Patent ID: 7127871

Claim:
A system for packaging a flexible web which is positioned in zigzag-form loops, comprising: a horizontal bearing panel; a positioning device arranged above the horizontal bearing panel and including a positioning carriage which is movable back and forth and has two positioning rollers which are arranged beside one another and with axes parallel to one another, the rollers being driven in rotation in a common direction and between which an individual web can be drawn in from an infeed side and can be folded by the positioning carriage being moved back and forth perpendicularly to the drawing-in direction of the web and can be advanced beneath a pressure-exerting bar in a removal direction corresponding to the drawing-in direction, the positioning device being assigned a transfer device for forming a web-loop arrangement of predeterminable magnitude and for transferring the web-loop arrangement directly or indirectly into a packaging container; and a memory-programmable control device for components of the system.