Patent ID: 8225586
Filing Date: 2012-07-24
Classification: B65B

Abstract:
1. A packaging machine comprising: a formation station that deforms a flexible web of material to form a cavity adapted to receive a product to be packaged; a supply of flexible web material; a belt assembly configured to engage the flexible web material and operative to advance the flexible web material along a predetermined path to the formation station, wherein the belt assembly includes a first toothed belt and a second toothed belt spaced laterally from the first toothed belt, wherein the first toothed belt and the second toothed belts include a series of facing, axially spaced apart web material gripping members for gripping spaced apart edges defined by the web material, wherein the web material gripping members are secured to the toothed belts via clamping engagement structure on each web material gripping member, wherein the clamping engagement structure is engaged with one or more teeth of the toothed belt to which the web material gripping member is secured.