Patent ID: 8777827

Claim:
A device for forming sleeve-like foil envelopes from a continuous flat strip of a sleeve-like foil material, the device comprising: a supply element for supplying the continuous flat strip of sleeve-like foil material; a cutting member for making a cut in the strip of sleeve-like foil material so as to form and separate individual sleeve-like foil envelopes from the strip of sleeve-like foil material; a rotation mechanism having an axis of rotation and disposed at a location downstream from the cutting member and in the path of the separate individual sleeve-like foil envelopes such that the rotation mechanism rotates about the axis of rotation to physically contact and concurrently impart both a rotary motion to the individual sleeve-like envelopes and a translation motion to said sleeve-like envelopes for discharging the individual sleeve-like foil envelopes from the device.