Patent ID: 9227744
Filing Date: 2016-01-05
CPC Classification: B65B

Claim Text:
1. A process for manufacturing bags and filling them with products from a storage of tubular net with great length, comprising a loading phase, comprising the operations of arranging a section of tubular net on a loading tube, having its ends at a different height, until said loading tube is longitudinally introduced inside the mentioned section of tubular net and such that a long end portion of the tubular net which tightly encircles the loading tube is gathered and compacted in the longitudinal direction and that a second short intermediate portion of the tubular net which tightly encircles the loading tube remains drawn without being gathered; and of making a loading opening in the drawn short intermediate portion of the tubular net by means of cutting; and a manufacturing and filling phase, comprising the repeated operation of drawing successive sections of the gathered long end portion of the tubular net for the handling thereof in the manufacture of respective bags, introducing the products to be stored in each bag through the same loading opening made in the drawn short intermediate portion of the tubular net, the products falling by gravity through the loading tube until reaching the section of tubular net of the bag in the course of manufacture and being deposited therein, wherein once the net of the gathered long end portion of the tubular net is consumed, and prior to starting a new loading phase, the process comprises the operation of sliding the short intermediate portion of the tubular net outside the loading tube to a level below its lower mouth.