Patent ID: 6192654
Filing Date: 2001-02-27
Classification: B65B

Abstract:
Apparatus for treating selected selections of commodities with a gaseous fluid, comprising a support having two components flanking a portion of a predetermined path; and a conveyor mounted in said support and having receptacles for receiving discrete commodities, said conveyor being rotatable relative to said support to advance commodities in said receptacles along the predetermined path including a portion wherein the selected sections of the commodities advance along at least one portion of said support, said at least one portion of said support having openings in said components arranged to direct gaseous fluid against each selected section of a commodity in said portion of said path, said commodities being substantially brick-shaped packets for smokers' products and each packet including elongated adhesive-carrying sidewalls, each sidewall constituting one selected section of the respective packet and the gaseous fluid being directed against said selected sections of packets in said portion of said path in a condition which is effective to promote a setting of the adhesive.