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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 26, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 10, 2011
Tomoyuki Masuda, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshifumi Miki, Itano-gun, JP;
Takanori Yabuuchi, Itano-gun, JP;
KABUSHIKI KAISHA YAKULT HONSHA, Minato-ku, JP;
SHIKOKU KAKOKI CO., LTD., Itano-gun, Tokushima, JP;
Abstract
A continuous rotary filling and packaging machine covers a container body with a molded lid and ultrasonically seals the container body. The molded lid to produce a sealed container includes a lid detecting devicedisposed on the downstream side of the lid supplying deviceand an ultrasonic sealing deviceincluding lifting and lowering means including a cam mechanism for lifting and lowering a container table. The lifting and lowering means is configured such that the molded lid on the container body and a seal working surface of an ultrasonic horncome into press-contact with each other at a top dead point of the container table. A container table lowering control mechanism does not lift, to the top dead point, a container table of a container whose container body does not have the molded lid placed thereon or properly placed thereon as determined.