Facility and method for filling product receptacles with products
AssigneeNor-Reg A/S
InventorsHeinz Odenthal, Herbert Schulte
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Abstract
The invention relates to a facility and method for filling product receptacles (1), especially cartons, with a predetermined amount of products (2), especially flexible bag packaging, which are individually fed at regular or irregular intervals and assembled to form a group of products (11) and which are subsequently fed to an available product receptacle (1). The products (2) in the group of products (11) can be selectively placed on or under the preceding product. The group of products (11) can be selectively fed to the product receptacles (1) vertically or horizontally.
Claims46
Installation for filling product receptacles (1), particularly cartons, with a predetermined number of products (2), particularly flexible bag packages which can be fed individually to the installation via a feeding conveyor, with a scaling station (4) wherein the products (2) can be overlappingly arranged in a scale-like manner in product batches (11), and with a filling conveyor (14) over which the products (2) can be supplied to product receptacles (1) positioned in a filling station, as well as with a product receptacle conveyor (20) by means of which the product receptacles (1) can be fed to and discharged from the filling station, characterized in that the scaling station (4) has scaling means (8, 27) by means of which the products (2″) of a product batch (11) can selectively scaled to lie on top or under the respectively preceding product (2′), and that the filling conveyor (14) comprises means (15, 13) through which the product batches (11) can be selectively fed either vertically or horizontally.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.