Packaging machine and method for packaging of products in bags
AssigneeMultivac Sepp Haggenmueller SE & Co. KG
InventorRainer Haering
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Abstract
A packaging machine and a method for packaging of products in bags, respectively, comprises a lid (5) forming a chamber (4) together with a chamber bottom (6). The object of the invention is to provide an improved device and method for evacuating the chamber (4) of a packaging machine. For this purpose a suction device (100) is provided in the chamber bottom (6), the suction device being designed such that gas can be sucked and the chamber (4) can be closed gas tight, wherein at least a closing element (8, 8′) is provided which can be moved from a first raised position into a second lowered position.
Claims10
1-9. (canceled)
A packaging machine for packaging of products in bags, the machine comprising;
- a chamber having a lid and a chamber bottom;
- a suction device that is provided in the chamber bottom to evacuate the chamber;
- and
- at least one closing element that is movable from a first raised position to a second lowered position;
- wherein the chamber can be closed gas tight.
A method for packaging of products into bags, the method comprising:
- providing a packaging machine comprising
- a chamber having a lid and a chamber bottom;
- a suction device in the chamber bottom;
- and
- a closing element;
- closing the chamber gas tight together with the closing element in a first position;
- and
- evacuating the chamber with the closing element in a second position;
- wherein the closing element functions as a valve.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.