Patent ID: 7555877

Claim:
A machine for packaging products in sealed film, comprising a product inlet feeding bench, a rotating head for receiving and conveying products arriving sequentially from the feeding bench to a loading station in the head and an outlet bench that receives the products conveyed by the rotating head to an unloading station to evacuate the products from the machine characterised in that the rotating head comprises peripherally seats for receiving products and sealing means that rotates with the seats for sealing a film wound around the product in a seat while the head rotates to take the seat from the loading station to the unloading station; and wherein the sealing means comprises for each seat a pair of sealing blades supported on the rotating head and movable to close on the entrance of the respective seat and clamp and seal between said sealing blades edges of a strip of film dragged into the seat by the movement introducing the product into the seat, and each sealing blade is supported by a respective carriage that slides in grooves located in a frame of the rotating head, so that the blades of each pair are guided along reciprocal approach and distancing arc trajectories.