14 - Packaging paper or like sheets, envelopes, or newspapers, in flat, folded, or rolled form
• B65B 51/14 - Applying or generating heat or pressure or combinations thereof by reciprocating or oscillating members
• B65B 61/06 - Auxiliary devices, not otherwise provided for, for operating on sheets, blanks, webs, binding material, containers or packages for severing webs, or for separating joined packages by cutting
• B65B 61/28 - Auxiliary devices, not otherwise provided for, for operating on sheets, blanks, webs, binding material, containers or packages for discharging completed packages from machines

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for controlling a packaging machine for producing packagings, the packaging machine comprising at least two drives (A, B, C) which can be controlled independently of one another and which are preferably servo drives, each driving one machine element of the packaging machine and crossing in an intersection region in which the machine elements (12, 14, 17) could collide with one another or with products handled by the machine elements (12, 14, 17). The method is characterized in that a data contour (24) is used within the framework of controlling the packaging machine, the data contour delimiting a collision zone in a data space (23) which represents (in particular all) possible relative positions of the drives (A, B, C). The collision zone comprises those relative positions of the drives (A, B, C) in the data space (23) at which the machine elements (12, 14, 17) can collide with one another and/or with products handled by the machine elements (12, 14, 17).

IPC Classes  ?

• B65B 57/00 - Automatic control, checking, warning or safety devices
• G05B 17/02 - Systems involving the use of models or simulators of said systems electric

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for operating a solenoid valve (10), in particular a solenoid valve designed as an application valve for applying a flowable medium onto a substrate, said valve having a closure element (23) which can be moved against the restoring force of a restoring element by means of an electromagnet (26) of the solenoid valve (10). The coil (25) of the electromagnet (26) is supplied with a respective electric control voltage signal (33) in successive cycles such that the solenoid valve (10) carries out switching cycles one after the other in which the solenoid valve (10) is converted from a closed position into an open position as part of a respective opening movement and from the open position back into the closed position as part of a closing movement. After carrying out a specified number of switching cycles, in particular a number of switching cycles which is stored in a storage device, in particular identical switching cycles which are not measurement switching cycles, a switching cycle designed as a measurement switching cycle is carried out. In order to diagnose the operating state of the solenoid valve (10), the curve of the electric current is detected which has been set for the coil (25) of the electromagnet (26) on the basis of the control voltage signal (33) that is supplied to the coil (25) in the measurement switching cycle.

IPC Classes  ?

• B05C 5/02 - Apparatus in which liquid or other fluent material is projected, poured or allowed to flow on to the surface of the work from an outlet device in contact, or almost in contact, with the work
• B05C 11/10 - Storage, supply or control of liquid or other fluent materialRecovery of excess liquid or other fluent material
• F16K 31/06 - Operating meansReleasing devices electricOperating meansReleasing devices magnetic using a magnet
• B05B 1/30 - Nozzles, spray heads or other outlets, with or without auxiliary devices such as valves, heating means designed to control volume of flow, e.g. with adjustable passages

Abstract

A valve arrangement for applying flowable medium to a substrate, in particular hotmelt adhesive, which valve arrangement has a distribution element and a heating device, the heating device being arranged outside the distribution element and being fastened, preferably detachably, as a unit to the distribution element.

IPC Classes  ?

• B05B 7/16 - Spraying apparatus for discharge of liquids or other fluent materials from two or more sources, e.g. of liquid and air, of powder and gas incorporating means for heating the material to be sprayed
• B05B 1/30 - Nozzles, spray heads or other outlets, with or without auxiliary devices such as valves, heating means designed to control volume of flow, e.g. with adjustable passages
• B05B 13/02 - Means for supporting workArrangement or mounting of spray headsAdaptation or arrangement of means for feeding work
• B05B 7/10 - Spray pistolsApparatus for discharge producing a swirling discharge
• B05C 5/00 - Apparatus in which liquid or other fluent material is projected, poured or allowed to flow on to the surface of the work

Goods & Services

Pharmaceuticals, medical and veterinary preparations; sanitary preparations for medical purposes; dietetic substances and foodstuffs adapted for medical or veterinary use, food for babies; dietary supplements for human beings and animals; plasters, materials for dressings; material for stopping teeth, dental wax; disinfectants; preparations for destroying vermin; fungicides, herbicides; sterilising preparations and substances; cleaning preparations [preparations] for sterilising surgical instruments; biological indicators for monitoring sterilization processes for medical or veterinary purposes; disinfectants and antiseptics; preparations for health care; pharmaceutical preparations; air purifying and deodorizing preparations; products for purification and deodorization of the air. Nozzles of metal; pipes, tubes and hoses, and fittings therefor, including valves, of metal; metal hose fittings. Machine tools and power tools; motors and engines and propulsion mechanisms, other than for land vehicles; machine coupling and transmission components (except for land vehicles); vending machines; packaging machines; packaging machines for foodstuffs and luxury foods, alcohol and tobacco; cigarette packing machines; machines, namely, cardboard packers; foil covering machines; packaging machines for cellulose goods; machines, namely, tobacco pouch packers; conveyers, belt, roller, chain and overhead conveyors for machines; packaging machines and lifting machines for transporting of packaging materials; robots for loading and unloading packaging machines, containers, pallets and conveyors; gears; gear motors; clutches, other than for land vehicles; parts for the aforesaid machines, in particular machine shafts, axles, toothed wheels, gearwheels, mechanical control mechanisms, valves, pumps, pipes, machine foundations, hydraulic and pneumatic telescopic cylinders, bearings, drive units, drive belts, adhesive tape dispensing mechanisms, cutting devices, included in this class; machine tools; mechanical tools; combustion engines and motors, excluding the following goods: motors for land vehicles; machine coupling and transmission components (except for land vehicles); automatic distribution machines; couplings for machines; modular couplings for machines; packaging apparatus, packaging machines; feeders; material compacting machines; robotic packaging machines; installations for vacuum packaging; machines for packaging, in relation to the following goods: pharmaceutical products, medical products, hygiene products, perfumes, creams, masks, roll-ons, deodorants, cosmetic products, nail-polish and lip balms; filling machines; robotic filling machines; bottling machines; dosing valves; filling and/or plugging machines for cylindrical vials, of the following materials: glass, plastic and metal; filling and/or plugging machines for cylindrical vials of glass, plastic or metal for automatic air conditioning of liquid, semi-liquid or powder goods of all kinds under sterile conditions; machines for filling bottles; washing machines and clothes drying tunnels for industrial purposes; industrial robots; washing machines for industrial purposes; individual mechanical equipment and complete equipment lines for washing, sterilising, filling and plugging of vials; individual mechanical equipment and complete equipment lines for washing, sterilising, filling and plugging of vials air conditioning of liquid, semi-liquid or powder goods of all kinds under sterile conditions; machines for washing, in relation to the following goods: vials, cartridges, cartridges, ampoules and spraying; installations and machines for automation technology, industrial robots, hand-held power operated implements, automatic assembly machines, electric assembly, manufacturing and processing tools, mechanical conveyors for workpieces and tools, workpiece and tool clamping fixtures; controls for machines; machines for applying adhesives and sealing compounds, in particular machines for applying adhesives for industrial purposes; electric adhesive and sealing application apparatus, in particular hot metal glue guns and glue modules and glue nozzles being components of industrial sealing machines; industrial machines for applying melted adhesives for use in the packaging industry; machines for applying melted adhesives; machine tools; motors (other than for land vehicles); drive couplings, drive belts, not for land vehicles; hot melt plastic guns; glue guns, electric; robotic electric glue guns; spray nozzles being parts of machines; mechanical glue dispensers; jets being parts of machines; sprayers (machines) for applying adhesive; injectors; machines for applying adhesives and sealing compounds, namely machines for applying adhesives, for industrial purposes; electric adhesive and sealing application apparatus, namely heat melting glue guns and glue modules and glue nozzles being components of industrial sealing machines; machines for application of adhesives and sealants; electric adhesive and sealant applicators. Weighing, measuring, signalling, checking apparatus and instruments; magnetic data media; data processing apparatus; computers; computer programs, recorded; all in particular for the tobacco, cigarette and packaging industries and for packaging machines and robots; laboratory freeze dryers; freeze driers for laboratory use; scientific freeze dryers; freeze dryers for scientific purposes; parts, replacement parts and accessories for the aforesaid goods included in this class; computer software for freeze drying plants and equipment; sensors for freeze drying plants and equipment; temperature sensors for freeze drying plants and equipment; pressure sensors for freeze drying plants and equipment; electric and electronic control apparatus for automation and manufacturing engineering, software for automation engineering, computers and peripheral devices therefor; electronic controllers for the application of adhesives and sealants; electronic control apparatus for controlling machines for applying adhesives and sealing compounds. Sterilisers; sterilising apparatus for medical use; sterilization, disinfection and decontamination equipment; cooling apparatus; apparatus for sterilising and depyrogenation of glass containers, including vials, cartridges, cassettes, ampoules and syringes; sterilisation tunnels; lighting installations, heating installations, steam generating installations, cooling installations, drying installations, installations for airing, water supply installations; sanitary apparatus and installations; refrigerating chambers; autoclaves and sterilizers; drying and/or sterilisation ovens; wash-hand basins [parts of sanitary installations]; deep freezing apparatus; cryorefrigerators, cryogenic freezers; refrigerant condensers; parts, replacement parts and fittings for all of the aforesaid goods, as far as the aforesaid goods are included in this class; clean rooms; sterilising isolators, specifically, for use in the following fields: pharmaceutical industry; melting furnaces for adhesives and thermoplastics; smelting furnaces, hot-melt melter equipment. Flexible hoses, not of metal; hose pipes made of rubber; hoses for pneumatic tools; flexible hose pipes of rubber; industrial hoses of rubber; industrial hoses of plastic; flexible hoses made of polymeric materials; hoses (non-metallic -) for industrial purposes; high pressure hoses of vulcanised fibre; flexible pipes, tubes, hoses and fittings therefor (including valves), and fittings for rigid pipes, all non-metallic. Advertising; business management, organisation and administration services; office functions; commercial business management; commercial administration; retail and wholesale services in relation to: packing machines, robots for use in industry, machines, devices and units for applying adhesives, installations and machines for automation technology, machines for the pharmaceutical industry. Maintenance and repair of packaging machines and robots and of weighing, measuring, signalling, testing apparatus and instruments for packaging machines and robots; installation, repair and maintenance services for industrial apparatus, instruments and machines; installation services, repair, maintenance, in relation to the following goods: industrial apparatus, instruments and machines for use relating to refrigerating, drying, freezing and/or freeze drying of pharmaceutical, food, cosmetic, sanitary and/or medical goods; installation services, maintenance, in relation to the following goods: industrial machines; installation, servicing, maintenance and repair, in relation to the following goods: freeze-drying installations, freeze drying apparatus, related parts; installation, repair and maintenance, in relation to the following goods: industrial apparatus, instruments and machines for packaging, sterilising, filling, closing, refrigerating, drying and washing pharmaceutical, cosmetic, hygienic and/or medical goods; installation, repair and maintenance of machines for the pharmaceutical industry, in particular of lyophilisation; servicing and repair of industrial machines. Scientific and technological services and research and design relating thereto; industrial analysis, industrial research and industrial design; quality control and authentication services; design and development of computer hardware and software; scientific and technology services; industrial research; technical research; scientific research; pharmaceutical laboratories; scientific and technological research, scientific analysis, technological analysis services; technological consultancy, advisory services relating to industrial engineering and design; technological consultancy, industrial engineering consultancy, in relation to the following goods: machinery and apparatus for packaging, sterilizing, filling, closing, refrigerating, drying and washing; technological consultancy, industrial engineering consultancy, in relation to the following goods: machines for packaging, sterilising, filling, closing, refrigerating, drying and washing pharmaceutical, cosmetic, medical and industrial goods; technological advice relating to industrial machinery; design, development and technological consultancy relating to industrial machines; software development, for others, for use in relation to the following goods: industrial machines; design of industrial machinery; research laboratories, in relation to the following goods: industrial machines; research laboratories, in relation to the following goods: cosmetic products, medicinal products, pharmacy goods; engineering services related to the design of machine tools, engineering relating to the design of apparatus; medical and pharmacological research services; engineering in the field of the planning and development of automation projects, development of hardware and software in the field of automation engineering; design, in relation to the following goods: industrial machines.

Abstract

The invention relates to a method and a device for handling packs (10) for products of the cigarette industry. The device is designed to transport packs (10) in a conveyor direction along a conveyor section (16) using a conveyor means (15) which is preferably continuously driven, and a device (18) for applying print carriers (75) is arranged along the conveyor section (16) in order to provide the packs (10) with print carriers (75), in particular banderoles, labels, coupons, or the like, on at least one lateral surface, wherein the device is designed to move the packs (10) into a suitable relative position in order to apply a print carrier (75). According to the invention, while being transported on the conveyor means (15), the packs (10) are held by holding means (17) paired with the conveyor means (15), in particular by drivers of the conveyor means (15), on two opposite lateral surfaces, in particular on one lateral surface which is arranged upstream in the conveyor direction and one lateral surface which is arranged downstream in the conveyor direction, preferably on an end face and a base face of the packs (10), and the conveyor section (16) is equipped with at least one guide (70), preferably a stationary guide, on which the packs (10) lie while being transported and on which the packs can be rotated by means of a corresponding course of the guide (70) in the conveyor direction such that the respective pack lateral surface designed for applying the print carrier (75) faces the device (18) for applying print carriers (75).

IPC Classes  ?

• B65B 19/02 - Packaging cigarettes
• B65B 35/24 - Feeding, e.g. conveying, single articles by endless belts or chains
• B65B 35/56 - Orientating, i.e. changing the attitude of, articles, e.g. of non-uniform cross-section
• B65B 43/52 - Feeding or positioning bags, boxes, or cartons in the distended, opened, or set-up stateFeeding preformed rigid containers, e.g. tins, capsules, glass tubes, glasses, to the packaging positionLocating containers or receptacles at the filling positionSupporting containers or receptacles during the filling operation using roller-ways or endless conveyors
• B65B 61/20 - Auxiliary devices, not otherwise provided for, for operating on sheets, blanks, webs, binding material, containers or packages for adding cards, coupons or other inserts to package contents

Abstract

The invention relates to a device for handling blanks (67) for wrapping packaging items (10) for products of the cigarette industry, comprising a conveying path for transporting blanks (67) for the wrapping process in a conveying direction, and comprising a transfer station (70), in which the blanks (67) are kept ready in an in particular upright blank plane, wherein: the device is designed to transport packaging items (10) transversely to the conveying direction of the blanks (67) through the transfer station (70) and to transport the kept-ready blanks (67) by carrying one kept-ready blank (67) through a packaging item (10) in each case; and the device is designed to place the blanks (67) in a U-shape around the packaging items (10) and then to interconnect free ends of the particular blanks (67) such that the packaging items (10) are wrapped in the blanks (67) which have formed a tube; and the blanks (67) are held in the transfer station (70) in the region of lateral edges of the blanks (67) by means of a vacuum on holding members (72), in particular on suction belts. According to the invention, the blanks (67) are held in the region between the holding members (72) by being placed on holding means (76) in the blank plane, wherein the holding means (76) are designed to bleed off electrostatic charges of the blanks (67).

IPC Classes  ?

• B65B 11/42 - Wrapping articles, or quantities of material, by conveying wrapper and contents in defined paths in a combination of straight and curved paths to fold the wrappers in tubular form about contents and then to form closing folds of similar form at opposite ends of the tube
• B65B 61/18 - Auxiliary devices, not otherwise provided for, for operating on sheets, blanks, webs, binding material, containers or packages for applying or incorporating package-opening or unpacking elements, e.g. tear-strips
• B65B 19/22 - Wrapping the cigarettesPackaging the cigarettes in containers formed by folding wrapping material around formers

Abstract

The present invention relates to an apparatus for sealing and/or shrinking outer casings of preferably cuboid packagings (10), in particular packagings (10) for smokable products of the tobacco industry, the outer casings consisting of a sealable and/or shrinkable film. The apparatus comprises at least one heating element (56a, 57a, 58a) that can be moved intermittently back and forth between an initial position and a heat-transfer position, and at least one conveyor (53, 54) which can convey the packagings (10) together with their semi-finished outer casings in a direction or in the direction of a defined treatment position in which heat can be applied to the outer casing of the respective packaging (10) in the heat-transfer position of the heating element (56a, 57a, 58a) while the latter rests against the outer casing, in particular for the purpose of sealing and/or shrinking the outer casing. The heat transfer position of the heating element (56a, 57a, 58a) and/or the position of the conveyor can be modified in order to adapt the apparatus to packagings (10) of different dimensions.

IPC Classes  ?

• B65B 19/22 - Wrapping the cigarettesPackaging the cigarettes in containers formed by folding wrapping material around formers
• B65B 35/54 - Feeding articles along multiple paths to a single packaging position
• B65B 53/02 - Shrinking wrappers, containers, container covers or container cover securing members during or after packaging by heat

Abstract

A valve for flowable media having a valve housing and an elongate closure member arranged therein and which can be axially moved in a medium channel of the valve by a controllable actuator and which in a closed position abuts a valve seat and closes a discharge opening connected to the medium channel, and which is connected to a sealing element to seal the medium channel, namely, a part-piece of an elongate bellows, which moves in an axial direction during movements of the closure member and which is a hollow member made of metal, wherein another part-piece of the bellows is fixedly supported in the valve. The relative axial position between the bellows and the valve seat is adapted to a production-related deviation of the longitudinal dimension of the bellows used from a desired longitudinal dimension so that this deviation is compensated for.

IPC Classes  ?

• B05C 5/02 - Apparatus in which liquid or other fluent material is projected, poured or allowed to flow on to the surface of the work from an outlet device in contact, or almost in contact, with the work
• F16K 1/38 - Valve members of conical shape
• F16K 31/06 - Operating meansReleasing devices electricOperating meansReleasing devices magnetic using a magnet
• F16K 41/10 - Spindle sealings with diaphragm, e.g. shaped as bellows or tube

Abstract

A valve arrangement for applying flowable medium to a substrate, having a main valve body with a medium channel for flowable media which is able to be closed by a movable closure member and to which a nozzle part having a nozzle opening of the valve arrangement is connected, wherein the valve arrangement has a pivotable lever movable out of a fastening position and into a releasing position, wherein the pivotable lever, during the movement from the fastening position into the releasing position, exerts a detaching force on the nozzle part in order to support the detachment of the nozzle part from the main valve body. In a first phase of its movement out of the fastening position and into the releasing position, the lever is movable in a straight line and exerts the detaching force on a push-off surface of the nozzle part, and entrains the nozzle part.

IPC Classes  ?

• B05B 15/65 - Mounting arrangements for fluid connection of the spraying apparatus or its outlets to flow conduits
• B05C 5/02 - Apparatus in which liquid or other fluent material is projected, poured or allowed to flow on to the surface of the work from an outlet device in contact, or almost in contact, with the work

Goods & Services

(1) Maintenance and repair of packaging machines and robots and of weighing, measuring, signalling, testing apparatus and instruments for packaging machines and robots; installation, repair and maintenance services for industrial apparatus, instruments and machines. (2) Science and technology services; design and development of computer hardware and software; scientific and technological analytics; technological consultancy, advisory services relating to industrial engineering; technological consultancy and industrial advisory services, in relation to the following goods: machines and apparatus for packaging and closing; technological consultancy and industrial advisory services, in relation to the following goods: packaging machines for foodstuffs and luxury foods, alcohol and tobacco; technical advice relating to industrial machinery; design, development and consultancy relating to industrial machines; software development, for others, for use in relation to the following goods: industrial machines; design of industrial machinery; engineering in the field of the planning and development of automation projects, development of hardware and software in the field of automation engineering; construction engineering services [construction design], in relation to the following goods: industrial machines; all the aforesaid services included in this class being limited to use in connection with packaging machines, industrial robots, machines, devices and units for applying adhesives, automation installations and machines, machines for the pharmaceutical industry.

Goods & Services

Maintenance and repair of packaging machines, industrial robots, and weighing, measuring, signalling, and testing apparatus and instruments for packaging machines and robots; installation, repair and maintenance services for industrial machinery Design and development of computer hardware and software; computer technological consultancy; advisory services relating to industrial engineering; technological consultancy and industrial engineering advisory services in the technology field in relation to machines and apparatus for packaging and closing containers, cartridges, and syringes in the pharmaceutical field; technological consultancy and industrial engineering advisory services in the field of technology relating to packaging machines for foodstuffs and luxury foods, alcohol and tobacco; technical advice in the nature of technological consultation in the technology field of industrial machinery; design and development of industrial machines; computer software development for others for use with industrial machines; design of industrial machinery; engineering in the field of planning and development of software automation projects; development of computer hardware and software in the field of automation engineering; construction engineering services in the field of industrial machinery; all the aforesaid services included in this class being limited to use in connection with packaging machines, industrial robots, machines, devices and units for applying adhesives, automation installations and machines, machines for the pharmaceutical industry

Abstract

A method and to a device for handling hygiene products, in particular nappies, wherein the products are transported by a feed conveyor in a first transport direction into compartments of a removal conveyor, in particular a grouping conveyor, which transports the products in a second transport direction, wherein the second transport direction extends transversely, in particular perpendicularly, to the first transport direction. At least one intermediate conveyor which serves to reduce the transport speed of the products in the first transport direction is located between the feed conveyor and the removal conveyor.

IPC Classes  ?

• B65G 47/32 - Applications of transfer devices
• A61F 13/15 - Absorbent pads, e.g. sanitary towels, swabs or tampons for external or internal application to the bodySupporting or fastening means thereforTampon applicators
• A61F 13/551 - Packages or wrapping arrangements for used pads, e.g. for disposal
• B65G 47/26 - Devices influencing the relative position or the attitude of articles during transit by conveyors arranging the articles, e.g. varying spacing between individual articles
• B65G 47/53 - Devices for transferring articles or materials between conveyors, i.e. discharging or feeding devices between conveyors which cross one another
• B65G 47/82 - Rotary or reciprocating members for direct action on articles or materials, e.g. pushers, rakes, shovels

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for controlling a packaging machine (10) having a plurality of drives, each driving one machine element of the packaging machine (10) and moving along movement paths that cross in an intersection region (18, 22) in which the machine elements could collide with one another or with products handled by the machine elements, the following steps being performed: a) one or more safe zones (23a, 23b) for drive positions are defined for one or each of the drives (A, B, C, D, E) within the respective set of possible drive positions for the respective drive (A, B, C, D, E); b) a check is performed to establish whether a drive (A, B, C, D, E) is located in a safe zone; c) if a drive (A, B, C, D, E) is located in a safe zone, one or every other drive (A, B, C, D, E) is moved; and/or d) if no drive (A, B, C, D, E) is located in a safe zone, either d1) one drive (A, B, C, D, E) is first moved into a safe zone (23a, 23b) and then one or every other drive (A, B, C, D, E) is moved, or d2) a check is performed to establish whether a collision-free movement route exists for one or each drive (A, B, C, D, E) along which the drive (A, B, C, D, E) can be moved into a predetermined synchronous position associated with the drive (A, B, C, D, E) and then this drive (A, B, C, D, E) is moved along the collision-free movement route into the synchronous position.

IPC Classes  ?

• G05B 19/4061 - Avoiding collision or forbidden zones
• G05B 19/418 - Total factory control, i.e. centrally controlling a plurality of machines, e.g. direct or distributed numerical control [DNC], flexible manufacturing systems [FMS], integrated manufacturing systems [IMS] or computer integrated manufacturing [CIM]
• B65B 19/28 - Control devices for cigarette or cigar packaging machines

Goods & Services

Packaging machines; packaging machines for foodstuffs and luxury items; carton packers; film wrapping machines; pouch packers; conveyors; belt conveyors, roller conveyors, chain conveyors and overhead conveyors for machines, for packaging machines and for the transport of materials for packaging; robots for loading and unloading of packaging machines, containers, pallets and conveyors. Weighing, measuring, signalling, checking [supervision] apparatus and instruments; magnetic data carriers; data processing apparatus; computers; computer programmes [stored], all for the tobacco, cigarette and packaging industries and for packaging machines and robots. Maintenance and repair of packaging machines and robots and weighing, measuring, signalling, checking [supervision] apparatus and instruments for packaging machines and robots.

Abstract

The invention relates to a device for handling a material web (14) within the context of a manufacturing process for producing packagings from or involving the material web (14), in particular for producing bags from a (foil) tubular web (14), with a loop store (24) for the material web (14), which loop store (24) is arranged, in particular, in a vertical plane and has a housing (50) which is preferably box-shaped, is open on one side, and in which a carriage (52) is arranged for guiding the material web (14) which is preferably guided in a vertical plane, which carriage (52) is movable to and fro in two opposed directions, in particular rectilinearly, within the housing (50) with respective driving of an, in particular, U-shaped portion of the material web (14), preferably up and down in a vertical plane, and with a vacuum device which is configured in such a way that it can build up a negative pressure in the housing (50) on a negative pressure side of the carriage (52), which negative pressure exerts a force directed in one of the movement directions on the carriage (52), in particular a downwardly directed force, wherein, in order to reduce and/or to prevent movements transversely with respect to the to and fro movements, the carriage (52) is guided laterally by longitudinal guides (66a, 66b) which are arranged in the housing (50) and interact with the carriage (52), in particular by guide grooves (70a, 70b), into each of which a guide means (67a, 67b) of the carriage (52) engages.

IPC Classes  ?

• B65H 20/34 - Arrangements for accumulating surplus web by making loops with rollers

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for producing bags, in particular side-folding bags, from a tubular (material) web, comprising the following steps: a) the tubular web (14a) is unwound from a reel and continuously fed to an intermediate tubular web store (24) that provides a balance between continuous and cyclic conveying movement, in particular by means of a first conveyor unit (23), b) the tubular web (14a) is conveyed cyclically from the intermediate tubular web store (24), in particular by means of a second conveyor unit (25), to a cyclically operating processing station, at which one section of the tubular web (14a) at a time is brought into a processing position, preferably with the aid of gravity, in which it is directed downwards, in particular hangs downwards, in whole or in part, in particular due to gravity, and in which this section of the tubular web (14a) is in each case separated from the tubular web (14a) to form a bag (15), in particular when the tubular web (14a) is at a standstill.

IPC Classes  ?

• B31B 70/00 - Making flexible containers, e.g. envelopes or bags
• B31B 70/04 - Feeding sheets or blanks
• B31B 70/10 - Feeding or positioning webs
• B31B 70/14 - Cutting, e.g. perforating, punching, slitting or trimming
• B31B 70/16 - Cutting webs
• B31B 70/64 - Uniting opposed surfaces or edgesTaping by applying heat or pressure
• B65B 43/04 - Forming flat bags from webs
• B65B 51/30 - Devices, e.g. jaws, for applying pressure and heat successively, e.g. for subdividing filled tubes
• B65B 43/12 - Feeding flexible bags or carton blanks in flat or collapsed stateFeeding flat bags connected to form a series or chain
• B65B 1/02 - Machines characterised by the incorporation of means for making the containers or receptacles
• B65H 15/00 - Overturning articles

Goods & Services

Packaging machines; packaging machines for foodstuffs and luxury items; packing machines in the nature of carton packers; film wrapping machines; packaging machines in the nature of pouch packers; pneumatic conveyors; belt conveyors, roller conveyors, chain conveyors and overhead belt conveyors for machines, for packaging machines and for the transport of materials for packaging; industrial robots for loading and unloading of packaging machines, containers, pallets and conveyors Weighing, measuring, signaling and quality checking apparatus and instruments in the nature of cameras and electronic systems comprised primarily of optical, motion, and infrared sensors; blank magnetic data carriers; data processing apparatus in the nature of data processors; computers; recorded computer operating programs for packaging machines and robots in the field of tobacco, cigarettes and packaging industries Machinery maintenance and repair of packaging machines, robots, and weighing, measuring, signaling, and quality checking apparatus and instruments for use with packaging machines and robots

Goods & Services

(1) Packaging machines; packaging machines for foodstuffs and luxury items; carton packers; film wrapping machines; pouch packers; conveyors; belt conveyors, roller conveyors, chain conveyors and overhead conveyors for machines, for packaging machines and for the transport of materials for packaging; robots for loading and unloading of packaging machines, containers, pallets and conveyors. (2) Weighing, measuring, signalling, checking [supervision] apparatus and instruments; magnetic data carriers; data processing apparatus; computers; computer programmes [stored], all for the tobacco, cigarette and packaging industries and for packaging machines and robots. (1) Maintenance and repair of packaging machines and robots and weighing, measuring, signalling, checking [supervision] apparatus and instruments for packaging machines and robots.

Abstract

A method for strapping a group of packages, in particular for products of the cigarette industry, with a strip of packaging material, wherein the packages are brought together to form a cuboid group and are then strapped with at least one strip of packaging material. The at least one strip of packaging material is provided on one side with a preferably continuous layer of adhesive, and the group of packages is completely strapped with the at least one strip of packaging material, wherein the layer of adhesive is brought into direct contact with the packages of the group.

IPC Classes  ?

• B65B 13/02 - Applying and securing binding material around articles or groups of articles, e.g. using strings, wires, strips, bands or tapes
• B65B 19/02 - Packaging cigarettes
• B65D 63/10 - Non-metallic straps, tapes, or bandsFilamentary elements, e.g. strings, threads or wiresJoints between ends thereof

Goods & Services

Packaging machines; packaging machines for foodstuffs and luxury items; cigarette packaging machines; carton packers; film wrapping machines; packaging machines for cellulose products; tobacco pouch packers.

Abstract

The invention relates to a pack for cigarette-industry products (11), having an outer pack (35) made of rigid packing material, in particular from cardboard, wherein the outer pack (35) has a box portion (47) and a lid (48) that is pivotably mounted on the box portion (47), and wherein an inner pack (13) made of a rigid packing material, in particular from cardboard, is arranged in the outer pack (35), for receiving the pack contents, namely a group of cigarette-industry products (11), and wherein the inner pack (13) has at least one dimension that deviates from the corresponding dimension of the outer pack (35), in particular in terms of height. The invention is characterised in that the inner pack (13) has support tabs (32) to compensate for the at least one deviating dimension, with which the inner pack (13) is supported on the bottom wall (37) of the outer pack (35).

IPC Classes  ?

• B65D 85/10 - Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for compressible or flexible articles rod-shaped or tubular for cigarettes

Abstract

The invention relates to a packet for products (11) of the cigarette industry, comprising an outer packet (12) having a box part (13) and a lid (14) pivotably mounted on the box part (13), and comprising a collar (15) protruding from the box part (13), which is open at the top, wherein: the products (11) are disposed in an ordered formation as a product group (26) in a tray (27) made of preferably dimensionally stable packaging material and the products (11) and the tray (27) are wrapped in a preferably aroma- and moisture-tight inner wrapper (29), more particularly in the form of a sealing block (24) having seams which are closed on all sides; the inner wrapper (29) has a removal opening (30), which can be repeatedly closed by means of a closure label (31); and at least one dimension of the product group (26) deviates from a corresponding dimension of the interior of the box part (13), more particularly with respect to the width. According to the invention, the tray (27) disposed in the inner wrapper (29) has at least one chamber (32) for compensating the at least one different dimension, more particularly the width.

IPC Classes  ?

• B65D 85/10 - Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for compressible or flexible articles rod-shaped or tubular for cigarettes

Abstract

The invention relates to a device for applying a preferably heated adhesive or (hot) glue (35), comprising an application head (11), the application head (11) having at least one nozzle (28) for dispensing the adhesive or glue, and the application head (11) being at least partly surrounded by a casing (10). The casing (10) is held magnetically.

IPC Classes  ?

• B05C 5/02 - Apparatus in which liquid or other fluent material is projected, poured or allowed to flow on to the surface of the work from an outlet device in contact, or almost in contact, with the work

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for producing a cuboid bundle pack (10) for compressible hygiene products (12), a group (11) of hygiene products (12) being inserted into a sleeve (14) of packaging material which is open on two sides and the sleeve (14) then being sealed to form an envelope (13) which is preferably sealed on all sides, characterised by the following method steps: - a continuous material web (20), that is preferably paper-based, for the sleeve (14) is unwound from a reel, - lines of weakness are applied to the unwound continuous material web (20), - a section for a sleeve (14) is separated from the continuous material web (20), - the section is erected and the preferably compressed group (11) of hygiene products (12) is inserted into the erected section via an open side of the sleeve (14), and - opposite end faces (15) of the sleeve (14) are each sealed by means of an envelope fold. The invention also relates to a corresponding apparatus and to a corresponding product.

IPC Classes  ?

• B65B 9/14 - Devices for distending the tubular webs
• B65B 63/02 - Auxiliary devices, not otherwise provided for, for operating on articles or materials to be packaged for compressing or compacting articles or materials prior to wrapping or insertion in containers or receptacles
• B65B 61/02 - Auxiliary devices, not otherwise provided for, for operating on sheets, blanks, webs, binding material, containers or packages for perforating, scoring, or applying code or date marks on material prior to packaging
• B65B 61/06 - Auxiliary devices, not otherwise provided for, for operating on sheets, blanks, webs, binding material, containers or packages for severing webs, or for separating joined packages by cutting
• B65B 41/16 - Feeding webs from rolls by rollers
• B65B 61/26 - Auxiliary devices, not otherwise provided for, for operating on sheets, blanks, webs, binding material, containers or packages for marking or coding completed packages
• B65B 51/02 - Applying adhesives or sealing liquids
• A61F 13/15 - Absorbent pads, e.g. sanitary towels, swabs or tampons for external or internal application to the bodySupporting or fastening means thereforTampon applicators
• B65D 85/07 - Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for compressible or flexible articles
• B65D 75/08 - Articles or materials wholly enclosed in single sheets or wrapper blanks in sheets or blanks initially folded to form tubes with the ends of the tube closed by folding

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for controlling a packaging machine for producing packaging, in particular for producing packaging for smokable products of the tobacco industry, said packaging machine comprising a plurality of drives (A, B, C) which can be controlled independently of one another and move machine elements (12, 14, 17) of the packaging machine on paths of movement on which the machine elements (12, 14, 17) could collide with one another or with another component of the packaging machine or with products handled in the packaging machine. The method comprises the following steps: a) creating a digital simulation model of the packaging machine representing (at least) the drives (A, B, C) and the machine elements (12, 14, 17), in particular by means of a simulation programme; b) with the aid of the simulation model, simulating different relative positions of the drives (A, B, C) and the states, that arise in these relative positions, of the packaging machine, in particular of the machine elements (12, 14, 17); c) within the framework of these simulations, determining collision-free travel paths for the machine elements (12, 14, 17), in particular by means of a or the simulation programme; and d) moving each of the machine elements (12, 14, 17) of the packaging machine along the determined collision-free travel paths by correspondingly controlling the drives (A, B, C).

IPC Classes  ?

• B65B 11/18 - Wrapping articles, or quantities of material, by conveying wrapper and contents in defined paths in two or more straight paths
• B65B 19/04 - Arranging, feeding, or orientating the cigarettes
• B65B 19/22 - Wrapping the cigarettesPackaging the cigarettes in containers formed by folding wrapping material around formers
• B65B 19/28 - Control devices for cigarette or cigar packaging machines
• B65B 35/40 - Arranging and feeding articles in groups by reciprocating or oscillatory pushers
• B65B 57/00 - Automatic control, checking, warning or safety devices
• G05B 19/4061 - Avoiding collision or forbidden zones
• G05B 19/4069 - Simulating machining process on screen
• G05B 19/418 - Total factory control, i.e. centrally controlling a plurality of machines, e.g. direct or distributed numerical control [DNC], flexible manufacturing systems [FMS], integrated manufacturing systems [IMS] or computer integrated manufacturing [CIM]

Abstract

The invention relates to an apparatus and to a method for feeding a group of products of the cigarette industry as pack contents (19) to a blank (20) for a pack (10) for products of the cigarette industry, wherein the blank (20) for the pack (10) is kept ready preferably partially folded, for receiving the pack contents (19), and the pack contents (19), together with at least one other (separate) article, in particular a print substrate (14) and/or a further component, in particular a blank (27), for the pack (10) is fed to the blank (20) for the pack (10) by means of a preferably common slider (31). According to the invention, the slider (31) has at least one means for applying a negative pressure to the pack contents (19) and/or the at least one other article, and the pack contents (19) and/or the at least one other article is/are held in place on the slider (31) by means of negative pressure while being fed to the blank (20) for the pack (10).

IPC Classes  ?

• B65B 19/20 - Inserting the cigarettes, or wrapped groups thereof, into preformed containers into boxes with hinged lids
• B65B 19/22 - Wrapping the cigarettesPackaging the cigarettes in containers formed by folding wrapping material around formers
• B65B 61/20 - Auxiliary devices, not otherwise provided for, for operating on sheets, blanks, webs, binding material, containers or packages for adding cards, coupons or other inserts to package contents

Abstract

The invention relates to a device and a method for producing packs (10) for products (11) of the cigarette industry. Each group (12) of products (11), in particular a cigarette group, is wrapped in a sleeve (13) made of a packaging material as pack contents (17), and folding flaps of the packaging material are connected together in order to form an inner pack (24), preferably an aroma- and moisture-tight inner pack, in particular in the form of a sealing block. According to the invention, groups (12) of products (11) are continuously transported in a transport direction (31) along a transport path (32); the groups (12) of products (11) are transported along the transport path (32) such that the respective longitudinal extension thereof is transverse to the transport direction (31) while a continuous material web (33) made of a packaging material is placed around multiple groups (12) of products (11) in the form of a tube and while the groups (12) of products (11) are being continuously transported in a mutually spaced manner along the transport path (32) in the transport direction (31); the continuous material web (33) is then severed between adjacent groups (12) of products (11); and the groups (12) of products (11) are then transported together with a respective blank (28) detached from the material web (33) along the transport path (32) such that the longitudinal extension thereof is parallel to the transport direction (31), wherein folding flaps of each blank (28) detached from the material web (33) are connected together, said folding flaps lying on narrow faces (21) of the groups (12) of products (11) and being oriented parallel to the transport direction (31).

IPC Classes  ?

• B65B 19/02 - Packaging cigarettes
• B65B 19/22 - Wrapping the cigarettesPackaging the cigarettes in containers formed by folding wrapping material around formers
• B65B 9/06 - Enclosing successive articles, or quantities of material, in a longitudinally-folded web, or in a web folded into a tube about the articles or quantities of material placed upon it
• B65B 51/30 - Devices, e.g. jaws, for applying pressure and heat successively, e.g. for subdividing filled tubes

Abstract

A method and device for examining rod-shaped products of the cigarette industry, having a cylindrical lateral surface and two end faces formed by two filter elements arranged at opposite ends, the product having smokable material between the two end faces, by: a) irradiating the lateral surface using examination light whereby the examination light penetrates through the lateral surface at least partially into the product and at least partially exits again through one end face, the beams of which are incident on the lateral surface at an angle of at least 30° in relation to the longitudinal extension of the product; b) acquiring the examination light exiting the end face of the product using an electro-optical receiver, the main viewing direction of which is directed onto the end face; and c) evaluating the brightness or light intensity of the examination light exiting the end face and acquired by the electro-optical receiver.

IPC Classes  ?

• A24C 5/34 - Examining cigarettes or the rod, e.g. for regulating the feeding of tobaccoRemoving defective cigarettes
• A24D 3/02 - Manufacture of tobacco smoke filters
• G01N 21/01 - Arrangements or apparatus for facilitating the optical investigation
• G01N 21/47 - Scattering, i.e. diffuse reflection
• B65B 19/20 - Inserting the cigarettes, or wrapped groups thereof, into preformed containers into boxes with hinged lids
• B65B 19/30 - Control devices for cigarette or cigar packaging machines responsive to presence of faulty articles, e.g. incorrectly-filled cigarettes

Goods & Services

Maintenance and repair of packaging machines and robots and of weighing, measuring, signalling, testing apparatus and instruments for packaging machines and robots; Installation, repair and maintenance services for industrial apparatus, instruments and machines. Science and technology services; Design and development of computer hardware and software; scientific and technological analytics; Technological consultancy, industrial advisory; Technological consultancy and industrial advisory, in relation to the following goods: Machines and apparatus for packaging and closing; Technological consultancy and industrial advisory, in relation to the following goods: Packaging machines for foodstuffs and luxury foods, alcohol and tobacco; Technical advice relating to industrial machinery; Design, development and consultancy relating to industrial machines; Software development, for others, for use in relation to the following goods: Industrial machines; Design of industrial machinery; Engineering in the field of the planning and development of automation projects, development of hardware and software in the field of automation engineering; Construction, in relation to the following goods: Industrial machines; All the aforesaid services included in class 42 being limited to use in connection with packaging machines, industrial robots, machines, devices and units for applying adhesives, automation installations and machines, machines for the pharmaceutical industry.

Abstract

The invention relates to a pack for products in the cigarette industry, wherein the pack (10) has a box part (11) for accommodating pack contents (21), wherein a collar (13) is arranged in the box part (11) and serves to compensate for the at least one dimension, and wherein a wall (17) of the collar (13) has a plurality of portions (16, 19, 20) which are connected to one another by folding lines (22), and wherein one portion (16) butts at least to some extent against a side wall of the box part (11) and another portion (20) of the wall is arranged at a distance from the side wall of the box part (11) and supports the pack contents (21), wherein, according to the invention, at least one of the folding lines (22) is curved such that the abutting portion of the wall of the collar (13) is (slightly) curved in cross section.

IPC Classes  ?

• B65D 5/66 - Hinged lids
• B65D 85/10 - Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for compressible or flexible articles rod-shaped or tubular for cigarettes

Abstract

A tamper-evident, child-proof package having an outer package and having an inner package, the inner package being at least partially received in the outer package, and the inner package for opening and closing the package being disposed so as to be displaceable in the outer package, and the package has at least one securing structure as an anti-tamper feature for impeding or preventing the opening of the package, or the access to the products disposed in the inner package. The at least one securing structure is effective between the inner package and the outer package so as to impede or prevent the inner package being displaced in the outer package in order for the package to be opened.

IPC Classes  ?

• B65D 77/04 - Articles or materials enclosed in two or more containers disposed one within another
• B65D 85/10 - Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for compressible or flexible articles rod-shaped or tubular for cigarettes
• B65D 5/38 - Drawer-and-shell type containers

Abstract

A tamper-evident, child-proof package, having an outer package and having an inner package, the inner package being at least partially received in the outer package, and the inner package for opening and closing the package being disposed so as to be displaceable in the outer package, and the package has at least one securing structure as an anti-tamper feature for impeding or preventing the opening of the package, or the access to the products disposed in the inner package. The at least one securing structure is effective between the inner package and the outer package so as to impede or prevent the inner package being displaced in the outer package in order for the package to be opened.

IPC Classes  ?

• B65D 77/04 - Articles or materials enclosed in two or more containers disposed one within another
• B65D 5/38 - Drawer-and-shell type containers
• B65D 85/10 - Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for compressible or flexible articles rod-shaped or tubular for cigarettes

Abstract

The invention relates to a method and a device for handling packaging material blanks (29) for packages (10) for products of the cigarette industry. Blanks (29) are individually removed from a magazine for blanks (29) and are conveyed in a first transport direction along a first transport section (96). According to the invention, the blanks (29) are conveyed along the first transport section (96) so as to lie on a surface of a transport path (66), wherein the blanks (29) are detected from the rear face in the transport direction and are conveyed in the first transport direction while the blanks (29) are held in a preferably sliding manner on an imaginary transport plane provided by the surface of the transport path (66) using negative pressure. In the course of the first transport section (96), the blanks (29) are deflected into a second transport section (83) transversely to the first transport section (96) by a transferring element (81), and the original orientation of the blanks (29) in the region of the first transport section (96) is maintained upon being deflected into the second transport section (83) by the transferring element (81).

IPC Classes  ?

• B65H 5/16 - Feeding articles separated from pilesFeeding articles to machines by pusher, needles, friction, or like devices adapted to feed single articles along a surface or table
• B65H 5/02 - Feeding articles separated from pilesFeeding articles to machines by belts or chains
• B65H 3/08 - Separating articles from piles using pneumatic force
• B65H 3/30 - Separating articles from piles by escapement devicesSeparating articles from piles from staggered pilesSeparating articles from piles from piles of articles having staggered formations, e.g. cuts or perforations

Abstract

The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for handling portions (73) of a material web (20) of packaging material, in particular within an apparatus for producing packages (10) for products of the cigarette industry, wherein a continuous material web (20) is transported along a conveyor section, and portions (73) are separated from the material web (20) in a cutting device (21). The invention is characterized in that the portions (73) separated from the material web (20) are deflected by means of compressed air into a collecting vessel (74) arranged adjacent to the cutting device (21).

IPC Classes  ?

• B26D 7/18 - Means for removing cut-out material or waste
• B26D 5/32 - Arrangements for operating and controlling machines or devices for cutting, cutting-out, stamping-out, punching, perforating, or severing by means other than cutting with interrelated action between the cutting member and work feed having the cutting member controlled by scanning a record carrier with the record carrier formed by the work itself
• B26D 5/34 - Arrangements for operating and controlling machines or devices for cutting, cutting-out, stamping-out, punching, perforating, or severing by means other than cutting with interrelated action between the cutting member and work feed having the cutting member controlled by scanning a record carrier scanning being effected by a photosensitive device
• B65H 35/06 - Delivering articles from cutting or line-perforating machinesArticle or web delivery apparatus incorporating cutting or line-perforating devices, e.g. adhesive tape dispensers from or with transverse cutters or perforators from or with blade, e.g. shear-blade, cutters or perforators
• B65H 35/00 - Delivering articles from cutting or line-perforating machinesArticle or web delivery apparatus incorporating cutting or line-perforating devices, e.g. adhesive tape dispensers
• B26D 1/40 - Cutting through work characterised by the nature or movement of the cutting memberApparatus or machines thereforCutting members therefor involving a cutting member which does not travel with the work having a cutting member moving about an axis with a non-circular cutting member moving about an axis parallel to the line of cut and coacting with a rotary member
• B26D 7/00 - Details of apparatus for cutting, cutting-out, stamping-out, punching, perforating, or severing by means other than cutting

Abstract

The invention relates a method for detecting, in particular automatically, portions of adhesive (65) on packaging materials for producing packages for products, in particular smokable products, specifically during the production of the packages in an apparatus, in particular in a packaging machine, for producing these packages. The invention is characterized by the following steps: a) in a surface region (70) of the packaging material in which a portion of adhesive (65) is expected at the time of the measurement, a first height profile (73a) of the packaging material surface is measured, in particular with a measuring sensor, b) in a surface region (72) of the packaging material in which no portion of adhesive (65) is expected at the time of the measurement, a second height profile (73b) of the packaging material surface is measured, in particular with a measuring sensor, c) the two measured height profiles are used to determine a difference height profile (76), corresponding to the difference in the two height profiles, or dependent thereon or derived therefrom, in particular by an evaluation device of the apparatus for producing the packages, d) the difference height profile (76) is analysed, in particular by a or the evaluation device, to ascertain whether it contains an elevation representative in particular of the presence of a portion of adhesive (65).

IPC Classes  ?

• B31B 50/62 - Uniting opposed surfaces or edgesTaping by adhesives
• B31B 50/00 - Making rigid or semi-rigid containers, e.g. boxes or cartons
• B65B 19/22 - Wrapping the cigarettesPackaging the cigarettes in containers formed by folding wrapping material around formers
• G01N 21/00 - Investigating or analysing materials by the use of optical means, i.e. using sub-millimetre waves, infrared, visible or ultraviolet light

Abstract

A pack for products of the cigarette industry, having an outer pack which is made from a dimensionally stable material and is configured as a flip pack having a box part and a lid, and having at least one cuboid inner pack which is made from a dimensionally stable material, is disposed in the outer pack and encloses the products on all sides, the inner pack having a closure means which prior to the initial use of the inner pack closes a retrieval opening for retrieving individual products which extends at least in an end-side region of the inner pack, preferably additionally extends in a front-side region of the inner pack, and which is able to be converted from the state closing the retrieval opening to a state releasing the retrieval opening, with the closure means being composed of a dimensionally stable material, such as coated cardboard.

IPC Classes  ?

• B65D 75/58 - Opening or contents-removing devices added or incorporated during package manufacture
• B65D 85/10 - Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for compressible or flexible articles rod-shaped or tubular for cigarettes

Abstract

A packaging for products of the tobacco industry, wherein the packaging has a box portion and a lid which is pivotably arranged on the box portion by means of a line hinge, and wherein a packaging content is arranged in the box portion, and wherein the packaging has a collar which at least partially surrounds the packaging content at several sides and which protrudes with the packaging content from the box portion which is open at the top. There is provision for walls of the collar to extend from a front side of the box portion up to the region of an opposing rear side of the box portion on which the line hinge is also located. A method and an apparatus for producing such a packaging.

IPC Classes  ?

• B65D 85/10 - Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for compressible or flexible articles rod-shaped or tubular for cigarettes
• B31B 50/14 - Cutting, e.g. perforating, punching, slitting or trimming
• B31B 50/26 - Folding sheets, blanks or webs
• B31F 1/08 - Creasing

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for producing a bundle pack (10) of packages (11) for products of the cigarette industry. Adjacent packages (11) of the bundle pack (10) are connected together at least partly by glue (12) in order to form a bundle pack (10) with a stable formation. The invention is characterized by the following steps: a) the packages (11) for the bundle pack (10) are first transported along a first conveyor section (19), wherein glue (12) is applied onto first lateral surfaces of at least some packages (11), and the first lateral surfaces are oriented parallel to the first conveyor section (19), b) the packages (11), which are at least partly provided with glue (12) on the first lateral surfaces, for the bundle pack (10) are then transported transversely to the first conveyor section (19) along a second conveyor section (21), c) at least some adjacent packages (11) are brought into contact with one another during the transport along the second conveyor section (21) so that at least some packages (11) for the bundle pack (10) are connected together by means of the glue (12) on the first lateral surfaces, d) glue (12) is applied onto second lateral surfaces of at least some packages (11) in the second conveyor section (21), said second lateral surfaces being oriented parallel to the second conveyor section (21), e) the packages (11), which are at least partly provided with glue (12) and which are at least partly connected together, for the bundle pack (10) are then transferred to a third conveyor section (28) transversely to the second conveyor section (21), and f) adjacent packages (11) for the bundle pack (10) are brought into contact with one another in the region of the second lateral surfaces during the transport along the third conveyor section such that adjacent packages (11) for the bundle pack (10) are connected together by means of the glue (12) on the second lateral surfaces in order to form the bundle pack (10) with a stable formation.

IPC Classes  ?

• B65B 17/02 - Joining articles, e.g. cans, directly to each other for convenience of storage, transport, or handling
• B65B 19/02 - Packaging cigarettes
• B65B 65/00 - Details peculiar to packaging machines and not otherwise provided forArrangements of such details
• B65D 85/10 - Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for compressible or flexible articles rod-shaped or tubular for cigarettes
• B65D 5/42 - Details of containers or of foldable or erectable container blanks

Goods & Services

Pharmaceuticals, medical and veterinary preparations; Sanitary preparations for medical purposes; Dietetic substances and foodstuffs adapted for medical or veterinary use, food for babies; Dietary supplements for human beings and animals; Plasters, materials for dressings; Material for stopping teeth, dental wax; Disinfectants; Preparations for destroying vermin; Fungicides, herbicides; sterilents, Sterilisation substances; Cleaning preparations [preparations] for sterilising surgical instruments; Biological indicators for monitoring sterilization processes for medical or veterinary purposes; Disinfectants and antiseptics; Preparations for health care; Pharmaceutical preparations; Air purifiers and Deodorizing preparations; Products for purification and deodorization of the air. Nozzles of metal; Pipes, tubes and hoses, and fittings therefor, including valves, of metal; Metal hose fittings. Machine tools and power tools; Motors and engines and propulsion mechanisms, other than for land vehicles; Machine coupling and transmission components (except for land vehicles); Vending machines; Packaging machines; Packaging machines for foodstuffs and luxury foods, alcohol and tobacco; cigarette packing machines; machines, namely, Cardboard packers; Foil covering machines; Packaging machines for cellulose goods; machines, namely, Tobacco pouch packers; Conveyers, Belt, roller, chain and overhead conveyors for machines; Packaging machines and transport of packaging materials; Robots for loading and unloading packaging machines, containers, pallets and conveyors; Gears; Gear motors; Clutches, other than for land vehicles; Parts for the aforesaid machines, devices and assemblies, in particular shafts, axles, bolts, levers, toothed wheels, gearwheels, checking and control mechanisms, valves, pumps, pipes, machine foundations, hydraulic and pneumatic telescopic cylinders, scales, tobacco scales, bearings, drive units, drive belts, adhesive strip dispensers, cutting devices, included in class 7; Machine tools; Mechainical tools; Combustion engines and motors, excluding the following goods: Motors for landvehicles; Machine coupling and transmission components (except for land vehicles); Automatic distribution machines; Couplings for machines; Modular couplings for machines; Packaging apparatus, Packaging machines; Feeders; Material compacting machines; Robotic packaging machines; Installations for vacuum packaging; Machines for packaging, in relation to the following goods: Pharmaceutical products, Medical products, Hygiene products, Perfumes, Creams, Masks, Roll-ons, deodorants, Cosmetic products, Nail-polish and Lip balms; Filling machines; Robotic filling machines; Bottling machines; Dosing valves; Filling and/or plugging machines for cylindrical vials, of the following materials: Glass, Plastic and metal; Filling and/or plugging machines for cylindrical vials of glass, plastic or metal for automatic air conditioning of liquid, semi-liquid or powder goods of all kinds under sterile conditions; Machines for filling bottles; Washing machines and clothes drying tunnels for industrial purposes; Industrial robots; Washing machines for industrial purposes; Individual mechanical equipment and complete equipment lines for washing, sterilising, filling and plugging of vials; Individual mechanical equipment and complete equipment lines for washing, sterilising, filling and plugging of vials air conditioning of liquid, semi-liquid or powder goods of all kinds under sterile conditions; Machines for washing, in relation to the following goods: Vials, Cartridges, Cartridges, Ampoules and Spraying; Installations and machines for automation technology, Industrial robots, Hand-held power operated implements, Automatic assembly machines, Electric assembly, manufacturing and processing tools, mechanical conveyors for workpieces and tools, Workpiece and tool clamping fixtures; Controls for machines; Machines for applying adhesives and sealing compounds, in particular machines for applying adhesives for industrial purposes; Electric adhesive and sealing application apparatus, in particular hot metal glue guns and glue modules and glue nozzles being components of industrial sealing machines; Industrial machines for applying melted adhesives for use in the packaging industry; Machines for applying melted adhesives; Machine tools; Motors (other than for land vehicles); drive couplings, Drive belts, not for land vehicles; hot melt plastic guns; Glue guns, electric; Robotic electric glue guns; Spray nozzles being parts of machines; Mechanical glue dispensers; Jets being parts of machines; Sprayers (machines) for applying adhesive; Injectors; Machines for applying adhesives and sealing compounds, namely machines for applying adhesives, For industrial purposes; Electric adhesive and sealing application apparatus, namely heat melting glue guns and glue modules and glue nozzles being components of industrial sealing machines; Machines for application of adhesives and sealants; Electric adhesive and sealant applicators. Weighing, measuring, signalling, checking apparatus and instruments; Magnetic data media; Data processing apparatus; Computers; Computer programs, recorded; All in particular for the tobacco, cigarette and packaging industries and for packaging machines and robots; Laboratory freeze dryers; Freeze driers for laboratory use; Scientific freeze dryers; Freeze dryers for scientific purposes; Parts, replacement parts and accessories for the aforesaid goods included in class 09; Computer software for freeze drying plants and equipment; Sensors for freeze drying plants and equipment; Temperature sensors for freeze drying plants and equipment; Pressure sensors for freeze drying plants and equipment; Electric and electronic control apparatus for automation and manufacturing engineering, software for automation engineering, computers and peripheral devices therefor; Electronic controllers for the application of adhesives and sealants; Electronic control apparatus for controlling machines for applying adhesives and sealing compounds. Sterilisers; Sterilising apparatus for medical use; Sterilization, disinfection and decontamination equipment; Cooling apparatus; Apparatus for sterilising, washing and depyrogenation of glass containers, including vials, cartridges, cassettes, ampoules and syringes; Sterilisation tunnels; Lighting installations, Heating installations, Steam generating installations, Cooling installations, Drying installations, Installations for airing, Water supply installations; Sanitary apparatus and installations; Refrigerating chambers; Autoclaves and Sterilizers; Drying and/or sterilisation ovens; Wash-hand basins [parts of sanitary installations]; Deep freezing apparatus; Cryorefrigerators, Cryogenic freezers; Refrigerant condensers; Parts, replacement parts and fittings for all of the aforesaid goods, as far as the aforesaid goods are included in class 11; Clean rooms; Isolators, specifically, for use in the following fields: Pharmaceutical industry; Melting furnaces for adhesives and thermoplastics; Smelting furnaces, Hot-melt melter equipment. Flexible hoses, not of metal; Hose pipes made of rubber; Hoses for pneumatic tools; Flexible hose pipes of rubber; Industrial hoses of rubber; Industrial hoses of plastic; Flexible hoses made of polymeric materials; Hoses (Non-metallic -) for industrial purposes; High pressure hoses of vulcanised fibre; Flexible pipes, tubes, hoses and fittings therefor (including valves), and fittings for rigid pipes, all non-metallic. Advertising; Business management, organisation and administration services; Office functions; Commercial business management; Commercial administration; Retail and wholesale services in relation to: Packing machines, Robots for use in industry, Machines, devices and units for applying adhesives, installations and machines for automation technology, machines for the pharmaceutical industry. Maintenance and repair of packaging machines and robots and of weighing, measuring, signalling, testing apparatus and instruments for packaging machines and robots; Installation, repair and maintenance services for industrial apparatus, instruments and machines; Installation services, Repair, Maintenance, in relation to the following goods: Industrial apparatus, instruments and machines for use relating to refrigerating, drying, freezing and/or freeze drying of pharmaceutical, food, cosmetic, sanitary and/or medical goods; Installation services, Maintenance, in relation to the following goods: Industrial machines; installation, Assembly, Commissioning, servicing, Maintenance and fix, in relation to the following goods: Freeze-drying installations, freeze drying apparatus, related parts; installation, fix and Maintenance, in relation to the following goods: Industrial apparatus, instruments and machines for packaging, sterilising, filling, closing, refrigerating, drying and washing pharmaceutical, cosmetic, hygienic and/or medical goods; Installation, repair and maintenance of machines for the pharmaceutical industry, in particular of lyophilisation; Servicing and repair of industrial machines. Scientific and technological services and research and design relating thereto; Industrial analysis, industrial research and industrial design; Quality control and authentication services; Design and development of computer hardware and software; Science and technology services; Industrial research; Technical research; Scientific research; Pharmaceutical laboratories; Scientific and technological research, Scientific analysis, technological analysis services; Technological consultancy, industrial advisory; Technological consultancy, industrial advisory, in relation to the following goods: Machinery and apparatus for packaging, sterilising, filling, closing, refrigerating, drying and washing; Technological consultancy, industrial advisory, in relation to the following goods: Machines for packaging, sterilising, filling, closing, refrigerating, drying and washing pharmaceutical, cosmetic, medical and industrial goods; Technical advice relating to industrial machinery; Design, development and consultancy relating to industrial machines; Software development, for others, for use in relation to the following goods: Industrial machines; Design of industrial machinery; Research laboratories, in relation to the following goods: Industrial machines; Research laboratories, in relation to the following goods: Cosmetic products, Medicinal products, pharmacy goods; engineering services related to the design of machine tools, Engineering relating to the design of apparatus; Medical and pharmacological research services; Engineering in the field of the planning and development of automation projects, development of hardware and software in the field of automation engineering; Construction, in relation to the following goods: Industrial machines.

Abstract

The invention relates to a method and a device for handling products in a production process, in which a conveyor device (14) conveys products between a first upstream production unit (12) and a second downstream production unit (13) in a, in particular continuous, conveying flow. The method is characterised by the following measures: a) products coming from the direction of the first production unit (12) are supplied to a transfer region of a belt conveyor system (11) of the conveyor device (14) in a row one after another and spaced apart from one another in a supply flow; b) multiple belt conveyors (19, 20, 21) of the belt conveyor system (11), which can be controlled independently of one another and are assigned to a common conveyor track of the belt conveyor system (11), convey respective products supplied to the transfer region as product groups, in which the products are arranged in a row in the conveying direction and follow one another at a distance, from the transfer region to a discharge region of the belt conveyor system (11), from where the products are conveyed onwards in the direction of the second production unit (13), forming a discharge flow, and also following one another in a row and spaced apart from one another; c) the belt conveyors (19, 20, 21) convey the product groups conveyed by them in chronological succession and spaced apart from one another along the common conveyor track (22) from the transfer region to the discharge region.

IPC Classes  ?

• B65G 43/00 - Control devices, e.g. for safety, warning or fault-correcting
• B65G 15/14 - Conveyors having endless load-conveying surfaces, i.e. belts and like continuous members, to which tractive effort is transmitted by means other than endless driving elements of similar configuration comprising two or more co-operating endless surfaces with parallel longitudinal axes, or a multiplicity of parallel elements, e.g. ropes defining an endless surface with two or more endless belts the load being conveyed between the belts
• B65G 47/08 - Devices for feeding articles or materials to conveyors for feeding articles from a single group of articles arranged in orderly pattern, e.g. workpieces in magazines spacing or grouping the articles during feeding
• B65G 47/26 - Devices influencing the relative position or the attitude of articles during transit by conveyors arranging the articles, e.g. varying spacing between individual articles
• B65G 47/31 - Devices influencing the relative position or the attitude of articles during transit by conveyors arranging the articles, e.g. varying spacing between individual articles during transit by a series of conveyors by varying the relative speeds of the conveyors forming the series
• B65B 19/02 - Packaging cigarettes

Abstract

A packet for cigarette industry products, having a tray for receiving at least one group of products, and a device and a method for producing the same. The packet is characterized in that the tray is specified for receiving at least two groups of products, and in that at least one separator for delimiting two receptacle spaces for in each case at least one group of products is disposed in an interior of the tray, and in that the separator is formed from a wall of the tray.

IPC Classes  ?

• B65D 5/489 - Partitions integral formed by folding inwardly portions cut in the container body
• B65B 19/22 - Wrapping the cigarettesPackaging the cigarettes in containers formed by folding wrapping material around formers
• B65B 61/20 - Auxiliary devices, not otherwise provided for, for operating on sheets, blanks, webs, binding material, containers or packages for adding cards, coupons or other inserts to package contents
• B65D 85/10 - Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for compressible or flexible articles rod-shaped or tubular for cigarettes

Abstract

The invention relates to a folding blank for a tray (11) for receiving one or more rod-shaped products (14) of the tobacco industry, in particular cigarettes, wherein the tray (11) is provided for being arranged in a packaging made of film, in particular in a pouch, preferably having at least three sealed seams, and wherein the folding blank (12) has outer lateral tabs, in particular for stabilizing the tray (11) in the packaging, as well as two mutually spaced first supporting walls (16) which are interconnected by a bottom wall (15) and are each intended for laterally supporting one or more rod-shaped products (14) located therebetween in a folded state of the folding blank. The invention is characterised in that each first supporting wall (16) is part of a supporting joint (21a, 21b) which is hinged to one of the lateral tabs, wherein the two supporting joints (21a, 21b) are each pivotable, by means of folding, from a first position in which the first supporting wall (16) of each supporting joint (21a, 21b) extends in the plane of the bottom wall (15), thus forming a retaining seat for one or more rod-shaped products (14), which retaining seat comprises the bottom wall (15) and the two first supporting walls (16), into a second position in which each first supporting wall (16) extends at an angle, in particular perpendicularly, to the bottom wall (15), and wherein each supporting joint (21a, 21b), in the second position, covers or blocks a space between the lateral tab to which it is hinged and the supporting wall of the supporting joint, so that this space cannot be occupied by one or more rod-shaped products (14).

IPC Classes  ?

• B65D 77/00 - Packages formed by enclosing articles or materials in preformed containers, e.g. boxes, cartons, sacks or bags
• B65D 85/10 - Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for compressible or flexible articles rod-shaped or tubular for cigarettes

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for handling (flat) objects (10), in particular hygiene products such as diapers, sanitary pads, or the like. A group (11) of objects (10) are subjected to a compression process in a compressing device (18) so that the group (11) of objects (10) have a degree of compression as a result of the compression process. The invention is characterized in that multiple compressing devices (18) are arranged one after the other such that the group (11) of objects (10) compressed by one compressing device (18) are supplied to the following compressing device (18) with the respective degree of compression of the objects and are further compressed in the following compressing device (18) in order to achieve a higher degree of compression.

IPC Classes  ?

• B65B 13/20 - Means for compressing or compacting bundles prior to bundling
• B65B 63/02 - Auxiliary devices, not otherwise provided for, for operating on articles or materials to be packaged for compressing or compacting articles or materials prior to wrapping or insertion in containers or receptacles
• B65G 47/08 - Devices for feeding articles or materials to conveyors for feeding articles from a single group of articles arranged in orderly pattern, e.g. workpieces in magazines spacing or grouping the articles during feeding

Abstract

The invention relates to a device and a method for filling bags (10) with products (11). The bags (10) have an opening (28), via which the bags are filled with at least one respective product (11), and walls (20, 21) of the bag (10) are mutually spaced in the region of the opening (28) in order to introduce at least one product (11) into the bag (10) via the opening (28). Holding elements (24, 25) are introduced into the bag (10) through the opening (28) after the walls (20, 21) are spaced apart and before the at least one product (11) is supplied in order to hold the opened bag (10) in the region of the opening (28). According to the invention, at least some holding elements (24, 25) have at least one respective shaping element (27) on which a respective wall (20) of the bag (10) rests such that the material of the wall (20) is preferably plastically deformed in order to hold the wall (20) on the holding element (24, 25) via the respective shaping element (27).

IPC Classes  ?

• B65B 43/34 - Opening or distending bagsOpening, erecting, or setting-up boxes, cartons, or carton blanks by internal pressure
• B65B 43/30 - Opening or distending bagsOpening, erecting, or setting-up boxes, cartons, or carton blanks by grippers engaging opposed walls, e.g. suction-operated
• B65B 43/26 - Opening or distending bagsOpening, erecting, or setting-up boxes, cartons, or carton blanks
• B65B 67/12 - Sack holders, i.e. stands or frames with means for supporting sacks in the open condition to facilitate filling with articles or materials
• B65B 63/02 - Auxiliary devices, not otherwise provided for, for operating on articles or materials to be packaged for compressing or compacting articles or materials prior to wrapping or insertion in containers or receptacles
• B65B 5/06 - Packaging groups of articles, the groups being treated as single articles
• B65B 5/08 - Packaging groups of articles, the articles being individually gripped or guided for transfer to the containers or receptacles
• B65B 25/14 - Packaging paper or like sheets, envelopes, or newspapers, in flat, folded, or rolled form
• B65B 25/20 - Packaging garments, e.g. socks, stockings, shirts
• B65B 35/40 - Arranging and feeding articles in groups by reciprocating or oscillatory pushers
• B65B 39/06 - Nozzles, funnels or guides for introducing articles or materials into containers or wrappers adapted to support containers or wrappers
• B65B 39/02 - Expansible or contractible nozzles, funnels, or guides

Abstract

The invention relates to an apparatus and to a method for producing blanks (30) for collars (17) of packages (10) for cigarettes (11), wherein blanks (30) for collars (17), preferably lying flat, are fed in a transport direction (27) along a transport plane (26) to a transport roller pair (34, 35), wherein it is preferably provided that the transport roller pair (34, 35) is a part of a scoring device (33) in which the blanks (30) are provided with material weaknesses, in particular scores (24), preferably oriented parallel to the transport direction (27), and wherein the blanks (30) have at least one folding flap (18), preferably formed by a U-shaped cut, for a lid brake of a package (10) for cigarettes (11). According to the invention, at least one folding flap (18) for the lid brake of one, preferably each, blank (30) is raised during transport by the transport roller pair, specifically is pivoted out of the plane of the blank (30) by applying the folding flap (18) to a mandrel (38), preferably arranged in a stationary manner, on a periphery of a rotating transport roller (34) of the transport roller pair (34, 35).

IPC Classes  ?

• B65B 19/22 - Wrapping the cigarettesPackaging the cigarettes in containers formed by folding wrapping material around formers
• B31B 50/26 - Folding sheets, blanks or webs
• B31F 1/10 - Creasing by rotary tools

Abstract

The invention relates to an application device for applying flowable medium onto a substrate, in particular hotmelt adhesive, comprising a discharge valve (13), which has a closure member that releases in its open position a metering opening of the discharge valve, so that the flowable medium can flow through the metering opening in the direction of the substrate, wherein the closure member is movable by an electromagnet of the discharge valve (13) from a closing position, in which it closes the metering opening, to an open position, and comprising a main control unit (17), in particular a PLC (programmable logic controller) which is connected to the discharge valve (13) and provides electrical output voltage signals, in particular in a periodic manner, for the controlled voltage supply of the electromagnet, said signals moving the closure member to the open position and maintaining it in said position. The invention is characterized in that a modification unit (19) is arranged between the main control unit (17) and the discharge valve (13), which modification unit is designed such that it receives the output voltage signals of the main control unit (17), modifies them and forwards them in a modified form to the electromagnet.

IPC Classes  ?

• B05C 5/02 - Apparatus in which liquid or other fluent material is projected, poured or allowed to flow on to the surface of the work from an outlet device in contact, or almost in contact, with the work
• H01F 7/18 - Circuit arrangements for obtaining desired operating characteristics, e.g. for slow operation, for sequential energisation of windings, for high-speed energisation of windings
• B05C 11/10 - Storage, supply or control of liquid or other fluent materialRecovery of excess liquid or other fluent material

Abstract

A packet for cigarette industry products, having a casing which at least partially surrounds a group of cigarette industry products as the packet content, wherein the casing is formed from a packaging material, and wherein folding tabs of the packaging material are connected to one another by seams, in which the casing is formed from a paper-based packaging material, and a corresponding method.

IPC Classes  ?

• B65D 85/10 - Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for compressible or flexible articles rod-shaped or tubular for cigarettes
• B65B 19/22 - Wrapping the cigarettesPackaging the cigarettes in containers formed by folding wrapping material around formers
• B65D 65/42 - Applications of coated or impregnated materials

Abstract

The invention relates to a multipack for cigarette industry products, wherein a plurality of packets (11) having products in the cigarette industry as the packet contents are combined to form a multipack (10), and wherein the packets (11) of the multipack (10) are arranged in several packet rows (12). According to the invention, an insert (21) made of flexible, preferably thin packaging material is arranged between at least two adjacent packet rows (12), and the packets (11) of the two packet rows (12) are releasably connected to the insert (21) via adhesive surfaces (22) arranged on the insert (21). The invention also relates to a method for producing such products.

IPC Classes  ?

• B65D 85/10 - Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for compressible or flexible articles rod-shaped or tubular for cigarettes
• B65D 71/00 - Bundles of articles held together by packaging elements for convenience of storage or transport, e.g. portable segregating carrier for plural receptacles such as beer cans or pop bottlesBales of material
• B65B 17/02 - Joining articles, e.g. cans, directly to each other for convenience of storage, transport, or handling

Abstract

A packet for cigarette industry products, having a casing which, preferably on all sides, surrounds a group of cigarette industry products as the packet content, wherein the casing is formed from a packaging material, and wherein folding tabs of the packaging material are connected to one another by seams. Preferably all seams are formed by crimping folding tabs of the packaging material that bear on one another in the overlap region of those folding tabs that bear on one another. The invention also relates to corresponding devices and methods for producing such packets.

IPC Classes  ?

• B65D 85/10 - Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for compressible or flexible articles rod-shaped or tubular for cigarettes
• B65B 9/067 - Enclosing successive articles, or quantities of material, in a longitudinally-folded web, or in a web folded into a tube about the articles or quantities of material placed upon it the web advancing continuously
• B65B 19/02 - Packaging cigarettes
• B65B 51/16 - Applying or generating heat or pressure or combinations thereof by rotary members

Abstract

The invention relates to a method and a device for checking hot melt adhesive arranged on a substrate, in particular a blank or a material web for producing packaging (11) for smokable products, wherein the substrate, together with the in particular hot or heated hot melt adhesive (13), is moved by a conveyor (17) along a capture area (23) in which the thermal radiation of a section or a portion (13) of the hot melt adhesive is captured by a sensor (22) which is assigned to the capture area (23) and is intended to capture electromagnetic thermal radiation, in particular an infrared sensor, for instance a quantum detector, which measures thermal radiation emitted by the hot melt adhesive and in the process generates in each case a plurality of measured values, in particular measured values representing the intensity of the thermal radiation, wherein both current measured values of the sensor (22) and, at the same time, current rotational angles of a drive shaft (19) of a conveyor (17), which conveys the substrate together with the hot melt adhesive along the capture area (23), are queried in each case at a plurality of different times, in particular by a controller, and, in particular for subsequent evaluation, each measured value of the sensor (22) that is queried at a particular time is linked to the rotational angle of the drive shaft (19) of the conveyor (17), which is queried at the same time, so as to form a pair of values in each case.

IPC Classes  ?

• G05B 19/418 - Total factory control, i.e. centrally controlling a plurality of machines, e.g. direct or distributed numerical control [DNC], flexible manufacturing systems [FMS], integrated manufacturing systems [IMS] or computer integrated manufacturing [CIM]
• B65B 51/02 - Applying adhesives or sealing liquids
• B05C 11/10 - Storage, supply or control of liquid or other fluent materialRecovery of excess liquid or other fluent material

Abstract

The invention relates to a valve for flowable media, in particular for liquid adhesive or glue, with a valve housing (21) and with an elongate closure member (25), which is arranged in the valve housing (21), is axially movable in a medium channel (20) of the valve by a controllable actuator, in a closing position bears against a valve seat (22) and in so doing closes a dispensing opening (23) connected to the medium channel (20), in an opening position is raised from the valve seat (22) and releases the latter, and is connected to a seal element for sealing the medium channel, specifically a portion of an elongate bellows (39), preferably made of metal, which also moves when the closure member (25) moves in the axial direction and in particular is formed as a hollow body, another portion of the bellows (39) being mounted in a stationary manner in the valve. The invention is characterised in that the axial relative position between the bellows (39) and the valve seat (21) is matched to a production-related deviation of the actual length dimension of the used bellows (39) from a target length dimension (manufacturing tolerance) so that this deviation is compensated for fully or partially.

IPC Classes  ?

• B05C 5/02 - Apparatus in which liquid or other fluent material is projected, poured or allowed to flow on to the surface of the work from an outlet device in contact, or almost in contact, with the work
• F16K 41/10 - Spindle sealings with diaphragm, e.g. shaped as bellows or tube

Abstract

The invention relates to a valve arrangement for applying a flowable medium to a substrate, in particular hotmelt adhesive, which valve arrangement has a distribution element (11) to which the medium can be supplied via a medium inlet, wherein the distribution element (11) has medium outlets which are fluidically connected to the medium inlet, wherein a spray valve device (12), on the distribution element (11), having a nozzle (19) for output of the flowable medium is connected to every medium outlet, to which spray valve device the flowable medium is supplied via the medium outlet, wherein the distribution element (11) has air outlets which are fluidically connected to a compressed air inlet of the valve arrangement and which are each connected to one of the spray valve devices (12), and via which heated compressed air which acts on the medium is supplied to the spray valve devices (12), the valve arrangement having a heating device (25) which has one or more heating elements (35) upstream of the air outlets for heating compressed air, the or each heating element (35) being associated with a portion of a compressed air channel (24) fluidically connected on the one hand to the air outlet of at least one spray valve device (12) connected thereto and on the other hand to the compressed air inlet of the valve arrangement, wherein compressed air flowing through the or through a portion is guided past the or each heating element (35) in order to transfer heat of the heating element (35) to the compressed air. The invention is characterized in that the heating device (25) is arranged outside of the distribution element (11) and is preferably detachably fastened as a unit to the distribution element (11).

IPC Classes  ?

• B05B 7/00 - Spraying apparatus for discharge of liquids or other fluent materials from two or more sources, e.g. of liquid and air, of powder and gas

Abstract

The invention relates to a device and a method for handling flexible hygiene products (10), in particular sanitary pads, wherein the hygiene products (10) are transported continuously along a transport path (11) and in the process are rotated, in particular placed upright. According to the invention, the hygiene products (10) are rotated by means of a rotating device (18) arranged in the transport path (11), wherein a conveyor means (21, 22) for the hygiene products (10) is arranged preferably directly upstream and downstream of the rotating device (18), and the rotating device (18) has a shorter dimension than the hygiene products (10) in the transport direction (12) of the hygiene products (10) along the transport path (11) such that each hygiene product (10) is transported by at least one of the two conveyor means (21, 22) while being rotated by the rotating device (18).

IPC Classes  ?

• B65H 29/52 - Stationary guides or smoothers
• B65H 29/62 - Article switches or diverters diverting faulty articles from the main stream
• B65H 29/12 - Delivering or advancing articles from machinesAdvancing articles to or into piles by means of the nip between two, or between two sets of, moving tapes or bands

Abstract

The invention relates to a valve arrangement for applying flowable medium to a substrate, in particular hot glue, comprising a valve main body (13) with at least one medium channel for flowable media, which medium channel can be closed by a movable closing member and to which at least one nozzle part (11) with nozzle opening of the valve arrangement is connected, which nozzle part is secured releasably to a valve main body (13) and via which nozzle part the portions of the flowable medium can be delivered to a substrate. In order to releasably fasten the nozzle part (11) to the valve main body (13), the valve arrangement has a pivotable lever (23), which in particular is fastened to the valve main body (13), of a fastening device, which in particular is fastened to the valve main body (13), by means of which lever the nozzle part (11) can be pressed in a fastening position against the valve main body (13) under the application of pressing force, the pivotable lever (23) being movable from the fastening position into a release position, in which it does not exert any pressing force and in which the nozzle part (11) can be removed from the valve main body (13), the fastening device, in particular the pivotable lever (23) thereof, and the nozzle part (11) being designed in such a way and cooperating in such a way that the pivotable lever (23) exerts a detachment force, directed away from the valve main body (13), onto the nozzle part (11) within the scope of the movement from the fastening position into the release position in order to assist the detachment of the nozzle part (11) from the valve main body (13). The invention is characterised in that the lever (23), in a first movement phase of its movement, is movable from the fastening position into the release position in a straight line and at the same time exerts the detachment force onto the nozzle part (11), in particular onto a pressing face of the nozzle part (11), and entrains the nozzle part (11).

IPC Classes  ?

• B05C 5/02 - Apparatus in which liquid or other fluent material is projected, poured or allowed to flow on to the surface of the work from an outlet device in contact, or almost in contact, with the work
• B05B 15/65 - Mounting arrangements for fluid connection of the spraying apparatus or its outlets to flow conduits

Abstract

The invention relates to a method and to a device for handling (hygiene) products (10), in particular nappies, wherein the products (10) are transported by a feed conveyor (12) in a first transport direction (18) into compartments (17) of a removal conveyor (11), in particular a grouping conveyor, which transports the products (10) in a second transport direction (19), wherein the second transport direction (19) extends transversely, in particular perpendicularly, to the first transport direction (18). According to the invention, at least one intermediate conveyor (13) which serves to reduce the transport speed of the products (10) in the first transport direction (18) is located between the feed conveyor (12) and the removal conveyor (11).

IPC Classes  ?

• B65G 47/08 - Devices for feeding articles or materials to conveyors for feeding articles from a single group of articles arranged in orderly pattern, e.g. workpieces in magazines spacing or grouping the articles during feeding
• B65G 47/84 - Star-shaped wheels or devices having endless travelling belts or chains, the wheels or devices being equipped with article-engaging elements

Abstract

A method and a device for filling containers with products, in which the products are successively conveyed horizontally to a filling installation in which the products, while being combined to form individual product groups, are grouped, and an offered-up container, which is conveyed horizontally to the filling installation, is filled in a single track with one or a plurality of product groups, wherein the filled containers subsequently are in particular horizontally transported away. The method includes conveying the products in multiple tracks to the filling installation, grouping the products to form product groups, feeding the product groups in multiple tracks to a common revolving vertical conveyor of the filling installation, conveying the product groups to an ejection position from which the product groups are conveyed onward in a single track to an offered-up container, and filling the offered-up container with at least one of the product groups.

IPC Classes  ?

• B65B 35/54 - Feeding articles along multiple paths to a single packaging position
• B65B 5/06 - Packaging groups of articles, the groups being treated as single articles
• B65B 5/10 - Filling containers or receptacles progressively or in stages by introducing successive articles, or layers of articles
• B65G 47/08 - Devices for feeding articles or materials to conveyors for feeding articles from a single group of articles arranged in orderly pattern, e.g. workpieces in magazines spacing or grouping the articles during feeding
• B65G 47/57 - Devices for transferring articles or materials between conveyors, i.e. discharging or feeding devices to or from inclined or vertical conveyor sections for articles
• B65G 47/68 - Devices for transferring articles or materials between conveyors, i.e. discharging or feeding devices adapted to receive articles arriving in one layer from one conveyor and to transfer them in individual layers to more than one conveyor, or vice versa, e.g. combining the flows of articles conveyed by more than one conveyor

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for strapping a group (10) of packages (11), in particular for products of the cigarette industry, with a packaging material strap (12). The packages (11) are assembled in order to form a cube-shaped group (10) and are then strapped with at least one packaging material strap (12). The invention is characterized in that the at least one packaging material strap (12) is provided with a preferably continuous layer of adhesive on one face, and the group (10) of packages (11) is completely strapped with the at least one packaging material strap (12), wherein the layer of adhesive is brought into direct contact with the packages (11) of the group (10).

IPC Classes  ?

• B65B 13/02 - Applying and securing binding material around articles or groups of articles, e.g. using strings, wires, strips, bands or tapes
• B65B 19/02 - Packaging cigarettes

Abstract

The invention relates to a packet for products in the cigarette industry, said packet comprising a casing (17) which surrounds, preferably on all sides, a group of products (11) in the cigarette industry as packet contents, wherein the casing (17) is formed from a blank (18) of a packaging material, and wherein folding tabs (26, 27) of the blank (18) are connected to one another by seams (19). The invention is characterized in that at least some seams (19) are at least partly and preferably covered in each case by a cover (30) formed by the blank (18) for the casing (17).

IPC Classes  ?

• B65D 85/10 - Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for compressible or flexible articles rod-shaped or tubular for cigarettes
• B65B 19/02 - Packaging cigarettes

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for forming groups (20) of compressed hygiene products (10), in which uncompressed hygiene products (10) are supplied using a continuously driven first conveyor (11) and transferred from the first conveyor (11) to a compressing apparatus (16) during continuous transport, the compressing apparatus (16) having at least one compartment (17) for a group (20) of uncompressed hygiene products (10), and in each case multiple uncompressed hygiene products (10) being transferred from the first conveyor (11) into the compartment (17) of the compressing apparatus (16) while the compartment (17) is also moved continuously in the transport direction (13) of the first conveyor (11). According to the invention, the group (20) of uncompressed hygiene products (10) is compressed in the compartment (17) during continuous transport in the transport direction (13), so that there is a group (20) of compressed hygiene products (10) in the compartment (17) of the compressing apparatus (16) after compression, and wherein the group (20) of compressed hygiene products (10) is discharged to a compartment (15) of a second conveyor (14) during further continuous transport of the compartment (17) of the compressing apparatus (16) in the transport direction (13), wherein the compartment (17) of the compressing apparatus (16) is moved continuously in the transport direction (13) with the compartment (15) of the second conveyor (14). The invention also relates to a corresponding device.

IPC Classes  ?

• B65G 47/08 - Devices for feeding articles or materials to conveyors for feeding articles from a single group of articles arranged in orderly pattern, e.g. workpieces in magazines spacing or grouping the articles during feeding
• B65B 35/44 - Arranging and feeding articles in groups by endless belts or chains
• B65B 63/02 - Auxiliary devices, not otherwise provided for, for operating on articles or materials to be packaged for compressing or compacting articles or materials prior to wrapping or insertion in containers or receptacles
• B65G 47/52 - Devices for transferring articles or materials between conveyors, i.e. discharging or feeding devices

Abstract

The invention relates to a method and a device for examining rod-shaped products (11) of the cigarette industry, in particular tobacco sticks which comprise in each case an in particular cylindrical lateral surface (22) and two end faces (23, 24) which are located on opposite ends, are in particular formed by two filter elements preferably of different lengths and are in particular visually identical, wherein the rod-shaped product (11) comprises smokable material, in particular tobacco, between the two end faces (23, 24), preferably in an eccentrically situated portion, the method comprising the following measures: a) irradiating the lateral surface (22) of at least one rod-shaped product (11) to be examined using examination light, such that the examination light penetrates at least in part into the rod-shaped product (11) through the lateral surface (22) and exits again at least in part through an end face (23, 24), in particular using examination light of which the beam impinges on the lateral surface (22) at an angle of at least 30°, preferably of at least 60°, particularly preferably of 90°, with respect to the longitudinal extent of the rod-shaped product (11); b) detecting the examination light exiting the end face (23, 24) of the rod-shaped product (11) to be examined using an electro-optical receiver for the examination light assigned to the end face (23, 24), the main viewing direction of which electro-optical receiver is oriented towards the end face (23, 24), in particular using a camera; c) evaluating the examination light exiting the end face (23, 24) and detected by the electro-optical receiver, in particular with regard to its brightness and/or light intensity.

IPC Classes  ?

• A24C 5/34 - Examining cigarettes or the rod, e.g. for regulating the feeding of tobaccoRemoving defective cigarettes
• A24D 3/02 - Manufacture of tobacco smoke filters
• G01N 21/00 - Investigating or analysing materials by the use of optical means, i.e. using sub-millimetre waves, infrared, visible or ultraviolet light
• B65B 19/30 - Control devices for cigarette or cigar packaging machines responsive to presence of faulty articles, e.g. incorrectly-filled cigarettes

Abstract

The invention relates to a method and a device for producing packages for products of the tobacco industry, in particular rod-shaped products of the tobacco industry, comprising an outer package (11) which is made of a blank made of a dimensionally stable material and in which a product group in the form of a product block (28) is arranged in an inner casing (15). The product block (28) together with a collar blank, for forming a collar (20) of the outer package (11), is conveyed to a partly folded blank, which is provided in a pocket (29) of a folding turret, (30) in order to form the outer package (11), namely at least in a section along a stationary product block guide path (32), wherein the preferably initially flat collar blank is folded upstream of the folding turret (30) such that two collar narrow lateral walls (24), in particular a collar front wall or collar rear wall, which adjoin a large-area collar wall (23) of the collar blank and which are connected to said collar wall via a respective folding line, run at an angle after the folding process, and the collar blank is placed against the product block (28) upstream of the folding turret (30) such that both collar narrow lateral walls (24) rest against a respective paired narrow face (18) of the product block (28). The collar blank is folded at a folding station (35) which is arranged in the region of the stationary product block guide path (32).

IPC Classes  ?

• B65B 11/00 - Wrapping, e.g. partially or wholly enclosing, articles or quantities of material, in strips, sheets or blanks, of flexible material
• B65B 11/28 - Wrapping articles, or quantities of material, by conveying wrapper and contents in defined paths in a curved path, e.g. on rotary tables or turrets
• B65B 19/20 - Inserting the cigarettes, or wrapped groups thereof, into preformed containers into boxes with hinged lids
• B65B 19/22 - Wrapping the cigarettesPackaging the cigarettes in containers formed by folding wrapping material around formers
• B65B 61/20 - Auxiliary devices, not otherwise provided for, for operating on sheets, blanks, webs, binding material, containers or packages for adding cards, coupons or other inserts to package contents

Goods & Services

Packaging machines; packaging machines for foodstuffs and luxury items; cigarette packaging machines; carton packers; film wrapping machines; packaging machines for cellulose products; tobacco pouch packers; conveyors; belt conveyors, roller conveyors, chain conveyors and overhead conveyors for machines, for packaging machines and for the transport of materials for packaging; robots for loading and unloading of packaging machines, containers, pallets and conveyors; gears; gear motors; couplings (not for land vehicles); parts for above mentioned machines, appliances and units, particularly shafts, axles, bolts, levers, toothed wheels, gear wheels, control and regulating apparatus, valves, pumps, pipes, machine foundations, hydraulic and pneumatic telescopic cylinders, scales, tobacco scales, bearings, drives, driving belts, adhesive tape dispensers, cutting tools (as far as included in this class). Weighing, measuring, signalling, checking [supervision] apparatus and instruments; magnetic data carriers; data processing apparatus; computers; computer programmes [stored], all for the tobacco, cigarette and packaging industries and for packaging machines and robots. Maintenance and repair of packaging machines and robots and weighing, measuring, signalling, checking [supervision] apparatus and instruments for packaging machines and robots.

Abstract

The invention relates to a packaging for products of the tobacco industry, wherein the packaging (10) has a box part (11) and a lid (12) which is pivotably arranged on the box part (11) via a line hinge (13), a packaging content (15) being arranged in the box part (11), the packaging (10) having a collar (20) which encloses the packaging content (15) on a plurality of sides at least in part and which protrudes, together with the packaging content (15), out of the box part (11), which is open at the top. According to the invention, walls of the collar (20) extend from a front side of the box part (11) into the region of an opposite rear side of the box part (11) on which the line hinge (13) is also located. The invention furthermore relates to a method and an apparatus for producing such a packaging.

IPC Classes  ?

• B65D 85/10 - Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for compressible or flexible articles rod-shaped or tubular for cigarettes

Goods & Services

(1) Packaging machines; packaging machines for foodstuffs and luxury items; cigarette packaging machines; carton packers; film wrapping machines; packaging machines for products of regenerated cellulose; tobacco pouch packers; conveyors, belt conveyors, roller conveyors, chain conveyors and overhead conveyors for machines, packaging machines and the transport of materials for packaging; robots for unloading and loading of packaging machines, containers, pallets and conveyors; transmission gears for machines; planetary gear motors; couplings for machines (2) Computers for the tobacco, cigarette and packaging, and for the packaging machines and robots industries (1) Services related to the maintenance and repair of packaging machines and robots and weighing, measuring, signalling, checking [supervision] apparatus and instruments for packaging machines and robots

Goods & Services

Packaging machines; packaging machines for foodstuffs and luxury items; cigarette packaging machines; carton packaging machines; film wrapping machines; packaging machines for products of regenerated cellulose; tobacco pouch packaging machines; pneumatic conveyors, belt conveyors, roller conveyors, chain conveyors and overhead roller conveyors for machines, packaging machines and the transport of materials for packaging; industrial robots for unloading and loading of packaging machines, containers, pallets and conveyors; gears for machines; gear motors not for land vehicles; machine coupling not for land vehicles; structural parts for above mentioned machines, appliances and units, particularly shafts, axles, levers, toothed wheels, gear wheels, control and regulating apparatus in the nature of valves, pumps, pipes, machine foundations, hydraulic and pneumatic telescopic cylinders, bearings, drives, driving belts, adhesive tape dispensing machines, cutting machine tools, scales and tobacco scales being incorporated parts of machines Weighing scales; blank magnetic data carriers, data processing apparatus; computers; recorded computer programmes for operating packaging machines and robots; all abovementioned goods for the tobacco, cigarette and packaging industries and for packaging machines and robots Maintenance and repair of packaging machines and robots and weighing, measuring, signalling, checking and supervision apparatus and instruments for packaging machines and robots

Abstract

A packaging machine for producing packs with a group of cigarettes as pack content, having individual manufacturing units which are arranged adjacent to one another on a manufacturing line and which are (non-destructively) separable from one another in each case in the region of or along (imaginary) parting planes between them and are removable from the manufacturing line as required, wherein the packaging machine can be converted from a first configuration, in which a first pack type can be manufactured, into a second configuration, in which a second pack type which differs from the first pack type can be manufactured, by removing at least one separable manufacturing unit from the manufacturing line, by replacing at least one separable manufacturing unit with another separable manufacturing unit and/or by adding at least one further separable manufacturing unit to the manufacturing line.

IPC Classes  ?

• B65B 19/22 - Wrapping the cigarettesPackaging the cigarettes in containers formed by folding wrapping material around formers
• B65D 85/10 - Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for compressible or flexible articles rod-shaped or tubular for cigarettes
• B65B 19/20 - Inserting the cigarettes, or wrapped groups thereof, into preformed containers into boxes with hinged lids
• B65B 61/00 - Auxiliary devices, not otherwise provided for, for operating on sheets, blanks, webs, binding material, containers or packages

Abstract

The invention relates to a pack for products of the tobacco industry, comprising an outer pack (10) which is designed particularly as a flip pack having a pack part (11) and a cover (12) and which is manufactured from a blank made of dimensionally stable material, as well as comprising at least one inner pack (13), in particular a box-shaped inner pack, which is arranged in the outer pack (10), is also manufactured from a blank made of dimensionally stable material, and encloses the products on all sides, wherein the inner pack (13) has a closure means (34) which, prior to the inner pack (13) being used for the first time, closes a removal opening (32) which extends at least in an end region of the inner pack (13), preferably additionally in a front region of the inner pack (13), and is intended for removing individual products, and which closure means can be transferred from the state in which it closes the removal opening (32) to a state in which it exposes the removal opening (32). According to the invention, the closure means consists of dimensionally stable material, in particular of preferably coated cardboard.

IPC Classes  ?

• B65D 75/58 - Opening or contents-removing devices added or incorporated during package manufacture
• B65D 85/10 - Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for compressible or flexible articles rod-shaped or tubular for cigarettes

Abstract

The invention relates to a tamper-evident package, in particular a child-proof package (10), comprising an outer package (11) and an inner package (12), wherein the inner package (12) is at least partially accommodated in the outer package (11), and wherein the inner package (12) is arranged so as to be displaceable in the outer package (12) for opening and closing the package (10), and wherein the package (10) has at least one securing means acting as a tamper-evident means in order to make it difficult or impossible to open the package or access the products located in the inner package (12). The invention is characterised in that the at least one securing means is effective between the inner package (12) and the outer package (11) in order to make it difficult or impossible to displace the inner package (12) in the outer package (11) for opening the package (10).

IPC Classes  ?

• B65D 5/38 - Drawer-and-shell type containers
• B65D 77/04 - Articles or materials enclosed in two or more containers disposed one within another
• B65D 85/10 - Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for compressible or flexible articles rod-shaped or tubular for cigarettes

Abstract

The invention relates to a tamper-evident package, in particular a child-proof package (10), comprising an outer package (11) and an inner package (12), wherein the inner package (12) is at least partially accommodated in the outer package (11), and wherein the inner package (12) is arranged so as to be displaceable in the outer package (11) for opening and closing the package (10), and wherein the package (10) has at least one securing means acting as a tamper-evident means in order to make it more difficult or impossible to open the package (10) or access the products located in the inner package (12). The invention is characterised in that the at least one securing means is effective between the inner package (12) and the outer package (11) in order to make it difficult or impossible to displace the inner package (12) in the outer package (11) for opening the package (10).

IPC Classes  ?

• B65D 5/38 - Drawer-and-shell type containers
• B65D 77/04 - Articles or materials enclosed in two or more containers disposed one within another
• B65D 85/10 - Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for compressible or flexible articles rod-shaped or tubular for cigarettes

Abstract

A packaging machine for producing packs containing a group of cigarettes, having in a manufacturing flow direction: a forming unit for forming cigarette groups; a first folding unit at which an inner blank composed of a material suitable for forming a dimensionally stable inner pack is folded around a cigarette group to form an inner pack with the cigarette group as pack content; adjoining said first folding unit, a sealing inner pack unit in which a sealing inner pack is manufactured from the inner pack, the sealing inner pack is folded into a final state, or one sealing inner pack comprising the inner pack is manufactured; and adjoining the sealing inner pack unit, a second folding unit at which an outer blank composed of a material suitable for forming a dimensionally stable outer pack is folded around the sealing inner pack to form an outer pack.

IPC Classes  ?

• B65B 19/02 - Packaging cigarettes
• B65D 85/10 - Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for compressible or flexible articles rod-shaped or tubular for cigarettes
• B65B 19/20 - Inserting the cigarettes, or wrapped groups thereof, into preformed containers into boxes with hinged lids
• B65B 35/58 - Turning articles by positively-acting means, e.g. to present labelled portions in uppermost position

Abstract

The invention relates to a packet for cigarette industry products, comprising a tray (11) for receiving at least a group (10) of products. The invention is characterized in that the tray (11) is configured to receive at least two groups (10) of products, that at least one separating element (20) for delimiting two receiving spaces for in each case at least one group (10) of products is arranged in an interior space of the tray (11), and that the separating element (20) is formed by a wall of the tray (11). The invention also relates to a device and a method for producing the same.

IPC Classes  ?

• B65B 19/22 - Wrapping the cigarettesPackaging the cigarettes in containers formed by folding wrapping material around formers
• B65D 85/10 - Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for compressible or flexible articles rod-shaped or tubular for cigarettes
• B65B 61/20 - Auxiliary devices, not otherwise provided for, for operating on sheets, blanks, webs, binding material, containers or packages for adding cards, coupons or other inserts to package contents
• B65D 5/498 - Partitions with one or more flaps formed by folding, and fixed to, or maintained in position by, the sides of the container body
• B65D 5/489 - Partitions integral formed by folding inwardly portions cut in the container body

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for handling a blank (15, 15') made of a dimensionally stable material, for a packaging for receiving one or more products as the packaging contents, which is provided with a first and a second large side wall (16, 17) for forming large packaging sides, of which at least the first large side wall (16) is bordered by a pair of spaced-apart opposing longer fold lines (16a, 17a) and a pair of spaced-apart opposing shorter fold lines (16b, 17b), and which is also provided with a narrow side wall (18) connecting the first and the second large side walls (16, 17) to form a narrow side of the packaging connecting the large packaging sides, which is connected to the first large side wall (16) via one of the longer fold lines (16a) bordering same and connected to the second large side wall (17) via a further fold line (17a) parallel to the one longer fold line (16a). The invention is characterised in that, in an in-feed station (48), the blank (15, 15') is introduced into a pocket of a folding turret (40), having a plurality of pockets arranged around the circumference thereof, and orientated in such a way that when the blank (15, 15') is then located in the pocket, at least one of the longer fold lines (16a) bordering the first large side wall (16) runs transverse (or substantially transverse) to a notional connection line running perpendicular to the in particular vertical folding turret axis of rotation, said connection line connecting the folding turret axis of rotation and the fold line centre to one another.

IPC Classes  ?

• B65B 11/28 - Wrapping articles, or quantities of material, by conveying wrapper and contents in defined paths in a curved path, e.g. on rotary tables or turrets
• B65B 19/22 - Wrapping the cigarettesPackaging the cigarettes in containers formed by folding wrapping material around formers
• B65B 19/24 - Wrapping the cigarettesPackaging the cigarettes in containers formed by folding wrapping material around formers using hollow mandrels through which groups of cigarettes are fed
• B65B 51/02 - Applying adhesives or sealing liquids

Abstract

The invention relates to a pack for a group of elongate tobacco products (10), having an inner pack (12), which is produced from a blank, forming at least bottom wall, end wall, narrow side walls and side walls of large area (rear wall, front wall), for pack contents, preferably for a group of cigarettes, and having an outer pack (11), which is produced from a blank, forming at least end wall, narrow side walls and side walls of large area (rear wall, front wall), and consists of a dimensionally stable material, in particular of coated or uncoated (thin) card and in which the inner pack (12) is stored in a linearly movable manner relative to the outer pack (11), so that the inner pack (12) can be moved (telescopically) out of the outer pack (11) via an open bottom side (13) of the outer pack (11), wherein the outer pack (11) has one or more movement limiters (38a, 38b) which interact with the inner pack (12) and limit this linear movement of the inner pack (12) out of the outer pack (11), and wherein, when the inner pack (12) is in a position moved (at least mostly) out of the outer pack (11), the outer pack (11) and the inner pack (12) are connected to each other via an in particular hinge-like pivot connection which allows the inner pack (12) to pivot relative to the outer pack (11) in a plane perpendicular to the plane of the linear movement, in particular to execute a pivot movement which moves the inner pack (12) fully out of the outer pack (11).

IPC Classes  ?

• B65D 5/38 - Drawer-and-shell type containers
• B65D 5/68 - Telescope flanged lids
• B65D 85/10 - Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for compressible or flexible articles rod-shaped or tubular for cigarettes

Abstract

The invention relates to a packet for products of the cigarette industry, comprising: - a tray (13) made of a preferably stiff packaging material, in particular paperboard, for holding a group of products as packet contents (12); and - a wrapping (14), which is made of a packaging material surrounding the packet contents (12) and the tray (13) preferably on all sides, the wrapping (14) being formed by folding a blank (15) of the packaging material, and folding flaps of the blank (15) being connected to one another by sealing. The invention is characterized in that a seal (44) is formed in the region of at least one edge of the tray (13) and in that the seal (44) of the folding flaps (31, 32) to be connected is formed against at least one edge of the tray (13) by applying a sealing pressure, by means of a sealing element (45), to the folding flaps (31, 32) to be sealed, which are overlappingly arranged, the sealing pressure being exerted on the folding flaps (31, 32) substantially in the plane of a wall of the tray (13) such that the sealing element (45) seals the folding flaps (31, 32) to be connected against the edge or each corresponding edge of the tray (13). The invention also relates to a method and a device for producing packets of this type.

IPC Classes  ?

• B65B 19/22 - Wrapping the cigarettesPackaging the cigarettes in containers formed by folding wrapping material around formers
• B65B 19/02 - Packaging cigarettes
• B65B 51/14 - Applying or generating heat or pressure or combinations thereof by reciprocating or oscillating members
• B65B 61/22 - Auxiliary devices, not otherwise provided for, for operating on sheets, blanks, webs, binding material, containers or packages for adding cards, coupons or other inserts to package contents for placing protecting sheets, plugs, or wads over contents, e.g. cotton-wool in bottles of pills
• B29C 65/00 - Joining of preformed partsApparatus therefor
• B65D 75/58 - Opening or contents-removing devices added or incorporated during package manufacture
• B65D 77/02 - Wrapped articles enclosed in rigid or semi-rigid containers
• B65D 81/05 - Containers, packaging elements, or packages, for contents presenting particular transport or storage problems, or adapted to be used for non-packaging purposes after removal of contents specially adapted to protect contents from mechanical damage maintaining contents at spaced relation from package walls, or from other contents
• B65D 85/10 - Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for compressible or flexible articles rod-shaped or tubular for cigarettes

Abstract

The invention relates to a lidded box-type packaging comprising a box part (11) together with an attached frame (16) and a hinged lid (12) for a group of elongated tobacco products; an inner packaging (13) for the packaging contents, said inner packaging being made of a dimensionally stable material and having narrow lateral walls made of overlapping inner and outer lateral flaps of a blank (26) for the inner packaging (13); a front wall which connects the narrow lateral walls; a rear wall which connects the narrow lateral walls; a removal opening (27) for the tobacco products; and a closure label (30) which covers the removal opening (27) in a closed position and which can be actuated multiple times.

IPC Classes  ?

• B65D 85/12 - Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for compressible or flexible articles rod-shaped or tubular for cigars
• B65D 75/58 - Opening or contents-removing devices added or incorporated during package manufacture

Abstract

The invention relates to a package for products of the tobacco industry, comprising: an outer package (11), which has a holding space for holding package contents (14); and a collar (16), which is arranged in the outer package (11), wherein: at least one dimension of the holding space is greater than the corresponding dimension of the package contents (14); and at least one material deformation (23) formed on the collar (16) serves to compensate said at least one dimension. According to the invention, the collar (16) has at least one additional tab (24), which is folded relative to another wall (18) of the collar (16) having at least one material deformation (23) in such a way that the at least one additional tab serves to compensate the at least one dimension together with the at least one material deformation (23).

IPC Classes  ?

• B65D 85/10 - Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for compressible or flexible articles rod-shaped or tubular for cigarettes
• B31B 50/88 - PrintingEmbossing
• B31F 1/07 - Embossing
• B65B 19/22 - Wrapping the cigarettesPackaging the cigarettes in containers formed by folding wrapping material around formers