Automatic bagging apparatus
US5473865A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Aug 10, 1993 |
| Grant date | Dec 12, 1995 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Aug 10, 2013 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
- CPC primaryB65B57/06
- WIPO fieldHandling
- WIPO sectorMechanical engineering
Abstract
In an automatic bagging apparatus, a foremost bag F of stacked bags stored in a bag storage mechanism 10 is fed by a bag feeding mechanism 20 and supported by a bag support mechanism 30. The supported bag is supplied with a predetermined amount of ice cubes, and the bagged ice cubes are accumulated in an ice storage bin. The bag feeding mechanism 20 is provided with a clamping mechanism 20a for grasping the bag at its two positions and detection switches SW4, SW5 for detecting the fact that the bag F has been correctly fed by the clamping mechanism 20a. When it has been detected by the detection switches SW4, SW5 that the bag F could not be correctly fed or that there is not any bag in the bag storage mechanism 10, the feeding operation of the bag is repeated predetermined times. If the bag F could not be correctly fed, the feeding operation of the bag is stopped, and the remained ice cubes are melted by water sprinkled from a watering pipe to be drained.
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