Package making – With means responsive to a sensed condition – Concurrent control of contents and receptacle feeds
Patent
1977-01-28
1977-11-15
McGehee, Travis S.
Package making
With means responsive to a sensed condition
Concurrent control of contents and receptacle feeds
53 86, 53112B, 53131, 53188, 53373, 53385, B65B 5706, B65B 5712, B65B 3102
Patent
active
040579514
ABSTRACT:
An improved automatic and continuous packaging machine is disclosed formed by a support table supporting a turret, the turret being generally hexagonal in configuration said machine further including a plurality of six processing stations for processing a food package, including a first station provided with a magazine for containing a plurality of food pouches, and deposition means for retrieving and depositing a single food pouch on the turret, a second processing station for automatically imprinting upon the food pouch pre-determined indicia, and also including pouch opening means for opening the pouch to its substantial dimension, a third processing station provided with protection means for determining the presence of a properly opened food pouch and in response to the proper signal, food loading means for loading a food product into the open food pouch. A fourth processing station is provided with ejection means for ejecting any pouches which have been determined at the third station to be improperly opened. A fifth processing station includes an improved vacuum hood assembly supported by a self-positioning carriage and carrying within the confines of the hood the vacuum and nitrogen purging and sealing means for sealing the food package, and a sixth processing station for effecting the discharge of the completed food package from the turret for further handling. The invention further provides an improved vacuum hood assembly as well as an improved heat sealing bar assembly whereby a food package may be automatically loaded onto the turret, imprinted, filled, purified, the package heat sealed, and discharged for subsequent packing operations.
REFERENCES:
patent: 3910009 (1975-10-01), Canfield
patent: 4014153 (1977-03-01), Wilson
Land O'Frost Inc.
McGehee Travis S.
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