US 11,884,432 B2
Cartoning apparatus
Giacomo Magri, Corniglio (IT); Carlo Gioria, Felino (IT); and Domenico Buemi, Casalmaggiore (IT)
Assigned to A.C.M.I.—SOCIETA' PER AZIONI, Fornovo di Taro (IT)
Filed by A.C.M.I.—SOCIETA' PER AZIONI, Fornovo di Taro (IT)
Filed on Dec. 1, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/539,601.
Claims priority of application No. 102020000030080 (IT), filed on Dec. 7, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0177172 A1, Jun. 9, 2022
Int. Cl. B65B 3/18 (2006.01); B65B 43/18 (2006.01); B65B 5/06 (2006.01); B65B 35/30 (2006.01); B65B 43/30 (2006.01)
CPC B65B 43/185 (2013.01) [B65B 5/06 (2013.01); B65B 35/30 (2013.01); B65B 43/305 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A cartoning apparatus of items comprising:
a sorting machine, which is configured to transport the items, while sorting the items and arranging the items into clusters, and the clusters of items, along a predetermined first movement direction, along which the sorting machine is disposed from a point of view in plan,
a die-cut magazine, in which a plurality of die-cuts are stored for packaging the clusters of items,
wherein the die-cut magazine is provided with a transport arrangement configured to move the die-cuts to a pick-up area of the die-cuts of the die-cut magazine along a second movement direction, and wherein the die-cut magazine is disposed and extends along the second movement direction from a point of view in plan,
wherein the die-cut magazine is flanked in plan to the sorting machine and is spaced therefrom so that a passage gap is defined between the die-cut magazine and the sorting machine that permits an operator to pass in the passage gap between the die-cut magazine and the sorting machine along an entire length of the die-cut magazine, at least a stretch of the passage gap having a width greater than 50 cm,
wherein the passage gap widens going from the pick-up area to an end of the die-cut magazine opposite the pick-up and extends along the entire length of the die-cut magazine, from the ground, or from a surface on which a plurality of support feet for the die-cut magazine and the sorting machine rest.