PACKING/FILLING MACHINE

• Main Authors: ISSHIKI, NAOYA, YANO, KEIJI, NAKANISHI, KATSUNORI, LUNDMARK, DENNIS, KINOSHITA, SHIGEHARU
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 13.07.2011
• Subjects: AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING; CONVEYING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL; INDEXING SCHEME ASSOCIATED WITH SUBCLASS B29C, RELATING TO PARTICULARARTICLES; INDEXING SCHEME ASSOCIATED WITH SUBCLASSES B29B, B29C OR B29D, RELATING TO MOULDING MATERIALS; MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGINGARTICLES OR MATERIALS; PACKING; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDEDFOR; SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; STORING; TRANSPORTING; UNPACKING; WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE, IN GENERAL

Provided is a packing/filling machine wherein a forming machine or a lateral sealing machine operating at high speed does not damage the external surface or the longitudinal sealing portion of a packing container, even forming/lateral sealing which presses strongly from the opposite sides at high speed does not have a tendency to vary or oscillate a liquid level, a liquid level control is facilitated, and these functions work effectively during the operation. A packing/filling machine wherein a packing container is produced by forming a packing material in the shape of a web to have the shape of a tube, filling the packing material in the shape of a tube with liquid food up to a predetermined liquid level, and then performing lateral sealing by high-speed clamping by means of a seal jaw and a counter jaw under the liquid level, the machine being further equipped with a diagnostic means that has a pressure flange provided above the position of the lateral sealing under the liquid level and consisting of sterilized gas, in order to detect a vibration propagated when the packing material is clamped by means of the seal jaw and counter jaw and to diagnose the residual quantity of sterilized gas from the vibration thus detected.