Abstract: A machine (10) and a method for producing a tubular product (A), preferably made of paper, which can be preferably used to produce straws starting from one or more strip-shaped elements (B), by means of winding means (17) configured in a closed loop and partly wound around a shaping member (12) on which the one or more strip-shaped elements (B) are wound in a helical manner and by means of support means (20) configured as a support belt (22) disposed in a closed loop, made of flexible material, partly wound on the shaping member (12).

Abstract: A filling machine (1) includes a dosing station (3) comprising a supporting element (5) and a dosing unit (10) having a dosing cylinder (12) and a piston (13), for filling bodies (101) of capsule (100) with a product (P) picked-up from a tank (4); the supporting element (5) is movable between a lowered picking position (B), in which the dosing unit (10) is inserted in the tank (4) and a dosing position (C) in which the dosing unit (10) faces a body (101); the piston (13) is movable between a first internal position (D) to form a dosing chamber (15) suitable for picking up and retaining a dose (PI) of product (P), a second internal position (E) to reduce a volume of the dosing chamber (15) and compress the dose (PI) and an external position (F) to push the dose (PI) from the dosing cylinder (12) into a body (101).

Abstract: A weighing system fills capsules with a product, each capsule having a body. The weighing system includes a weighing unit with a weighing cell and a gripping element connected to the weighing cell by means of a loading stem and provided with a housing for receiving and/or retaining a capsule or body to be weighed. The weighing system also includes a connecting element rigidly fixed to the loading stem and slidably and elastically supporting the gripping element that is movable between a measuring position, wherein the gripping element is completely supported by the loading stem and spaced from an abutment wall of the weighing unit by an elastic element, and an end-stroke position reached by contrasting the thrust of the elastic element, wherein the gripping element abuts the abutment wall.

Abstract: A unit for over-wrapping filter bags includes a carousel rotating about a first axis with first and second grippers along a closed circular trajectory. A forming station for forming single sheets of over-wrapping material is arranged near the trajectory and includes a feeding device for feeding the sheets in a U-shape, synchronized with the first grippers. A first drum transports formed bags, rotates about a second axis and has grippers receiving the bags from a preceding station and releasing the bags from the first grippers with the U-shaped sheets in synchronization. A closing station includes a sealing gripper movable from a first position near the carousel, for picking the bag with the sheet the first gripper, to a second away position for closing the sheet and, lastly, to a third position near the carousel, for release of the enclosed bag to the second gripper.

Abstract: Method to manufacture a component suitable to be installed inside a protected chamber with a controlled atmosphere of a machine for the production and/or packaging of pharmaceutical products, configured to receive one or more pieces of equipment, or devices, or elements, each formed by one or more of the components, wherein the interior of the chamber, that is to say, the components that form the equipment, or the devices, or the elements, is/are intended to be subjected to suitable decontamination and sterilization treatments, for example CIP (Clean-In-Place) treatments and/or SIP (Sterilizing-In-Place) treatments; There are also described components that are manufactured with the manufacturing method as above, and a method to prepare a protected chamber, isolated from the external environment, of a machine for the production and/or packaging of pharmaceutical products.

Abstract: Apparatus to neutralize static electricity present on the surface of containers (100; 10?) and/or of nests (200; 300) comprising a plurality of seatings (212; 312) according to a positioning matrix (M1) and able to receive, resting on them, an ordered group of said containers (100; 100), wherein the apparatus comprises an extraction member (15) configured to engage at least one part of said ordered group of containers (100; 100?), in order to perform at least one relative lifting movement with respect to the nest (200; 300) so as to at least partly extract the containers (100; 100?) engaged from the respective seatings (212; 312), and at least one ionizing device (19) configured to be relatively mobile with respect to the extracted containers and/or with respect to the nest (200; 300), while said group of containers (100; 100?) extracted is in said raised condition, along a path that develops in the proximity of the containers (100; 100?) extracted and/or in the proximity of said nest (200; 300), so as to ion

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for the surface quality inspection of the external surface of at least one component for inhalers or vaporizers, in particular a cartomizer for electronic cigarettes, verifies whether there are surface imperfections on the external surface of the components.

Abstract: A positive displacement pump, including at least a cylinder, provided with at least an entrance aperture and at least an exit aperture for the liquid and a plunger, mobile inside the cylinder by means of a first actuator and configured to transfer the liquid from the entrance aperture to the exit aperture; the cylinder is provided with at least a first inactive position and at least a second working position between which it can be selectively positioned in an automatic and adjustable manner by at least one second actuator.

Abstract: An opening assembly for a package, particularly for containers including vials, bottles, syringes, and carpules which can be installed in a container handling and filling system. The package includes a tub covered by a covering film, the tub containing a nest bearing the containers in an orderly manner. The opening assembly includes at least one clamp located upstream of an opening placed on a separation wall between a first and second sterile environment. While the package passes through the opening, the clamp clamps a portion of an edge of the covering film, consequently removing the covering film from the tub.

Abstract: A weighing device to weigh at least one container suitable to contain one or more substances, including weighing means and a body connected to the weighing means and in which a compartment is defined, configured to temporarily house the container and provided with an aperture defining a passage gap for the introduction of the container inside the compartment along an axis of introduction, in which the body also includes a plurality of holding levers to hold the container inside the compartment.

Abstract: An apparatus and method to automatically insert a liquid inside components of inhalers, such as cartomizers for electronic cigarettes, includes injection means having a plurality of injectors each having an injection head having a substantially symmetrical conformation with respect to its symmetrical axis. The injection means are configured to cooperate with an empty end part of a component and at least one injection needle is configured to penetrate into an internal cavity of the component and inject the liquid, while said injection head is stationary with respect to said component, arranging itself with the symmetrical axis substantially coincidental with the longitudinal axis of said internal cavity.

Abstract: A station for feeding closing seals for containers, which includes at least one fixed magazine of seals which is provided with an outlet from which the seals can be taken individually. The station includes a carousel for feeding seals which can rotate with respect to a first central rotation axis and is provided with pickers which are radially spaced apart from the first rotation axis. The pickers are individually rotatable about a second rotation axis which is not parallel to the first axis of the carousel. During the rotation of the carousel, at least one picker can is configured to rotate about the second axis from a position for taking the seal from the magazine to a position for releasing the seal.

Abstract: A station for feeding closing seals for containers includes at least one fixed magazine of seals which is provided with an outlet from which the seals can be taken individually. The station further includes a carousel for feeding seals which can rotate with respect to a first central rotation axis and is provided with pickers which are radially spaced apart from the first rotation axis. The pickers are individually rotatable about a second rotation axis which is not parallel to the first axis of the carousel. During rotation of the carousel, at least one picker is configured to rotate about the second axis from a position for taking the seal from the magazine to a position for releasing the seal.

Abstract: A station for heating thermoplastic sheet-like blanks for a thermoforming line includes a heating carousel which can rotate continuously about a central axis and which has a number of heating heads radially spaced apart from the central axis. Each heating head is adapted to receive at least one respective thermoplastic sheet-like blank at a first peripheral region which is outside the carousel, to retain the at least one blank during the rotation of the carousel while supplying heat to it, and to release the at least one blank to a second peripheral region which is outside the carousel and is angularly spaced apart from the first region.

Abstract: A fan assembly for cleanrooms includes a chamber defined by a floor, two opposing side walls and an upper wall, an inlet unit for introducing a laminar stream of gas into said chamber directed towards the floor, said chamber being arranged in such a way as to be internally invested by the gas introduced by the inlet unit, where said assembly further includes a conveying channel for the gas and for liquid substances present within the chamber positioned on the floor, said conveying channel is surmounted by a casing defined by an upper wall and by two opposing side walls and each side wall of the casing, being provided with through openings that place the chamber into communication with the conveying channel, said opposing side walls of the casing are arranged spaced apart from the respective opposing side walls of the chamber.

Abstract: An airtight wrapper having an assembly wrapped by a wrapping sheet made of a weldable material creating a group of smoking articles obtained by: positioning the folded wrapping sheet to contact walls, front rear and head wall of the assembly, with flaps protruding beyond bottom and lateral walls; welding lower and upper flaps, and defining a transverse edge; folding the welded transverse edge rotating it by 180° toward the front wall; folding the upper and lower transverse flaps; folding the upper and lower transverse flaps; folding the rear and front longitudinal flaps, and partly also the transverse edge, toward the lower lateral walls, overlapping one on top of the other above the transverse flaps, and finally welding them to seal the airtight wrapper.

Abstract: A dosing device for feeding an infusion product includes: a tower for containing product, tubular channels for feeding the product to the tower; each channel configured to pick up the product from the tower and release a quantity of product; a plurality of containers for receiving the product from the channels; a platform movable relative to the channels supporting the containers one after another. The platform is configured for carrying, in sequence, each container to a first position for feeding a quantity of product less than the weight of a programmed dose and, subsequently, to a second position for feeding a remaining quantity of product for reaching the weight of the programmed dose. A plurality of weighing elements control the weight of the product in each container and a control unit controls the quantity of product fed to each container and the relative movement of the platform.

Abstract: An apparatus and a method for the transfer of components for inhalers or vaporizers from a loading station in which the components arrive randomly oriented, toward one or more work stations, to which said components are delivered oriented according to a predetermined orientation.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing pouches made of at least partly thermoplastic material, including the steps of superimposing at least two webs of at least partly thermoplastic material, joining the webs at adhesion regions or lines, and cutting the webs at cutting regions or lines in order to provide pouches. In a condition in which the webs are superimposed, the method further includes the step of mutually aligning the webs by causing the elongation of at least one of the two webs via the application of heat.

Abstract: An assembly for manufacturing containers by thermoforming, which includes a magazine of thermoplastic sheet-like blanks, a feeding station for feeding the blanks, a heating station for heating the blanks, and a station for thermoforming containers starting from the blanks. The feeding station includes a closed-loop path and at least two conveyor elements, which move, following each other, along the path between a loading position, in which the conveyor element faces the blank magazine, and an unloading position, in which the conveyor element faces the heating station. The heating station includes a heating carousel, wherein, in the active condition, the conveyor element in the unloading position moves with a substantially linear motion with a speed that is substantially equal to a peripheral speed of the heating carousel.