Patent ID: 7001320

Claim:
Apparatus for producing packs, of the hinge-lid box type with cross-sectionally round upright pack edges ( 14 , 15 ), in a packaging machine ( 11 ) having folding means, wherein planar elonaged blanks ( 10 ) for the hinge-lid boxes are to be pre-shaped with the aid of rounding rollers ( 22 ), and then are to be fed to the packaging machine ( 11 ) for producing the hinge-lid boxes, comprising: a) a continually rotating rounding turret, b) means for feeding the blanks ( 10 ) in succession to the continually rotating rounding turret ( 18 ) which has plural securing means ( 19 ) for securing one blank ( 10 ) each, c) a transfer conveyor ( 29 ) which feeds the blanks ( 10 ) to a charging station ( 28 ) located adjacent to the rounding turret ( 18 ), and a feed conveyor ( 33 ) which removes individual blanks ( 10 ) from the transfer conveyor ( 29 ) and conveys them to respective ones of said securing means ( 19 ) of the rotating rounding turret ( 18 ), d) means for arranging the blanks ( 10 ), on the securing means ( 19 ), with a longitudinal extension thereof aligned in an axis-parallel direction transverse to the rotation path of the rounding turret ( 18 ), e) arranged as shaping tools on both sides of each securing means ( 19 ), rounding rollers ( 22 , 23 ) that are movable relative to the securing means ( 19 ), f) each securing means ( 19 ) also comprising on either side thereof shaping members ( 20 , 21 ) having lateral roundings ( 16 ) in a region of the round pack edges ( 14 , 15 ) to be formed, g) border areas of each blank ( 10 ) being shaped around the shaping members ( 20 , 21 ) by the rounding rollers ( 22 , 23 ), with the round edges ( 14 , 15 ) abutting the lateral roundings ( 16 ) of the shaping members ( 20 , 21 ) in the region of the round edges ( 14 , 15 ), and h) in a region of a removal station, a removal conveyor ( 35 ) which removes the blanks ( 10 ), preformed with respect to the pack edges, from their respective securing means ( 19 ).