Patent ID: 11866212
Assignee: PREGIS SHARP SYSTEMS, LLC
Field: Handling (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 0:
1. A method for opening and closing a bag for packaging a product, comprising:
feeding a presented bag from a sequence of connected bags to a product-loading area of a bagging machine;
engaging a front-facing side of the presented bag with a bag-open assembly;
manipulating the position of a first actuator with respect to the product-loading area by operating a second actuator that is associated with the first actuator, the first actuator being associated with the bag-open assembly; and
by simultaneous actuation, operating the first and second actuators cooperatively to:
pull the front-facing side of the presented bag away from an opposite side of the presented bag with the engaged bag-open assembly to position the front-facing side of the presented bag in an open configuration spaced from the opposite side of the presented bag to define a bag-loading opening between the front facing and opposite sides of the presented bag and to permit loading the product into the presented bag through the bag-loading opening, and
move the front-facing side of the presented bag against the opposite side of the presented bag to close the bag-loading opening.