(19)
(11) EP 1 698 451 A3

(12) EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88) Date of publication A3:
29.11.2006 Bulletin 2006/48

(43) Date of publication A2:
06.09.2006 Bulletin 2006/36

(21) Application number: 06425115.0

(22) Date of filing: 24.02.2006
(51) International Patent Classification (IPC): 
B31F 1/07(2006.01)
(84) Designated Contracting States:
AT BE BG CH CY CZ DE DK EE ES FI FR GB GR HU IE IS IT LI LT LU LV MC NL PL PT RO SE SI SK TR
Designated Extension States:
AL BA HR MK YU

(71) Applicant: G.D Societa' per Azioni
40133 Bologna (IT)

(72) Inventors:
  • Spirito, Gilberto
    40141 Bologna (IT)
  • Minarelli, Alessandro
    40053 Bazzano (IT)

(74) Representative: Cerbaro, Elena et al
STUDIO TORTA S.r.l., Via Viotti, 9
10121 Torino
10121 Torino (IT)

   


(54) Embossing assembly


(57) An embossing assembly (2) for embossing packing material has two embossing rollers (6, 7), each rotating about a respective axis of rotation (9, 10) to emboss a strip (5) of packing material which, in use, is fed along an embossing plane (A), substantially tangent to the two rollers (6, 7), and through an embossing passage (13) defined between the two rollers (6, 7); the axes of rotation (9, 10) being skewed with respect to each other and substantially parallel to the embossing plane (A).







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