Device and method for transporting ready-cut and filled hose pieces
AssigneeTeepack Spezialmaschinen GmbH & Co. KG
InventorsStefan Lambertz, Hans Knops
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a simplified device and a process-technically simplified and also more rapidly applicable method for transporting readily cut and filled hose pieces within a machine for producing pouches filled with brewable material. The device according to the invention has a transport wheel which has several supports distributed over its circumference, each holding a pouch which are pivotally mounted on the transport wheel. In the method according to the invention, a hose piece for forming a pouch with at least one chamber between a head and a bottom is inserted in the radial direction into a support of the transport wheel. In a removal station the pouch is removed radially from the transport wheel with the bottom leading.
Claims4
A device for transporting ready-cut and filled hose pieces within a machine for producing pouches filled with brewable material, comprising:
- a transport wheel, comprising several pivotally mounted supports distributed around a circumference of the transport wheel and each for supporting a pouch;
- an insertion station associated with the transport wheel, in which one of the hose pieces is inserted into the support in the radial direction of the transport wheel to form a pouch with at least one chamber between a head and a bottom of the pouch, with the bottom leading radially towards the center of the transport wheel;
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- a removal station associated with the transport wheel, wherein in the removal station the support is pivoted relative to the alignment in the insertion station such that the pouch is removed radially from the transport wheel with the bottom leading radially away from the center of the transport wheel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.