MACHINE FOR THE PRODUCTION AND PACKAGING OF MOULDED BODIES FROM A MOULDABLE MASS

摘要

A moulding wheel (20) is arranged above a loading run (16) upon which a strip of packing material (P) lies horizontally and displaceable in the longitudinal direction, with a central axis (22) transverse to the loading run (16) and about which the above may be driven in rotation. The moulding wheel has a cylindrical outer surface (24) and contains several moulds (32) arranged radially in relation to the central axis (22) with an angular separation from the cylindrical outer surface (24). The circumferential speed of the moulding wheel (20) corresponds to a slip-free rolling of the outer surface (24) thereof on the packing material (P). Each mould contains a piston (50), which may be displaced back and forth between a withdrawn position, for filling the mould (32) with mass (M) and a projecting position, for the radial outwards ejection of the solidified moulded body (F) onto the packaging material (P). The moulding wheel sequentially runs through a filling region (34) in which the moulds are filled with mass (M), a residence region (36), after which the mass (M) is in the form to be adopted of a moulded body (F) which may be packed and a depositing region (38), in which each moulded body (F) is deposited directly on the packing material (P) from the mould (32) thereof.