GB209726A - Improvements in wrapping machines - Google Patents

Abstract

209,726. Package Machinery Co., (Assignees of Smith, E. L.). Jan. 13, 1923, [Comvention. date]. Steam-cutting machines; rolling-machines.- Relates to machines for wrapping confections, and of the kind in which a wrapper is folded about an article to form a tube with its ends projecting beyond the articles which ends are twisted to complete the wrapping as described, for instance, in Specifications 105,269 and 105,541, [both in Class 94 (i), Packing &c.]. According to the Specification as open to inspection under Sect. 91 (3) (a), the wheels which feed, shape, and guide the bar of confectionery stock are of such a contour as to produce a bulging of two diametrically opposed sides and corresponding depressions on the other sides, with the object of improving the ultimate shape of the wrapped article. This subject-matter does not appear in the Specification as accepted. As shown, the machine is arranged so that the knife, which cuts the wrappers from a web, is arranged close to the confection shaping wheels, so that short wrappers may be supplied. As shown, rollers 5, 6, Fig. 2, of less axial width than diameter and of the cross-section shown in Fig. 4, advance a bar of stock horizontally along a feed table 12 and vertically downwards through the rollers 6 to a tubular guideway 14. The rollers are so shaped that bulging sides a and depressions b are produced, and the guideway 14 is of a corresponding cross-section. A revolving knife 8 severs pieces from the bar, and a plunger 9, Figs. 2 and 3, recessed at 38 to conform to the shape of the severed portion, feeds this portion with a wrapper 20 into a pocket 18 in the carrier wheel 7.