Loading apparatus for a packaging machine for small products

US4627225A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Josef Uhlmann Maschinenfabrik GbmH & Co. KG · DE

Inventors

• Peter Faller · Biberach, DE
• Herbert Rittinger · Laupheim, DE
• Detlev Gertitschke · Laupheim, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 1, 1985
• Grant date: Dec 9, 1986
• Expiry date: May 1, 2005

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65B35/28
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

The loading apparatus of our invention comprises a filling shoe for input of small products, particularly pharmaceutical products, into a plurality of receptacles of a package component moving by and below the filling shoe. The filling shoe is provided with at least one feed chamber for receiving and dispensing the product which has a mouth opening below to the package component. A product duct for feeding the products one after the other is connected to and ends in the feed chamber. Each feed chamber is connected to at least one vacuum passage which is connected to and communicates with a vacuum source. The front side of the feed chamber in the motion direction of the package component may be formed as a guide slope running slantedly downward toward the package component opening in or to a vacuum passage with the feed chamber and to the package component. Vacuum slots may be provided running in a wall of the product duct and ending in the feed chamber to augment the vacuum effect in the product duct.