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US 12,709,429 B2Granted
Packaging machine
AssigneeVolpak, S.A.U.
InventorsXavier Montañà Caelles, Albert Grau Calvó
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Abstract
A packaging machine comprising a track with a number of carriage assemblies moveable along the track and able to hold in a suspended fashion a flexible pouch and to convey them along at least a section of the track; a series of processing modules moveably engaged with a common supporting rail, the processing modules having configurable tools able to perform an operation on the conveyed pouches; and a corresponding series of control units, each control unit to control the configurable tools of a processing module or the configurable tools of a set of functionally-related processing modules, the control units being moveably engageable in a static frame to which the supporting rail of the processing modules is also solidly joined to.
Claims19
A packaging machine, comprising:
- a static frame;
- a track defining a closed path;
- a number of carriage assemblies directly supported by and moveable along the track;
- a main controller in electrical communication with the track and the carriage assemblies for the independent but coordinated movement of the carriage assemblies, the carriage assemblies being configured to grip a pouch so that, each carriage assembly, or cooperatively a number of successive carriage assemblies, is able to hold in a suspended fashion a pouch and to convey the pouch along at least a section of the track;
- a series of processing modules directly supported by and moveably engaged with a common supporting rail, the processing modules having configurable tools able to perform an operation on the conveyed pouches;
- a corresponding series of control units, each control unit to control the configurable tools of a processing module or the configurable tools of a set of functionally-related processing modules, the control units being moveably engageable in the static frame;
- and
- wherein the track and the supporting rail are mounted to the static frame, with the track disposed below the supporting rail.
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A packaging machine, comprising:
- a static frame;
- a track defining a closed path directly supporting and configured to guide a number of carriage assemblies moveable along the track;
- a main controller in electrical communication with the track and the carriage assemblies for the independent but coordinated movement of the carriage assemblies, the carriage assemblies being configured to grip a pouch so that, each carriage assembly, or cooperatively a number of successive carriage assemblies, is able to hold in a suspended fashion a pouch and to convey it along at least a section of the track;
- a series of processing modules directly supported by and moveably engaged with a common supporting rail, the processing modules having configurable tools able to perform an operation on the conveyed pouches;
- a corresponding series of control units, each control unit to control the configurable tools of a processing module or the configurable tools of a set of functionally-related processing modules, the control units being moveably engageable in the static frame;
- wherein the track and the supporting rail are mounted to the static frame, with the track disposed below the supporting rail.
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A packaging machine, comprising:
- carriage assemblies;
- track means for moveably supporting the carriage assemblies;
- a main controller in electrical communication with the track means and the carriage assemblies for the independent but coordinated movement of the carriage assemblies, the carriage assemblies configured to grip a pouch so that, each carriage assembly, or cooperatively a number of successive carriage assemblies, and to hold in a suspended fashion a pouch and to convey the pouch along at least a section of the track means;
- processing modules;
- supporting rail means for engaging and moving the processing modules, the processing modules having configurable tools to perform an operation on the conveyed pouch;
- a corresponding series of control units, each control unit to control the configurable tools of a processing module or the configurable tools of a set of functionally-related processing modules, the control units moveably engageable in a static frame to which the supporting rail means of the processing modules is also solidly joined to.
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A packaging machine, comprising:
- a static frame;
- a track defining a closed path;
- a number of carriage assemblies moveable along the track;
- a main controller in electrical communication with the track and the carriage assemblies for the independent but coordinated movement of the carriage assemblies, the carriage assemblies being configured to grip a pouch so that, each carriage assembly, or cooperatively a number of successive carriage assemblies, is able to hold in a suspended fashion a flexible pouch and to convey the pouch along at least a section of the track;
- a series of processing modules moveably engaged with a common supporting rail, the processing modules having configurable tools able to perform an operation on the conveyed pouches;
- a corresponding series of control units, each control unit to control the configurable tools of a processing module or the configurable tools of a set of functionally-related processing modules, the control units being moveably engageable in the static frame to which the supporting rail of the processing modules is also solidly joined to;
- and
- wherein the supporting rail is dimensioned to receive the engagement of a plural number of processing modules, lined up along the supporting rail.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.