Hosokawa Bepex Corporation

Kurt Frank

Frank Altvater

Disposed above a loading section ( ), on which horizontally arranged strip-shaped packaging material (P) is longitudinally movable, is a shaping wheel ( ), which has an, in relation to the loading section ( ), transverse central axis ( ) and is rotatable about the latter. The shaping wheel ( ) has a cylindrical peripheral surface ( ) and contains a plurality of moulds ( ) which are disposed at angular intervals, starting from the cylindrical peripheral surface ( ), radially in relation to the central axis ( ). The peripheral speed of the shaping wheel ( ) corresponds to a slip-free rolling of its peripheral surface ( ) on the packaging material (P). Each of the moulds ( ) contains a piston ( ) which is movable back and forth between a retracted position for filling the mould ( ) with substance (M) and an advanced position for ejecting the consolidated formed body (F) in a radially outward direction onto the packaging material (P). The shaping wheel ( ) travels successively through a filling area ( ), in which the moulds ( ) are filled with substance (M), a dwell area ( ), after travelling through which the substance (M) contained in the mould ( ) is a packageable formed body (F), and a deposit area ( ), in which each formed body (F) may be deposited from its mould ( ) directly on the packaging material (P).

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