Patent ID: 8181427

Claim:
An installation for wrapping and packaging diverse and varied products in a cardboard box, the installation comprises a machine for preparing packages, the machine comprising: an upstream module M configured as a storage site for storing cardboard cutouts blanks, which will form said packages; a downstream module V where each of the cardboard cutout blanks is formed into a box blank, said forming performed in a repository of a forming station wherein a reference point corresponds to a lower upstream edge of the box blank; and a central module C, arranged at least in part between said upstream module and said downstream module, equipped with a device for picking up said cardboard cutouts blanks in said storage site, the pick-up device comprising at least one extractor arm that is borne by a carriage capable of moving, and which moves a cardboard cutout blank from among the cardboard cutout blanks extracted from said storage site for deposit at the forming station, wherein the central module comprises a maneuvering mechanism, at least in part, between said extractor arm and said carriage, that comprises a means for pivoting said extractor arm around a virtual axis located, when said cutout is picked up and moved by said carriage, in a stationary horizontal plane that corresponds to both a plane of a soleplate of said storage site and to that of a plane of a soleplate of said forming station.