Patent ID: 7690102

Claim:
An apparatus for simultaneously producing a plurality of pillow-shaped hollow bodies delimited at opposite ends by crimped edges, the apparatus comprising: a frame; a feeding device having a drop shaft for feeding the tubes transversely relative to their longitudinal direction; a crimping device for receiving the tubes from said feeding device and separating the tubes into pillow-shaped hollow bodies; said crimping device having at least one elongate crimping unit assigned to the longitudinal direction of the tubes; said at least one crimping unit having a row of crimping tools disposed one behind the other in longitudinal direction in said frame; said crimping tools each having a stationary crimping jaw fixed in said frame and a movable crimping jaw lying opposite to said stationary crimping jaw in transverse direction; and a carriage carrying said movable crimping jaw, said carriage being movable back and forth in transverse direction in said frame.