Patent ID: 11905053
Assignee: nan
Field: Other special machines (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  Y | IPC B

Claim 0:
1. A method for manufacturing biodegradable whole leaf pillow tea bags, the method comprising the steps of:
providing a biodegradable infusion substrate having two opposing edges;
creating a sleeve from the biodegradable infusion substrate by sealing the two opposing edges of the substrate together;
sealing a bottom of the sleeve;
placing whole leaf tea in the bottom of the sleeve of the biodegradable infusion substrate using a tea dispensing mechanism having an inlet for receiving whole leaf tea, an infuser for infusing the whole leaf tea with at least one supplement, and a mechanism for dispensing, at intervals, a predetermined amount of whole leaf tea infused with at least one supplement into a feeding tube in an amount to create single whole leaf pillow tea bags;
vertically feeding the sleeve containing the whole leaf tea into a heat-sealing machine that will, at predetermined intervals, apply heat across the sleeve to create horizontal heat seals, wherein the heat-sealing machine includes at least one sealing mechanism having a central channel, where the predetermined intervals in which the sleeve is vertically fed into the heat-sealing machine occur after receiving a predetermined amount of whole leaf tea to create a single whole leaf pillow tea bag;
creating pillow bags containing whole leaf tea from the sleeve by cutting across the horizontal center of the horizontal heat seals with a cutting mechanism housed within the central channel of the at least one sealing mechanism, where the cutting mechanism is supported by an actuating mechanism that actuates the cutting mechanism from within the central channel of the at least one sealing mechanism to cut through the center of the horizontal heat seal.