Abstract: Methods and devices for wrapping essentially flat products of the luxury-comestibles or foodstuffs industry, especially squares or bars of chocolate, in packaging foil or film. The object is tubular packaging, especially the inner wrapping of squares or bars of chocolate at high machine output without especially stressing the particular packaging foil while maintaining a low level of packaging-material consumption. This is attained in that the webs of foil are transported by means of an intermittently direct connection between foil web and pushers.

Abstract: A device for continuously feeding (synchronizing) essentially flat articles of the luxury-food or food industry, especially bars or strips of chocolate, to a packaging machine, in which carriers in a transport assembly introduce the articles into a tube of wrapping material and shape them into individual packages with it, characterized in that an infeed (25) for the articles (1) that operates transversely with respect to and is synchronized with a transport mechanism (3a) that operates at a constant speed and is equipped with carriers (3) is positioned upstream of the transport mechanism and in that buffers (30) for the articles arriving on the infeed are positioned between the carriers and controlled in such a way that the articles will enter the tube (5) of wrapping material in sequence and in a direction derived from the infeed and transport directions.

Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for producing bar packages from individually wrapped sweets. The apparatus comprises a sweets holder extending into the path of movement of the sweet grippers of the packing head and revolving continuously at the same speed as the packing head, a stack former with bar packing means adjacent thereto and transfer means disposed between sweets holder and stack former and which forms from the individually wrapped sweets which are fed continuously and one after another to the sweets holder a rod of sweets in the stack former, the rod or bar of sweets then being enclosed in an outer wrapper in the bar packing apparatus.