公开(公告)号：US20230322454A1

公开(公告)日：2023-10-12

申请号：US18037235

申请日：2020-11-25

Applicant: G.D S.P.A.

Inventor： Anthony PUCCINI ,  András SELMECZY ,  Sip Hoo LIEW ,  Enrico BERNARDI ,  Gabriele BENNI

IPC: B65D55/02

CPC classification number: B65D55/02 ,  B65D2201/00

Abstract: A container management system including a lid assembly configured to engage/disengage a collar of a container to close and open an aperture thereof, wherein the lid assembly includes an interior lid compartment in communication with an interior portion of the container when the lid assembly engages the collar, a reactive substance configured to undergo a physical change in response to a change of an environment condition at the aperture when the lid assembly engages the collar. The physical change of the reactive substance turns the lid assembly from a first operative condition wherein the lid assembly can be disengaged from the collar to open the aperture to a second operative condition wherein a portion of the lid assembly cannot be disengaged from the collar and closes the aperture.

公开(公告)号：US20230312154A1

公开(公告)日：2023-10-05

申请号：US18006565

申请日：2021-07-26

Applicant: G.D S.P.A.

Inventor： Andrea BIONDI ,  Luca CAVAZZA ,  Umberto ZANETTI ,  Enrico CAMPAGNOLI ,  Antonio GIGANTE ,  Giacomo NOFERINI ,  Cristian DAKESSIAN ,  Gianluca PARISINI ,  Marco FIORENTINI

IPC: B65B57/04 ,  B65B43/50 ,  B65B29/02 ,  B65B65/00

CPC classification number: B65B57/04 ,  B65B43/50 ,  B65B29/022 ,  B65B65/003

Abstract: A method for controlling a production process for articles includes: feeding a plurality of articles to a first operating unit where the articles are subjected to a first processing operation; controlling at least one characteristic of the articles outgoing from the first operating unit; identifying among the outgoing articles a first group and a second group of articles, in which the at least one characteristic is respectively in accordance or not with predetermined quality parameters; transferring the articles outgoing from the first operating unit to at least one second operating unit, where the articles are subjected to at least one second processing operation; allowing the at least one second operating unit to perform the at least one second processing operation on the first group of articles; receiving the articles outgoing from the at least one second operating unit, and then discarding the second group of articles.

公开(公告)号：US20230227192A1

公开(公告)日：2023-07-20

申请号：US17998348

申请日：2021-07-26

Applicant: G.D S.P.A.

Inventor： Andrea BIONDI ,  Luca CAVAZZA ,  Umberto ZANETTI ,  Enrico CAMPAGNOLI ,  Antonio GIGANTE ,  Giacomo NOFERINI ,  Cristian DAKESSIAN

IPC: B65B43/50 ,  B65B1/12 ,  B65B29/02 ,  B65B43/59

CPC classification number: B65B43/50 ,  B65B1/12 ,  B65B29/022 ,  B65B43/59

Abstract: A movement and filling unit of a container includes a movement and filling equipment. The equipment includes in turn: a frame, a metering member configured to release a filling product through a release opening, a movement device moveably secured to the frame, a housing with at least one seat, secured to the movement device. The movement device is configured to move the at least one seat along a movement trajectory where the following positions are defined: a removal position in which the container is housed in the at least one seat, a filling position in which the at least one seat is vertically aligned at a position under the release opening, and a release position in which the container with the product is removed from the at least one seat.

公开(公告)号：US20230202775A1

公开(公告)日：2023-06-29

申请号：US17998002

申请日：2021-07-05

Applicant: G.D S.P.A.

Inventor： Antonio VITALI ,  Salvatore CARBONI

IPC: B65G47/91 ,  B65B5/06 ,  B65B5/10 ,  B65B35/24 ,  B65B35/38

CPC classification number: B65G47/918 ,  B65B5/068 ,  B65B5/105 ,  B65B35/24 ,  B65B35/38

Abstract: A transfer device for removing articles from a removal zone and depositing them in a discharge zone is described. The transfer device includes a gripping head with retention elements, each configured to retain a respective article. The transfer device further includes a movement mechanism to move at least one retention element on the gripping head between a first configuration, where the retention elements are spaced apart from one another, and a second configuration, different from the first configuration, where the retention elements are brought close to one another. The movement mechanism is configured to move at least one of the retention elements between the first and the second configuration by rotation about a respective rotation axis.

公开(公告)号：US20230166880A1

公开(公告)日：2023-06-01

申请号：US17998094

申请日：2021-07-05

Applicant: G.D S.P.A.

Inventor： Salvatore CARBONI ,  Antonio VITALI

IPC: B65B35/24 ,  B65B5/10 ,  B65B35/38 ,  B65B29/02 ,  B65B35/56 ,  B65B57/14

CPC classification number: B65B35/24 ,  B65B5/105 ,  B65B35/38 ,  B65B29/022 ,  B65B35/56 ,  B65B57/14

Abstract: A packaging device and a process for packaging articles arranged according to a predetermined pattern and supplied on a conveyor line are presented, where buffers for the preparation of layers to be packaged are eliminated, while maintaining a high degree of flexibility for a wide range of formats. The packaging device includes one or more transfer devices that pick up the articles and deposit them in layers. The transfer devices have a handling member connected to a respective gripping device, both movable along three orthogonal axes. Each gripping device has gripping elements to pick up an article from the conveyor line. The gripping elements are arranged to form, on each gripping device, a single layer of articles. Each layer is obtained with one or more pickings from the conveyor line, in order to place the articles in a single operation in a respective container of the flow.

公开(公告)号：US20220307888A1

公开(公告)日：2022-09-29

申请号：US17619171

申请日：2020-07-08

Applicant: G.D S.p.A.

Inventor： Andrea BIONDI ,  Luca CAVAZZA ,  Luca CERATI ,  Claudia DE MARIA ,  Giacomo NOFERINI ,  Stefano SINIGARDI ,  Noemi ZORDAN

IPC: G01G9/00 ,  G01G17/00 ,  G01G23/01

Abstract: An inspection device for inspecting containers (100) comprises a rotary conveyor (2), provided with a plurality of receiving cavities (5), and a measuring station (400) configured to inspect each container (100) while the container (100) is being supported and moved by the conveyor (2), wherein the conveyor (2) has continuous motion and the measuring station (400) comprises a microwave detector provided with a measuring zone (410) through which each container (100) passes in order to generate an information item relating to at least one of the following: weight of the container (100) as a whole or of the dose of product contained therein, type of product inside the container (100), presence of foreign bodies in the container (100).

公开(公告)号：US20220218017A1

公开(公告)日：2022-07-14

申请号：US17615321

申请日：2020-05-26

Applicant: G.D S.P.A.

Inventor： Marco ESPOSTI ,  Nicola BALDANZA ,  Ivan EUSEPI ,  Gabriele BENNI ,  Giuliano GAMBERINI ,  Luca FEDERICI

IPC: A24C5/01 ,  A24D1/20 ,  A24C5/00

Abstract: A machine for making sub-units of smoking articles comprises a conveyor, a feed unit, cutting means and at least one rotary applicator. The conveyor is configured to feed a succession of tubular segments of the tobacco industry. The feed unit is configured to feed and convey at least one continuous web. The cutting means are configured to separate a succession of closing elements from a front end of the continuous web. The rotary applicator is operatively associated with the conveyor and is configured to pick up the succession of closing elements and to apply them, preferably by gluing, to an application end of a respective tubular segment, in such a way as to form closing walls to at least partly close the application ends.

公开(公告)号：US11375743B2

公开(公告)日：2022-07-05

申请号：US16312626

申请日：2017-06-19

Applicant: G.D S.p.A.

Inventor： Alberto Casagrande ,  Sergio Morelli ,  Luca Federici

IPC: A24C5/34 ,  B65B19/28 ,  G01N21/952

Abstract: A transferring and inspection unit for transferring and inspecting a group of elongated elements that are rod-shaped for smoking articles that includes a forming pocket, having a longitudinal axis, which is provided with a hollow housing suitable for housing a group of elongated elements to be inspected; a transporting conveyor of the forming pocket which is configured to advance the pocket along an advancing path through a first inspection position; a first tridimensional inspecting optical assembly configured to perform in respective successive scanning instants a plurality of first tridimensional optical scans by projecting a first light blade over a first head face of the group, during advancing of the forming pocket through the first inspection position; a processing device configured to obtain, for each first tridimensional scan, a respective first scanning line associated with the respective scanning instant and to reconstruct a first tridimensional profile of the first head face on the basis of the plurality of the first scanning lines, positioned in respective first reference positions. The forming pocket includes a first front face that in turn includes a first shaped surface be the first optical assembly is configured to perform simultaneously with each first tridimensional scan of the first head face also a respective first tridimensional scan of the first shaped surface to obtain a respective further scanning line; the processing device is in addition configured to calculate the reference position of each first scanning line analyzing the respective further scanning line.

公开(公告)号：US11369135B2

公开(公告)日：2022-06-28

申请号：US16078092

申请日：2017-03-07

Applicant: G.D S.P.A.

Inventor： Giuliano Gamberini ,  Massimo Malavolta ,  Massimo Sartoni

IPC: A24C5/47 ,  A24C5/10 ,  A24C5/32

Abstract: A device for rolling cigarettes, filter cigarettes or filters, including a rolling channel delimited, at one end, by a rolling portion of a feed conveyor, and at the other end, by a rolling unit which includes an infeed rolling bed and an outfeed rolling bed located in succession along the travelling direction of the rolling channel and defining an infeed stretch and an outfeed stretch of the rolling channel, respectively. The infeed rolling bed is movable along the travelling direction independently of the outfeed rolling bed to produce different rolling modes along the infeed stretch and along the outfeed stretch.

公开(公告)号：US11326930B2

公开(公告)日：2022-05-10

申请号：US16643771

申请日：2018-08-30

Applicant: G.D S.p.A.

Inventor： Luca Lanzarini ,  Luca Testoni ,  Carlo Moretti ,  Fabio Gaudenzi ,  Marco Cesari ,  Andrea Tallerico ,  Valerio Amorati ,  Luca Federici

IPC: G01G17/00 ,  B65B1/46 ,  B65B3/28 ,  B65G47/86

Abstract: A system for weighing containers includes: a weighing station and a conveying path extending from an upstream infeed section to a downstream outfeed section. The conveying path includes a gripping stretch for gripping the containers and a release stretch for releasing the containers, disposed between the infeed section and the outfeed section; and a conveying device for conveying the containers from the infeed section to the gripping stretch, and the weighed containers from the release stretch to the outfeed section. The conveying device includes first and second groups of housings for receiving the containers and moving them from the infeed section to the gripping stretch. A gripping and transferring device transfers the containers from the gripping stretch to the weighing station and from the weighing station to the release stretch. The first and second groups are movable independently of each other from the infeed section to the gripping stretch.