System and method for printing on a package

    公开(公告)号:US12060190B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-08-13

    申请号:US18052407

    申请日:2022-11-03

    发明人: Steven P. Bass

    摘要: A system for printing on a printable portion of a liner for a package to receive smoking articles includes a package assembler configured to receive an outer blank and fold the outer blank around the liner to create the package. The liner comprises a material configured to absorb ink and a front surface, the front surface configured to be seen by a user when the package is open. The liner also includes a printable portion positioned on the front surface, the printable portion configured to receive ink. The system further comprises a printer coupled to the package assembler, the printer configured to dispense the ink on the printable portion when the package is in an at least partially assembled state.

    Method for manufacturing and packaging special-shaped cigarette

    公开(公告)号:US11932478B1

    公开(公告)日:2024-03-19

    申请号:US18548224

    申请日:2021-11-02

    IPC分类号: B65D85/10 B65B19/02 B65D57/00

    摘要: A method for manufacturing and packaging a special-shaped cigarette includes the following steps: designing inner packaging case paper capable of being folded into a special-shaped cigarette accommodating cavity; folding the inner packaging case paper to form the special-shaped cigarette accommodating cavity; filling an interior of the special-shaped cigarette accommodating cavity with an ordinary cigarette; and shelving for a certain period of time, so that a cross section of the ordinary cigarette changes from a circle to a special shape, and the ordinary cigarette is accommodated in the special-shaped cigarette accommodating cavity. A diameter of an inscribed circle of the special-shaped cigarette accommodating cavity is less than a diameter of the ordinary cigarette, and a material of the inner packaging case paper is a paperboard or a food grade PVC sheet.

    TOBACCO PRODUCT PACKAGE
    3.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240010420A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-01-11

    申请号:US18307656

    申请日:2023-04-26

    IPC分类号: B65D85/10 B65B19/02 B65D75/58

    摘要: A tobacco product package includes at least two, preferably five or more, cylindrically shaped tobacco products aligned in an alignment direction. A wrapping is sheathed around the tobacco products and covers at least part of the outer surfaces of the aligned tobacco products. A tear strip is disposed in the alignment direction along the wrapping and is configured for tearing apart the wrapping when being pulled by a user. The tear strip has at least one weakening line positioned in the vicinity of an interface of adjacent tobacco products.

    METHOD FOR TRANSPORTING PAIRS OF PACKS

    公开(公告)号:US20230057871A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-02-23

    申请号:US17792522

    申请日:2021-01-13

    摘要: A method for transporting pairs of packs (100) comprising arranging a first pair of packs on a horizontal transport device (50), transporting the first pair of packs in a horizontal direction, arranging a second pair of packs on the horizontal transport device (50), therein, for each of the first pair and the second pair of the pair of packs, spacing a first pack of the pair of packs and a second pack of the pair of packs vertically from each other and further spacing the first pair of packs and the second pair of packs horizontally from each other on the horizontal transport device.

    A METHOD FOR PRODUCING A PACKET FOR SMOKING ARTICLES AND PACKET OBTAINED BY THIS METHOD

    公开(公告)号:US20210179302A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-06-17

    申请号:US16758952

    申请日:2018-10-03

    申请人: G.D S.P.A.

    摘要: A method for producing a packet of smoking articles, including the steps of: providing a wrapping sheet having a first layer of first material; removing a portion of the wrapping sheet to define a shaped profile; wrapping a group of smoking articles with the wrapping sheet; arranging a containing frame having an open zone around the wrapping sheet, to contain the group of smoking articles and the wrapping sheet, forming a semi-finished unit, with the open zone facing the shaped profile; supplying a sheet of a heat-sealable material having an opening; providing an adhesive label having a first layer of the first material; attaching the adhesive label onto the opening of the sheet of heat-sealable material; wrapping the semi-finished unit with the sheet of heat-sealable material, so that the layer of first material of the label faces the open zone; sealing the sheet of heat-sealable material, forming a barrier-like envelope.

    Five-sided cigarette carton packaging

    公开(公告)号:US10562656B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-02-18

    申请号:US15907629

    申请日:2018-02-28

    摘要: Methods and machines are provided for forming a five-sided carton of packages of smoking articles. A piece of film material is applied to a plurality of packages of smoking articles such that five sides of the plurality of packages are at least partially covered by the film material, but the sixth side remains uncovered. The film material is applied such that the group of packages is sufficiently tightly bound so that none of the packages may slip free from the carton. The sixth side of the plurality of packages in the carton remains exposed so that tax stamps may be easily applied. The film of material may be applied so that a gap is formed relative to the sixth side.

    Packaging machine and method
    7.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10179668B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-01-15

    申请号:US12523482

    申请日:2008-01-16

    摘要: A method and machine for packaging smoking articles or other tobacco industry products in which the products and packaging may be transported from selected product supply systems and packaging material supply systems selectively along a plurality of alternative transport routes through the machine through a series of workstations arranged to incorporate batches of smoking products selectively in different packaging materials according to the transport route selected.

    Substitute cigarette for non-combustion use

    公开(公告)号:US09854837B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-01-02

    申请号:US14674031

    申请日:2015-03-31

    摘要: A non-combusting cigarette substitute device has an elongated tubular casing occupied by a filter portion of a first porous material in proximity to a first end and a substitute portion of a second porous material spanning between the filter portion and an opposing second end. The second porous material has a density which is greater than a density of the first porous material. Overall, the densities of the first and second porous materials are suitable to readily permit air to be drawn through the tubular casing in response to suction supplied by a user to imitate the draw of a conventional cigarette. A flavouring agent is applied in an effective amount to the device such that vapors released from the flavouring agent impart a taste to the air drawn through the tubular casing.

    Folding Machine
    9.
    发明申请
    Folding Machine 审中-公开

    公开(公告)号:US20170197743A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-07-13

    申请号:US15468923

    申请日:2017-03-24

    申请人: Molins PLC

    摘要: A folding machine for wrapping a bundle of cigarettes in metal-laminated paper. A partially wrapped bundle of cigarettes, including an unwrapped trailing end, is received in a pocket of a shuttle from a pusher. The shuttle comprises a top folder, two side folders and two bottom folders that are integrated with the shuttle and can operate on the partially unwrapped package along respective edges of its end face and produce a wrapped package in the pocket. Another pusher is configured to eject the wrapped package from the pocket of the shuttle. The shuttle also includes a gripper for gripping the partially wrapped bundle. The driving mechanism for the gripper is integrated with the driving mechanism for the shuttle.

    Method and production system for producing and/or packaging cigarettes
    10.
    发明授权
    Method and production system for producing and/or packaging cigarettes 有权
    生产和/或包装香烟的方法和生产系统

    公开(公告)号:US09493258B2

    公开(公告)日:2016-11-15

    申请号:US13996969

    申请日:2011-11-04

    摘要: A method for producing and/or packaging cigarettes, in a system in which at least one production unit is fed packaging units from a lower packaging level, and the production unit packages the packaging units in associated packaging units from a higher level, and the packaging units from the higher packaging level each comprise one or more packaging units from the lower packaging level. A camera records images of the packs of the packaging units from the lower level which are to be fed, or have been fed, to the production unit, and a camera records images of the packs of the packaging units from the higher level which are respectively assigned to the packaging units from the lower level, and the recorded images of the packs of the respectively associated packaging units are each assigned to a common identifier, preferably to a machine-internal counting number of the production unit.

    摘要翻译: 一种用于生产和/或包装香烟的方法,其中至少一个生产单元从较低包装级供给包装单元的系统中,并且生产单元将包装单元从较高级别包装在相关联的包装单元中,并且包装 来自较高包装级别的单元各自包括来自较低包装级别的一个或多个包装单元。 照相机将来自下一层的包装单元的包装图像记录在供应单元中,并且相机记录来自较高层的包装单元的包装图像 分配给来自下层的包装单元,并且将分别关联的包装单元的包的记录图像分配给公共标识符,优选地分配给生产单元的机器内部计数号。