Patent ID: 8397476

Claim:
A device for packaging confectionary items, comprising: a packaging conveyor having a series of holders rotating along a movement path, each holder configured to hold a confectionary item and the confectionary item's associated packaging sheet securely during conveying, the packaging conveyor being provided with means for closing the packaging sheet on the respective confectionary item and with a series of heat-sealing means that comprises a sheet gripper having an associated heating body that co-rotating with the holders for heat-sealing the closed packaging sheet by supplying heat, wherein each sheet gripper and the associated heating body is adapted to contact and heat-seal the associated packaging sheet, the device furthermore comprising: a heating means for heating each heating body, the heating means comprising an induction means that is stationary relative to the movement path of the holders, the induction means having a coil with an open end that can accommodate the heating body in its entirety without contacting the heating body so that the coil heats the heating body by means of induction, wherein the induction means are cooled at most by natural convection; wherein each heating body is adapted to contact and heat-seal the associated packaging sheet, by contacting the sheet after the heating body has been heated by induction.