摘要 |
A packaging machine which incorporates a tray or trough which feeds continuous production of a discrete item to one of a pair of reciprocating trays, there being a gate and counter mechanism for determining the number of products on the reciprocating trays, one of the trays being loaded at a time. The gate closes to cut off additional products for one of the two trays which is then indexed to an out-of-the-way position to thereafter permit the counting and accumulation of products on the other of the two trays. For the tray which is indexed to the side, a ram mechanism drives all of the products off of the tray through a set of stuffing horns into an open container or bag. The machine includes a pair of bag openers which preferably cooperate with two stacks of closed bags. The topmost bag on each stack is opened. The ram drives the product into the open bag on one of the two stacks, and the filled bag is kicked from the table.
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