Abstract: A filling machine (100) is disclosed having a processing unit (600) including a processing station (612, 614, 616) and a conveyor system (601) configured for conveying container precursors through processing station. The conveyor system has comprising a plurality of shuttles or carriers (602) configured for carrying the container precursors along a track (604) through the processing station and a shuttle propulsion system allowing each shuttle to be individually propelled along the track. A corresponding method is also disclosed.

Abstract: A cutting device for perforating a running fibrous material web transversely to the web running direction has a first row of blades with a plurality of tips. A displacement device moves the row of blades with a motion component in the web running direction and a motion component perpendicular to the web running direction. Transverse separation by perforation and subsequent tearing is improved, particularly for heavy fibrous material webs (>250 g/mm2), by providing a second row of blades, which has a plurality of tips and which is also displaceable by a displacement device approximately simultaneously with the first row of blades. Cuts are made in the running fibrous web at a spacing distance between the cuts made by the first row of blades and the cuts made by the second row of blades in the web running direction of at least 1 mm, preferably at least 3 mm.