Patent ID: 6289656
Filing Date: 2001-09-18
Classification: B65B

Abstract:
In a packaging machine for enclosing items in a package by delivering the item through a feeder that disposes the item between two strips of packaging material which are then joined together around the item by a closure member thus sealing the item in an individual package, the packaging machine further demarcating upper and lower boundaries about the item such that the individually packaged item may be separated from a continuously produced strand of separable packages, the improvement comprising:a. a hole punch portion adjacent at least one of said package and said joined together strips of packaging material for punching a hole therethrough;b. a separating portion adjacent said strand of separable packages for separating said strand of separable packages into separated packages;c. a stacking portion in communication with said separated packages; andd. a magazine adjacent said stacking portion, said magazine having a rod member on which said stacking portion disposes said separated packages via said hole provided by said hole punch portion.