Patent ID: 7562512

Claim:
A bag manufacturing and packaging system comprising: a vertical bag manufacturing and packaging machine configured and arranged to manufacture a bag by sealing a continuous tubular packaging material filled with articles to be packaged, and to cut out and eject the bag; a conveyor part disposed in a downstream portion of the vertical bag manufacturing and packaging machine to receive the bag ejected from the vertical bag manufacturing and packaging machine at a predetermined position to convey the bag toward a downstream portion of the conveyor part; a pair of rotating brushes positioned between the vertical bag manufacturing and packaging machine and the conveyor part to sandwich the bag ejected from the vertical bag manufacturing and packaging machine to send the bag to the predetermined position on the conveyor part; and a guide member disposed between the rotating brushes with at least a portion of the guide member overlapping with the rotating brushes when viewed in a generally horizontal direction that is perpendicular to rotational axes of the rotating brushes, the guide member being arranged to guide the bag conveyed between the rotating brushes toward a center portion of the rotating brushes with respect to a direction parallel to the rotational axes of the rotating brushes.