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Control for bag making machine

US4077308A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateJun 4, 1976
Grant dateMar 7, 1978
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Expiry dateJun 4, 1996

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB65B51/303
  • WIPO fieldHandling
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

Apparatus for making a succession of bags from a web of sheet material which has been printed with a series of spaced parallel bands of heat activatable adhesive located at intervals corresponding to the lengths of the bags to be made wherein the web is formed about a mandrel into a tube and advanced therealong to sealing instrumentalities situated forwardly of the mandrel in the direction of movement, a pair of endless belts paralleling the mandrel for advancing the tube along the mandrel toward the sealing instrumentalities and a detector responsive to the presence of a band of adhesive on the web and located at a place in the path of movement of the web which corresponds to a whole number of bag lengths from the sealing instrumentalities which controls the feeding means so as to feed one bag length at a time relative to the sealing instrumentalities.

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