US Patent Issued to I.M.A. INDUSTRIA MACCHINE AUTOMATICHE on Jan. 27 for "Apparatus and method for packaging packets of smoking articles" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,251, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to I.M.A. INDUSTRIA MACCHINE AUTOMATICHE S.P.A. (Ozzano Dell'emilia, Italy).

"Apparatus and method for packaging packets of smoking articles" was invented by Antonio Caporale (Ozzano Dell'emilia, Italy) and Loris Sacrati (Ozzano Dell'emilia, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for packaging packets for smoking articles includes a transfer wheel to transfer the packets from a feed device to an outlet device. A gluing device is disposed in a certain angular position between the feed device and the outlet device to selectively glue two lateral flaps of each packet on the corresponding l...