Multiple pouch bagging apparatus
OwnerJerome Saintongeinventor
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Abstract
The apparatus includes a continuously rotating member having groups of chutes located on the rotating member about the periphery and a plurality of conveyor discharge devices extend tangentially from the periphery of the rotatable member such that the discharge conveyors are adapted to drop a predetermined number of pouches into a group of chutes as the group passes underneath the discharge member.
Claims7
An apparatus comprising a frame, at least one feed conveyor for advancing liquid filled pouches, a rotary chute assembly having a plurality of chute groups with each chute group including a number of adjacent vertically extending chute sections corresponding to the number of pouches to be filled in a bag, each chute group including an outer bag holding station below the chute group, and means for opening said outer bag to receive a number of pouches from the particular chute group, each chute group in a bag holding assembly being adapted to rotate about a circular locus passing under the discharge of the feed conveyor, and cooperating means causing the feed conveyor to advance when there is a predetermined number of pouches on the feed conveyor and there is a chute group passing below the discharge of the feed conveyor so as to receive a number of pouches being fed by the feed conveyor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.