Patent ID: 6044624
Filing Date: 2000-04-04
Classification: B65B

Abstract:
Apparatus for filling bag packs with portions (10) of fibrous cut tobacco material, which are measured out by quantity and/or weight and introduced, via a pressing chamber (14), into a bag (11) which is open at the top, the pressing chamber, for compressing the portion (10), having at least two movable chamber boundaries, including a movable pressing wall (20) and a press ram (34) which can be moved in a transverse direction with respect to the pressing wall and, once the pressing wall has been moved into the pressing position, can be lowered as far as a fixed (bottom) pressing position: andfor the purpose of producing the bags (11), a continuous material web (60) can be transported with different movement characteristics upstream and downstream of a treatment station, with different stepped advancement lengths, and the differences in movement are compensated for by a movable compensating element, being a carriage (72) which can be moved back and forth; characterized in that a region of the material web (60) which is upstream of the treatment station (66), on the one hand, and a region of the material web (60) which adjoins the treatment station, on the other hand, each runs via deflecting rollers (64, 69) of the carriage (72).