Flowpackaging machine with adjustable closing jaws
OwnerTommy Bondeinventor
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Abstract
A flowpacking machine comprising a conveyor for bringing a row of products wrapped in a string casing into a closing station, in which an upper and a lower jaw (18,20) are reciprocated in counterphase to close and cut the string casing between the products. The jaws should meet at a level corresponding to half the height (h) of the products, whereby some adjustment is required for each new product height. The disclosed machine is characteristic in that one of the jaws (20) is height adjustable mounted on the vertical rod member (34) which moves it up and down, whereby the adjustments are particularly easy to carry out. They can even be controlled automatically by a reading in of the new product height. When the rod member is a tooth rod a very safe holding of the adjustable jaw is achieved.
Claims4
A flowpacking machine comprising a conveyor for advancing a string of objects housed spaced from each other inside a tubular casing and a closing station for successively closing the tubular casing between the interspaced objects, said closing station comprising opposed jaw members arranged so as to be movable against and away from each other for enabling, respectively, a transverse closing of said tubular casing and a passage of the objects between the jaws in their opened positions, said jaws being moved by way of rotation of a pinion which, by co-operation with opposed tooth rods which are connected with the respective jaws via a carrier support, causes the displacement of the jaws towards and away from each other, characterized in that at least one of the jaws is fixedly connected with its associated carrier support and its associated carrier support is connected to its associated tooth rod so as to be adjustably engageable therewith at various points along the length of the tooth rod in order to adapt the machine to operate with objects of different thicknesses.
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