Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for the formation of stacks of packagings (152) by stacking infusion bags (140), in which the infusion bags (140) are removed from a conveying stretch (100) on which the infusion bags (140) provided one behind the other are supplied to a removal station (102) in which the infusion bags (140) are removed from the conveying stretch (100) and are arranged resting against one another to form the stack of packagings (100) in a stack holding device (122; 300) which is emptied when a number of infusion bags (140) forming the stack of packagings (152) has been reached, where the removal of the infusion bags (140) from the conveying stretch (100) is not interrupted when the stack holding device (122; 300) is being emptied and at least one infusion bag (140) removed there is arranged upstream of the stack holding device (122; 300).

Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for the production of bags (8) filled with infusible material having a base plate (50) which separates a drive side (54) from an operating side (52), where a bag-production device is provided on the operating side (52) in which a batch of the infusible material is placed onto the bag material (25) which is shaped into a tube and the tube sections are processed to form closed bags (8), where the bag production device is provided in a work space (68) between the base plate (50) and at least one protective door (56). In order to improve the cleanliness within the work space, the present invention proposes a ventilation device (74) for generating an air flow in the work space (68).

Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for manufacturing a pouch containing a brewable material accommodated in a wrapping, comprising a pouch manufacturing device adapted to manufacture a pouch containing brewable material, and a sealing station with jaw elements forming opposing sealing surfaces acting on the wrapping from opposite sides for sealing the pouch. The device according to the invention allows a more economical production of a packaging unit comprising a pouch in the wrapping and has a trough-shaped recess in which a helically laid heating conductor is accommodated.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for making a pouch received in a wrapping, comprising a pouch making device which is adapted to produce a pouch containing brewable material in a water-permeable wrapping, and comprising a sealing station with two sealing jaws movable relative to each other for sealing the pouch in a wrapping formed by a wrapping material. This device is characterized in that it comprises a pouch handling device for removing the finished pouch from the pouch making device and a wrapping material handling device for handling the wrapping material during the U-shaped wrapping of the wrapping material, wherein the handling device and the wrapping material handling device are adapted such that the pouch held by the pouch handling device and the wrapping material held by the wrapping material handling device are introduced into the sealing station.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for transporting ready-cut and filled pieces of tube. In order to simplify the structural design of a device for transporting ready-cut and filled pieces of tube within a machine for producing double-chamber bags filled with brewable material, having a transport wheel, which has distributed over its circumference a plurality of double-chamber bag forming sets comprising a leading arm and a trailing arm and a profile part provided therebetween and being radially movable and supporting a bottom of a double-chamber bag, and which is rotatably mounted under a cover arranged in the vicinity of the upper vertex of the transport wheel, the present invention proposes that the arms are swivelably mounted eccentrically to the axis of rotation of the transport wheel and that the arms of adjacent double-chamber bag forming sets are swivelably mounted on a common swivel axis.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for manufacturing a pouch containing a brewable material accommodated in a wrapping, comprising a pouch manufacturing device adapted to manufacture a water-permeable pouch containing brewable material, and comprising a sealing station with two sealing jaws movable relative to one another for sealing the pouch in the wrapping placed in a U-shape around the pouch, wherein the sealing jaws are configured to form longitudinal seals (L) lying opposite one another and a transverse seal (Q) extending transversely thereto on the wrapping, wherein at least one sealing jaw comprises first and second sealing jaw elements each configured to form one of the longitudinal seals (L) and a segment of the transverse seal (Q).

Abstract: The present invention relates to a simplified device and a process-technically simplified and also more rapidly applicable method for transporting readily cut and filled hose pieces within a machine for producing pouches filled with brewable material. The device according to the invention has a transport wheel which has several supports distributed over its circumference, each holding a pouch which are pivotally mounted on the transport wheel. In the method according to the invention, a hose piece for forming a pouch with at least one chamber between a head and a bottom is inserted in the radial direction into a support of the transport wheel. In a removal station the pouch is removed radially from the transport wheel with the bottom leading.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a pouch and a method for making the same. In the inventive method, which is adapted to produce pouches having a limited amount of fusible material, a heat-sealable cord is arranged on a web forming confronting side surface of each pouch. Those confronting side surfaces are fused by heating the heat-sealable cord. The present invention furthermore provides a pouch, in particular containing a brewable or extractable commodity such as tea, with a pocket defined between confronting side surfaces of a web. The pouch of the present invention can have a limited amount of fusible material as the confronting side surfaces are joined by solidified melt of a heat-sealable cord arranged in vicinity of at least one edge of the pouch.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for making pouches providing a continuous web; folding the web to provide confronting side surfaces joined along a bottom edge; forming a vertical seal between the confronting side surfaces, thereby providing a series of adjacent pockets having opposite side walls with each pocket having an unsealed opening along a top edge; filling the pockets through the unsealed opening with material; sealing the unsealed opening. In the inventive method, which facilitates handling of the continuous web forming the pouches, the web is perforated by a perforation between a leading length piece of the web adapted to form a leading pocket and a trailing length piece of the web adapted to form a trailing pocket, and the distance between a trailing edge of the leading length piece and a leading edge of a trailing length piece is increased for tearing the leading and the trailing lengths pieces apart at the perforation.

Abstract: This invention concerns an infusion bag, especially for tea, which has a top part with folded down corners and a middle part folded over it, to which a string with two free ends is attached that goes from one side of the top part through a hole in the folded down parts forming a loop on the other side of the top part and comes back, whereby the two free ends are drawn up through the loop laid over the top edge of the infusion bag and pulled to form a knot. The solution in the invention is characterized by the fact that two holes are made in the top part at a lateral distance next to one another, on the left and right of the longitudinal axis of the bag; each hole goes through a folded down corner and the middle of the top part; by the fact that the string forms a loop and one end goes through one hole and the other end through the second hole; by the fact that the loop is laid over the top edge of the infusion bag, and both ends of the string go up through the loop to form a double knot.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a device for knotting the end of a thread to a flat object containing two spaced holes for the knot. The method provides the thread located in front of the holes is pulled to the other side of the object while forming loops, and in that the loop is rotated by at least 270°. Subsequently the end of the thread is pulled through this loop and the knot that is formed is tightened. The device provides three tools, specifically two bars and a gripper.

Abstract: This invention concerns an infusion bag, especially for tea, which has a top part with folded down corners and a middle part folded over it, to which a string with two free ends is attached that goes from one side of the top part through a hole in the folded down parts forming a loop on the other side of the top part and comes back, whereby the two free ends are drawn up through the loop laid over the top edge of the infusion bag and pulled to form a knot. The solution in the invention is characterized by the fact that two holes are made in the top part at a lateral distance next to one another, on the left and right of the longitudinal axis of the bag; each hole goes through a folded down corner and the middle of the top part; by the fact that the string forms a loop and one end goes through one hole and the other end through the second hole; by the fact that the loop is laid over the top edge of the infusion bag, and both ends of the string go up through the loop to form a double knot.

Abstract: An infusion bag for preparing tea including a suspension unit having a grasping area and at least two chambers for containing an amount of a substance, the chambers each having a top side and being connected to one another at respective top sides to form a common edge. The chambers are connected to the suspension unit at the common edge and are turned away from the grasping area. The suspension unit is preferably longer than the chambers.

Abstract: This invention relates to a process for the continuous production of beverage filter bags, especially tea bags with a hanging strip made from a carrier sheet material and with at least one pocket which consists of a filter material and is closed on all sides, contains at least one portion of a beverage substance, and is connected to the hanging strip; whereby individual beverage-substance portions are deposited in a row on a continuous web of filter paper, a sleeve is formed, at least one string of consecutive, contiguous pockets, each containing one portion of the substance, is produced by individually sealing them off with a transverse seam, said transverse seam including both the trailing seam of one pocket and the leading seam of the following pocket, with perforations between the two seams along which neighboring pockets can be separated in the course of the process; the individual pocket is separated from the string of pockets; the pocket separated from the string of pockets is connected to a hanging-st

Abstract: This invention concerns a method and a device for stacking and packing groups of infusion bags, especially for making tea, whereby in continuous production infusion bags arranged one after another in a series in a strand are separated, their speed of movement is reduced and they are put in a position suitable for making a stack, whereby the infusion bags are arranged one after another in such a way that they at least partly overlap in their subsequent direction of movement.

Abstract: This invention concerns a device for transporting a strand of carrier material which is connected, at least on one side, to individual chambers made of filter paper material, spaced apart, following one after another, closed on all sides, containing a quantity of substance and composed of a strip of carrier material, with at least two independently driven belts, one segment of which runs at least partly parallel to the strand of carrier material and having cams spaced apart on the side facing the strand of carrier material, whereby they grasp the strand of carrier material between the chambers and/or in the area where one chamber is connected to the strand of carrier material, working along with a support, and transport it with the movement of the belts.

Abstract: A method for transferring filled tea bags from a single track tea packaging machine to a two-track processing machine includes the steps of feeding tea bags in single file to a transfer station and positioning each tea bag individually therein. The tea bags are deposited alternatingly to the left and to the right onto a left and a right track of the two-track transporting table by pivoting the tea bags in sequential movements about a first axis and about a second axis, wherein the first and second axes extend transverse to one another. The tea bags are then transported on the left and right tracks in double file to the processing machine.

Abstract: A device for packing packs of filled tea bags has a channel for collecting filled tea bags to form a stack. The channel has a first stack holder for securing the leading tea bag and a first stack pusher for advancing the completed stack. A rotary device has two cassettes for receiving the completed stack. A transporting device has a second stack holder and a second stack pusher for transporting the completed stack from the rotary device after rotation into a position above the box for packing. A pushing device for pushing the completed stack into the box is provided. A tea bag feeding device feeds individual tea bags to the channel for forming the stack. Two oppositely arranged retaining fingers are positioned at an upstream end of the channel. A tea bag holder is positioned in an initial position at the beginning of forming a new stack at the upstream end of the channel and is displaceable in the longitudinal direction of the channel.

Abstract: An arrangement for supplying and dosing a loose filling material comprises a dosing wheel rotatable in a predetermined direction and having a plurality of dosing chambers movable along a movement path, forming a filling chamber arranged above the movement path of the dosing chamber and limited from below by the dosing wheel and in the direction of rotation by an end wall having a lower edge, a stripper arranged in the region of the lower edge and abutting against the dosing wheel. Means is provided for substantially maintaining a constant filling pressure over a whole opening cross-section of the filling chamber, the maintaining means including a plurality of members having a stepped configuration and disposed on the end wall of the filling chamber, the members being varied in height in response to variations of filling pressure of the filling chamber, so that the filling pressure substantially remains constant by varying the volume of the filling chamber.

Abstract: A machine for manufacturing tea-filled double-chamber bags from a web of material continuously formed into a tube and on which tea is deposited in portion, the machine comprising cutting means for cutting off tube pieces containing two tea portions, a plurality of arms pivotably arranged on the transporting wheel of the machine for holding the tube pieces, a device for forming a bottom fold of a bag, and a stationary cover located in the area of the upper apex of the transporting wheel and extending in a rotational direction of the wheel at a peripheral surface thereof, the arms having bearing surfaces at their free ends for receiving the tube piece after cutting and pressing it against the underside surface of the cover.