MUMBAI, India, Sept. 26 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202547081480 A) filed by Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S. A., Pully, Switzerland, on Aug. 28, for 'package forming apparatus for a packaging machine and packaging machine for forming packages filled with a pourable product.'
Inventor(s) include Poppi, Marco; Orsini, Ivan; Ferrari, Fabio; De Pietri Tonelli, Roberto; and Vaccari, Matteo.
The application for the patent was published on Sept. 26, under issue no. 39/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "There is described a package forming apparatus (10) comprising one operative device (23) having a first operative group (24) and a second operative group (25) configured to at least transversally seal a tube (4). One of the respective first operative group (24) and the respective second operative group (25) comprises a pair (26) of movable interaction tabs (27) configured to interact, in use, with the tube (4) from opposite sides thereof and being configured to move with respect to one another. The operative device (23) also comprises an actuation device (28) operatively coupled to the pair (26) of interaction tabs (27) and comprising an actuation body (29) configured to linearly move along a movement direction (D) and to modify the relative position of the interaction tabs (27) of the pair (26) of interaction tabs (27) during movement along the movement direction (D), a first guide surface (30) and a second guide surface (31) spaced apart from one another and configured to guide the linear movement of the actuation body (29), one or more first rollers (32) coupled to the first guide surface (30) and the actuation body (29) and/or one or more second rollers (33) coupled to the second guide surface (31) and the actuation body (29)."
The patent application was internationally filed on Jan. 25, 2024, under International application No.PCT/EP2024/051733.
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