An apparatus for packaging of loose product includes a loading station, a box forming station and an uploading station. The loading station includes moveable chutes in spaced apart relation. Each chute has an open top, an open upstream end, and an open downstream end. The open top is configured to receive loose product while moving along a first feed path. The box forming station is operable to partially erect boxes in spaced apart relation with first and second open sides and align the first open side of each box with the downstream end of a corresponding chute while moving along a second feed path. The unloading station includes a stationary vacuum head in communication with the second open side of each box. The vacuum head provides a continuous vacuum source along the second feed path operable to move loose product from the chute into the boxes.

An apparatus for packaging of loose product includes a loading station, a box forming station and an uploading station. The loading station includes moveable chutes in spaced apart relation. Each chute has an open top, an open upstream end, and an open downstream end. The open top is configured to receive loose product while moving along a first feed path. The box forming station is operable to partially erect boxes in spaced apart relation with first and second open sides and align the first open side of each box with the downstream end of a corresponding chute while moving along a second feed path. The unloading station includes a stationary vacuum head in communication with the second open side of each box. The vacuum head provides a continuous vacuum source along the second feed path operable to move loose product from the chute into the boxes.

The invention relates to a cartoning machine comprising: a store unit for cardboard blanks; means for picking the blanks from the store unit; an unfolding station for forming boxes with the blanks; a conveyor for the blanks to the unfolding station; a feeding station for the products destined for the boxes; an insertion station, in which the products are inserted into the boxes; an exit station for the filled boxes; wherein between the insertion station and the exit station there is a paddle conveyor that moves downstream the filled box (C). The paddle conveyor is provided with a plurality of paddles connected with moving means controlled independently of each other, wherein the paddles are mounted on three pairs of flexible members motorized independently of each other.

Cartoning machine comprising: a store unit (M) for flat cartons or blanks (F); a blank feeding station (E); an unfolding station (SR) for forming boxes; a feeding station (A) and an insertion station (N) for the products to be packaged. At least two guide blades (202L, 202R) and folding members (206, 207) are arranged in the insertion station (N) for folding the side flaps (PSL, PSR) of the blanks inwards. The blades (202L, 202R) are connected to means which control their positioning in the open position and respectively in the closed position for disengaging the internal faces of said flaps (PSL, PSR). The blades are moved in such a way that, after inserting the products in a box, they are placed in the closed position and subsequently, while the box is moved towards the exit of the machine, they are placed again in the open position for a pre-established time.

Cartoning machine comprising: a store unit (M) for cardboard blanks (F); an unfolding station(S); a feeding station (A) for products (RC) to be packaged. Means for picking the blanks from the store unit by moving them along a picking direction (DP), a conveyor (CB), and means for transferring the blanks from the store unit to the conveyor are arranged between the store unit and the unfolding station. The transfer means comprise a dragging unit (T) and a compartment (VR) below the dragging unit, provided with unloading means (VR2). The dragging unit comprises an active zone (ZY) with means (T1, T2) which can be selectively activated and deactivated suitable for engaging the blanks and moving them along said picking direction. The collection compartment comprises a front wall (VRA) and a rear wall (VRB) whose positions are adjustable with respect to said direction (DP).

A pushing apparatus (100) for pushing and transferring products, comprising: a pusher element (A), conformed so as to abut a side of a product (P), or a group (P) of products, arranged on a conveyor (C) and which is to be pushed and transferred along a transfer direction (Z) transversal to the conveyor (C); a counter-pusher element (B), conformed and dimensioned so as to be positionable above and facing the product (P), or the group (P) of products, arranged on the conveyor (C) and follow the product (P), or the group of products, during at least a part of the transfer thereof along the transfer direction (Z) that is transversal to the conveyor (C) by means of the pusher element (A). The pushing apparatus (100) comprises a linear driving unit (U) for movement of the pusher element (A) and the counter-pusher element (B).

In the manufacture of a dry electrode, a feeding system includes a conveyor configured to distribute a material and to be rotatable, a pusher configured to move the material on the conveyor, and a guide configured to receive the material moved by the pusher and to guide movement of the material to a film forming device.

Cartoning machine comprising: a store unit (M) for flat cartons or blanks (F); a blank feeding station (E); an unfolding station (SR) for forming boxes; a feeding station (A) and an insertion station (N) for the products to be packaged. At least two guide blades (202L, 202R) and folding members (206, 207) are arranged in the insertion station (N) for folding the side flaps (PSL, PSR) of the blanks inwards. The blades (202L, 202R) are connected to means which control their positioning in the open position and respectively in the closed position for disengaging the internal faces of said flaps (PSL, PSR). The blades are moved in such a way that, after inserting the products in a box, they are placed in the closed position and subsequently, while the box is moved towards the exit of the machine, they are placed again in the open position for a pre-established time.

A method and a device for forming stacks of packages by stacking infusion bags is disclosed. In one example, the method includes removing an individual infusion bag from a conveying stretch, on which individual infusion bags are fed, to a removal station. The individual infusion bags, guided by a vertically movable push-in device in a stacking stroke of said push-in device, are transferred into a buffer storage chute of said stack holding device. In a transfer stroke of said push-in device, which is greater than said stacking stroke, an infusion bag completing said stack of packages is raised off of said conveying stretch and transferred into a cartridge storage chute of said stack holding device.