Package filling machine and method

Details Package filling machine and method Package filling machine and method

1976-09-15

1977-10-11

McGehee, Travis S.

Package making

Interrelated or safety controls

53 37, 53122, 426414, B65B 6308, B65B 310

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040528367

ABSTRACT:
Apparatus and a method for filling packages with cooked or blanched foods in the form of sticky masses containing water wherein the foods are first placed in a hopper and caused to gravitate into pockets on the outer periphery of a drum rotatable about a generally horizontal axis above a conveyor carrying a number of open packages. As the drum rotates, a mass of the food product is received in each pocket as the pocket moves beneath the hopper. The food product mass in each pocket is retained therein until the pocket approaches the conveyor below the drum. At this point, the food product mass gravitates from the pocket into a package aligned with the pocket and carried by the conveyor. The gravitational movement is assisted by a shiftable piston at the radially inner end of the pocket. The leading part of the food product mass enters the package first, followed by the trailing part, so that the product is uniformly placed in the package and, when so placed, is more pleasing in appearance to the consumer when the package is later opened after being closed and moved through a freezing station. The drum continues to rotate, the pockets continue to receive the food product, and packages are continually filled in the foregoing manner.

REFERENCES:
patent: 3188780 (1965-06-01), Mead
patent: 3354613 (1967-11-01), Anderson et al.
patent: 3375636 (1968-04-01), Redmond

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