Cryovac, Inc.

Furukawa Mfg. Co., Ltd.

Rod Hodgson

Gregory E McDonald

Joel Caillier

Gregory H Grossman

Shuichi Nakamoto

Peter Schmalz

Joe A Price

John L King, Jr

Yoshitaka Nii

Silvio Rohrer

John L King

Gregory E Mcdonald

An apparatus for vacuumizing and sealing a package includes a plurality of platens and vacuum chambers, each chamber adapted to mate with a dedicated one of the platens; a conveying system for conveying the platens and chambers along a generally angular path having a single axis of rotation; an automated loading assembly having a linear component and configured to load a package onto each of the platens; an automated unloading assembly having a linear portion and configured to unload a vacuumized, sealed package from each loaded platen onto an outfeed conveyor; and a vacuumizing/sealing system configured to cause relative movement of each chamber/platen pair, along a portion of the angular path, to form therebetween an air-tight enclosure accommodating the package and effect vacuumization and sealing of the package.

Apparatus and method for vacuumizing and sealing a package

An apparatus () for vacuumizing and sealing a package () includes a plurality of platens () and vacuum chambers (), each chamber () adapted to mate with a dedicated one of the platens (); a conveying system () for conveying the platens () and chambers () along a generally angular path having a single axis of rotation (); an automated loading assembly () having a linear component () and configured to load a package () onto each of the platens (); an automated unloading assembly () having a linear portion and configured to unload a vacuumized, sealed package () from each loaded platen () onto an outfeed conveyor (); and a vacuumizing/sealing system configured to cause relative movement of each chamber ()/platen () pair, along a portion of the angular path, to form therebetween an air-tight enclosure accommodating the package () and effect vacuumization and sealing of the package ().

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