Package making – Methods – Enclosing contents within progressively formed web means
Patent
1985-10-28
1987-12-15
Culver, Horace M.
Package making
Methods
Enclosing contents within progressively formed web means
53 55, 53 75, 53550, B65B 906, B65B 5704
Patent
active
047123575
ABSTRACT:
The horizontal wrapping machine of the type wherein a succession of articles are fed into a traveling tube of web material which is sealed longitudinally and severed and sealed between the articles to produce individual hermetically sealed packages. A variable speed motor drives a conveyor which may be provided with article feeding flights and a switch, actuated once each revolution of a timing shaft, provides a pulse corresponding to each flight on the article feeding conveyor. In addition an encoder driven by the variable speed drive motor shaft provides a digital velocity signal used as a reference signal for servo motors that may be coupled, in combination or individually, to drive web feed rolls, longitudinal sealing wheels and one or more sealing and severing heads. A delivery conveyor transporting individual packages may, through a suitable drive train, be driven by the variable speed drive motor. The velocity and position of the servo motors is established and controlled through an industrial computer, at a percentage of the velocity of the variable speed drive motor. Thus, the digital velocity and position signal input to the computer by the encoder driven by the variable speed drive motor establishes a reference velocity and position the servo motors.
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Crawford Donald C.
Mory Steven W.
Ross Jeffrey L.
Strike Gary P.
Culver Horace M.
FMC Corporation
Megley Richard B.
Rudy Douglas W.
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