Apparatus for introducing tape cassettes or the like and inserts into folding boxes

摘要

Apparatus for introducing tape cassettes or the like and inserts into folding boxes, with a rotary head having holding devices for the folding boxes and rotating in steps, with devices for feeding the folding boxes, the tape cassettes and the inserts and for pushing a respective tape cassette and an insert into at least a partially opened folding box held in one of the holding devices, characterised in that there is arranged downstream of the cassette and insert push-in station in the direction of rotation of the rotary head a special-insert filling station (18), in which a lid flap (42) of the respective holding device (12) is pivoted into the open position and a bottom-part flap (40), together with the folding box (38) located therein and with the cassette, together with insert, already introduced therein, is in its essentially radial closing position; in that the special-insert filling station has a shaft which is movable in the direction of the respective holding device (12) and has a wall (132) transversely movable thereto and from which the respective special inserts can be fed into the respective folding box (83) via a mouthpiece (134, 136), connected to the shaft, between insert and cassette, the mouthpiece having a retention (138) for drawing the cassette back from the insert and a tongue (34) for pressing the insert against the folding-box lid; and in that a.... movable in the longitudinal direction of the shaft ... Original abstract incomplete. <IMAGE>