Patent ID: 7065936
Filing Date: 2006-06-27
Classification: B65B

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for filling food product drafts into packages, comprising: a supply of open top container portions arranged in rows that are displaced along a longitudinal direction and having a first row and a longitudinally displaced second row and carried by an elongated web of film and movable by said web along said longitudinal direction into a fill station; and a shuttle conveyor having a conveying surface, said shuttle conveyor comprises a device to retract and to extend said conveying surface, said conveying surface arranged above said fill station and having an end region longitudinally movable to a first position arranged to deposit food product drafts into said container portions of said first row by said conveying surface, and while said web remains stationary, said device retracts or extends said conveying surface to reposition said end region to a second position arranged to deposit food product drafts carried on said conveying surface into said container portions of said second row.