Patent ID: 6913569

Claim:
A method of producing a packed, flexible, folded tape and a package containing seeds for germination, characterized in that the tape carries the seeds and is advanced continuously from a tape supply to a packing location where said tape is zigzag folded by virtue of its weight and by means of side lowering means into at least one oblong stack on the bottom of the package formed as a bag or a box in such a manner that some of the bendings of the tape are flush with the ends of the stack and that the remaining bendings are positioned at varying distances therefrom, thereby producing layers that are successively relatively long, intermediate and short, and facilitating pulling the tape out of the package, and that after the filling of the package the layers of the stack are compressed and the package is closed, characterized in that the side lowering means are formed by substantially vertical, endless, circulating lowering belts, the downward courses of said lowering belts opposing one another and being arranged at the ends of the stack, whereby the zigzag tape forms bendings as said downward courses are tangent to the outermost tape bendings.