Apparatus for treating flexible bags

US6073424A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Indag Gesellschaft, Fuer Industriebedarf MBH & Co. · DE

Inventors

• Eberhard Kraft · Neckarbischofsheim, DE
• Hans-Peter Wild · Eppelheim, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 28, 1998
• Grant date: Jun 13, 2000
• Expiry date: Sep 28, 2018

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65B43/465
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

Method of treating flexible bags, in particular for opening, filling and closing in successive treatment stations, and to a filling machine for carrying out said method. In the method the bags are transported in suspended fashion in holding devices of which at least two are provided per bag, and the bags are changed in shape by a relative movement of the respective holding devices relative to one another. In the filling machine there are receiving elements for the bags of an opening station, a filling station, and a closing station which has two holding devices per receiving element for jointly holding a bag in the upper portion of said bag, the holding devices of one receiving element being movable relative to each other.