Patent ID: 6085494
Filing Date: 2000-07-11
Classification: B65B

Abstract:
A method of draping commodities of the tobacco processing industry into deformable blanks, comprising the steps of:advancing spaced-apart successive commodities of a series of commodities along a first path in a predetermined direction and at a first speed;feeding successive blanks of a series of deformable blanks along a second path into a predetermined portion of the first path so that each blank enters the predetermined portion of the first path in front of and spaced apart from an oncoming commodity advancing along the first path in said direction and toward said predetermined portion of said first path; andtransporting successive blanks in said direction from said predetermined portion of and along the first path at least temporarily at a second speed less than the first speed so that the oncoming commodity catches up with and entrains that blank of said successive blanks which is being transported along the first path with attendant acceleration of the blanks in said first path from said second speed to said first speed.