US3220161A - Apparatus for closing bags of heat sealable packaging material - Google Patents

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US3220161A
US3220161A US252356A US25235663A US3220161A US 3220161 A US3220161 A US 3220161A US 252356 A US252356 A US 252356A US 25235663 A US25235663 A US 25235663A US 3220161 A US3220161 A US 3220161A
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
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  • This invention relates to apparatus for closing bags of heat sealable packaging material in which the bags are supplied in succession to a closure folding device and then to a heat sealing device.
  • closure fold-s have a tendency to open along the path of travel of the bag from the folding to the closing stations or at least to be so deformed as to forfeit a tightly sealed bag closure with a neat appearance.
  • An object of the invention is to eliminate the abovestated disadvantage.
  • a further object is to .afiord effective and dependable means for conserving the folds during the transition from the closing to the sealing station.
  • Another object is to associate with the folding device a tacking means which will fasten the temporary closure immediately after it has been formed by folding and keep it intact until the subsequent heat sealing takes place.
  • a still further object of the invention is to provide an assembly of machine parts which will act so as to relieve the bag material of stress and strain effects which could arise from heating of the bag area during the tacking.
  • FIGURE 1 is a diagrammatic representation of the steps of forming and sealing a bag closure in a bag closing machine equipped with apparatus according to the invention.
  • FIGURE 2 is a plan View, with parts in section, of the relevant part of the bag closing machine.
  • FIGURE 3 is a side view of the folding device and tacking means of this apparatus
  • FIGURE 4 shows part of the folding device and tacking means of FIGURE 3 in another working position
  • FIGURE 5 is a front view of the arrangement seen in FIGURE 3, and
  • FIGURE 6 is a side view of the heat sealing device, at another station in the machine.
  • the apparatus which is disclosed in this embodiment is part of a bag closing machine with work stations arranged in a circle and having a feed drum 1 FIGURE 2) which is intermittently rotated to conduct the filled bags B in receptacles 13 to the operating tools at the various stations of the machine.
  • the bag B is first brought to a station F at which is arranged a folding device comprising pairs of folding tools 41, 42 which shape the mouth of the bag into a flat closure with tucked-in gussets, in known fashion.
  • the device at station -F is also equipped with a tacking means which may, for example, be in the form of two heated jaws 101. These jaws 101 are brought into contact for a short period with the closure folds directly after the latter have been made so that the folds are smoothed and tacked by pressure and heat.
  • the closure made in this way is tightly sealed by a weld seam, in known fashion by means of a pair of heat sealing jaws 70, after the bag B has been advanced from this folding and tacking station F to the sealing station S. Details [of these mechanisms are seen in FIGURES 2 to 6 of the drawings.
  • Folding device are inserted into the open mouth of a bag presented.
  • the tools 42 are suspended from parallellinkage sy'sterns 43 and 44 which have toothed segments, 45 and 46 respectively, which are in mesh with one another.
  • the parallelogram linkages 43, 44 and 50, 51 thereof are mounted on a head 61 which is secured to two vertically-displaceable rods 62, 63 guided in a bearing 64.
  • the descent and ascent of head 61 is produced by a cylindrical cam 65 on the shaft 3 through a lever 66, the pin 67 and a linkage system 68, 69, of which the link 69 is pivoted to the head 61.
  • Appliance carriers The appliance carrier 2 referred to above is one of three such carriers which are arranged radially in the machine at the folding and tacking station F, at a station preceding F, and at the sealing station S, these carriers are of similar basic construction but carrying different operating assemblies appropriate to the tools they are to operate. These latter are respectively the folding tools, the tacking tools, and the sealing tools, taken in the carrier order given immediately above.
  • each carrier 2 includes a baseplate 20, a headplat 21, a stay 22 connecting these plates, and a vertical operating shaft 3 which is supported between the base and head plates and continuously driven from a central driving wheel 11 of the machine through an end pinion 12 on this shaft.
  • Each carrier 2 is replaceably mounted on the frame 9 of the machine.
  • T acking means The tacking means are primarily disposed at station F for operation on a bag positioned thereat and operated on by the folding tools, but they are operable from the appliance carrier 2 at the preceding station.
  • the essential components of these means are the heated tacking jaws 101, each of which is pivotally connected to and mounted by one arm of a bellcrank lever 108 and by a lever 109 which are both also pivoted to an oifset extension on the base plate 20 of the carrier 2 at the station preceding F.
  • Levers 108 and 109 thus form a parallelogram linkage with this base plate and jaw 101.
  • the outer arm of each lever 108 is articulated to a link 110, and the two links 1 10, are at the other end, pivoted in common to a bar 111.
  • This latter in turn is pivotally coupled to one arm of a bellcrank'lever 112, the other arm of which carries a roller 113 which bears against the periphery of an edge cam 114 on the operating shaft 3 of the carrier at said preceding station.
  • a roller 115 is prov ded on the pivot coupling the two links 110 to the bar 111, and this roller runs in a guide slot 116 in the offset base plate extension.
  • a pair of cooled clamping jaws 102 is arranged beneath the heated jaws 101.
  • These clamping jaws 102 are hollow and a coolant, for example water, introduced and discharged through tubes 103 and 104, flows through them.
  • the clamping jaws 102 are mounted on the tacking jaws 101 for resilient displacement in the direction of mov'ement'of the latter, and the coupling is such that whenithe jaws 101 move together, the clamping jaws 102 are the first to make contact with the bag closure folds. and when the jaws 101 part, the clamping jaws 102 do not break contact with these folds until jaws 101 are clear.
  • the clamping jaws 102 are secured to rods 105 which are mounted in bearing brackets 106 fastened to the jaws 101 and are longitudinally displaceable against the action of a spring 107.
  • the mouth of a bag, folded and tacked as described, is tightly closed at station S by heat sealing.
  • the tools provided for this purpose at station S comprises a pair of heat sealing jaws 70 which are secured to pivotable levers 72, 73 (FIGURE 6).
  • the pivoting together of the heat sealing jaws 70 is effected from a camplate '74 on the shaft 3 of a further appliance carrier 2 at station S.
  • a roller 76 mounted on a lever bears against the periphery of this camplate 74.
  • the lever 75 is pivotably mounted on the stay 22 of the carrier 2 and projects through an aperture 77 in this stay.
  • a rod 78 is linked to the freely pivotable end of the lever 75, and this rod is connected through a spring 79 to a block 80.
  • Coupled to the block 80 are two links 81, 82 which are also connected to the levers 72, 73, so that when the rod 78 is pushed back by the action of the camplate 74, the heat sealing jaws are pressed together under the force of the interposed spring 79, and thereby weld the mouth of the bag.
  • clamping jaws 102 preferably cooled and similar to those used at station F may also be associated with the jaws 70 and mounted on the latter, and directly below them, in the manner prescribed above for jaws 101.
  • closure folds of a bag are formed into a rolled closure or are simply turned over on to the top of the bag package at further stations of the machine, depending on requirements.
  • bag closing and sealing apparatus comprising a mounting frame, a first tool carrier supporting a plurality of folding tools on said frame, cam and linkage means for operating said folding tools also supported on said carrier, a second tool carrier on said frame adjacent said first tool carrier, heated tacking tools supported by said second carrier adjacent said folding tools, cooling jaws suspended from said tacking tools and movable therewith, cam and linkage means for operating said tacking tools mounted on said second carrier, toothed drive means for actuating the folding tool and the tacking tool operating means, a third tool carrier mounted on said frame and carrying heat sealing tools, said third tool carrier supporting operating means for said sealing tools and also being drivable by said toothed drive means, and a conveyor device for transporting bags mouth upwards to the folding and tacking tools and thence to the sealing tools.
  • a bag closing machine including a mounting frame, a first tool carrier having folding tools mounted thereon, a second tool carrier having heated tacking tools mounted thereon to temporarily and provisionally tack folds of the bag after such folds are produced by said folding tools, drive means for the coordinated operation of the folding and tacking tools, a sealing device reached by a folded and tacked bag in a subsequent step of the operation of the machine to finally seal the bag by sealing the folds provisionally tacked by saidtacking tools, to thereby completely close the bag, at least one'pair of cooling jaws carried by said tacking tools, and brackets including spring means attaching at least one cooling jaw below each tacking tool to bias said cooling jaws into engagement with said bag for a predetermined time both prior to an engagement of the tacking tools and after release of the bag by the tacking tools.

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US4044528A (en) * 1974-09-03 1977-08-30 American Brands, Inc. Method and apparatus for forming sealed packages
US4070853A (en) * 1977-01-10 1978-01-31 Thermoguard Insulation Company Open top plastic bag sealer
US4071999A (en) * 1976-12-29 1978-02-07 Nolet Jean Yves Machine for bag closing and sealing
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US4341054A (en) * 1979-06-13 1982-07-27 Etablissements Courtheoux Apparatus for filling and heat sealing a bag
US4403465A (en) * 1980-05-02 1983-09-13 Nimco Corporation Method and device for closing and sealing gable shaped folding cartons
US4546592A (en) * 1982-02-11 1985-10-15 Tetra Pak Developement S.A. Apparatus for sealing a liquid pack
US4549387A (en) * 1982-07-07 1985-10-29 Aci Australia Limited Flexible container filling apparatus
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US3753331A (en) * 1970-04-25 1973-08-21 Ikegai Iron Works Ltd Method of and means for facilitating a sealing of end flaps of a film
US4044528A (en) * 1974-09-03 1977-08-30 American Brands, Inc. Method and apparatus for forming sealed packages
US4071999A (en) * 1976-12-29 1978-02-07 Nolet Jean Yves Machine for bag closing and sealing
US4070853A (en) * 1977-01-10 1978-01-31 Thermoguard Insulation Company Open top plastic bag sealer
US4341054A (en) * 1979-06-13 1982-07-27 Etablissements Courtheoux Apparatus for filling and heat sealing a bag
US4306400A (en) * 1980-02-07 1981-12-22 Rexham Corporation Packaging machine with continuous motion top sealer
US4403465A (en) * 1980-05-02 1983-09-13 Nimco Corporation Method and device for closing and sealing gable shaped folding cartons
US4546592A (en) * 1982-02-11 1985-10-15 Tetra Pak Developement S.A. Apparatus for sealing a liquid pack
US4549387A (en) * 1982-07-07 1985-10-29 Aci Australia Limited Flexible container filling apparatus
US4622798A (en) * 1984-11-27 1986-11-18 Orihiro Co., Ltd. Sealing mechanism for a packing machine
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US5242701A (en) * 1988-10-24 1993-09-07 Fbi Brands Ltd. Method for shelf stable packaging of liquid food in hermetically sealed easy-to-open gable top cartons
US5321930A (en) * 1988-10-24 1994-06-21 Fbi Brands Ltd. Die for manufacturing a shelf-stable cable top carton
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US6543206B2 (en) * 1996-09-17 2003-04-08 Molins Plc Apparatus and method for formation of sealed packages
US20060016158A1 (en) * 2002-12-13 2006-01-26 Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A. Sealing device
US7549267B2 (en) * 2002-12-13 2009-06-23 Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A. Sealing device
EP4137415A4 (de) * 2020-04-16 2024-01-03 Coalza Systems, S.L. Verbesserte karussellmaschine zur herstellung von verpackungsbeuteln

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