公开(公告)号：US11964785B2

公开(公告)日：2024-04-23

申请号：US17851104

申请日：2022-06-28

Applicant: G.D S.p.A.

Inventor： Alan Armeni ,  Davide Parazza ,  Giuliano Gamberini

IPC: B65B13/02 ,  B65B13/04 ,  B65B13/32

CPC classification number: B65B13/04 ,  B65B13/32

Abstract: A method is described for making a pack of smoking products having an ordered group of packets containing smoking products and positioned in contact with each other, wherein the group of packets has a closed lateral surface around a theoretical axis of the group of packets, which delimits two opposite surfaces of the group of packets, each of which surfaces is defined by the set of homologous surfaces of all the packets. The method includes unwinding from a reel at least one adhesive tape and applying it to the closed lateral surface and completely around the latter, to hold the packets of the group together solely by means of the at least one adhesive tape.

公开(公告)号：US12075815B2

公开(公告)日：2024-09-03

申请号：US17615350

申请日：2020-05-27

Applicant: G.D S.P.A.

Inventor： Marco Esposti ,  Nicola Baldanza ,  Ivan Eusepi ,  Gabriele Benni ,  Giuliano Gamberini ,  Luca Federici

IPC: A24C5/00 ,  A24C5/01 ,  A24C5/18 ,  A24C5/46 ,  A24C5/54

CPC classification number: A24C5/54 ,  A24C5/007 ,  A24C5/01 ,  A24C5/1885 ,  A24C5/46

Abstract: A machine for making sub-units of smoking articles includes a conveyor, a feed unit and an applicator. The conveyor conveys a succession of tubular segments transversely along a conveying direction. The feed unit feeds and conveys a continuous web and advances the web along a feed direction parallel to the conveying direction of the tubular segments so that the web faces respective application ends of the tubular segments. The applicator is movable along an application direction parallel to an axis of predominant extension of the succession of tubular segments and is configured to engage the web so as to separate respective closing elements from it. The applicator is also configured to apply the closing element internally or externally on an application end of a respective tubular segment in such a way as to form a closing wall to at least partly close the application end.

公开(公告)号：US12004556B2

公开(公告)日：2024-06-11

申请号：US17632691

申请日：2020-08-06

Applicant: G.D S.p.A.

Inventor： Stefano Balotta ,  Moreno Arbizzani ,  Massimo Malavolta ,  Marco Bruschi ,  Giuliano Gamberini ,  Luca Federici

IPC: A24C5/35 ,  A24C5/32 ,  B65B19/04

CPC classification number: A24C5/35 ,  A24C5/326 ,  A24C5/327 ,  B65B19/04 ,  B65G2201/0226

Abstract: A conveyor for aligning rod-shaped articles and including a succession of flutes which are movable along a feed path and which are configured to hold respective rod-shaped articles or groups of rod-shaped articles. For each flute, the conveyor has an abutment portion, disposed at least at one end of the flute to define an abutment surface for one end of the rod-shaped article or group of rod-shaped articles housed in the suction flute. The abutment portion is provided with at least one suction zone to hold the end of the rod-shaped article or group of rod-shaped articles by suction against the abutment portion. The suction zone is defined by a plurality of suction perforations, connected or connectable to a negative pressure source and whose transverse size is, for example, smaller than 1 mm, preferably smaller than 0.8 mm and, still more preferably, smaller than 0.6 mm.

公开(公告)号：USD1010211S1

公开(公告)日：2024-01-02

申请号：US29679547

申请日：2019-02-07

Applicant: G.D S.P.A.

Designer： Ivan Eusepi ,  Marco Esposti ,  Gabriele Benni ,  Nicola Baldanza ,  Eros Stivani ,  Giuliano Gamberini ,  Massimo Sartoni ,  Luca Federici

Abstract: FIG. 1 is a right perspective view of a container shown in assembled configuration of use according to our new design;
FIG. 2 is a left perspective view thereof;
FIG. 3 is a front view thereof;
FIG. 4 is a rear view thereof;
FIG. 5 is a right side view thereof; and,
FIG. 6 is a left side view thereof.
Any broken lines in the figures illustrate portions of the container that form no part of the claimed design.

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：US20250062368A1

公开(公告)日：2025-02-20

申请号：US18720083

申请日：2022-12-13

Applicant: G.D S.p.A.

Inventor： Massimo Fortini ,  Giacomo Noferini ,  Giuliano Gamberini

IPC: H01M6/00 ,  H01M10/04 ,  H01M50/107 ,  H01M50/152

Abstract: Manufacturing machine to manufacture a cylindrical battery having a cylindrical case which is closed at the top by a lid There are provided: a first processing drum, mounted to rotate around a first rotation axis, a first seat to support the cylindrical case; a deformation unit, to create an annular groove on a side wall of the cylindrical case; a second processing drum, is arranged downstream of the first processing drum and mounted so as to rotate around a second rotation axis, a second seat designed to support the cylindrical case; a feeding unit, to feed the lid on top of the cylindrical case supported by the second seat; a third processing drum, arranged downstream of the second processing drum (31), a third seat (48) to support the cylindrical case; and a bending unit, configured to bend a rim of the cylindrical case against the lid.

公开(公告)号：US12133548B2

公开(公告)日：2024-11-05

申请号：US17798371

申请日：2021-02-24

Applicant: G.D S.P.A.

Inventor： Ivan Eusepi ,  Nicola Baldanza ,  Marco Esposti ,  Gennaro Rizzo ,  Giuliano Gamberini

IPC: A24C5/46 ,  A24C5/01 ,  A24C5/18 ,  A24C5/24 ,  A24D3/02 ,  B31C5/00

Abstract: A machine for making a continuous tubular element with filling from web material, including first and second means for feeding respective continuous webs, a forming station configured to perform a folding and/or deformation of a first continuous web in a shaped configuration, and a wrapping station wherein the second continuous web is wound in a tubular shape around the first continuous shaped web to obtain the continuous tubular element. Upstream of the wrapping station there is a first gluing device configured to apply at least one longitudinal line of glue on at least one of the continuous webs in such a way as to define at least one gluing zone, said longitudinal line of glue being positioned in such a way as to coincide with a zone of superposing and contact between the two continuous webs feeding out of the wrapping station.

公开(公告)号：US11998041B2

公开(公告)日：2024-06-04

申请号：US16955728

申请日：2018-12-19

Applicant: G.D S.P.A.

Inventor： Ivan Eusepi ,  Marco Esposti ,  Gabriele Benni ,  Giuliano Gamberini ,  Luca Federici

IPC: A24D3/02 ,  A24C5/01 ,  A24C5/12 ,  A24C5/46 ,  A24C5/54 ,  A24D1/02 ,  A24D1/22

CPC classification number: A24D3/0225 ,  A24C5/01 ,  A24C5/12 ,  A24C5/46 ,  A24C5/54 ,  A24D1/02 ,  A24D1/22

Abstract: A method for making a sub-unit of a smoking article, specifically an HNB smoking article, includes preparing a rod segment, of the tobacco industry and wrapping a connecting strip of wrapping material round that rod segment, about a wrapping axis, in such a way that a first portion of the connecting strip is superposed on a first end of the rod segment and a second portion of it is axially protruding from the first end of the rod segment thereby defining a tubular wrapping which encloses a containment chamber. Then a filling material of the tobacco industry is placed inside the containment chamber. The method also includes a step of making a wall, transverse to the wrapping axis, defining an at least partial closure of the containment chamber, specifically by folding an end portion of the second portion the connecting strip.

公开(公告)号：US11918031B2

公开(公告)日：2024-03-05

申请号：US16622116

申请日：2018-06-12

Applicant: G.D S.p.A.

Inventor： Fulvio Pastore ,  Giuliano Gamberini ,  Emanuele Giovannini ,  Michele Ferioli ,  Massimo Sartoni ,  Luca Federici

IPC: A24C5/00

CPC classification number: A24C5/005

Abstract: A method for applying adhesive on a wrapping band of a smoking article includes moving the band along a feed direction, the band has a longitudinal direction of extension, opposing first and second surfaces, a first plurality of portions having a first thickness and a second plurality of portions having a second thickness greater than the first thickness, the portions of the first and second pluralities being disposed alternately along the direction of extension. A nozzle having a delivery end, and the band are moved towards/away from each other between a first position, where the delivery end and the second surface are at a first distance which is less than or equal to the second thickness, and a second position, where the delivery end and the second surface are at a second distance greater than the second thickness. An adhesive is delivered on the first surface through the nozzle.

公开(公告)号：US11718437B2

公开(公告)日：2023-08-08

申请号：US17367789

申请日：2021-07-06

Applicant: G.D S.p.A.

Inventor： Enrico Medina ,  Francesco Milandri ,  Giuliano Gamberini

IPC: B65C9/42 ,  B65C9/08 ,  B65C9/40

CPC classification number: B65C9/42 ,  B65C9/08 ,  B65C2009/404

Abstract: A label-rejecting station, where labels are carried by a support band along an advancing path. The rejecting station includes a deviator element and a contrast element. The deviator element is arranged along the advancing path and movable between an inactive position and an active position wherein it contacts the support band at a first surface thereof, deviating the advancing path. The contrast element is arranged along the advancing path downstream of the deviator element and includes: an abutting surface provided for receiving partially thereon a second surface of the support band, opposite to the first surface; and a detachment edge provided for detaching a label from the support band when the deviator element moves into its active position.