US 12,378,020 B2
Bagmaking and packaging apparatus
Ryota Nagashima, Ritto (JP); and Satoshi Hashimoto, Ritto (JP)
Assigned to ISHIDA CO., LTD., Kyoto (JP)
Filed by ISHIDA CO., LTD., Kyoto (JP)
Filed on Nov. 30, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/523,925.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-196189 (JP), filed on Dec. 8, 2022; and application No. 2023-002167 (JP), filed on Jan. 11, 2023.
Prior Publication US 2024/0190598 A1, Jun. 13, 2024
Int. Cl. B65B 9/207 (2012.01); B65B 41/12 (2006.01)
CPC B65B 9/207 (2013.01) [B65B 41/12 (2013.01)] 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A bagmaking and packaging apparatus comprising
a film supply unit disposed in a rear portion of the apparatus and configured to supply sheet-form film;
a former mechanism including a former and a tube and being disposed forward of the film supply unit, the former mechanism configured to form in a tubular shape the sheet-form film supplied from the film supply unit,
a transverse sealing mechanism configured to transversely seal the tubular film in which a product being supplied from above; and
a plurality of upright support posts that form a frame that surrounds at least part of each of the film supply unit, the former mechanism, and the transverse sealing mechanism,
wherein the support posts include a first support post group including a plurality of the support posts disposed on one lateral side of the bagmaking and packaging apparatus in a left and right direction; and a second support post group including a plurality of the support posts disposed on the other lateral side in the left and right direction,
a first support post disposed foremost among the support posts of the first support post group extends from a low position to a position higher than the transverse sealing mechanism and, when viewed from above, is disposed forward of a center of the tube, and
a second support post disposed foremost among the support posts of the second support post group extends from a low position to a position higher than the transverse sealing mechanism and, when viewed from above, is disposed rearward of the center of the tube.