Patent ID: 8117808

Claim:
An apparatus for transverse sealing of a packaging tube, filled with products, in order to form bag packages, the apparatus comprising a delivery conveyor for delivering the packaging tube in a conveying direction along a conveying path, a removal conveyor for carrying the bag packages away, a transverse sealing unit engaging an interstice between these two conveyors, and a supporting base which reaches beneath the bag packages from two diametrically opposed sides for supporting the bag packages at least in part at the transition through this interstice, wherein the supporting base comprises at least two support disks, and wherein each support disk has one axis of rotation which extends perpendicular to the conveying direction of the bag packages, the axis of rotation of one of the support disks being disposed outside of a side edge of the conveying path and the axis of rotation of another of the support disks being disposed outside an opposite side edge of the conveying path.