US 12,434,869 B2
Bagmaking and packaging apparatus and weighing and packaging system
Ryota Nagashima, Ritto (JP); and Toshiharu Kageyama, Ritto (JP)
Assigned to ISHIDA CO., LTD., Kyoto (JP)
Filed by ISHIDA CO., LTD., Kyoto (JP)
Filed on Dec. 27, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/396,699.
Claims priority of application No. 2023-002168 (JP), filed on Jan. 11, 2023.
Prior Publication US 2024/0228081 A1, Jul. 11, 2024
Int. Cl. B65B 1/32 (2006.01); B65B 9/08 (2012.01); B65B 39/00 (2006.01)
CPC B65B 1/32 (2013.01) [B65B 9/08 (2013.01); B65B 39/001 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A bagmaking and packaging apparatus comprising two bagmaking and packaging machines installed side-by-side in a left and right direction, wherein
each of the bagmaking and packaging machines comprises:
a film supply unit that is disposed in a rear portion of the bagmaking and packaging machine;
a former mechanism that is disposed in a front portion of the bagmaking and packaging machine, has a former and a tube, and is configured to form in a tubular shape a sheet-form film supplied from the film supply unit in the rear portion of the bagmaking and packaging machine,
a transverse sealing mechanism that is disposed below the former mechanism and is configured to transversely seal a top and a bottom of the film in the tubular shape into which a product supplied from above is fed, and
a control unit that is configured to control the operations of the film supply unit and the transverse sealing mechanism,
each of the bagmaking and packaging machines is disposed under a discharge chute of a corresponding one of the combination weighing machines of a combination weighing apparatus, the combination weighing apparatus includes two combination weighing machines joined to each other substantially symmetrically in the left and right direction as viewed in a top view and a base member that integrally supports the combination weighing machines, each of the combination weighing machines is configured to supply the product to insides of plural hoppers arranged along part of a circle and is configured to combine and discharge the product being retained inside one or more of the hoppers selected in accordance with a target weight, and
a maximum width of the bagmaking and packaging apparatus when viewed from the front is narrower than a width of the base member.