Continuous rotary type filling and packing machine provided with printing mechanism

A continuous rotary type filling and packaging machine that fills a container body with liquid contents, covers the container body filled with the liquid contents with a molded lid, and seals the container body and the molded lid to produce a sealed container, the filling and packaging machine comprising:

• a filling device provided with a plurality of filling heads for filling a container with the liquid contents while the container body rotationally moves;
• a lid supplying device that supplies the molded lid to an upper end opening of the container body filled with the liquid contents and conveyed from the filling device;
• a sealing device provided with a plurality of seal heads that seal the upper end opening of the container body while the container body on which the molded lid is placed rotationally moves with the molded lid to produce the sealed container, and a lifting and lowering means including a lifting and lowering mechanism for a container table on which the container body is placed or for the seal head, and configured to bring the molded lid on the container body and a seal working surface of the seal head into press-contact with each other;
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• a printing means provided with an identification printing mechanism that prints a filling head number and a seal head number related to the sealed container on all of the sealed container bodies during a sealing step by the sealing device while the sealed container body is in a state in which the seal working surface of the seal head and a top surface of the molded lid of the sealed container are brought into press-contact with each other and a positional relation between the seal working surface and the sealed container is fixed,
• wherein the identification printing mechanism includes a control means including a calculation unit that calculates the filling head number and the seal head number to be printed on the container,
• wherein the calculation unit further includes a filling machine control board including a filling head number shift register that stores the filling head number and a seal head number shift register that stores the seal head number, and an inkjet printer control board including a filling head number ring counter that stores the filling head number and a seal head number ring counter that stores the seal head number, and
• wherein the filling head number and the seal head number are printed on a lower side circumferential surface of the container.