JP2007168901A - Sealing unit of packing open rim - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make a hold pressing seal with a pair of seal bars at a packing open rim for use in storing a packaged item relatively up to its open rim without leaving any wrinkles. <P>SOLUTION: A pair of clip claws 21 retracted out of turning regions of a pair of clamps 10 and waiting are protruded into clamp regions upon a stop of the clamps 10 supporting a packing bag 11, a pair of movable claws 23 are operated with a first air cylinder 21 and both edges of the packing bag 11 are held by a pair of clip claws 21. After this operation, a space across the pair of clip claws 21 is widened by a pneumatic pressure of a space adjuster 30 to apply a tension to the open rim toward both sides and then the open rim of the packing bag 11 is melted and bonded by seal bars between both clip claws 21. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a device for heat-sealing without leaving any wrinkles in the bag mouth of the bag in the bag mouth sealing section of a rotary bag filling and packaging machine.

  In Patent Document 1 below, a wrapping bag suspended by sandwiching both side edges with a one-to-one pair of clamps is intermittently transferred along a circular track integrally with the clamp, and the wrapping bag is transferred to the wrapping bag on the transfer track. A rotary wrapping machine is disclosed in which the opening edge of the wrapping bag is pressurized and welded by a pair of seal bars in the seal section after filling with an object to be packaged. As is apparent from this document, the rotary wrapping machine is disposed in the seal section. In order to prevent the clamp from coming into contact with the seal bar, the clamp is lowered to the lower region to hold and carry the wrapping bag.

  That is, as shown in FIG. 4, the pair of clamps 10 leaves a certain seal margin 12 at the opening edge of the wrapping bag 11 and clamps a lower region of the seal margin. In this case, if the upper surface 13 of the packaged object inside the packaging bag is near the upper surface of the clamp 10, the bag mouth does not become tensioned even if the pair of clamps 10 are separated from each other, and the bag mouth 14 is sealed with the seal bar. There is a possibility that the bag mouth 14 is sealed with wrinkles. In particular, the three-side sealed wrapping bag 11 as shown in the figure has a drawback that the rigidity is high and the generation of large wrinkles at the time of sealing is increased accordingly.

Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 9-95311

  In order to solve the above-mentioned problem, the present invention normally arranges a pair of clip claws that are retracted from the clamp passage area and are placed on the installation section of the seal bar in the rotary bagging and packaging machine. A mechanism for projecting both clip claws to the upper region of the clamp and sandwiching both side edges of the bag to tension the bag mouth in both directions, and a pair of clips in which the length of the seal bar is separated in the tension direction And a mechanism that is set to a value between the claws and welds the bag mouth with the seal bar between the clip claws.

  The wrapping bag used in this apparatus is a three-sided seal type having a sealing width of about 20 mm at the bottom edge and both side edges, respectively, while the pair of clip claws is approximately half of the both-side sealing part of the wrapping bag, about The bag mouth is tensioned to both sides by pinching 10 mm each, and the seal bar is defined as a structure in which the bag mouth is hermetically welded including about 10 mm on both sides of the wrapping bag. The slight change of each numerical value is also included in the scope of the definition.

  FIG. 1 is a plan view of FIG. 2. In these drawings, a pair of clamps 10 sandwich a wrapping bag 11, fill the packaged object in the process of transporting the wrapping bag along a circular path, and seal sections. It shows the state where it reached and paused. The pair of clip claws 20 opposed to the pair of clamps 10 respectively support a movable claw 23 on a fixed claw 22 at the tip of an arm 21 via a pin 24 so that the movable claw can be rotated by a first air cylinder 25. 23 is configured to open and close.

  The air cylinder type interval adjusting mechanism 30 for connecting the two clip claws 20 fixes the two clip claws 21 to the piston rods 32 protruding on both sides of the cylinder body 31, and the fluid pressure acting on the cylinder body 31. Thus, the two clip claws 21 are separated and brought close to each other, and in this case, the guide bar 33 that slides in the cylinder body 31 stabilizes the both clip claws 21.

  The cylinder body 31 is connected to a piston rod 42 of a second air cylinder 41 that is fixed to the machine base 40, and as a result, the second cylinder 41 has a pair of clip claws 21 via the interval adjusting mechanism 30. When the second cylinder 41 advances both the clip claws 21 to the area where the wrapping bag 11 exists, the movable claws 23 operated by the pair of first cylinders 25 are arranged on both sides of the wrapping bag 10 shown in FIG. By sandwiching about a half region of the edge seal width and the interval adjusting mechanism 30 enlarges the interval between the two clip claws 25, the bag mouth is tensioned in both directions.

  2, the pair of seal bars 55 and 56 supported on the sleeve 50 via the operation rods 51 and 52 pinch the opening edge of the wrapping bag 10 in FIG. 2 by the power acting on the operation rods 51 and 52. The length of the seal bars 55 and 56 is set slightly shorter than the distance between the clip claws 21 on both sides, and the seal bar 55 between the clip claws has a vertical sea width on both sides of the bag. The bag mouth including about half of 15 is sealed and welded.

Plan view Side view Front view Perspective view of the package

Explanation of symbols

10 ... Clamp 11 ... Wrap 20 ... Clip claw 25 ... First air cylinder 30 ... Spacing adjustment mechanism 31 ... Cylinder body 33 ... Piston rod 41 ... Second air cylinder 55 ... Seal bar 56 ... …… Seal bar

Claims (2)

An upper edge opening type wrapping bag that seals at least both side edges with a predetermined width is sandwiched between a pair of clamps and is transferred intermittently along a circular track, and the covering bag is covered with the transfer track. In a rotary packaging machine that sequentially performs filling of a package and welding of an opening edge of the wrapping bag with a pair of seal bars,
In the seal bar installation section, a pair of clip claws that are retracted and stand by from the passage area of the clamp is disposed, and at the same time as the clamp is stopped, both the clip claws project to the upper area of the clamp and both sides of the wrapping bag An apparatus comprising: a mechanism for pinching the edge and tensioning the bag mouth in both directions; and a mechanism for sealingly welding the bag mouth with the seal bar between the pair of clip claws separated in the tension direction. . An upper edge opening type wrapping bag that seals at least both side edges with a predetermined width is sandwiched between a pair of clamps and is transferred intermittently along a circular track, and the covering bag is covered with the transfer track. In a rotary packaging machine that sequentially performs filling of a package and welding of an opening edge of the wrapping bag with a pair of seal bars,
A pair of clip claws configured to open and close the movable claws by operating the first fluid cylinder with respect to the fixed claws are connected via an interval adjuster for the clip claws, and are connected to the installation section of the seal bar. 2 The clip claw is installed integrally with the interval adjuster via the air cylinder,
Normally, the pair of clip claws that are retracted from the clamp passage area and stand by protrude from the upper area of the clamp with the second cylinder, and operate the movable claws with the first air cylinder to operate the pair of clip claws. The side edges of the wrapping bag are clamped by the clip claws, and then the gap between the pair of clip claws is widened by the spacing adjusting machine to tension the bag mouth in both directions, while the seal bar is sandwiched between the clip claws. An apparatus for sealing and welding the bag mouth.