JPH06312709A - Packing of farm product and its apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To securely collect and dispose serial film chips wasted out of packing area, dotted with drawn-out openings of farm products, after packing thereof and prevent the serial film chips from scattering and collect them without mixing with impurities like chips of farm products and dusts to facilitate disposing of serial film chips. CONSTITUTION:A film roll 36 wound to form a roll of film F on which a detect ion mark 35 is inducated, is equipped at a film feeder 29. And a supporter 7 having a guide hole 8 for falling farm products and a vertically movable receiver 21 just under the guide hole 8 are provided at the packing position 10. And a film sealer 11 sealing and cutting the bundled part of the film F packing the farm product A on the receiver 21 is provided at the packing position 10. A sensor 62 detecting the mark 35 of film F and stopping winding-off of the film F is provided. Chip collectors 63, 75 are provided to collect by turns serial film chips F dotted with drawn-out openings of farm products A after packing thereof.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a method for packaging agricultural products and an apparatus therefor, for example, a method for packaging headed vegetables and fruits such as lettuce, cabbage and broccoli with a film.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, as a method of packaging agricultural products of this type with a film, for example, as described in Japanese Patent Application No. 5-2854 and the drawings, agricultural products are provided on one side of the packaging section. A film roll in which a packaging film is wound in a roll shape and a film feeding mechanism for intermittently feeding the film of the film roll toward the packaging unit are provided, and the packaging unit feeds the film from the film feeding mechanism. A support having a guide hole for dropping agricultural products that is blocked by and a receiver that is vertically movable and located directly below the guide hole of the support are provided, and the receiver is provided below the support. A film sealing device is provided for collecting a film for packaging agricultural products dropped on the body from front, rear, left and right parts, and fusing and sealing the focusing parts to package and separate agricultural products. It said sequential temporarily providing anchoring to the film backward blocking member constituting a series of film chips having a vent traces of agricultural products after agricultural packaging has been proposed on the other side of.

[0003]

In the above-mentioned structure, since the film chips after packaging the agricultural products can be discharged from the packaging section as a series of film chips in which the traces of the agricultural products are scattered, a large amount of film fragments and film fragments are generated. It is extremely preferable in that it can prevent the scattering of scraps and improve the working environment, but since a series of film scraps is only discharged from the packaging part, it is not suitable for each package of agricultural products. Further, a series of film chips discharged from the wrapping section are likely to be scattered around the wrapping section, and development of means for treating the film shavings is desired.

The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and it is possible to reliably collect and process a series of film chips on which there are scattered traces of agricultural products discharged from the packaging section after the agricultural products have been packaged. , A series of film chips can be collected without being scattered around the wrapping part and mixed with impurities such as agricultural product chips and dust. Therefore, a series of film chips discharged from the wrapping part can be easily treated. It is an object of the present invention to provide an agricultural product packaging method and an agricultural product packaging device that can collect the collected series of film chips in a state of being easily recycled.

[0005]

A method for packaging agricultural products according to claim 1, wherein a film for packaging agricultural products is fed from a film supply section onto a support of the packaging section to be stretched and supported, and the support is supported by the film. After closing the guide hole for dropping the agricultural product formed in the above, placing the agricultural product on the film located in this guide hole, unwinding this film and receiving the agricultural product from the guide hole below the support. Drop the film onto the body, bundle the film from the front, back, left, and right parts to wrap the agricultural products, cut the sealing part of the film to separate the packed agricultural products from the film, and leave traces of the agricultural products. A series of film chips are sequentially collected by the chip collecting means for each agricultural product packaging.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided an agricultural product wrapping apparatus, which comprises a film roll provided with a film supply unit and wound with a film in which a detection mark is displayed for each length required for wrapping an agricultural product in a roll shape, and a packaging unit. A support having a guide hole for dropping an agricultural product, which is closed by a film fed out from the film roll, and a receiver provided directly below the guide hole of the support and movable up and down; A film sealing device which is provided in a portion to wrap the agricultural product on the receiving body from the front, rear, left and right parts and wraps and separates the agricultural product by sealingly cutting the focusing part, and the film supply unit and the wrapping unit. A sensor that is provided between the guide hole and detects the detection mark displayed on the film and stops the feeding of the film; and A chip recovery means venting traces of product sequentially collect a series of film chips scattered, those provided with the.

[0007]

In the agricultural product packaging method according to the first aspect of the present invention, a film for packaging agricultural products is fed from the film supply unit onto the support of the packaging unit to be stretched and supported, and the agricultural product formed on the support is dropped by the film. Block the guide hole for. Then, after placing the agricultural product on the film located in the guide hole of the support, the film is gradually fed out and the agricultural product is dropped from the guide hole onto the receiving body located below the support, Agricultural products are received on a receiver via a film. Then, the film on the receiver is bundled from the front, rear, left and right parts to package the agricultural products,
The bundle of agricultural products is separated from the film by cutting the bundle of the film with a seal. Further, a series of film chips with scattered traces of agricultural products after the packaging of agricultural products are sequentially collected by the chip collecting means for each package of agricultural products.

In the agricultural product packaging apparatus according to the second aspect of the present invention, the film rewound from the film roll provided in the film supply section is unrolled and stretched and supported on the support of the packaging section, and at the same time, the film is The guide hole for dropping the agricultural product formed in the support is closed. Then, the agricultural product is placed on the film located in the guide hole of the support, and by gradually unwinding the film, the agricultural product is dropped from the guide hole onto the receiving body located immediately below the support. , This agricultural product is received via a film on a receiver.

Further, when the agricultural product is received on the receiving body through the film, the film sealing device is operated, and the film on the receiving device is moved forward and backward by the film sealing device at a position near the upper end of the agricultural product. The agricultural products are bundled from the left and right parts, and the agricultural products are packaged by the film, and the focusing parts of the film are sealed and cut from both sides by the heater of the film sealing device, and the packaged agricultural products are separated from the film.

Then, when the film unwound from the film roll is unwound onto the support of the wrapping section, and the detection mark for packaging the next agricultural product displayed on this film is unwound to the position of the sensor, the detection mark is detected. Is detected by the sensor, and the film output is stopped by the output signal from this sensor.

Further, when the agricultural products are separated from the film, the receiver having the packaged agricultural products is lowered from the packaging section and the agricultural products are discharged from the receiver, while the chip collecting means is operated to generate the chip collecting means. At, a series of film chips with traces of agricultural products after packaging are collected.

In this way, the agricultural products are sequentially wrapped by the film rewound from the film roll and the film is sealed and cut. At the same time, each of these agricultural products is separated from the film and the traces of the agricultural products after the packaging of the agricultural products. A series of film chips interspersed with are sequentially collected.

[0013]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The structure of an embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

In FIGS. 1 to 3, reference numeral 1 denotes a packaging machine body, which has a body base 3 on which a plurality of wheels 2 are mounted. The frame 4 is arranged and fixed. A machine frame 5 is integrally fixed to the upper end of the side frame 4. The machine frame 5 has a plate-shaped mounting body 6 mounted on the upper end portion of the side frame 4, and a plate-shaped support body 7 is located above the mounting body 6 at a distance from the mounting body 6. The support holes 7 and 9 are arranged and fixed in parallel, and the guide holes 8 and 9 are vertically provided at substantially intermediate portions of the upper and lower support members 7 and the mounting member 6.
Are each formed with an opening. Thus, the guide hole 8 of the support 7 is opened for dropping agricultural products, and the guide hole 9 of the mount 6 is opened for vertical movement of the receiving body described later.

A space between the upper and lower support bodies 7 and the mounting body 6 is defined as a packaging portion 10, and a film sealing device 11 is arranged in the packaging portion 10. The film sealing device 11 is located immediately below the guide hole 8 of the support 7 and is openable and closable toward the guide hole 8 from the front-rear direction and the front and rear slide bodies 12, 13 and the front and rear slide bodies 12, 13. Left and right opening and closing rods 14 and 15 which are located at the lower part of 13 and can be opened and closed from the left and right direction toward the guide hole 8 are provided for heat sealing at the inner ends of the front and rear slide bodies 12 and 13 which face each other. The heater 16 is provided.

The front and rear slide bodies 12 and 13 and the left and right opening and closing rods 14 and 15 are used to focus a packaging film, which will be described later, in the front and rear direction and the left and right direction, respectively. The heaters 16 of the slide bodies 12 and 13 are used for sealing and cutting. The film sealing device 11 is driven by a motor (not shown).

A support arm 18 is supported by a support shaft 17 on the main body base 3 located directly below the upper and lower guide holes 8 and 9.
Is rotatably supported in the vertical direction, and the lower end of a vertically arranged support rod 19 is rotatably supported at the tip of this support arm 18, and the upper end of this support rod 19 is rotatably supported. A receiving body 21 formed in a substantially bowl shape is supported via a link mechanism 20 so as to be vertically rotatable. The support rod 19 is vertically movably supported by upper and lower support plates 23 and 24 of a support frame 22 which is integrally erected on the main body base 3, and between the upper and lower support plates 23 and 24. A coil spring 27 wound around the support rod 19 is urged and engaged between the upper and lower lock levers 25 and 26 which are located and inserted through the support rod 19.

The coil springs 27 frictionally engage the upper and lower lock levers 25 and 26 with the support rod 19, and the upper and lower lock levers 25 and 26 move the support rod 19 to a predetermined position, that is, The collector 21 attached to the upper end of the support rod 19 via the link mechanism 20 is the packaging unit.
It is designed to be locked in the packaging position raised to 10 and the produce discharge position lowered. Further, a release lever 28 is disposed between the upper and lower lock levers 25 and 26 so as to be movable up and down, and the release lever 28 causes the upper lock lever 25 to move upward against the coil spring 27. When pushed, the support rod 19 is unlocked.

Next, a film supply unit 29 is arranged on one side of the machine frame 5. This film supply unit 29
A support frame arranged and fixed on the mounting body 6 in the front-rear direction.
A pair of left and right support rollers 31 are arranged in parallel between the upper and lower ends of the front and rear support frames 30.
A support roller 31 is rotatably supported by 32, and a guide roller 33 is rotatably supported by a roller support shaft 34 between the front and rear support frames 30 located below the right support roller 31. .

On the pair of support rollers 31, a film roll 36, in which a film F having a detection mark 35 for each length required for packaging the agricultural product A is wound in a roll shape, is rotatably supported. The film F of the film roll 36 is guided by the guide roller 33 and sequentially fed out toward the packaging unit 10.

Further, front and rear support pieces 37 are integrally provided upright on the mounting body 6 so as to be located at inner ends of the front and rear support frames 30. A roller support shaft 38 is rotatably mounted between the roller support shafts 38, and feeding rollers 39 engaged with the guide rollers 33 are mounted on both sides of the roller support shaft 38 in the axial direction. The roller support shaft 34 having the guide roller 33 is attached to the coil spring 40.
Is constantly urged toward the feeding rollers 39 on both sides, and the guide roller 33 of the roller support shaft 34 is always engaged with the feeding rollers 39 on both sides.

A bracket 41 is integrally provided on the lower portion of the mounting body 6 in the vicinity of the front and rear support pieces 37 so as to project downward, and a motor 42 is fixed to the bracket 41. A timing pulley is attached to the output shaft 43 of the motor 42.
A roller support shaft 38 to which 44 is fixed and which has the feeding roller 39.
A timing pulley 45 is fixed to one end of the. A timing belt is provided between the timing pulley 44 of the output shaft 43 and the timing pulley 45 of the roller support shaft 38.
Forty-six are suspended freely.

The timing pulleys 44, 45 and the timing belt 46 are driven by driving the motor 42.
The feed rollers 39 on both sides engaged with the guide roller 33 are rotationally driven via the guide roller 33, and the film F of the film roll 36 is driven by the guide roller 33 and the feed rollers 39 on both sides.
Are sandwiched and sequentially fed toward the packaging unit 10.

The output shaft 43 of the motor 42 has a cam board.
A cam surface 48 is formed on the outer peripheral edge of the cam disk 47. Further, a lower end of a U-shaped frame 49 is rotatably supported by a support shaft 50 between the upper ends of the front and rear supporting pieces 37 so as to be vertically rotatable. The push-in body 51 for pushing the above into the receiving body 21 is a screw body 52 with adjustable forward and backward movement.
Is attached via. The lower end of the crankshaft 53 is rotatably supported at the eccentric position of the cam disk 47, and the upper end of the crankshaft 53 is rotatable near the lower end of the U-shaped frame 49. Is supported by.

Further, a link mechanism 55 is positioned directly below the cam board 47 and is pivotally supported on the main body base 3 by a support shaft 54 so as to be vertically rotatable. One end of the link mechanism 55 is supported by the link mechanism 55. Is connected to the lower lock lever 26 with an interlocking rod 57 having an engaging / disengaging engagement portion 56, and the lower end of a vertically moving rod 58 is rotatably attached to the other end of the link mechanism 55. A driven roller 59 that is attached and engages with the cam surface 48 of the cam disk 47 is rotatably mounted on the upper end of the vertical moving rod 58.

The vertical moving rod 58 is vertically movably inserted through a fixedly supported support 60, and a coil spring 61 is stretched between the support 60 and the vertical moving rod 58. . Then, the coil spring 61 causes the vertical movement rod to move.
58 is always urged upward, and the driven roller 59 at the upper end of the vertical moving rod 58 is always engaged with the cam surface 48 of the cam disk 47.

Further, a first sensor 62 is disposed and fixed between the guide hole 8 of the support 7 and the film supply section 29, and the film F is detected by the first sensor 62.
The detection mark 35 displayed on is detected, and the operation of the motor 42 is controlled.

Next, a chip collecting means 63 for sequentially collecting a series of film chips f is arranged at the other end of the machine frame 5. The chip collecting means 63 has a motor 64 fixed on the mounting body 6, and a rotary shaft 66 of a winding body 65 that is located outside the motor 64 and is spaced apart from the motor 64 to wind up the series of film chips f. Is rotatably mounted, and an endless belt 70 is rotatably suspended between a pulley 67 fixed to one end of the rotating shaft 66 and a pulley 69 fixed to an output shaft 68 of the motor 64. ing.

A guide roller 71, which is located above the winding body 65 and guides the series of film chips f to the winding body 65, is rotatably mounted around the winding body 65. Then,
The motor 64 drives the winding body 65 to rotate only in the winding direction of the series of film chips f, so that the winding body 65 can freely rotate in the rewinding direction of the series of film chips f. Has become.

A second sensor 72 is provided on the packaging unit 10.
Is disposed and fixed, and the second sensor 72 is used to
The detection position of the agricultural product A received on 21 is detected and the operation of the motor 64 is controlled.
Then, the agricultural product A detected by the second sensor 72
The detection position of the agricultural product A on the receiving body 21 is the upper end of the agricultural product A received on the receiving body 21, the lowering position of the pushing body 51 in which the agricultural product A is pushed onto the receiving body 21, and the film sealing device 11.
Is the end position of the packaging seal. When the second sensor 72 detects the upper end of the agricultural product A and the agricultural product A at the lowered position of the pusher 51, the timer is activated by the output signal from the second sensor 72. The operation of the motor 64 is controlled by the output signal of the motor.

A guide roller of the chip collecting means 63
The front part of 71, that is, the guide roller 71 and the support 7
A third sensor 73 is disposed and fixed between the guide hole 8 and the guide hole 8, and the third sensor 73 detects the transmittance of the series of film chips f and operates the motor 64. It is designed to be controlled. That is, the transmittance detected by the third sensor 73 is a series of film chips f.
The motor 64 is rotated when it is as low as the trace of the agricultural product A, and the rotation of the motor 64 is stopped when it is high after passing through the trace of the agricultural product A of the series of film chips f. .

Next, the operation of the above embodiment will be described.

The film F unwound from the film roll 36 provided in the film supply section 29 is unrolled and stretched and supported on the support 7 of the wrapping section 10, and the film F is supported on the support 7 by the film F. The formed guide hole 8 for dropping the agricultural products is closed. And the guide hole 8 of the support 7
When the agricultural product A is placed on the film F located at and the power is turned on, the motor 42 is operated, and the output from the output shaft 43 of the motor 42 causes the timing pulleys 44 and 45 and the timing belt 46 to intervene. Roller spindle
38 is rotated, and the feeding rollers on both sides of the roller support shaft 38
39 is rotated, and the film F of the film roll 36 is gradually drawn out by the feeding rollers 39 and the guide rollers 33 on both sides, and the agricultural product A is pulled out of the guide hole 8 and immediately below the support 7. The agricultural product A is dropped onto the receiving body 21 located, and the agricultural product A is received on the receiving body 21 through the film F.

Further, as the output shaft 43 of the motor 42 is rotated, the cam disk 47 of the output shaft 43 is rotated and the cam surface 48 of the cam disk 47 moves up and down via a driven roller 59. The rod 58 is pushed down against the coil spring 61, and the vertical movement rod 58 lowers and rotates the link mechanism 55 about the support shaft 54. Then, the interlocking rod 57 connected to the link mechanism 55 is moved down, and the engaging portion 56 of the interlocking rod 57 is moved.
The lower lock lever 26 is pulled downward against the coil spring 27, and the lock of the support rod 19 by the lock lever 26 is released.

By rotating the cam board 47,
Crankshaft 53 pivotally supported on the eccentric position of this cam board 47
The U-shaped frame 49 is rotated downward about the support shaft 50, the agricultural product A is pushed downward by the pushing body 51 of the U-shaped frame 49, and the agricultural product A is gradually fed out. It is pushed in while being wrapped in. And this pusher
By the pushing operation of the agricultural product A by 51, the support rod 19 of the receiving body 21 is lowered along the upper lock lever 25 via the agricultural product A, and the agricultural product A on the receiving body 21 is film-sealed by the film sealing device 11. It is set to the down position.

When the cam board 47 is further rotated, the pushing of the driven roller 59 by the cam surface 48 of the cam board 47 is released, and the vertical moving rod 58 is lifted by the restoring force of the coil spring 61. At the same time, the engaging portion 56 of the interlocking rod 57 is disengaged from the lower lock lever 26 via the link mechanism 55.
The lower lock lever 26 is a coil spring.
It is returned and rotated by the return force of 27.

Therefore, the agricultural product A on the receiving body 21 is set down to the film sealing position of the film sealing apparatus 11, and the support rod 19 having the receiving body 21 is vertically moved by the coil spring 27. It is locked by the lock levers 25 and 26 of.

By rotating the cam board 47,
Crankshaft 53 pivotally supported on the eccentric position of this cam board 47
The U-shaped frame 49 is rotated up about the support shaft 50, and the pusher 51 of this U-shaped frame 49 is rotated up toward the upper part of the agricultural product A. It is returned to the start position in preparation for pushing.

Next, when the agricultural product A on the receiving body 21 is set down to the film sealing position of the film sealing device 11, the motor of the film sealing device 11 is operated and the film sealing device 11 moves. The front and rear slide bodies 12, 13 and the left and right opening and closing rods 14, 15 are closed toward the guide hole 8 of the support body 7, respectively. Then, the front and rear slide bodies 12, 13 and the left and right opening and closing rods 14, 15 focus the film F on the receiving body 21 at the position near the upper end of the agricultural product A from the front, rear, left and right portions at the same time to focus the film. Agricultural products A on film F
And the bundled portion of the film F is sealed and cut from both sides by the heaters 16 of the front and rear slide bodies 12 and 13, the packaged agricultural product A is separated from the film F, and the film F is The film chips f interspersed with the traces of extraction of the agricultural product A after the packaging of the agricultural product subsequent to the packaging work in the process are continuous in a strip shape.

At this time, that is, the front and rear slide bodies 12,
When the film F is simultaneously narrowed down from the front, rear, left and right portions by the 13 and the left and right opening and closing rods 14 and 15 and focused at the same time, from one side of the guide hole 8, the feeding roller 39 and the guide roller on both sides are provided.
The film F of the film roll 36 is gradually fed out by 33, and the strip-shaped continuous film chips f are pulled back from the other side of the guide hole by the squeezing action by the squeezing action in the preceding stroke.
The film F on 21 is sequentially squeezed to wrap the agricultural product A, and when the focusing portion of the film F is seal-cut, the film F is not particularly strongly pulled and is not torn. The film F is effectively used without causing a large gap between the traces of the agricultural product A.

When the film F encapsulating the agricultural products A is sealed and cut, the front and rear slide bodies 12 and 13 and the left and right opening and closing rods 14 and 15 of the film sealing device 11 are respectively supported by the support body 7.
Is opened and rotated in a direction away from the guide hole 8 and the front and rear slide bodies 12 and 13 and the left and right opening and closing rods 14 and 15 are provided at respective start positions in preparation for narrowing down the film F for packaging the next agricultural product A. Will be returned to.

Then, the film F unwound from the film roll 36 is unwound onto the support 7 of the packaging section 10, and the detection mark 35 for packaging the next agricultural product displayed on the film F is the first sensor 62. When it is fed to the position, the detection mark 35 is detected by the first sensor 62, the output signal from the first sensor 62 stops the operation of the motor 42, and the feeding of the film F is stopped. It

When the agricultural product A is separated from the film F, the vertical movement rod 58 is moved up and down by the cam surface 48 of the cam disk 47.
The lower lock lever 26 by the interlocking rod 57 and the upper lock lever 25 by the release lever 28 are respectively operated in the unlocking direction, and the support rod 19 is unlocked, and the receiver having the packaged agricultural product A is received. 21 is the packaging department
While the agricultural product A is lowered from 10 and discharged from the receiving body 21, the detection position of the agricultural product A on the receiving body 21 located in the packaging unit 10 is detected by the second sensor 72, and this second The output signal from the sensor 72 activates the motor 64.

The output of the output shaft 68 of the motor 64 causes the rotary shaft 66 to rotate via the pulleys 67 and 69 and the endless belt 70. A series of film chips f with a trace of A
Are sequentially wound up via the guide roller 71 and collected.

At this time, the series of film chips f passes over the third sensor 73 and is wound up by the winding body 65. The series of film chips f passing over the third sensor 73.
Since the transmittance by the third sensor 73 is low in the trace of the agricultural product A, the series of film chips f continue to be wound on the winding body.
The portion of the series of film chips f that has been wound up at 65 and passed over the third sensor 73 and passed through the trace of the agricultural product A has a high transmittance by the third sensor 73. Is detected by the third sensor 73, and the operation of the motor 64 is stopped by the output signal from the third sensor 73.

Then, the winding of the series of film chips f by the winding body 65 is stopped, and the film F as the next wrapping part rewound from the film roll 36 continuous with the film chips f is again supported. It is spread on the body 7,
At the same time, the guide hole 8 is closed by the film F, and the film F on the guide hole 8 is prepared for packaging of the next agricultural product A.

In this way, the agricultural product A is sequentially wrapped by the film F unwound from the film roll 36 and the film F is seal-cut, and each of these agricultural products A is separated from the film F, and the agricultural product packaging is performed. A series of film chips f, in which the traces of the subsequent agricultural products A are scattered, are sequentially wound up by the winding body 65 and collected.

Next, in the above-mentioned embodiment, the case where the winding body 65 winds up a series of film chips f scattered with the agricultural product A after packaging the agricultural products is described, but the present invention is not limited to this. The film chip f may be a chip collecting means 75 that stores and collects in the storage box 74. In this case,
As shown in FIGS. 4 to 6, a motor 76 controlled by a third sensor 73 is provided, and a recovery roller 77 that supports a series of film chips f is positioned above the motor 76 and is rotatably supported. And a pulley 79 is fixed to one end of a roller shaft 78 of the collecting roller 77 and an output shaft 80 of the motor 76.
Secure the pulley 81 of the endless belt between the pulleys 79 and 81.
Suspend 82 freely.

Further, a suspension rod 83 is located above the recovery roller 77 and supported by a coil spring 84 so as to be vertically movable, and a lower end portion of the suspension rod 83 is brought into contact with the recovery roller 77. A rotating guide roller 85 is rotatably mounted, and a series of film chips f is sandwiched between the upper and lower guide rollers 85 and a collection roller 77 to store a series of film chips f.
74 Try to pull inward. In this case, the motor 76 rotationally drives the collecting roller 77 only in the direction in which the series of film chips f are drawn, and the collecting roller 77 is freely rotated in the rewinding direction of the series of film chips f. It has become.

With this structure, a series of film chips f, which have scattered traces of the agricultural product A after packaging the agricultural product, are sequentially drawn in by the upper and lower guide rollers 85 and the recovery rollers 77, and are stored in the storage box 74. It is stored and collected.

[0051]

According to the invention of claim 1, it is possible to reliably collect and process a series of film chips with scattered traces of agricultural products discharged from the packaging section after the agricultural products are packaged. Does not scatter around the packaging,
It is possible to collect impurities such as chips and dust of agricultural products without mixing them, and therefore it is possible to easily treat a series of film chips discharged from the packaging part, and to reuse this series of film chips after collection. It can be collected in an easy-to-use state.

According to the invention of claim 2, it is possible to provide an agricultural product wrapping apparatus suitable for carrying out the method of the invention of claim 1, and to provide a film of a film roll wound into a roll shape. It can be used effectively.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a side view of an agricultural product packaging apparatus showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view of the same packaging unit.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram of the agricultural product packaging device of the above.

FIG. 4 is a side view of an agricultural product packaging device according to another embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a perspective view of the same packaging unit.

FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram of the agricultural product packaging apparatus of the above.

[Explanation of symbols]

 7 Support 8 Guide Hole 10 Packaging Section 11 Film Sealing Device 21 Receiving Body 29 Film Supply Section 35 Detection Mark 36 Film Roll 62 Sensor 63,75 Chips Collecting Means A Agricultural Products F Film f Film Chips

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Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A film for packaging agricultural products is fed from a film supply unit onto a support of the packaging unit to support the film, and a guide hole for dropping agricultural products formed on the support is closed by the film. After the agricultural product is placed on the film located in the guide hole, the film is fed out and the agricultural product is dropped and received from the guide hole onto the receiving member located below the support, and the film is received from the front, rear, left and right parts. Along with bundling and packaging the agricultural products, the packaging part of this film is sealed and cut to separate the packaged agricultural products from the film, and a series of film chips with scattered traces of this agricultural product are used as chip recovery means for each agricultural product packaging. A method for packaging agricultural products, which comprises sequentially collecting the agricultural products. 2. A film roll, which is provided in the film supply section, wound with a film in which detection marks are displayed for each length required for packaging of agricultural products in a roll shape, and a film roll provided in the packaging section and unwound from the film roll. A support having a guide hole for dropping an agricultural product, which is closed with a film, a receiver provided directly below the guide hole of the support and movable up and down, and a receiver provided in the packaging section on the receiver. A film sealing device for converging the film for packaging the agricultural product from the front, rear, left and right parts and sealing and cutting the converging part to package and separate the agricultural product, and is located between the film supply part and the guide hole of the packaging part. And a sensor for detecting the detection mark displayed on the film and stopping the feeding of the film, and a series of flaps on which the traces of the agricultural product after packaging the agricultural product are scattered. A device for packaging agricultural products, comprising: a chip collecting means for sequentially collecting film chips.