US 10,293,966 B2Granted

Device for transporting in a packaging line flexible packaging held suspended

AssigneePfm Iberica Packaging Machinery, S.A.

InventorsJose Garriga Jimenez, Andrea Fioravanti, Cristobal Jorge Alesanco

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Abstract

Device for transporting containers in a packaging line, having a number of guides that determine a closed route including a horizontal stretch and upon which a first and second carrying element slide. The guides are directed on a vertical plane and each carrying element has two arms, each one of which extends to one side of the vertical plane, each arm (5a; 6a) of a carrying element is designed to work alongside the arm arranged on a same side of the vertical plane of the other carrying element adjacent to them, to jointly secure and transport a corresponding container, so as to be secured and transported along the length of the horizontal stretch of the route and at least two containers between each two adjacent carrying elements at the same time, one at each side of the vertical plane.

Claims17

Dependent claims

A device for transporting flexible containers on a packaging line, comprising:

a guide, which determines a closed route in a vertical plane, the guide comprising an upper horizontal stretch and a lower horizontal stretch below the upper horizontal stretch, and wherein both the upper horizontal stretch and the lower horizontal stretch are located in the vertical plane;
a first and a second carrying element forming a pair that slide on the guide, wherein each carrying element has two arms, each one of which extends to one side of said vertical plane, each arm of the first carrying element configured to operatively work with a corresponding one of the arms arranged on a same side of the vertical plane of the second carrying element to jointly secure and transport a respective container, wherein two of the containers are secured between the first and second carrying elements and transported along a length of the upper horizontal stretch of said route at the same time with each container positioned on a side of the vertical plane opposite the other container;
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wherein the first and second carrying elements are individually controlled to move along the guide by magnetic field effect generated in a sphere of influence of each carrying element.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 14/890,686Filed 14 May 2014
Priority: ES 20133069215 May 2013
Published: US 2016/0122063 A15 May 2016
Granted: 21 May 2019
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification14 codes

B65B 65/006
Packaging lines, e.g. general layout: multiple parallel packaging lines
B65B 43/04
Forming, feeding, opening or setting-up containers or receptacles in association with packaging: forming flat bags from webs
B65B 43/123
Feeding flexible bags or carton blanks in flat or collapsed state; Feeding flat bags connected to form a series or chain: feeding flat bags…
B65B 43/32
Opening or distending bags; Opening, erecting, or setting-up boxes, cartons, or carton blanks: by external pressure diagonally applied