Patent ID: 8733067

Claim:
A device ( 1 ) for packaging a product in a corresponding container (A), said product being shaped as a set of cigarettes and wound into a corresponding envelope, said container (A) being shaped as a box and made from a corresponding sheet of bendable material, said container defining a package for housing the product, the device comprising: means ( 11 ) for forming the container (A), wherein said means ( 11 ) for forming the container (A) have a respective station ( 11 ″) for exiting the container (A), in which a respective terminal closing panel (A 35 , A 36 ) of the container is in an elastic open, or detached, condition from an underlying panel (A 51 , A 61 ) of a side longitudinal container wall (A 5 , A 6 ); means ( 21 ) configured to dispense a corresponding adhesive (B 1 , B 2 ) for joining corresponding panels of the container, provided next to an exit of the forming means ( 11 ) in correspondence with the station ( 11 ″) for exiting the container (A) and movable with respect to said container (A), said means ( 21 ) for dispensing the adhesive supplying said adhesive only between a respective first and second terminal closing panel (A 35 , A 36 ), in said open, or detached condition, and the corresponding underlying panel (A 51 , A 61 ) of the side longitudinal walls (A 5 , A 6 ) of the container (A), defining a terminal container closure, suitable to keep the container (A) in an assembled condition; conveying means ( 31 ) configured to convey containers (A) downstream of the exit from the forming means ( 11 ); and transfer means ( 41 , 51 , 61 ) configured to transfer respective containers (A) exiting from the forming means ( 11 ) to the conveying means ( 31 ), and configured to maintain the containers A in a stopped condition during dispensing of the adhesive by the means ( 21 ) configured to dispense a corresponding adhesive (B 1 , B 2 ).