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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 25, 2007
Filed:
Jun. 28, 2005
Wolfgang Nikoley, Mainz Kastell, DE;
Edmund Frey, Wettenberg, DE;
Jürgen Hanten, Bad Nauheim, DE;
Abstract
An apparatus for producing film tube which can be filled with liquid, viscous or granular filling material, from a film strip, is provided wherein the apparatus comprises a filling tube which can be connected to a filling machine, a device for transforming the film strip into a film tube, a sealing device for sealing longitudinal edges of the film strip, an advance drive means for the film tube and a measuring device for determining the amount of film tube delivered by the sealing device. The measuring device includes a first sensor which detects the length of the film tube delivered by the sealing device to the film tube supply and a second sensor which detects the length of the film tube drawn off the film tube supply.