Patent ID: 6116001
Filing Date: 2000-09-12
Classification: B65B

Abstract:
A device for packaging including a vertically aligned fill pipe, a funnel for feeding a fill material into the fill pipe, a forming shoulder for shaping a sheet into a tube to be filled, whereby the tube surrounds the fill pipe, an air-outlet nozzle defined in a space between the funnel and the fill pipe, and a mechanism connected to the air-outlet nozzle through a supply pipeline for producing an air flow in order to create a downward air flow in the funnel and in the fill pipe, which air flow entrains the fill material to enable quick movement thereof through the funnel and the fill pipe into the tube, a format pipe surrounding said fill pipe, the air flow and entrained fill material moving downwardly throughout the length of said fill pipe, and means for removing the air flow from the tube and the lower end of said fill pipe.