Patent ID: 7124555

Claim:
A process for packaging products in a stretchable plastic film, wherein the process comprises: a. supporting and simultaneously heating one of the products to be packaged on a lower abutment side of the product; b. supplying the film from a storage means in a position overlaying the product to be packaged; c. clamping the film in the position overlaying the product to be packaged; d. contacting the clamped film with the product to be packaged as to adhere the film to the product in a stretched position; e. cutting the film in stretched contact with the product along the side of the film which is not adhered to the product; f. releasing the cut film in stretched contact with the product; g. bending the film under the product through a bending action on a whole lower perimeter of the product, the bending step allowing the film to adhere to the product on the product lower heated abutment side by sealing together the four edges of the film; and h. removing die product packaged in the film.