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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 07, 1977
Filed:
Jan. 19, 1976
Tony T Chiu, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Jurgen H Strasser, Mountain View, CA (US);
FMC Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
In an apparatus for filling pouches with measured quantities of a product, a product filling assembly is disclosed to have a pocket for receiving a measured quantity of the product, means for purging air from the product, means for registering the pouch with the product containing pocket, and means for discharging product from the pocket into the pouch. More than one pocket may be incorporated into a turret assembly, with each of the pockets having doors at the bottoms thereof which are opened to cause the product to gravitate into the pouch. The pouch-filling apparatus of the present invention may further include a magazine for supporting a plurality of empty pouches and pinch rollers for firmly squeezing a pouch and moving the pouch into a carrying means for carrying the pouch to the product filling assembly.