Abstract: A device designed to open at least one page of a publication in order to introduce printed inserts, fitted in an insert feeding and/or packaging machine, which includes a feed table for publications associated with a product feeding conveyor, at least one sheet feeder being fitted alongside table to feed secondary products, which said device including a suction and lifting element that lifts a lateral portion of said at least one page of a main product, a deflector designed to deflect the lateral portion of said at least one lifted page being fitted downstream of said suction and lifting element, which has a reduced width and is fitted alongside in correspondence of the deflector, where said at least one sheet feeder is located.

Abstract: A turning device for graphic publishing products in a conveyor line and/or packaging machine that can be combined with a push conveyor (14) for the advancement of products (11), spaced out one after the other, including a supporting member (16) bearing in sequence a first conveyor unit (17) to pickup at least one of the products (11) off the conveyor line, a grasping and turnover unit (18) of at least one of the products (11), a second conveyor unit (19) to deposit at least one of the products (11), turned upside down on the conveyor line, the conveyor units (17, 19) being operated to advance in phase with the push conveyor (14) and being movable between a working position and a disengaged position with the conveyor line.

Abstract: An automatic envelope inserting machine which comprises a supporting structure (31, 331) whereon envelopes (17) are made to feed, in said envelopes one or more flat inserts have to be placed (16, 16', 16"), an envelope feeder (18, 318) towards a conveyor belt (15, 40, 40a, 315, 340, 340a) which carries one envelope behind the other, at least one insert loader (11-14, 211, 212), an insertion device of at least one insert, which is selected and directed towards the feed conveyor belt, and which is inserted into a predetermined envelope (17) and elements (87) for the opening of the envelope (17), whereby, before the envelope feeder (18, 318), a deviation device (19) is provided to carry the selected inserts towards the insertion device (20, 84, 320, 384), the insertion device can move back and forth with respect to the supporting structure (31, 331), by means of translation elements (44), in a direction parallel to the feed conveyor belt and synchronised with the forward movement of the envelope (17), a pushing

Abstract: Device for rotating a label fed into a labelling machine, wherein the label is fed to a support element placed on a wheel which rotates between a position where the label is picked up from a conveyor or feed belt and a position where the label is placed on a product, the support element having at least a label holding element during the rotation of the wheel in a fixed structure, wherein the label holding element is positioned on a shaft which can be rotated by means control elements driven by a cam group operationally connected to the wheel and to the fixed structure. In particular, the holding element is a suction device which allows the rotation of the label as required.

Abstract: A deviator device for transporting products, in particular graphic or editorial products, which receives one or a stacked number of products and feeds them to a further station for a subsequent handling stage, The deviator device includes a transport table located on a support structure and provided with advancement elements for the products. More particularly the support structure is articulated so as to be able to be curved and swivelled by virtue of being formed from a plurality of support elements hinged one to another by pivots. Each support element carrying strip or slat elements on its upper surface, there being provided for the advancement elements drive apparatus able to achieve a speed differentiation between the two transverse sides of the advancement elements as the deviation position of the support structure varies. Also included is an actuator for causing one end of the support structure to move between positions aligned with transport units.

Abstract: The plant for packaging cans or other disposable drink containers by use of a heat-shrinkable film which includes a support frame; at least two feed lines for cans, with respective buffer zones, and including sensors for sensing passage of an individual can; a device feeding the cans recumbent and aligned into the at least two lines; a device feeding at least one heat-shrinkable film web associated with a device for wrapping the film web over the cans of each line; a welding and cutting unit with a longitudinal welder on each line and at least one welder oriented transverse to both of the lines; a heat-shrinking tunnel common to the various lines; and a package expulsion zone.

Abstract: A device for turning an editorial product on a packaging line includes a pusher conveyor, a feeder for products to be packaged, and a plurality of feeders for sheet inserts for the products, arranged side by side one after another along a direction essentially perpendicular to the pusher conveyor. The device has a base on which there is mounted a unit for gripping, rotating, overturning through 180.degree. and guiding the products caused to advance by the pusher conveyor. The base has an overall size identical to that of one of the insert feeders so as to be able to assist in its position within the line. A drive is also provided for the unit.

Abstract: For association with a packaging line, a device for overturning packaged editorial products which grips the editorial products (12) advancing on a conveyor belt (13) and overturns them to superpose them on the next product in order to facilitate their final stacking within a collection element. Such a device is particularly advantageous when handling packaged editorial products the thickness of which varies along their length by virtue of consisting of at least one editorial product (12') combined within its wrapper with a second added product (12") of different dimensions.

Abstract: A cutting device for trimming printed paper packages in a packaging machine. A cutting unit includes an upper part and a lower part which are movable relative to each other when a paper package passes between them. The package originates from paper material on a reel and is formed into a flat tube with glued edges with an unprinted neutral strip. One of the parts of the cutting unit carries two blades spaced apart by a distance equal to the width of the neutral strip and interacts with two counter blades on the other part. An elastic presser is positioned on one of the parts of the cutting unit to hold the package while the neutral strip is being cut by the blades. Spacers are provided so that the distance between the blades can be varied to match the width of the neutral strip.

Abstract: A device for rapidly feeding sheet inserts to a pusher conveyor of a packaging machine having upstream of the device a feeder for feeding sheet inserts one after another in a direction essentially perpendicular to the pusher conveyor, including at least one rotary disc provided with at least one element for gripping the sheet insert, the at least one gripping element being operable selectively to lock the sheet insert onto the disc and drag the sheet insert from a position aligned with the insert feeder to an advanced position on the pusher conveyor by causing the sheet insert to undergo a rototranslational movement, the relative drive mechanism for the disc, for the sheet insert feeder and for the pusher conveyor being correlated in their movement.

Abstract: An apparatus for longitudinal welding with fast and reliable scrap removal, suitable for being coupled with a product conveyor for conveying products to be packaged inside a plastic material sheet comprising a saddle (16), capable of being reciprocated in longitudinal direction, above which a longitudinal welding unit (15) is provided, which is constituted by at least one welder bar (23) and one counter-welder bar (20), wherein at least one of the latter elements (23, 20) can be either downwards or upwards shifted in order to interact with the other of said elements (20, 23) and generate a longitudinal side seam (40) on the product (38) partially wrapped inside the plastic material, in which beside the welder bar (23) and the counter-welder bar (20) a pressing element (27) and a counte-pressing element (29) are longitudinally installed facing outwards, which clamp a longitudinal portion of the packaging plastic material, with at least one of said pressing and counter-pressing elements (27, 29) being suitable

Abstract: An apparatus for stretching a continuous plastic film in a packaging machine, in which products fed one after the other are wrapped and sealed within the continuous film, which includes a first conveyor belt, a transverse welding apparatus, and a second conveyor belt, in which the transverse welding apparatus has a horizontally traversing carriage which supports a pair of superposed welding bars and a pressing belt facing the second conveyor belt. The conveyor belts are driven by a speed variator via a pair of transmissions, the first of which drives an end roller of the first conveyor belt and the second drives an end roller of the second conveyor belt by way of a linkage which varies the speed of the two conveyor belts, there being also provided upstream of the transverse welding apparatus, both above the first conveyor belt and operationally linked to the vertical movement of the upper welding bar, elements for clamping the film onto the products wrapped in it.

Abstract: A device for feeding single sheets to a packaging, labelling or packeting machine, comprising a support structure provided with a table for positioning a stack of sheets to be fed, at least one pair of rotary drums arranged rigid with a drive shaft, and a plurality of operating elements associated with the pair of drums and comprising gripper elements positioned on the drums for gripping the sheets and sucker elements for withdrawing a single sheet from the bottom of said stack and transporting it towards the gripper elements. The drive shaft being divided into two parts which can be connected together in an intermediate region in a relative position rotated through any angle, a first linkage system comprising levers and cams being operationally associated with the operating elements of a first drum and a second similar linkage system being associated with the operating elements of a second drum, these being arranged on each of the two drive shaft parts.

Abstract: An apparatus for sealing a continuous web of packaging paper or like material with adhesive material in a packaging machine for editorial graphic products, comprising a frame containing a first conveyor for conveying the paper web, unwound from a roll by an unwinding unit, and with the front end of which there are associated, externally, a second conveyor for feeding editorial graphic products to be packaged and, internally, means for folding the web for superimposing its longitudinal edges, there being provided downstream of the sealing apparatus an element for transversely cutting individual finished packages which have been sealed. In a region between the roll and the folding means there is provided an element for dispensing adhesive material in a direction transverse to the web, the dispensing element being operated by means which sense the arrival of each product.

Abstract: A machine for sorting graphic and/or printing products in which the products are fed one after the other, comprising a framework, a conveyor for receiving individual products one after the other sensors for identifying each of the individual products on the receiving conveyor a central computer, a control console for the entry of predetermined data, selectively actuated elements for unloading the products from the receiving conveyor and at least one conveyor for discharging the unloaded products, wherein the receiving conveyor consists of a sliding surface and is disposed on the framework inclined at an angle of between 10.degree. and 90.degree.

Abstract: A longitudinal welding apparatus in a packaging machine for products fed on a conveyor belt, comprising a rocking circular welder which overlies the superposed longitudinal edges of a continuous plastics film in which the products are wrapped, the rocking circular welder consisting of at least two independently powered, separate semicircular welding elements, the welder being rotatable to position one of its welding elements on the superposed edges of the film, sensors being provided to measure the speed of advancement of the film and to control, via an electronic control device, both the rotation of the welder and the variation in the feed voltage of at least one of the welding elements.

Abstract: Apparatus for the controlled feeding of products in sheet form in a collating or packaging machine comprising a framework on which there is installed a magazine portion containing the products in sheet form to be fed, a drawing/advancement unit for drawing one of the products in sheet form from the magazine portion and for advancing it towards a push-bar conveyor on top of which one of the products in sheet form, drawn in that way, has to be placed. This apparatus comprises at least one accompanying element which performs the task of accompanying the so-drawn product in sheet form to the top of the push-bar conveyor, with at least one accompanying element being interposed between the drawing/advancement unit and the push-bar conveyor, with actuation elements being furthermore provided. The actuation elements perform the task of actuating accompanying element, and intervene whenever the drawn product in sheet form has left the drawing/advancement unit and is placed in the nearby of the push-bar conveyor.

Abstract: A centrally controlled automatic device for feeding single sheets or the like in a machine for packaging signatures, newspapers or the like in a continuous film of thermoplastic material, comprising a frame, container for containing sheets stacked one on the other for feeding, a separator for separating at least one sheet from the bottom of the container, an extractor for extracting at least one sheet separated by the separator, and an evacuator for evacuating at least one sheet once extracted, wherein the extractor consists of a lower conveyor band on which a presser roller is caused to engage with rocking movement, the rocking movement being provided by a first cam mechanism which causes the pressure roller to move from a first detached position to a second position of engagement with the lower conveyor band as soon as the separator has gripped an initial portion of the sheet and moved it from the bottom of the container onto the lower conveyor band, there also being provided a second cam mechanism arranged

Abstract: An automatic apparatus for folding sheet elements fed one after the other in succession, comprising a first unit for U-shaping the sheet elements to define two vertical side portions and a longitudinal central region, a pusher element for V-shaping the central region and a second unit for the final compaction of the V-shaped sheet elements. The apparatus also comprises a third unit for rotating the folded compacted sheet elements leaving the second unit through 90.degree. and elements for separating the parallel side-by-side edges of the thus folded and compacted sheet elements to enable further additional elements to be inserted between them. The speed of the various units is correlated to prevent any deterioration or slippage of the sheet elements.

Abstract: A composite conveyor apparatus, composed of conveyor elements of plate type installed successively to each other and individually and selectively tiltable relatively to both sides of the sliding and advancing direction, so as to carry out in a predetermined and preselected way the delivery of the conveyed products. The tilting of the individual plate conveyor elements at the unloading or outlet region, which is preselected to take place at the right-hand side or at the left-hand side of the advancing path is controlled by way of switching elements, which are actuated by relevant actuators, in their turn caused to act by suitably programmed sensor elements destined to detect the product.