Patent ID: 6883291

Claim:
Apparatus for draping blanks of wrapping material around successive finished packs containing smokers' products and having portions abutting each other and bearing layers of adhesive serving to bond the portions to each other upon setting thereof, comprising: means for advancing a series of successive blanks along a first path; means for conveying successive finished packs in a predetermined direction along a second path crossing said first path at a station at which each successive pack engages and entrains a foremost blank of a series of blanks in said first path prior to complete setting of each adhesive layer; and means for mechanically urging against each other at least those portions of the packs at said station which contact partially set adhesive layers, wherein said means for urging and said means for conveying collectively include at least one holder for engaging one side of the packs and at least one pusher for engaging at least another side of the packs prior to engagement with the foremost blank, said at least one pusher and said at least one holder each engaging portions of the packs that contact partially set adhesive layers and moving with each pack to prevent said portions from disengaging from respective abutting portions prior to engagement with the foremost blank.