PACKAGING MACHINE AND PACKAGING METHOD

    公开(公告)号:US20230098764A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-03-30

    申请号:US17935943

    申请日:2022-09-28

    IPC分类号: B65B9/02 B65B41/16 B65B61/06

    摘要: A packaging machine includes a first supplying unit, a second supplying unit, a placing mechanism, a moving mechanism, a guide member, and a joining mechanism. The first supplying unit supplies a first packaging material. The second supplying unit supplies a second packaging material. The placing mechanism places an object to be packaged on the first packaging material supplied by the first supplying unit. The moving mechanism moves the first packaging material, with the object to be packaged placed on the first packaging material, in a direction along a first axis. The guide member guides the second packaging material onto the object to be packaged. The joining mechanism joins the first packaging material and the second packaging material together. The object to be packaged is packaged using the first packaging material and the second packaging material.

    Control apparatus, system, and program library

    公开(公告)号:US11530065B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-12-20

    申请号:US16358745

    申请日:2019-03-20

    申请人: OMRON Corporation

    发明人: Yusuke Kiyota

    摘要: A method accurately detects biting of a foreign object in a packaging machine. A control apparatus controls a packaging machine that sequentially seals and/or cuts a packaging material transported in a first direction using a rotor. The rotor is arranged to have a tangent to its outer circumference portion in contact with the packaging material extending in the first direction. The rotor is drivable and rotatable by a driver. The control apparatus includes an information obtaining unit that obtains information indicating a rotational position of the rotor and a status value of the driver in predetermined cycles, and a determination unit that determines a presence of an abnormality in a sealed portion of the packaging material using, from the information obtained by the information obtaining unit, a status value of the driver corresponding to a rotational position of the rotor falling within a predetermined range or being a predetermined position.

    FLEXIBLE TUBULAR PACKAGE FOR EDIBLE PRODUCT

    公开(公告)号:US20210214139A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-07-15

    申请号:US17219112

    申请日:2021-03-31

    摘要: A squeezable, flexible tubular package for an edible product is compartmented to simultaneously hold a first edible product in one compartment separate from a second edible product in another juxtaposed compartment. The package includes an elongated enclosure defined by a pair of transparent, flexible film strips bonded to one another around the periphery thereof by a liquid tight seal; and a membrane situated between the film strips, bonded to the periphery of the film strips by a liquid tight seal, partitioning the enclosure into a pair of juxtaposed, liquid tight compartments. An extrudable, edible product is separately contained in each of the compartments. Apparatus for continuously and successively forming, filling and sealing articulated arrays of such packaged products is also disclosed.

    HOLE CUTTER FOR THERMOFORMING PACKAGING MACHINE AND METHOD OF USE

    公开(公告)号:US20210214111A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-07-15

    申请号:US15931212

    申请日:2020-05-13

    申请人: UltraSource LLC

    IPC分类号: B65B61/16 B65B9/02

    摘要: An apparatus is provided for cutting holes and slicing through a web of formed, filled and sealed product packages in a thermoforming packaging machine. The apparatus uses a single actuator to move a row of film-cutting punches between extended and retracted positions for cutting holes and corresponding chads in a marginal film area of the web of thermoformed product packages and a cross cut knife to slice through the marginal film area to separate rows of the thermoformed product packages.