Patent ID: 6938393

Claim:
A packaging line for packaging separate products in a continuous manner, comprising: a product assembling path which is provided with a first conveyor and a number of feeders arranged along the conveyor; a packaging module provided with folding means for forming a packaging tube from a continuous packaging web, a second conveyor for advancing the packaging tube which is being formed in the packaging module, and a cross separating device for separating, in cross direction, separate packages filled with product from the packaging tube; and a control for controlling the discharge of the products from the feeders, for controlling the transport speed of the conveyors and for controlling the speed of the cross separating device, the cross separating device comprising two separating elements, of which separating elements a first one is arranged above the packaging tube and a second one is arranged below the packaging tube, the separating elements passing through both a reciprocating vertical movement with a vertical stroke length and a reciprocating horizontal movement with a horizontal stroke length, while at least the horizontal stroke length is settable for processing both short and long products, wherein the control processes information about the length of each product to be packaged and sets the horizontal stroke length in-process, per product, such that packages with different lengths for products of different lengths can be manufactured in random order, and wherein the control obtains the data about the dimensions of each product to be packaged from a database, in which database the dimension data of each product, assembled in the product assembling path are stored.