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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 21, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 05, 2012
Sima Paunesku, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Daniel J. Rack, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Jeffrey D. Wintring, Florence, KY (US);
Richard A. Roth, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Sima Paunesku, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Daniel J. Rack, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Jeffrey D. Wintring, Florence, KY (US);
Richard A. Roth, Cincinnati, OH (US);
R.A. Jones & Co., Inc., Covington, KY (US);
Abstract
An adjustable knife for a pouch machine is selectively provided with changeable knife hub sets each including a major and minor knife hub with respective major and minor axes. The hub sets have respectively differing diameters or different spacing between the respective major and minor axes to handle a variety of pouch sizes where a filler wheel alternately first fills and seals pouches in a train. A gear linkage including a four gear anti-lash arrangement with a movable gear accommodates variation in distance between hubs of different sets. A method of using the knife is also described.