Device and method for transporting ready-cut and filled hose pieces

A device for transporting unfinished bags within a machine for producing a bag filled with brewable material comprising:

• at least one transport wheel which comprises, distributed over its circumference, a plurality of holders each holding at least one of the unfinished bags, wherein an insertion station in which one of said unfinished bags is inserted into a holder of the plurality of holders in a radial direction to form the bag with at least one chamber between a head and a bottom of said bag, a label feeding station in which a label is fed to said head, a connecting station, in which a thread is connected to the label and/or the bag, and a removing station, in which the bag is removed from the transport wheel, are provided distributed in a circumferential direction around the transport wheel, wherein the transport wheel comprises a bore for each holder, in which an axle body carrying the holder is mounted so as to be pivotable about a pivot axis, in that a guide is provided which leads the holder in an orientation with respect to the pivot axis during the rotation of the transport wheel such that an air guide opening, arranged eccentrically with respect to the pivot axis, of a thread channel in the insertion station is in operative connection with a vacuum opening and in the connecting station with an overpressure opening.

A device for transporting unfinished bags within a machine for producing a bag filled with brewable material comprising:

• at least one transport wheel which comprises, distributed over its circumference, a plurality of holders each holding at least one of the unfinished bags, wherein an insertion station in which one of said unfinished bags is inserted into a holder of the plurality of holders in a radial direction to form the bag with at least one chamber between a head and a bottom of said bag, a label feeding station in which a label is fed to said head, a connecting station, in which a thread is connected to the label and/or the bag, and a removing station, in which the bag is removed from the transport wheel, are provided distributed in a circumferential direction around the transport wheel, wherein each holder of the plurality of holders has associated therewith a thread channel connectable to a source of vacuum and a source of overpressure and adapted to receive the thread connected to the bag,
• wherein the thread channel in the connecting station is in operative connection with an overpressure opening, and in that the connecting station has a thread guide which is to be arranged opposite a thread opening of the thread channel with interposition of the label and which deflects the thread blown out of the thread channel in a direction of the label.