Focke & Co.

Holger Witzmann

Henry Buse

Burkard Roesler

Konrad Popp

Thomas Häfker

Jörg Thierig

A method and apparatus for filling, closing, folding and transporting away tobacco bags () or pouches, using a turret () that rotates about a horizontal axis and has preferably six mounts (), each for one bag (), arranged along the circumference in the region of planar wall portions (). The bags are conveyed through a plurality of processing stations, in particular through a filling station, suction-extraction station, closing station and wrapping station, by the turret () with cyclic rotary movement. A plurality of sub-turrets, each with corresponding mounts (), can be arranged one beside the other in the axial direction.

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Friedrichshafen, Germany

Holger Witzmann