Patent ID: 6761016
Filing Date: 2004-07-13
Classification: B29C,B65B

Abstract:
A high speed pouch packaging machine comprising:a main frame having a top and a base; at least one packaging material holder mounted at the top of the main frame to feed the material vertically downward into the machine; a side seal system comprised of a plurality of front and rear reciprocating side seal elements; the side seal system being vertically movable with respect to the main frame when contacting and forming side seals on packaging material moving through the machine, toward the base; a pair of cross seal jaws reciprocally mounted in the main frame, after the side seal system; each of the cross-seal jaws having a plurality of cross seal elements rotatably mounted therein; a system for rotating the cross seal elements the rotatable cross seal elements being operated in unison with the vertically movable side seal system in a semi-continuous manner, toward the base, so as to contact and pull packaging material through the machine while forming cross seals on the packaging material; an operating system for moving the plurality of elongated, heated, reciprocating side seal elements and the pair of cross seal jaws horizontally and downwardly in unison to seal the packing material while pulling the packing material downwardly in a semi-continuous motion; a pouch cut-off system; and a dual product filling system, operable in unison with the vertically movable side-seal system and the rotatable side seal elements.