Container filling machine

US6189293A · 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 30, 1998
• Grant date: Feb 20, 2001
• Expiry date: Sep 30, 2018

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65B43/52
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A filling machine for sheet bags comprising a transportation means including a plurality of transportation elements for the sheet bags, for supplying the sheet bags to an opening station, a filling station, a closing station and a cooling station. The transportation means comprises a first conveying means including a plurality of first transportation elements for feeding sheet bags to the opening station, the filling station and the closing station, and a second conveying means including a plurality of second transportation elements for feeding the sheet bags to the cooling station. A transfer station is provided for transferring the sheet bags from the first conveying means to the second conveying means. In a method for opening, filling, closing and cooling sheet bags, the sheet bags are supplied to the opening station, the filling station and the closing station at a first speed and at a first spacing in the conveying direction and to a cooling station at a second speed and at a second spacing, the first spacing being greater than the second spacing and the first speed greater than the second speed.