Abstract:
The machine includes a horizontal support for a plastic bag and a vertically movable heat-sealing head pivoted to the support for upward movement through an aperture in the support to contact the plastic bag. A vertically movable pressure platen having a vacuum head for holding a patch thereon is mounted directly above the heat-sealing head and is adapted to be moved into engagement with the plastic bag so that the patch can be heat-sealed to the bag. A cutter is mounted adjacent the pressure platen for reciprocating movement along an oblique path to intersect the aperture in the support directly beneath the pressure platen to provide a slit in the plastic bag prior to the heat-sealing of the patch on the bag over the slit.
Abstract:
An applicator head is disclosed which accumulates, feeds, cuts and presents a preselected length of ribbon-like material. A first pneumatic cylinder is connected to a pivoting arm which controls accumulation and feeding steps, while a second pneumatic cylinder operates an applicator arm, to cut and present the material. The connection of the pivoting arm, relative to the first cylinder, determines the length of the cut material or ribbon segment.
Abstract:
Sections intermittently severed from a web and conveyed by spaced parallel suction belts of a conveyor are applied to successive workpieces by a transfer mechanism comprising parallel suction bars insertable between and beyond the suction belts.
Abstract:
The stiffness of a flexible, substantially parallelepipedal container formed by shaping and welding a film which is made of a synthetic material and which is to enclose a liquid to be packaged, is improved by applying, before shaping, a second layer of a film formed of an identical or a different material, as a top film, to the surface of the film forming the container which does not subsequently come into contact with the liquid to be packaged. The top film includes a plurality of strips corresponding to the vertical surfaces of the final container which are welded to the film forming the container before shaping, along lines corresponding to the edges of the final parallelepipedal container.
Abstract:
A method and device to attach a strip tape onto a packaging web having a liquid-pouring hole by a heating element, which is provided with heating coils and an air hole, and a pressure rail which has a tape escape, so that when the strip tape is heat sealed on the packaging web, air is blown to a part of the strip tape covering the liquid-pouring hole so as to loosen such part into the tape escape.
Abstract:
A web of material is intermittently fed by feed rollers between and beyond pairs of clamping jaws comprising separated segments defining a gap receiving a reciprocatable severing knife. Beyond the clamping jaws, suction means hold the leading web end and, after said end has been severed, can be swung onto a support for a workpiece to which the severed web section is to be applied.
Abstract:
The stiffness of a flexible, substantially parallelepipedal container formed by shaping and welding a film which is made of a synthetic material and which is to enclose a liquid to be packaged, is improved by applying, before shaping, a second layer of a film formed of an identical or a different material, as a top film, to the surface of the film forming the container which does not subsequently come into contact with the liquid to be packaged. The top film includes a plurality of strips corresponding to the vertical surfaces of the final container which are welded to the film forming the container before shaping, along lines corresponding to the edges of the final parallelepipedal container.
Abstract:
A device for forming webs used for packaging containers with and without a pull-tab including, along the conveyance path of a web conveyed at a constant interval, a punch hole opening section for opening liquid-outlets, a strip tape pasting section which closes punch holes opened on a web with a wide strip tape or pastes narrow strip tape on a web having no punch holes, and a pull-tab pasting section having a pull-tab tape cutting and heating depositing member which cuts and heat-deposits a pull-tab on the web provided on the punch holes. Either a wide strip tape or a narrow strip tape is selectively supplied to the strip tape pasting section, and a pull-tab tape is supplied to the pull-tab pasting section. The punch hole opening section and the pull-tab pasting section can be inactivated. Thus, containers with and without a pull-tab can be manufactured by a single web forming device.
Abstract:
In apparatus for applying a length of web severed from a supply reel to a flat workpiece, the web is advanced intermittently by a driven pair of rollers. A carrier which is secured to swing levers and provided with suckers suction-attracts a section severed from the web and swings it for depositing onto the flat workpiece. Between its receiving and depositing positions, the carrier is pivotable through an acute angle and a reciprocatable slide is provided which sweeps the web section over the sucker-equipped side of the carrier.