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US 2013/0219827 A1Published application
Apparatus for Forming Packages and Filling System
AssigneeThe Procter & Gamble Company
InventorsShawn Christopher Pallotta, Jason Matthew Orndorff, Gavin John Broad, Adal Amine Tecleab, Cullen Joseph Breithaupt, Jon Kevin McLaughlin
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for formation, filling, and sealing unit dose packages for consumer products are described herein. A filling system with a filling control system is also disclosed. Although the filling system is described in conjunction with a method for forming, filling, and sealing unit dose packages, the filling system and filling control system can be used in other dispensing processes.
Claims13
An apparatus for forming a package, said apparatus comprising:
- a first infeed zone for receiving a supply of a first web of material;
- and
- an element having a cavity therein, said element being located downstream of said first infeed zone, wherein a portion of a first web of material may be temporarily deflected into said cavity, said cavity comprising a base and a pair of side walls, said element comprising a moving belt having a surface, said belt moving in a machine direction, wherein the surface of the belt forms a base of said cavity, said element further comprising longitudinal side edge portions that form side walls of said cavity.
A dispensing system comprising:
- a dispensing device for dispensing a fluid material;
- a fluid supply, wherein said dispensing device is connected by piping to said fluid supply;
- a dispensing device actuator system connected to the dispensing device to start and stop flow from the dispensing device;
- a flow measurement system, operably connected in line with the dispensing device;
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- a programmable logic controller which is programmed to collect an actual flow quantity as input, and calculate a new fill time period or flow totalization shutoff target to minimize the fill quantity error between a set point and actual quantity fill, and then output:
- (1) a control actuation time, and a control signal for when the dispensing device should start or stop the fill;
- or
- (2) a flow totalization shutoff target, and a control signal for when the dispensing device actuator system should start the fill.
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