Abstract: An apparatus has an article sending-side first rotary wheel and an article receiving-side second rotary wheel. These rotary wheels are disposed adjacent to each other and are rotated in opposite directions at the same peripheral velocity. A plurality of heads are disposed on each of the rotary wheels. These heads are rotatably provided to the rotary wheels. The heads of the first rotary wheel and the heads of the second rotary wheel are maintained to oppose each other while they pass a transfer section as a portion in which the rotary heads are adjacent to each other. Plates for holding an article are provided to these heads. When the heads of the second rotary wheel move through the transfer section, the plates of these heads are open to transfer the article from the heads of the first rotary wheel to the heads of the second rotary wheel.

Abstract: Apparatus for wrapping articles in film material includes a stationary frame supporting a vertically reciprocable frame which in turn supports a rotatable ring member carrying a film carriage assembly by which film is wrapped around an article during rotation of the ring member. The ring is in the form of an outwardly open channel and is supported for rotation relative to the reciprocable frame by wheels on the latter which underlie the upper flange of the channel. The web of the channel is captured between pairs of wheels mounted on the reciprocable frame, and a wheel of one of the pairs is driven to rotate the ring relative to the reciprocable frame. The reciprocable frame is elevated and lowered relative to the stationary frame by a chain drive arrangement, and the stationary and reciprocable frames have interengaging guide components at two diametrically opposed locations.

Abstract: Improvements are disclosed in a machine for applying carrier stock of resilient polymeric material to substantially identical containers, each having an upper rim of a given diameter and a side wall of a larger diameter. The carrier stock has container-receiving apertures in longitudinal rows. A conveyor conveys the containers in longitudinal rows. A wheel assembly comprising two wheels with paired jaws receives the stock, stretches the stock transversely, and moves the stock downwardly past the rims. The conveyor, the wheel assembly, and the jaws on one wheel are adjustable for applying the stock selectively in a rim-applied carrier position or in a side-applied carrier position. The conveyor is supported by a table and is adjustable vertically, via spacers insertable between the table and a base. The wheel assembly is adjustable longitudinally, via rollers on longitudinal rails. The jaws on one wheel are adjustable transversely, via screws.

Abstract: Gripper pads for a gripping device such as that found in a stretch wrap packaging machine are provided with means enabling their simple installation and mechanical attachment to the fingers of a film gripping unit without necessitating the removal of the gripper unit from the machine. Each pad includes a film-contacting surface which is essentially unaffected chemically by plasticizers found in the common stretch films employed in this field. The film-contacting surface is one which is compressible but also has a fast recovery for returning to its original uncompressed condition to accommodate relatively high speed wrapping. Laminated to the film-contacting surface is a solid urethane or comparable material which has strength capabilities enabling the formation of stems or runners on the side opposite the film-contacting surface so that the stems can be threaded through openings in the fingers and used as pulling tools to anchor heads connected to the stems to be anchored in the fingers.

Abstract: Grouped individual packages of prepackaged foodstuffs like butter, margarine, cheese and the like are packed in boxes by disposing a box blank at a receiving station aligned with a chamber and a turntable and mounting the layers of individual packages upon grouping on the blank. A hold-down and folding unit then displaces the layers and the blank into the chamber through a folding frame. The turntable and the folding frame can be displaced stepwise to accommodate two or more layers.

Abstract: A sleeving machine and a method for automatically inserting a tray of postal mail into a sleeve. The tray is disposed on a transport station and advanced by a first belt. A second belt having a pusher thereon engages the tray for advancement through the machine. Collapsed sleeves are dispensed as required from a hopper into a sleeving station. Arcuate guides in the sleeving station open the sleeves to receive the tray. The second belt with the pusher advances the tray into the open sleeve and then advances the sleeve, with the tray therein, out of the sleeving station. Sensors are provided to control and coordinate movement of the second belt and dispensing of the sleeves from the hopper into the sleeving station. Safety features are provided.

Abstract: A band feeding and tightening apparatus for a packing machine capable of effectively preventing jamming of a band in band passages during feeding and tightening of the band. A feed touch roller is pressedly contacted through the band with a feed roller rotated at a high speed, to thereby feed the band to a package. When a distal end of the band is gripped, a return touch roller is pressedly contacted through the band with a return roller rotated at a high speed, to thereby draw back the band, resulting in the band being wound around the package. Then, a tension touch roller is pressedly contacted through the band with a tension roller, to thereby tighten the band. Subsequently, an overlapped portion of the band is bonded by welding and a portion of the band wound around the package is cut from the remaining part of the band. A movable guide plate is moved in association with pressing of the feed touch roller to reduce a gap of a feed chute.

Abstract: Cigarette blocks comprising an even number of individual cigarettes arranged in an odd number of rows are formed through the use of a hopper having a linear array of parallel shafts with one of the shafts being permanently occupied by a blocking member at the level of an intermediate row. Cigarettes are delivered singly to the blocked shaft beneath the blocking member in synchronism with the transfer, in a direction transverse to the feed direction, of all of the cigarettes comprising the block to downstream apparatus.

Abstract: A device for guiding objects that are connected to one another in a strip form and that are to be individually applied to packaging containers includes a feed wheel for receiving the objects and feeding them in a forward direction. A guide plate surrounds an end of the feed wheel and the guide plate is connected to an arrangement that allows the position of the guide plate to be adjusted relative to the feed wheel.

Abstract: A lug folding apparatus for a packaging machine in which box-like items, fed into pockets, are continuously circularly conveyed, during which a packaging sheet is wound or wrapped along the surface of each of the box-like items, the wound box-like items are transferred from the continuous circular conveyance to a linear conveyance, and the extended ends of the packaging sheet, protruding angularly from both sides of the box-like items, are folded along both sides thereof, the lug folding apparatus having a continuously rotating lug folding wheel provided with a plurality of pockets into which the wound box-like items are fed at equal intervals at the outer periphery thereof; a low speed conveyor which is partly in contact with a moving orbit of the pockets; a horizontal conveying path, opposite to the low speed conveyor, wherein the pockets are circularly moved while maintaining their horizontal state by rotation of the lug folding wheel, the pockets being provided with spaced portions to which projections of

Abstract: An apparatus is described for hooping a package (8) by means of a band (19) in a hooping plane (5) extending in the conveying direction (4). The band guide channel (7) comprises two portions (10, 13) which lie on opposite sides of the hooping plane (5) and each of which is situated at so great a distance from the hooping plane (5) that they do not impede the conveying movement of the package (8). The portions (10, 13) are joined together, on opposite sides of the package (8), by other portions (9, 11 and 12) which pass through the hooping plane (5). In a position turned through 90.degree., in which the hooping plane (5) lies parallel to the conveying plane (1), the arrangement can also work as a horizontal hooping apparatus.

Abstract: The present invention pertains to a process and a device for wrapping a cover film (6, 7) around a pressed bale (4) on a baling press (1), wherein the cover film (5, 6) stretched between the pressure ram (2, 3) and the pressed bale (4) is placed on the lateral surfaces of the pressed bale (4). A laterally projecting fold is formed in the cover film (6, 7) in the corner areas via a folding frame (10), and this fold is subsequently folded over and placed on the pressed bale (4). The vertically movable folding frame (10) may be designed as a stripping frame (14), or it may consist of a plurality of multiaxially movable rakes (11). Figure selected: FIG. 3.

Abstract: There is disclosed herein a method for manufacturing a bag-in-a-bag system wherein there is provided a content-carrying sealed and opaque inner bag and a windowed outer bag having a layer in the window-forming graphic content replicating indicia. The graphic layer indicia is of a high quality and is prepared by a high resolution printing technique where the minimum resolution is defined as 160-200 line screen. This type of resolution can be achieved using a rotogravure process. For ease in manufacturing, several indicia are printed on a web, which is then longitudinally slit to separate the indicia and then cut transversely into patches for application to the bag. The bag itself may be printed using a lower resolution technique such as rubber plate printing.

Abstract: Apparatus (packaging machine) for the packaging of articles of differing size. In packaging technology, it is often necessary to solve the problem of producing packs of differing size on one and the same packaging machine. As a rule, adapting this to the different pack formats requires considerable conversion work. This in turn involves lengthy standstill phases of the packaging machine. To make it easier for the packaging machine to be changed over to different pack formats, packaging members, especially folding members, critical for the packaging process are provided in the form of a plurality of, preferably two sets (40, 41). A particular set of packaging members is in the packaging position (43). A further (part) set is in an exchange position (44) for the exchange of individual or all packaging members for other formats.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for use with a cotton module builder to roll a cotton module cover over the top of a cotton module while the cotton module is within the cotton module builder or as the cotton module builder is being moved from the cotton module. The apparatus includes a roll of flexible material; and a frame for being attached to the module builder, for supporting the roll of flexible material, and for allowing flexible material to be paid out from the roll of flexible material over a module as the frame is moved relative to the top of the module.

Abstract: Packages consisting of two part packs are in increasing demand as so-called cigarette sticks, because consumers want "half sticks", that is to say part packs having a smaller number of cigarette packs. The part packs are produced from a common one-piece blank which is severed before the package is put on sale, so that part packs formed from two part blanks are obtained. These are connected to one another by means of severable connecting members, especially adhesive strips. The mechanical high-performance production of such packages composed of two part packs is carried out in a folding turret. A one-piece blank is introduced into pockets of the folding turret and almost ready-folded. The groups of cigarette packs are then pushed via open sides into the part packs within the pockets.

Abstract: The invention relates to a machine for packing articles of different sizes which is accordingly intended to use containers that vary in their dimensions and particularly in height.It is characterized in that it includes a working plane 20 and a reference plane 22 that are substantially perpendicular to one another, and an ascending ramp 24-105-106 extending from one to the other, movable devices 23, 23a kinematically connected to a motor 45, guides located on the path that the closure panels 6 must follow in the course of the displacement of container-article sets 1, at least one pressure element 27-54 having a smooth active base 29, mounted to be movable perpendicular to the working plane 20 and elastically urged toward it, at least one pressure element 30-60 having a smooth active face 34, mounted to be movable perpendicular to the reference plane 22 and elastically urged toward it, and means 70 to 72 intended for the fixation of panels 6 of containers 1 equipped with their contents A.

Abstract: A system comprising transmitting apparatus for transmitting messages to receiving apparatus which have a closed casing for collecting printed sheets into a bundle and also enclosing enveloping material for automatically enveloping the collected bundles of printed sheets. Receiving apparatus (M1, M2, . . . Mn), each having a closed casing (h1, h2, . . . hn) and enveloping material (F1) in said casing, and are intended for installation at stations (UP1, UP2, UPn) intended for the central collection of enveloped bundles or dispatches (FF1) addressed to addressees located in the neighborhood of respective collecting stations. The transmitting apparatus (S1, S2, . . . Sm) are equipped with payment means (b1, b2, bm) through which payment can be made for a transmission service on each transmission occasion, this service including transmission of a message, enveloping the message received and delivering the message or dispatch to the receiving addressee.

Abstract: The total heating energy to be given to the folded parts of packages (i.e. box-like items) is changed within a short period of time in response to a variation of transferring speed of the box-like items. As the heater moving mechanisms are operated, each of the heater blocks is moved towards or away from the inside parts of each of the package conveying annular belts in synchronization with the transferring speed of the box-like items. The number of heated blocks abutting against the inside parts of each of the annular belts is varied in response to the transferring speed of the box-like items.

Abstract: Copies (22) of preferably folded or stitched printed matter are transferred by means of a loading device (20) from a preceding station to a stacking device (30). The copies (22) are stacked in the stacking means (30) into stacks (120), positioned on a bottom (96). The bottom (96) can be lowered together with the stack (120) lying thereon. During this movement, the bottom is lowered simultaneously into a banding means (106) which applies itself to the bottom and the side walls of the stack. Thereafter the banding means (106) is closed tightly on top of the lowered stack (120), by means of sealing rams (118). The stack (120), with the loop wrapped around it, is then carried off, and the lowered bottom (96) or its partial bottoms (98, 100) return to their upper position.