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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:
Feb. 20, 2001
Filed:
Apr. 01, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Ishida Co., Ltd., , JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65B 9/20 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B65B 9/20 ;
Abstract
A form-fill-seal packaging machine has a halting device above its transverse sealer below a cylindrical chute through which articles to be packaged are dropped cyclically in batches. A film is bent into a tubular form and pulled down around the chute to the transverse sealer. The halting device serves to squeeze the film such that the free-falling articles are temporarily halted before reaching the transverse sealer such that the articles can pass through the transverse sealer in a more compactly bunched batches. This makes it less likely for any of the articles to be caught between sealing devices of the transverse sealer and the work efficiency of the packaging machine can be improved.