APPARATUS FOR FILLING LARGE PACKS WITH FOIL BAGS

摘要

A b s t r a c t : (referring to Fig. 3) When cartons are filled with foil bags containing bulk goods susceptible to mechanical stress, a high performance as well as a careful treatment of the foil bags has to be ensured. The foil bags (10) are fed to a packaging station (13) and are deposited on top of one another on a platform (36) of an elevator (26) which lowers the foil bags (10) into the carton (11) which is open at the top. The elevator (26) enters the carton (11), which is also open at the bottom, from below. The carton contents are lowered to the plane of a carton bottom. When the carton is discharged, folding flaps are folded over to form a carton bottom. To increase performance, upstream of the elevator (26) there is arranged an intermediate conveyor (20) which is already being loaded with the foil bags (10) while the elevator (26) is still located in a lower position and another carton (11) is supplied. This ensures an almost continuous feed and transfer of the foil bags (10).