Patent ID: 6226960
Filing Date: 2001-05-08
Classification: B08B,B65B

Abstract:
A method of cleaning packaging machines which produce packs containing contents, each machine having a pocket conveyor (12), a folding turret (10) and a drying turret (19), wherein the pack contents and blanks of the packaging machine run through the packaging machine to produce the packs, said method comprising, the steps of:conveying essentially cuboidal cleaning bodies (22) through the packaging machine instead of the pack contents;transporting the essentially cuboidal cleaning bodies (22) through the pocket conveyor (12), transferring them to folding mandrels (15) of the folding turret (10), and pushing them inside the folding mandrels (15);folding a cleaning blank (35) on the outside of at least one of the folding mandrels;removing from the folding mandrel (15) a unit comprising a cleaning body (22) and the cleaning blank (35); andfeeding the unit to the drying turret (19).