Title: Process and apparatus for supplying pouch-like containers to a filling station

Abstract: An arrangement for supplying pouch-like containers to a filling station of a filling and closing machine, includes a magazine for holding the containers in collapsed form, and an arrangement for removing the containers from the magazine and conveying them in an upright position with their open sides upwardly to a filling station, where the containers are opened by opposed suction members which grip two opposite walls and spread them apart. A device is provided for forming a longitudinal crease in the collapsed containers between the magazine and the conveyor.

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Inventors: Wild, Rudolf (Eppelheim, DT)
Kucherer, Gerhard (Heidelberg, DT)
Stumpf, Friedrich (Mechesheim, DT)

Application Number: 454970
Filing Date: 1974-03-26
Publication_date: 1976-05-11
Assignee: Indag Gesellschaft fur Industrieberdarf (Heidelberg, DT)
Primary Class(es): 53/459 53/384.1, 53/386.1, 53/571
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Primary Examiner: McGehee, Travis S.
Assistant Examiner: Culver, Horace M.
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