Plant for packaging drink containers by means of heat-shrinkable film

摘要

The plant for packaging cans or other disposable drink containers by means of heat-shrinkable film comprises: a support frame; at least two feed lines (13) for cans (11), with respective buffer zones (12), and with sensors (14) for sensing passage of an individual can (11); means (10) for feeding the cans recumbent and aligned into the at least two lines (13); means for feeding at least one heat-shrinkable film web (17) associated with means (20) for wrapping the film web over the cans of each line; a welding and cutting unit (21) with a longitudinal welder on each line and at least one welder (22) transverse to both said lines; a heat-shrinking tunnel (26) common to the various lines; and a package expulsion zone (28, 29). <IMAGE>