Patent ID: 6666002
Filing Date: 2003-12-23
Classification: B29C,B29L,B65B

Abstract:
A filling machine for producing containers containing liquid food product comprising:a series of rollers for forming a web-shaped packaging material into a tubular packaging material, the tubular packaging material having an outside surface; a filling tube for introducing a liquid food product into the tubular packaging material while the tubular packaging material is being conveyed downwardly, the tubular packaging material having an outside surface; at least one forming flap engageable with the packaging material to transform and form the packaging material into a desired configuration; a heat sealing bar providing with a heating mechanism and engageable with a cutting bar to produce a seal area forming a transverse seal across the tubular packaging material below a level of the liquid food product; a cutter provided on the cutting bar to cut the tubular packaging material in the seal zone to form a preformed container containing the liquid food product; and at least one nozzle positioned above said at least one forming flap for directing a sterilizing flushing liquid to at least a portion of the outside surface of the tubular packaging material located above the transverse seal.