Patent ID: 8127520
Filing Date: 2012-03-06
Classification: B65B

Abstract:
1. A device for the filling of bags, applicable to automatic machines for the formation, filling and closing in a continuous process of bags from a tubular mesh, of those comprising a tubular body outside which the storage of tubular mesh is assembled, comprising means for the conveyance of individual pieces of large fruit and vegetable products from a loading position (A) to a delivery position (B), and means for the holding and transfer, one by one, of the individual pieces conveyed to the delivery position, which comprise a head for the holding and subsequent release of the pieces and a mechanism for transmitting to the head a movement the path of which comprises a vertical downward section (f), of a sufficient length to convey each of the held pieces through the inside of the tubular body of the machine towards an upper mouth of a bag open at the upper part, and such that each of the pieces is accompanied in its entire downward path; and wherein the mechanism of the means for the holding and transfer of the pieces imparts to the head a path formed only by vertical upward and downward sections, aligned with the position occupied by the pieces when the means for the conveyance reaches the delivery position.