Patent ID: 6964146
Filing Date: 2005-11-15
Classification: B65B

Abstract:
1. A portable desktop method of opening and filling a bag comprising the steps of: providing rotatable portable desktop bench housing, upon a desktop counter workspace, said housing having a retractable storage magazine for insertable bags, a first suction device mounted on a turntable and a second suction device, said suction devices engagable with a vacuum; orienting said rotatable portable desktop bench housing upon said desktop counter workspace; inserting a plurality of bags in a predetermined loading orientation in the storage magazine; advancing said first suction device to contact one wall of a bag while applying said vacuum to said first suction device so that said one wall of said bag becomes engaged to said first suction device; rotating said turntable to reorient said first suction device in a further orientation with said bag attached to face said second suction device being actuated by said vacuum; advancing said first suction device toward said second suction device until a facing wall of said bag is in contact with and engaged by said second suction device; retracting said first suction device to separate said walls of said bag to produce an opening into said bag; depositing an object into said bag through said opening; terminating vacuum to at least one of said suction devices resulting in said bag closing; and, releasing said bag.