Patent ID: 6591587
Filing Date: 2003-07-15
Classification: B65B

Abstract:
A process of packaging flat articles in a package formed of a packaging blank, in a packaging station having first and second processing positions that are laterally displaced from one another, said method comprising the steps:a) providing a stack of said flat articles; b) providing said packaging blank; c) moving said packaging blank in a blank feed direction along a blank feed path above said second processing position, so that said packaging blank crosses over said second processing position, and bringing said packaging blank into said first processing position; d) moving said stack of said flat articles in a stack intake direction along a stack intake path into said first processing position and onto said packaging blank in said first processing position; e) moving said stack of said flat articles and said packaging blank together in a transfer direction along a transfer path from said first processing position into said second processing position; f) processing said packaging blank in at least one of said first and second processing positions to form of said packaging blank an at least partially closed and at least partially completed package containing said stack of said flat articles; and g) moving said package containing said stack of said flat articles in a discharge direction along a discharge path from said second processing position, wherein said discharge path is parallel to and laterally offset from said stack intake path.