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Packaging and filling apparatus and packaging material cutting device

US7484341B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateJul 28, 2004
Grant dateFeb 3, 2009
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Expiry dateJul 28, 2024

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG05B2219/37252
  • WIPO fieldOther special machines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A packaging and filling apparatus fills a tube of a web of a packaging material with a fluid product, forms lateral seal bands, cuts each seal band of a series of pillow-like preformed bodies with a cutting device to form a packaging and filling container of the final form. The cutting device comprises a resistance measuring device for measuring a cutting resistance pressure that a packaging material cutting blade receives from the packaging material, and then outputting a measurement value obtained, and a blade monitoring device for monitoring the condition of the packaging material cutting blade based upon based upon a comparison of a difference between a maximum measured cutting resistance pressure and a constant measured cutting resistance pressure following the maximum measured cutting resistance pressure with a predetermined pressure difference reference value.

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