US 12,338,018 B2
Device and method for transporting ready-cut and filled hose pieces
Stefan Lambertz, Hürth (DE); and Hans Knops, Krefeld (DE)
Assigned to Teepack Spezialmaschinen GmbH & Co. KG, Meerbusch (DE)
Filed by Teepack Spezialmaschinen GmbH & Co. KG, Meerbusch (DE)
Filed on Apr. 21, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/726,085.
Claims priority of application No. 21170188 (EP), filed on Apr. 23, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0340317 A1, Oct. 27, 2022
Int. Cl. B65B 29/04 (2006.01); B65B 29/02 (2006.01); B65B 41/06 (2006.01); B65B 43/60 (2006.01); B65B 63/00 (2006.01)
CPC B65B 29/04 (2013.01) [B65B 29/028 (2017.08); B65B 41/06 (2013.01); B65B 43/60 (2013.01); B65B 63/005 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A device for transporting unfinished bags within a machine for producing a bag filled with brewable material comprising: at least one transport wheel which comprises, distributed over its circumference, a plurality of holders each holding at least one of the unfinished bags, wherein an insertion station in which one of said unfinished bags is inserted into a holder of the plurality of holders in a radial direction to form the bag with at least one chamber between a head and a bottom of said bag, a label feeding station in which a label is fed to said head, a connecting station, in which a thread is connected to the label and/or the bag, and a removing station, in which the bag is removed from the transport wheel, are provided distributed in a circumferential direction around the transport wheel, wherein each holder of the plurality of holders has associated therewith a thread channel connectable to a source of vacuum and a source of overpressure and adapted to receive the thread connected to the bag;
wherein the thread channel has a thread opening for introducing the thread and an opposite air guide opening, which can be brought into operative connection with a vacuum opening or an overpressure opening as a result of a rotation of the transport wheel.