MUMBAI, India, Sept. 26 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202547081481 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 Andreotti, Stefano; Orsini, Ivan; Ferrari, Fabio; and Ginepri, Stefano.
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) configured to manipulate a tube (4) and comprising at least one operative device (25) having a first operative group (26) and a second operative group (27). The first operative group (26) and the respective second operative group (27) are configured to execute a relative movement with respect to one another. Each operative device (25) comprises at least one support group (33) carrying the respective first operative group (26) and the respective second operative group (27). Each first operative group (26) is mounted to the respective support group (33) in such a manner to be angularly movable about a rotation axis (B). Each first operative group (26) is coupled to the support group (33) by means of a respective shaft (34) rotatable about and/or defining the rotation axis (B). The package forming apparatus (10) comprises a sensor device (28) having a sensor body (40) fixed to the shaft (34) and a sensor head (41) configured to determine and/or measure an angular position (a) and/or an angular movement (?a) of the sensor body (40) for determining and/or measuring an angular position of the respective first operative group (26)."
The patent application was internationally filed on Jan. 25, 2024, under International application No.PCT/EP2024/051734.
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