Patent References 3335540 3774509 Apparatus for packaging bulk material Apparatus for forming, filling and closing bags Patent #: 4129976 InventorsAssigneeApplicationNo. 05/959226 filed on 11/09/1978US Classes:53/173, Filling preformed receptacle and subsequent covering53/552Concurrent severingExaminersPrimary: McGehee, Travis S.Attorney, Agent or FirmInternational ClassesB65B 9/20 (20060101)B65B 9/10 (20060101) Foreign Application Priority Data1977-11-09 CHAbstractAn apparatus for making, filling, closing and boxing bags includes a vertically oriented hollow mandrel about which a hose of sealable sheet is continuously formed, a device for cylindrically providing a transverse seam on the hose; a cutting device for cyclically severing the hose at the transverse seam for providing precedingly filled, sealed bags; a base plate situated underneath the mandrel for supporting thereon serially positioned and advanced, upright-oriented bag-receiving boxes open at their top and bottom; an opening provided in the base plate and aligned with the mandrel; and a vertically displaceably supported bag grasping device for penetrating through the opening into a box positioned underneath the mandrel and for downwardly pulling a filled and closed bag into the box. | |