EP2536636B1 - Procédé et appareil pour emballer des produits dans un filet tubulaire - Google Patents

Procédé et appareil pour emballer des produits dans un filet tubulaire Download PDF

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EP2536636B1
EP2536636B1 EP11729627.7A EP11729627A EP2536636B1 EP 2536636 B1 EP2536636 B1 EP 2536636B1 EP 11729627 A EP11729627 A EP 11729627A EP 2536636 B1 EP2536636 B1 EP 2536636B1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B9/00—Enclosing successive articles, or quantities of material, e.g. liquids or semiliquids, in flat, folded, or tubular webs of flexible sheet material; Subdividing filled flexible tubes to form packages
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    • B65B9/15—Enclosing successive articles, or quantities of material, in preformed tubular webs, or in webs formed into tubes around filling nozzles, e.g. extruded tubular webs the preformed tubular webs being stored on filling nozzles
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B25/00—Packaging other articles presenting special problems
    • B65B25/02—Packaging agricultural or horticultural products
    • B65B25/04—Packaging fruit or vegetables
    • B65B25/048—Packaging fruit or vegetables in nets
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B51/00—Devices for, or methods of, sealing or securing package folds or closures; Devices for gathering or twisting wrappers, or necks of bags
    • B65B51/10—Applying or generating heat or pressure or combinations thereof
    • B65B51/26—Devices specially adapted for producing transverse or longitudinal seams in webs or tubes
    • B65B51/30—Devices, e.g. jaws, for applying pressure and heat, e.g. for subdividing filled tubes
    • B65B51/306—Counter-rotating devices
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B61/00—Auxiliary devices, not otherwise provided for, for operating on sheets, blanks, webs, binding material, containers or packages
    • B65B61/14—Auxiliary devices, not otherwise provided for, for operating on sheets, blanks, webs, binding material, containers or packages for incorporating, or forming and incorporating, handles or suspension means in packages
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B61/00—Auxiliary devices, not otherwise provided for, for operating on sheets, blanks, webs, binding material, containers or packages
    • B65B61/20—Auxiliary devices, not otherwise provided for, for operating on sheets, blanks, webs, binding material, containers or packages for adding cards, coupons or other inserts to package contents
    • B65B61/202—Auxiliary devices, not otherwise provided for, for operating on sheets, blanks, webs, binding material, containers or packages for adding cards, coupons or other inserts to package contents for attaching articles to the outside of a container
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D29/00—Sacks or like containers made of fabrics; Flexible containers of open-work, e.g. net-like construction
    • B65D29/04—Net-like containers made of plastics material
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D85/00—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials
    • B65D85/30—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for articles particularly sensitive to damage by shock or pressure
    • B65D85/34—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for articles particularly sensitive to damage by shock or pressure for fruit, e.g. apples, oranges or tomatoes
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B2220/00—Specific aspects of the packaging operation
    • B65B2220/16—Packaging contents into primary and secondary packaging

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  • the present invention regards a method for packaging products in a tubular net wrapping, in particular for packaging punnets of fruit and vegetable products and the like, as well as an apparatus for carrying out such a method.
  • Such packages are generally made of a punnet for containing the products, made of plastic material, contained inside a tubular net wrapping which is closed, at the opposite ends, through clipping with respective metal clips; often such metal clips also tighten the opposite ends of a thin strip of plasticized paper designed to serve as handle for transporting the package.
  • a label made of paper or similar material, containing the data suitable to identify the product put on sale. Also such a label is maintained by one of the cited metal clips.
  • netting automatic machines provide to introduce single punnets, filled with a predetermined quantity of products, inside the tubular net, closed beforehand through clipping downstream of the tract engaged by the punnet, and to close and cut the aforesaid tract of tubular net upstream of the same punnet.
  • the tubular net unwinds on the external surface of a pipe which also serves as a feeding way for the punnets to package.
  • the punnet to be packaged hits the tract of tubular net closed downstream, and is moved forward, together with such tract of tubular net, until it goes beyond a clipping device which accomplishes the cited closing upstream of the punnets.
  • European patent application no. EP 0 677 449 discloses a package for horticultural fruit products comprising a net bag provided with a narrow strip of synthetic material, representing the handle, arranged at a definite spacing from a net bag body and extending longitudinally with respect to the net bag body, welded at its ends to the ends of the net bag. At such ends, pieces of plastics material strip are connected to the bag and to the strip acting as the handle by the same welds.
  • Document US 4,537,006 discloses an automatic apparatus for enshrouding fruit and vegetable containers in a net wrapping comprising a station for feeding the containers that is provided with suitable conveyors and a net carrying pipe placed downstream of such conveyors.
  • the apparatus comprises a subsequent station in which each container is enshrouded in a net arranged downstream of the net carrying pipe, and a station for fixing reinforcing strips to the container, as well as a station for labelling the containers.
  • the task of the present invention is that of solving the aforementioned problems, devising a method that allows to perform the packaging of products in a tubular net wrapping, in particular providing a package which is relatively cheap and easy to recycle.
  • Another object of the invention is that of providing an apparatus for packaging products in a tubular net wrapping able to ensure a high production rate.
  • a further scope of the invention is that of providing an apparatus for packaging products in a tubular net wrapping of simple structural and functional conception, equipped with a certainly reliable functioning and of versatile use, as well as relatively economic cost.
  • the method for packaging punnets of fruit and vegetable products in a tubular net wrapping provides for performing the closing through welding of the ends of a tract of tubular net inside which is introduced the product to be packaged.
  • the method provides for attaching to said ends of the tract of tubular net, at the closing areas obtained through welding, the ends of at least one strip of thermoplastic material, extended longitudinally with respect to the same tract of tubular net.
  • the present invention also concerns the apparatus for packaging products II in a tubular net wrapping according to claim 5.
  • the apparatus for packaging products in an extruded tubular net wrapping is indicated in its entirety with 1.
  • the products to be packaged consist of punnets 2 of fruit and vegetable products and the like.
  • the punnet is made of plastic material, for example polypropylene or similar materials.
  • the apparatus 1 has, above a base 10, a tubular member 11 arranged with horizontal axis. On the external surface of the tubular member 11, in use, a tubular net 21 made of plastic material, for example polyethylene or similar materials, unwinds.
  • the tubular member 11 is longitudinally crossed at its own inside, in a known way, by a conveyor belt 12 suitable to perform the feed of the products 2 to be packaged.
  • the conveyor belt 12 is wound at the opposite ends on a couple of wheels 13, respectively driving and driven, which are supported rotatable by a framework 14 constrained to the base 10 of the apparatus.
  • the framework 14 also supports, at the opposite ends, the tubular member 11.
  • the conveyor belt 12 is operated by a suitable electric motor member 15.
  • conveyor means 16 Downstream of the tubular member 11, according to the feed direction of the products 2, are arranged further conveyor means 16 suitable to receive the products 2 to be packaged exiting from the same tubular member 11.
  • Such conveyor means 16 are suitably constituted by a further conveyor belt which is wound on wheels 17 suitably motorized; preferably the active branch of such conveyor belt 16 is separated in two consecutive tracts of variable length, such that to a lengthening of one corresponds a shortening of the other, and vice versa.
  • Such active branch of the conveyor belt 16 is substantially overlapped to the conveyor belt 12 for feeding the products 2, in order to facilitate the advancement of the same products 2.
  • the closing device 30 comprises a frame 31 which is mobile with alternated motion in direction longitudinal to the tubular member 11, and which carries suitable sealing means and cutting means suitable to operate the closing and the separation of the aforesaid packages 20, in suitable step relation with the feed of the products 2 which, exiting from the tubular member 11, are introduced inside the tubular net 21.
  • the frame 31 comprises a couple of posts 32 placed side by side which extend from a trolley 33 provided with opposite couples of sliding blocks 34; the sliding blocks 34 are mounted sliding on a guide rail 35 fixed on the base 10.
  • the frame 31 is actuated in alternated motion by suitable actuator members, for example an electric motor member acting through a transmission member 36 or alternatively actuator means of the pneumatic type, or again a linear electric motor and the like.
  • the frame 31 carries mobile, on a vertical plane transverse to the longitudinal axis of the apparatus, a first unit 40 and a second unit 50 for closing the tubular net 21, respectively upper and lower, mounted sliding through respective sliding blocks 41, 51 on guide means 37 associated with the posts 32 (see in particular fig. 6 ).
  • the closing units 40, 50 are preferably mobile relative to each other, with an alternated motion of reciprocal approaching and departing, upon control of respective actuator members 42, 52 for example of pneumatic type or by means of a crank gear driven by an electric motor preferably of the brushless type. It is obviously possible to provide that the aforesaid relative motion is determined by the driving of one only of the closing units 40, 50, for example the upper closing unit 40.
  • the upper closing unit 40 provides a couple of blades 43 placed beside at a suitable distance from each other and constrained at the opposite sides to the aforesaid sliding blocks 41; for greater clarity, only one of the blades 43 is represented in figures 6 , 7 and 8 .
  • the blades 43 are suitable to act substantially as a guillotine to operate the closing of the tubular net 21, as better specified in the following.
  • the blades 43 have at the lower part thereof an analogous shaped profile 43a with opposite tracts converging upwards, so as to act as a draft for collecting the tubular net 21 at a central zone 43b of the same profile.
  • the central zone 43b of the lower profile of the blades 43 shapes a flat bottom cavity of suitable width.
  • a sealing member 44 preferably of the thermal type is vertically mobile; obviously it is possible to provide the use of sealing means of a different type, for example ultrasonic or with electric impulses.
  • the sealing member 44 is actuated by a couple of actuator members 45, for example pneumatic, carried by a crossbar 46 fixed between the blades 43.
  • the lower closing unit 50 has a couple of blades 53 placed beside at a suitable distance from each other and constrained at the opposite sides to the aforesaid sliding blocks 51.
  • the blades 53 are suitable to cooperate with the opposite blades 43 of the upper closing unit 40 to perform the closing of the tubular net 21.
  • the blades 53 have at the upper part an analogous shaped profile 53a with opposite tracts converging downwards, so as to act as a draft for collecting the tubular net 21 at a central zone 53b of the same profile, having a width substantially corresponding to the central zone 43b of the profile of the upper blades 43.
  • Such central zone 53b shapes the housing seat for an abutment member 54 suitable to abut, in suitable step relation, the aforesaid upper blades 43 and the sealing member 44.
  • the sealing member 44 carries on a median plane a cutting member 47 suitable to perform the cutting of the tubular net 21, for separating the single packages 20.
  • the cutting member 47 penetrates during the cutting step in a corresponding groove 57 practiced on the upper surface of the abutment member 54 ( fig. 6a ).
  • the abutment member 54 is provided, on the upper surface, with a washer of elastic material, of the type of the silicone rubber, suitable to absorb the pressure of the cutting member 47.
  • a washer of this type can be in any case preferably provided to compensate possible misalignments and to increase the grip of the net.
  • the abutment member 54 is preferably made of aluminium or similar materials and has on the upper surface a series of holes 55 in communication, through respective internal channels, with suitable pneumatic means for sending a flow of cooling air (see again fig. 6a ).
  • suitable pneumatic means for sending a flow of cooling air see again fig. 6a .
  • the cited washer of elastic material has a corresponding series of holes.
  • first ribbon 22 and a second ribbon 23 of thermoplastic material respectively upper and lower, extending longitudinally with respect to the tubular net 21 outside the tubular member 11.
  • the ribbons 22, 23 of thermoplastic material unwind from respective reels 24, 25 associated with the structure of the apparatus by means of suitable support means, for simplicity not represented.
  • tensioner means known per se and not represented in the drawings, suitable to maintain the tension of the ribbons 22, 23 constant during the displacement steps.
  • the ribbons 22, 23 of thermoplastic material are fed to the sealing area defined between the sealing member 44 and the abutment member 54 at sides diametrically opposed with respect to the tubular net 21 brought in the same sealing area.
  • the products to be packaged consisting of punnets 2 of fruit and vegetable products, are fed in ordered sequence, suitably distanced from each other, along the channel defined by the tubular member 11.
  • a single product 2 to be packaged is transferred by inertia inside the tract of tubular net 21 protruding, in a known way, from the front part of the tubular member 11 ( fig. 9 ).
  • the front end of such a tract of tubular net 21 turns out to have been previously closed through welding, according to the modality specified thereafter.
  • the product 2 to be packaged is moved forward inside said tract of tubular net 21 until it reaches said front end closed through welding.
  • the ends of the ribbons 22, 23 of thermoplastic material are also attached, at the sealing area, the ends of the ribbons 22, 23 of thermoplastic material, respectively upper and lower, that unwind from the respective reels 24, 25.
  • the ribbons 22, 23 of thermoplastic material extend longitudinally to the tubular net, in positions diametrically opposed with respect to such tubular net.
  • the closing device 30 is operated the displacement of the closing device 30 at a first operating station arranged close to the aforesaid outlet opening of the tubular member 11, wherein the closing of the tubular net 21 is realized upstream of the product ( fig. 10 ). More in detail, the closing device 30 is mobile alternatively between said closing station and a second operating station, suitably distanced from the tubular member 11, wherein is released the product packaged in the tubular net wrapping, indicated with 20 for greater clarity.
  • the closing station is firstly actuated the reciprocal approaching of the blades 43, 53 of the closing units 40, 50, respectively upper and lower, associated with the closing device 30 (see in particular fig. 7 ).
  • the blades 43, 53 act substantially as a guillotine to perform the closing of the tubular net 21, upstream of the product 2 ( fig. 11 ).
  • Practically the tubular net 21 is obstructed by the opposite shaped profiles 43a, 53a of the blades 43, 53, until being tighten at the central zone 43b, 53b of the aforesaid shaped profiles of the blades 43, 53.
  • the central zone 43b of the upper blades 43 is brought abutting against the abutment member 54 associated with the lower blades 53.
  • step relation is then operated the actuation of the sealing member 44 and the shifting of the closing device 30 towards the release station, as well as the advancing in the same direction of the product 2 inserted into the tubular net 21 on the conveyor belt 16 ( fig. 12 ); in particular the product 2 and the closing device 30 move with the same linear speed, so as to determine between them a null relative speed.
  • the closing device 30 draws the tubular net 21 and the ribbons 22, 23 of thermoplastic material that are tightened between the blades 43, 53 of the closing units 40, 50. Such a drawing action determines the extraction of the tubular net 21 from the tubular member 11 and the unwinding of the ribbons 22, 23 from the relative reels 24, 25.
  • the sealing member 44 comes in abutment of the underneath abutment member 54 and performs the welding of the portion of the tubular net 21 and of the ribbons 22, 23 of thermoplastic material tightened between the blades 43, 53 of the closing device 30 ( fig. 8 ).
  • the cutting member 47 associated with the sealing member 44 performs the cutting of the same tubular net 21 and of the ribbons 22, 23 of thermoplastic material, according to a cutting line transverse to the tubular net 21 and to the ribbons 22, 23 of thermoplastic material and substantially median to the aforesaid sealed portion.
  • the method and the apparatus in hand attain the scope of performing in an optimal manner the packaging of products in a tubular net wrapping, in particular providing a package of relatively economic cost, highly functional and easy to recycle.
  • a characteristic of the present invention is that of associating with the wrapping, in the sealing step, at least one ribbon of thermoplastic material and preferably a couple of ribbons 22, 23 of thermoplastic material, which extend shaping an arc respectively above and underneath the wrapping, that is one in the upper part and the other in the bottom of the punnet, being fixed to the respective ends at the sealed portions 26 which close the tubular net wrapping at the opposite ends; nevertheless, according to the typology of product, it is possible to provide the use only of the upper ribbon or only of the lower ribbon.
  • Such ribbons of thermoplastic material can be advantageously used for printing thereon the data suitable to identify the product put on sale.
  • the upper ribbon which can be used also as handle of the package, can carry the general data of the producer, while on the lower ribbon can be printed the specific data of the product, such as for example the weight and the like, as well as the necessary bar code. It is to observe that the position of the bar code at the bottom of the package facilitates the reading thereof on conventional scanners, avoiding the operators to turn the punnet upside down.
  • the width of the ribbons offers a wide surface for printing the aforementioned data.
  • the apparatus is suitably provided with a print device, known per se, suitable in particular to carry out in line the printing of the lower ribbon; obviously if the application of only an upper ribbon is provided, the aforementioned data of the product will be printed by the print device on such upper ribbon.
  • the package does not require the use of materials different from the plastic material of which the punnet, the tubular net and the upper and lower ribbons are realized, in particular metal material and paper. Being realized with a single material, the package turns out to be entirely recyclable and does not require sorting during the disposal. The package can therefore be easily disposed also where the waste sorting is required.
  • the so realized package further has a low production cost, by virtue of the used materials, with respect to the traditional packages.
  • the welded portion has a relatively wide width, extended in a direction transverse to the longitudinal axis of the tubular net 21 and corresponding to the width of the upper and lower ribbons associated with the package.
  • Such width can for example be provided at 40 mm or anyway comprised in a range of such an order of magnitude. It is to be noted that such a width is determined by the dimensions of the space defined by the central zone 43b, 53b of the shaped profiles of the blades 43, 53 between which is tightened, in a flattened form, the portion of tubular net 21 in sealing step.
  • the wide sealing zone enables to make the sealing easier and faster, in particular reducing the time of action of the sealing member 44.
  • the cutting and the cooling of the tubular net are realized in suitable time succession during the transfer step of the closing device 30 from the closing station to the release station. This allows to reach a high productive speed.
  • the embodiment of the invention may vary depending on the requirements.

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  1. Procédé pour l'emballage de barquettes de fruits et légumes dans une enveloppe de filet tubulaire, comprenant les étapes consistant à
    a. fermer par soudure une extrémité avant d'un tronçon de filet tubulaire (21) ;
    b. unir à ladite extrémité avant dudit tronçon de filet tubulaire (21), en correspondance de la zone de fermeture par soudure, au moins une bande (22) de matériau thermoplastique, s'étendant longitudinalement à ce même tronçon de filet tubulaire (21) ;
    c. alimenter la barquette (2) de fruits et légumes à conditionner à l'intérieur dudit tronçon de filet tubulaire (21), jusque contre ladite extrémité avant du tronçon de filet tubulaire (21) fermé par soudure ;
    d. prédisposer des moyens de fermeture (40, 50) en correspondance d'une station de fermeture placée à l'arrière de ladite barquette (2) alimentée à l'intérieur dudit tronçon de filet tubulaire (21) ; lesdits moyens de fermeture (40, 50) comprenant un premier groupe de fermeture (40) et un deuxième groupe de fermeture (50), respectivement supérieur et inférieur, mobiles l'un par rapport à l'autre, avec un mouvement alternatif de rapprochement et d'éloignement réciproque, sur un plan transversal à l'axe longitudinal dudit filet tubulaire (21), lesdits premier groupe de fermeture (40) et deuxième groupe de fermeture (50) comprenant respectivement une paire de lames (43, 53) côte à côte, adaptées pour agir comme une guillotine pour serrer ladite portion de filet tubulaire (21) ;
    e. actionner lesdits moyens de fermeture (40, 50) pour serrer ledit tronçon de filet tubulaire (21) et ladite bande (22) de matériau thermoplastique dans une position à l'arrière de ladite barquette (2) ;
    f. effectuer le déplacement concordant dudit produit (2) alimenté à l'intérieur dudit tronçon de filet tubulaire (21) et desdits moyens de fermeture (40, 50) serrant ledit tronçon de filet tubulaire (21) et ladite bande (22) de matériau thermoplastique, de ladite station de fermeture à une station de relâchement de la barquette conditionnée (20) ;
    g. effectuer, durant ladite étape de déplacement, la soudure dudit tronçon de filet tubulaire (21) et de ladite bande (22) de matériau thermoplastique serrés par lesdits moyens de fermeture (40, 50) ;
    h. effectuer dans un même temps la coupe dudit tronçon de filet tubulaire (21) et de ladite bande (22) de matériau thermoplastique en correspondance de la zone de soudure arrière pour séparer ladite barquette conditionnée (20) ;
    i. durant ladite étape de déplacement, effectuer le déplacement d'un organe de soudage (44) desdits moyens de fermeture (40, 50) dans une position relevée de désengagement, en maintenant fermées lesdites lames (43, 53) desdits moyens de fermeture (40, 50), ledit organe de soudage (44) étant mobile sur ledit premier groupe de fermeture (40), sur commande de moyens actionneurs (45), entre une position non fonctionnelle et une position active dans laquelle l'organe de soudage est amené en contraste contre un organe de butée (54) associé audit deuxième groupe de fermeture (50) ;
    j. effectuer l'éloignement réciproque desdits moyens de fermeture (40, 50) de manière à libérer la portion soudée dudit filet tubulaire (21) et de ladite bande (22) de la prise desdites lames (43, 53).
  2. Procédé selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce qu'il prévoir d'unir audit tronçon de filet tubulaire (21) une bande supérieure (22) et une bande inférieure (23) de matériau thermoplastique, s'étendant longitudinalement à ce même tronçon de filet tubulaire (21) dans des positions diamétralement opposées.
  3. Procédé selon la revendication 1 ou 2, caractérisé en ce qu'il prévoit d'effectuer, durant l'étape de déplacement concordant de ladite barquette (2) alimentée à l'intérieur dudit tronçon de filet tubulaire (21) et desdits moyens de fermeture (40, 50), le refroidissement de ladite zone de soudure arrière.
  4. Procédé selon la revendication 1 ou 3, caractérisé en ce qu'il prévoit de serrer entre lesdits moyens de fermeture (40, 50) une portion élargie de filet tubulaire (21), étendue en direction transversale à l'axe longitudinal de ce même filet tubulaire (21), de grandeur correspondant sensiblement à la largeur de ladite bande (22) de matériau thermoplastique.
  5. Equipement pour l'emballage de barquettes de fruits et légumes dans une enveloppe de filet tubulaire, comprenant un organe tubulaire (11) disposé avec l'axe horizontal sur la surface extérieure duquel se déroule un filet tubulaire (21) ; des moyens d'alimentation (12) de la barquette (2) à conditionner le long dudit organe tubulaire (11), pour introduire cette même barquette (2) à l'intérieur d'un tronçon dudit filet tubulaire (21) dépassant vers l'avant dudit organe tubulaire (11) et précédemment fermé à l'extrémité avant ; un dispositif (30) de fermeture et de coupe dudit filet tubulaire (21) disposé à l'avant dudit organe tubulaire (11) et fonctionnel pour serrer ledit tronçon de filet tubulaire (21) à l'arrière de ladite barquette (2) introduite dans ce même filet tubulaire (21), caractérisé en ce que ledit dispositif (30) de fermeture et de coupe est équipé de moyens de fermeture (40, 50) pouvant être actionnés pour serrer une portion dudit tronçon de filet tubulaire (21), à l'arrière de ladite barquette (2) introduite dans ce même filet tubulaire (21), lesdits moyens de fermeture (40, 50) pouvant être actionnés pour être déplacés dans la même direction que ladite barquette (2), et portant des moyens de soudage (44) pour exécuter, durant ladite phase de déplacement, la soudure de ladite portion de filet tubulaire (21) serrée entre lesdits moyens de fermeture (40, 50), lesdits moyens de fermeture (40, 50) comprenant un premier groupe de fermeture (40) et un deuxième groupe de fermeture (50), respectivement supérieur et inférieur, mobiles l'un par rapport à l'autre, avec un mouvement alternatif de rapprochement et d'éloignement réciproque, sur un plan transversal à l'axe longitudinal dudit filet tubulaire (21) ; lesdits premier groupe de fermeture (40) et deuxième groupe de fermeture (50) comprenant respectivement une paire de lames (43, 53) côte à côte, adaptées pour agir comme une guillotine pour serrer ladite portion de filet tubulaire (21) ; lesdits moyens de soudage (44) comprenant un organe de soudage qui est mobile sur ledit premier groupe (40) de fermeture, sur commande des moyens actionneurs (45), entre une position non fonctionnelle et une position active dans laquelle l'organe de soudage est amené en contraste contre un organe de butée (54) associé audit deuxième groupe de fermeture (50) ; ledit organe de soudage (44) pouvant être actionné pour être déplacé dans ladite position non fonctionnelle en maintenant lesdites lames (43, 53) fermées ; ledit équipement comprenant des moyens (24) d'alimentation d'au moins une bande (22) de matériau thermoplastique, s'étendant longitudinalement à ce même tronçon de filet tubulaire (21) pour être serrée à ladite portion de filet tubulaire (21) par lesdits moyens de fermeture (40, 50) et unie à celle-ci par soudure par lesdits moyens de soudage (44).
  6. Equipement selon la revendication 5 ou 6, caractérisé en ce que ledit dispositif (30) de fermeture et de coupe est mobile avec un mouvement alternatif entre une première station fonctionnelle disposé rapprochée dudit organe tubulaire (11), dans laquelle est réalisée la fermeture dudit filet tubulaire (21) en amont dudit produit (2) introduit dans ce même filet tubulaire (21), et une deuxième station fonctionnelle, éloignée de ce même organe tubulaire (11), dans laquelle est effectué le relâchement du produit conditionné (20) dans l'enveloppe de filet tubulaire.
  7. Equipement selon la revendication 5, caractérisé en ce que lesdites lames (43, 53) présentent un profil modelé (43a, 53a) avec des tronçons convergents pour servir d'amorce pour la collecte de ladite portion de filet tubulaire (21) en correspondance d'une zone centrale (43b, 53b) de ce même profil, au moins la zone centrale (43b) dudit profil des lames (43) supérieures réalisant une cavité à fond plat adaptée pour accueillir ladite portion de filet tubulaire (21) en phase de serrage.
  8. Equipement selon la revendication 5, caractérisé en ce que ledit organe de butée (54) est adapté à venir en butée contre lesdites lames (43) du premier groupe (40) de fermeture pour serrer ladite portion de filet tubulaire (21).
  9. Equipement selon la revendication 5, caractérisé en ce que ledit organe de butée (54) présente sur la surface supérieure une série de trous (55) en communication avec des moyens de refoulement d'un flux d'air de refroidissement à la suite de la soudure de ladite portion de filet tubulaire (21).
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