Patent ID: 7017324
Filing Date: 2006-03-28
Classification: B65B

Abstract:
1. A machine for producing strip packages, including: a feeding station for feeding products to a packaging group, which places and seals each of said products in a relative welded pockets distributed on a continuous strip, which defines corresponding rows, longitudinal and transversal, of said pockets; at least one group, for printing data and/or codified information on each welded pocket and/or between the adjacent welded pockets; a working station, situated in cascade with said packaging group and aimed at supplying to an outlet section a plurality of strip packages, said working station including: at least one feeler group for verifying the presence of an product in each corresponding pocket; at least one working group for longitudinal precutting and/or cutting of the continuous strip in the portions comprised between adjacent longitudinal rows; at least one drawing group for moving forward the continuous strip of welded pockets; at least one cutting group, for transversal cutting the continuous strip in the portions comprised between the adjacent transversal rows; with said packaging group arranged in a substantially vertical configuration; and including direction-changing means for making said continuous strip pass from a substantially vertical configuration, at the outlet of said packaging group, to a substantially horizontal configuration, at the inlet of said working station.