摘要 |
<p>Improved clamp, seal, sever, and brick apparatus for use in form, fill, and seal machines (10) that form a polyfoil tube (22) filled with a product (32) into a plurality of sealed packages (31), preferably aseptic packages. The improved apparatus incorporates a plurality of sealing heads mounted on a continuously advancing structure (200) that transversely clamps, seals, and severs the endlessly advancing tube into packages., and compresses the packages to preform them into about their final rectangular configuration. Induction heating is used to seal the web. The sealing heads include a sealing jaw (220) and an anvil jaw (210) hinged together and adapted to clamp the tube therebetween at predetermined locations as the sealing heads and product filled tubing advance, the locations being adjustable and the sealing and anvil jaws being adjustable to control the colume of product clamped and sealed in each package.</p> |