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US 4,056,922 AGranted
Sealing machines
OwnerHank John Schilteinventor
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A sealing machine is disclosed which is useable for sealing products to a backing member, as of cardboard, by covering the products with a transparent cover and by gluing the cover to the backing. Such machine includes plate means adapted to receive and locate a cover into which is placed an article to be packed, said plate means having means to locate a backing, a loading station where the components can either manually or automatically be fed to the cover in the plate means and a sealing station having a movable pressure plate wherein the movable pressure plate is brought into contact with the backing to apply pressure to the backing and the cover while the two are sealed together. The plate means is formed with electrical contacts on the underside thereof which engage depressible electric contact means mounted on the frame at the sealing station whereby electrical heating energy can be supplied to heating element means surrounding the opening in the plate means for the cover when the pressure plate is lowered for completing the sealing operation.
Plate means for use in heat sealing backings to covers to package articles therein, said plate means having at least one aperture therethrough into which a cover can be placed from a top face of said plate means, electric heating element means surrounding the periphery of said at least one aperture and electric contact means imbedded in said plate means for permitting electric heating energy to be passed to said electric heating element means, part of said electric contact means being on the bottom face of the plate means remote from the face of intended direction of insertion of a cover into said at least one aperture, locating means for locating backings over said aperture, and a single fastening means on each side of said plate means for permitting releasable attachment to a conveyor chain means.
In a sealing machine including plate means adapted to receive and locate a cover into which is placed an article to be packed and a backing therefor, a sealing station having a movable pressure plate where the movable pressure plate can be brought into contact with said backing to apply pressure to said backing and said cover while the two are heat sealed together, said plate means having an aperture therein in which said cover can be received, an electric heating element means surrounding the periphery of said aperture, the improvement comprising said plate means having electric contacts for said electric heating element means on the face of said plate means remote from said pressure plate, depressible spring biased supporting means at the sealing station for supporting the plate means above anvil means as said plate means is moved into the sealing station, said anvil means providing a stop against which pressure can be applied by said pressure plate to enable sealing, and depressible spring biased electric contact means at the sealing station and separate from said plate means for making electrical contact with said contact means on said face of said plate means to enable supply of electrical heating energy to said heating means, said depressible supporting means being higher than said depressible contact means and said depressible contact means being higher than said anvil means whereby on operation of said pressure plate, said electric contact means is depressed onto said depressible contact means before said plate means engages said anvil means.
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