Patent ID: 8333312
Filing Date: 2012-12-18
Classification: B65B,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A method of separating opening devices supplied jointly in a sheet form and applied individually to respective packages of pourable food products; said sheet comprising a number of parallel rows of opening devices integral with one another including immediately successive first and second rows of the opening devices; and the method comprising: feeding the first row of the opening devices of said sheet to a first separating station; detaching said first row of opening devices from a remainder of said sheet at said first station; feeding said first row of opening devices to a second separating station; dividing said first row of opening devices into individual opening devices at said second station; feeding the immediately successive second row of opening devices of said sheet to said first station after the first row of opening devices has been completely detached from the second row of opening devices and as the first row is being fed to the second station and/or is being at least partly divided.