A packing system includes a conveyor configured to transport one or more containers. Two or more printers are disposed along the conveyors. The printers are configured to print printed material. Each of the printers has a tray upon which the printed material is deposited from the printer. A robotic arm is disposed proximal to the conveyor and the printers. The robotic arm has an end of arm tool configured to pick the printed material from the tray of each printer. A controller is operatively connected to the printers and the robotic arm. The controller is configured to send one or more print instructions to one or more of the printers to print the printed material. The controller is configured to instruct the robotic arm to place the printed material from the tray into the container.

Grouping unit and method to form groups of hygiene absorbent articles in a packaging machine; a conveyor which receives the single hygiene absorbent articles in an input station is provided, which feeds the hygiene absorbent articles along a grouping path, and releases the groups of hygiene absorbent articles in an output station; wherein the conveyor has a belt which is closed so as to form a ring, is wound around at least two pulleys, and supports a plurality of blades, which extend perpendicular to the belt and delimit, between one another, respective pockets, which are each designed to hold a corresponding hygiene absorbent article; an active braking device is provided, which is arranged at the input station so as to cooperate with a pocket arranged in the input station to slow down the movement with which a corresponding hygiene absorbent article enters the pocket.

An improved mailpiece fabrication system assembles finished mailpieces from content materials and from wrapping materials. The wrapping materials include printed cut quality marks at predetermined positions relative to cut lines. Content materials are placed on the continuous web. The continuous web is then folded and sealed around the content materials to form a continuous tube enclosing the content materials. A cutter downstream of the conveyance deck cuts individual envelopes from the continuous tube of folded wrapping material. A downstream imaging device captures image data indicative of a cut quality mark on the individual envelopes. A controller receives the captured image data from the imaging device and compares an actual dimension of an imaged cut quality mark with an expected dimension of a cut quality mark. An error signal is produced if the difference is not within a predetermined tolerance.

An ultrasonic sealing system in a machine for making composite webs in the production of absorbent sanitary articles includes a contact roller having an axis of rotation and including a central portion and a peripheral portion which is supported by the central portion and includes an outer surface forming the outer surface of the contact roller itself. The contact roller includes a sealing pattern on the outer surface of the peripheral portion and also includes springs acting between the central portion and the peripheral portion, which is supported by the peripheral portion by means of the springs.

The present invention concerns the high speed packaging of folded paper articles such as tissues, napkins and the like, and more precisely it concerns an apparatus for continuously feeding such articles, arranged in stacked groups(P, P1) coming from folding machines, towards packaging machines, for example with a rotating drum, arranged downstream.

A modular manufacturing system for wrapping and bundling or case packing rolled product. The modular manufacturing system includes a first end and a second end, a first module comprising a first piece of equipment, a second module comprising a second piece of equipment, and a third module comprising a third piece of equipment. The first piece of equipment comprises a wrapper. The second piece of equipment comprises a bundler. The third piece of equipment comprises a case closer. The first, second, and third modules are three of a plurality of additional modules arranged in a series configuration for metered product flow of the rolled product from the first end to the second end.

A process for packaging a product including the steps of providing a cleaning wipe that includes nonwoven strips and moving the cleaning wipe in a direction aligned with the longitudinal axis of the cleaning wipe. A gas is moved from positions on opposite sides of the longitudinal axis and beyond the longitudinal edges of the cleaning wipe to bend the free ends of the nonwoven strips out of plane relative to the fixed ends of the strips.

A packaged film for masking an aircraft component, wherein the packaged film is configured to form a tubular sleeve when unpackaged. The packaged film is formed by performing a longitudinal telescopic folding operation on a longitudinal portion of a film to provide a longitudinally parallelogram-shaped stacked film; and performing at least a first transverse folding operation on a first portion of the longitudinally parallelogram-shaped stacked film, the first transverse folding operation comprising an operation selected from accordion folding and roll folding to provide the packaged film. The packaged film is capable of being unfolded in a reverse order of the longitudinal telescopic folding operation and the first transverse folding operation to cover said aircraft component.

An apparatus and a method for handling bags for products, the bags having an opening via which they are each filled with product, forming the bag contents, and wherein walls of the bag are spaced apart from one another to introduce the bag contents into the respective bag via the opening, and wherein, after the bag contents have been fed into a bag, the respective opening is closed. The filled bag is conveyed in a conveying direction along a conveying path into a closing station, in which the filled bag is closed, wherein the filled bag is stopped in a predetermined position along the conveying path by a stop device to close the filled bag in the closing station, and the filled and closed bag is subsequently transferred to a conveying means in the conveying direction by a conveying device.

A launcher of paper products for packaging stations of paper product converting lines, including a frame with at least two launch channels, on which products are arranged, and each launch channel has opposite movable surfaces, at least one being motorized, arranged in contact with opposite sides of the respective product in the channel, to draw the product in the launch direction. The two movable surfaces are below and above the space occupied by the product in the respective channel to drag the product by acting on lower and upper sides thereof. At least a kinematic connection apparatus is provided for kinematically connecting the motorized movable surfaces of the launch channels. The movable surfaces launch simultaneously the products in the launch direction, at least one disconnection/connection device being provided for kinematically disconnecting/connecting at least one movable surface from/to the at least one kinematic connection apparatus, that can be operated on command.