Patent ID: 9708089
Date: 2017-07-18
CPC Classifications: B65B,B65G

Claim:
1. A packaging facility comprising: a direction of production; a multi-lane packaging machine for producing a plurality packages in a plurality of lanes during a working cycle, wherein each one of the plurality of lanes includes two or more of said plurality of packages; a multi-lane separation system downstream of the multi-lane packaging machine in the direction of production, the multi-lane separation system including at least two conveyor belts, wherein each said conveyor belt includes two or more lanes; a first transfer device; a second transfer device downstream of the first transfer device; and a group packaging unit downstream of the multi-lane separation system in the production direction; wherein said first transfer device consecutively transfers packages lane by lane from said packaging machine onto a first of said at least two conveyor belts of said separation system, each lane of said packages produced in said packaging machine being transferred into one of the two or more lanes of said first conveyor belt; wherein said separation system increases a distance between two consecutive packages in the direction of production one-after-the-other in one of a same lane or a different lane of at least one of said at least two conveyor belts.