R. a. Jones Co., Inc.

Wickliffe Jones, Deceased

Joseph D Greenwell

Eric W Scarpa

Robert M Kalany

Michael E Myers

Mark R Nease

A web is folded upon itself and transversely sealed. The web is cut into individual pouches which are fed into gripper units, on an endless conveyor, each having a fixed leading jaw and a movable trailing jaw which grip the leading and trailing edges of the pouches. To open a pouch, the trailing jaw is moved toward the fixed jaw by a cam and held in position by friction. Each opened pouch is carried around a filler unit where it is filled. Thereafter, a cam causes said jaws to spread apart, stretching the mouth of the pouch, where it is sealed in a heat sealer.

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Cincinnati, OH, United States of America

Wickliffe Jones, Deceased