Package making – Methods – Forming or partial forming a receptacle and subsequent filling
Patent
1997-02-20
1998-01-20
Culver, Horace M.
Package making
Methods
Forming or partial forming a receptacle and subsequent filling
53469, 53570, 533851, 533892, B65B 3904, B65B 4312, B65B 4326, B65B 4336
Patent
active
057090696
ABSTRACT:
A system for packaging thin products such as compact discs in plastic bags is disclosed. A CD dispenser is used in combination with a known but modified bagging machine. The modifications include an improved guide arrangement for guiding a gravity fed disc toward an open bag and a load station which includes a tunnel housing the open bag and of only slightly greater thickness dimension than the bag including the product to be packaged. As an end bag of a web of interconnected, preopened bags is fed into the tunnel, a flow of air is established behind the web to create a film of air spacing the back of the end bag from a wall of the tunnel. The flow of air also has the unexpected property of creating a venturi like effect to draw the end bag away from a front wall of the tunnel. A method of packaging thin objects such as compact discs is also disclosed.
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Automated Packaging Systems, Inc.
Culver Horace M.
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