Film fitting system

A film fitting system for transporting containers, each container having a pot portion containing contents and a flange portion laterally projecting from an outer periphery of an upper portion of the pot portion with a top opening of the pot portion being sealed by a lid, and attaching from below tubular films on the outer peripheries of the pot portions while the containers are being transported, the film fitting system comprising:

• a container transport device for continuously transporting the containers in a suspended manner with a predetermined pitch;
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• a film fitting device for fitting from below tubular films on the outer peripheries of the pot portions of the containers that are transported by the container transport device, wherein the film fitting device comprises:
• a tubular film forming unit for cutting a long tubular film material flattened in a sheet into a predetermined length to form a tubular film;
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• a mandrel head for receiving the tubular film formed by the tubular film forming unit at a film supply position in an open state, and lifting the tubular film that is in an open state toward a pot portion of the containers transported by the container transport device at a film fitting position to fit the tubular film, wherein the mandrel head is configured to fit a tubular film on a container while being linearly translated with the mandrel head kept opposed to a bottom of a container that is linearly transported in a suspended manner by the container transport device,
• wherein the tubular film forming unit is configured to form a tubular film and pass the tubular film to the mandrel head at a position that is deviated from a container transport path in which the container transport device transports the containers, when the system is viewed from above.