Form, fill and seal apparatus

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EP 0 562 690 A3

(12)	EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88)	Date of publication A3:
	01.12.1993 Bulletin 1993/48

(43)	Date of publication A2:
	29.09.1993 Bulletin 1993/39

(21)	Application number: 93200834.5

(22)	Date of filing: 23.03.1993

(51)	International Patent Classification (IPC)⁵: B65B 9/20

(84)	Designated Contracting States:
	AT BE CH DE DK ES FR GB GR IE IT LI LU MC NL PT SE

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Priority:

23.03.1992 NL 9200526
23.03.1992 NL 9200527

(71)	Applicant: HACHMANG MACHINES B.V.
	NL-2211 XV Noordwijkerhout (NL)

(72)	Inventor:
	Hachmang, Hendricus Cornelus Nicolaas NL-2211 VA Noordwijkerhout (NL)

(74)	Representative: Ferguson, Alexander et al
	Octrooibureau Vriesendorp & Gaade, P.O. Box 266 NL-2501 AW The Hague NL-2501 AW The Hague (NL)

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(54)	Form, fill and seal apparatus

(57) Apparatus (1) for forming bags from a web (B) of synthetic film, filling them with a product and sealing them, comprising forming means (8, 33) for transforming a fed flat web of heat sealable material into a tubular form with overlapping margins, first heat sealing means (14) for forming a longitudinal sealing seam in the formed tube at the overlapping margins by heat sealing and second heat sealing means (15) for forming transverse sealing in the formed tube by heat sealing, as well as means (16, 19) for supplying a strip (S) of the same material up to and parallel to the tubularly formed web at a location upstream from the second heat sealing means which form the transverse sealing seam and downstream from the location where the film web is transformed to a tube.

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