Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus to bend a first and second cross seal of the bag made of a flexible packing material towards the side-wall. The present invention further relates to a packaging machine including the inventive apparatus and a method for producing a bag made of a flexible packaging material.

Abstract: Form-fill-seal machine includes parts for moving a web of packaging material through the machine according to a process path and parts for transforming the web into filled bags, as well as a zipper strip applicator device for supplying a zipper strip for each bag transverse to the process path, by use of a first and a second conveyor, which in the supply direction of the zipper strip are placed one behind the other and are both provided with parts for retaining the zipper strip during supply, a blade being placed between the first and the second conveyor for cutting the zipper strip and the first and the second conveyor being provided with their own first and second drive.

Abstract: An explicit assumption of continuity is used to generate a fuzzy implication operator, which yields an envelope of possibility for the conclusion. A single fuzzy rule A B entails an infinite set of possible hypothese A?B? whose degree of consistency with the original rule is a function of the “distance” between A and A? and the “distance” between B and B?. This distance may be measured geometrically or by set union/intersection. As the distance between A and A? increases, the possibility distribution B* spreads further outside B somewhat like a bell curve, corresponding to common sense reasoning about a continuous process. The manner in which this spreading occurs is controlled by parameters encoding assumptions about (a) the maximum possible rate of change of B? with respect to A? (b) the degree of conservatism or speculativeness desired for the reasoning process (c) the degree to which the process is continuous of chaotic.

Abstract: An explicit assumption of continuity is used to generate a fuzzy implication operator, which yields an envelope of possibility for the conclusion. A single fuzzy rule A B entails an infinite set of possible hypothese A′ B′ whose degree of consistency with the original rule is a function of the “distance” between A and A′ and the “distance” between B and B′. This distance may be measured geometrically or by set union/intersection. As the distance between A and A′ increases, the possibility distribution B* spreads further outside B somewhat like a bell curve, corresponding to common sense reasoning about a continuous process. The manner in which this spreading occurs is controlled by parameters encoding assumptions about (a) the maximum possible rate of change of B′ with respect to A′(b) the degree of conservatism or speculativeness desired for the reasoning process (c) the degree to which the process is continuous of chaotic.