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

Claim 18:
19. A method for packaging a product, comprising:
feeding a presented bag from a sequence of connected bags to a product-loading area of a bagging machine;
simultaneously actuating a first actuator and a second actuator to pull a front-facing side of the presented bag away from an opposite side of the presented bag to position the front-facing side of the presented bag 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;
moving the front-facing side of the presented bag against the opposite side of the presented bag to close the bag-loading opening;
after closing the bag-loading opening, sealing the front-facing and opposite sides together; and
after sealing the sides together, separating the presented bag from a subsequent bag in the sequence of connected bags.