Wicket bag dispenser and method for dispensing wicket bags

摘要

The present invention relates to a wicket bag dispenser for holding flexible bags, suitable for transferring the flexible bags into the loading station of a bag filling machine. The present invention also relates to an apparatus comprising interacting wicket bag dispenser and the holder pin of the loading station, as well as to a method of transferring flexible bags from a wicket bag dispenser to the loading station of a bag filling machine. The wicket bag dispenser comprises a stack of flexible bags, each bag having at least one aperture, and at least one wicket spool (13) positioned through the apertures, wherein the wicket spool (13) has an free end, the free end comprising a spool head (14), so that each flexible bag from the stack of flexible bags is conveyed along the spool (13) in order to transfer to the loading station. According to the present invention the spool head (14) is free to move in an axial direction relative to the wicket spool (13).