US 12,338,021 B2
Packaging device and process for articles to be packaged
Salvatore Carboni, Bologna (IT); and Antonio Vitali, Bologna (IT)
Assigned to G.D S.P.A., Bologna (IT)
Appl. No. 17/998,094
Filed by G.D S.P.A., Bologna (IT)
PCT Filed Jul. 5, 2021, PCT No. PCT/IB2021/056000
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Nov. 7, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/009065, PCT Pub. Date Jan. 13, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 102020000016654 (IT), filed on Jul. 9, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0166880 A1, Jun. 1, 2023
Int. Cl. B65B 35/24 (2006.01); B65B 5/10 (2006.01); B65B 29/02 (2006.01); B65B 35/38 (2006.01); B65B 35/56 (2006.01); B65B 57/14 (2006.01)
CPC B65B 35/24 (2013.01) [B65B 5/105 (2013.01); B65B 29/022 (2017.08); B65B 35/38 (2013.01); B65B 35/56 (2013.01); B65B 57/14 (2013.01)] 22 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A packaging device for articles to be packaged, supplied on a first conveyor line arranged according to a predetermined pick-up pattern having a first number of rows, the packaging device comprising:
a second conveyor line, on which a flow of containers in an open configuration is transported, said containers configured to be filled with said articles to be packaged, arranged in one or more layers; and
one or more transfer devices for picking up the articles to be packaged from said first conveyor line and laying the articles in respective containers of the flow in said second conveyor line, each said one or more transfer devices comprising a handling member connected to a respective gripping device, movable along three orthogonal axes, each gripping device having gripping members configured to pick one article to be packaged from said first conveyor line,
wherein the gripping members are arranged in such a configuration to form, on each gripping device, a single layer of articles to be packaged, each layer having a width greater than a width of the first number of rows, and each layer being obtained with several pickings of said articles from said first conveyor line to be placed, in a single operation, in a respective container of said flow.