Abstract: The invention relates to a device 1 for feeding foil 2 for the manufacture of foil bags with at least one supply roll holder 3 that can be driven with a drive, at least one piece of conveyor equipment 4 for conveying a foil 2 from a supply roll 5 that is held in the supply roll holder 3, at least one foil sensor mechanism 6, which is arranged between the supply roll holder 3 and the conveyor equipment 4, which includes at least one stationary deflection roll 7 and a first and second dancer roll 8, 9, supported in movable supports 10, 11 for turning the foil 2 around, whereby the foil sensor mechanism 6 for regulating the drive of the supply roll holder 3 is formed depending on the distance from the first and/or second dancer roll 8, 9 to the deflection roll 7.

Abstract: The present invention refers to a closing element for a packaging for receiving liquid or paste-like material, especially for film bags, comprising: a closable spout member, a weld member adjoining the closable spout member, and an outlet channel which extends through the weld member and the spout member, and to a film bag comprising such a closing element. To improve the pouring characteristics and for an easier emptying of the contents of the bag, the outlet channel in the weld member extends at least in part in funnel-like manner towards the spout member.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for transferring film bags which are supplied in a plurality of parallel rows to a transfer station, to a conveying means which further transports the film bags in a continuous row substantially in a direction transverse to the direction of supply, the film bags to be handed over being preaccelerated in the direction of movement of the conveying means.

Abstract: Handling stand up bags (2) for beverages, wherein as bags (2) are filled, closed, provided with a drinking straw (3) and, being inserted in a plurality of bags into an outer packaging (4), are discharged, so as to make such a method faster and thus more economic, the stand up bags (2) are transported in a lying position between closing and insertion into the outer packaging (4).

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for sticking, a container, a pocket tape, a method for the production of a pocket tape, a device for the production of a pocket tape, a method for the production of an adhesive tape, an adhesive tape and a device for the production of an adhesive tape. The invention is characterised in that adhesive zones are spaced from one another by non-adhesive zones.

Abstract: Apparatus for inserting a plurality of bags, in particular stand up bags filled with a beverage, into an outer container, including a bag conveyor and a feed conveyor for the container, the bags being insertable into the container under the action of gravity at an insertion point positioned above the feed conveyor. For further improving such an apparatus and for increasing the conveying speed, the bag conveyor can comprise a star conveyor which is rotatable about a substantially horizontal axis and which is provided with receiving compartments that can be loaded and unloaded on the circumference and which receive only a single bag in the conveying direction, and which has the same conveying direction as the feed conveyor above the feed conveyor at the insertion point.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a closure element for a packing for receiving liquid or paste-like material, in particular for a film bag. For an easy opening and re-closing of a closure element which requires little space and tightly closes a packing microbiologically also after the filling process, the closure element comprises a tiltable spout with a spout channel and a spout opening which is closed by the spout in a first tilt position and communicates in a second tilt position of the spout with the spout channel thereof, the spout being connected in the area of the spout opening to a membrane which closes the spout opening and is torn open upon a tilting movement of the spout.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for transferring film bags which are supplied in a plurality of parallel rows to a transfer station, to a conveying means which further transports the film bags in a continuous row substantially in a direction transverse to the direction of supply, the film bags to be handed over being preaccelerated in the direction of movement of the conveying means.

Abstract: The invention relates to a drinking straw attachment device for attaching drinking straws to beverage containers, wherein the drinking straws are fed in the form of a drinking straw band provided with a glue layer. The feeder device shows at least at the point where the cutting device severs two drinking straws from each other a recess matched in its height position with the glue layer and the height extension of which corresponds at least to the width of the glue layer. The invention relates further to a method for attaching drinking straws to beverage containers, wherein the drinking straw band is cut into pieces between each of the two drinking straws with a cutting device in the area of the feeder device, and where the cutting device pierces through the glue layer and the drinking straw band into a recess provided on the feeder device in a height position corresponding to the glue layer and whereby the height extension of the recess corresponds at least to the width of the glue band.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a foil-bag producing and packing apparatus comprising at least two feed means for feeding foil material, a connecting means for connecting the foil material fed, the connecting portions—in a direction transverse to the feed direction—extending over the foil width, a cutting means for cutting the connected foil bags along the connecting portions, and a storing device which directly after the cutting process stores the foil bags substantially in the direction of movement of the cutting edge and stacks the same in a receiving means. Moreover, the invention comprises a corresponding method for producing and packing foil bags.

Abstract: A reclosable drinking straw for flexible or semi-flexible beverage containers including a pot-like closure cap externally mounted on a drinking straw end to be axially displaced between a closed position and an open position, the inner cap bottom portion being designed as a closing element for the drinking straw openings, and the cap wall comprising at least one lateral passage opening which in the open position is in flow communication with the drinking straw opening.

Abstract: Apparatus for handling bags that are conveyed on a first conveyor in an upright position and on a second conveyor in a lying position, particularly for the gentle handling of bags and adapted to the handling of stand up bags, by providing a transfer device between the first and second conveyor, the first conveyor comprising a transfer portion in which the bags are oriented in a substantially horizontal direction in space, and the transfer device comprising a depositing surface for forming a row of lying bags, alone with a gripper for pulling the bags from the first conveyor onto the depositing surface in a substantially straight movement, and a delivery means for delivering the row of bags to the second conveyor.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for producing foil bags, wherein two foils are supplied for forming the side walls of the foil bag, wherein furthermore a bottom foil is supplied to have holes punched thereinto, said holes being spaced apart in the supply direction of the bottom foil at a distance corresponding to the width of a foil bag, wherein a measurement is carried out during the supply process for determining whether punched holes have been produced, and wherein subsequently the side foils and the bottom foil are placed one upon the other and connected to each other, and the foil layer sequence is then cut to form individual foil bags.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for supplying foil material, the apparatus comprising a motor-driven supply roll, a withdrawal means and a consumption sensor provided between the supply roll and the withdrawal means for controlling the drive of the supply roll in response to the consumption of foil material, and at least one stationary deflection roller, at least one sensor roller and a sensor means, the sensor roller being supported and arranged such that it changes the distance from the stationary deflection roller in response to the difference between supply capacity and withdrawal capacity of the foil material, and the sensor means senses said change in distance and accelerates the supply roll when the distance is smaller than a first predetermined distance, and slows down the supply roll when a second predetermined distance is exceeded. Furthermore, the invention relates to a corresponding method for supplying foil material.

Abstract: Compound of the formula (I) wherein R is hydrogen or optionally substituted C1-C6-alkyl, R1 is hydrogen or C1-C6-alkyl, R2 is hydrogen, optionally substituted C1-C6-alkyl or optionally substituted phenyl, the ring D is optionally substituted by one or more identical or different substituents selected from the group consisting of C1-C6-alkyl, C1-C6-alkoxy, halogen, especially F, Cl and Br, and SO3H, m is 0 or 1, n is 1, 2 or 3 and as a function of n X is a mono-, di- or trivalent acyl radical, pyrimidine or 1,3,5-triazine radical which is not fiber-reactive.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for supplying foil material, the apparatus comprising a motor-driven supply roll, a withdrawal means and a consumption sensor provided between the supply roll and the withdrawal means for controlling the drive of the supply roll in response to the consumption of foil material, and at least one stationary deflection roller, at least one sensor roller and a sensor means, the sensor roller being supported and arranged such that it changes the distance from the stationary deflection roller in response to the difference between supply capacity and withdrawal capacity of the foil material, and the sensor means senses said change in distance and accelerates the supply roll when the distance is smaller than a first predetermined distance, and slows down the supply roll when a second predetermined distance is exceeded. Furthermore, the invention relates to a corresponding method for supplying foil material.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of producing foil bags, wherein at least two foils are supplied that serve as side foils of the foil bags, the foils are connected to each other and then cut into individual foil bags, wherein possibly existing differences in the amounts of foil materials provided by the at least two foils in the feed direction for a respective foil bag are eliminated by stretching the foil that provides the smaller amount of foil material for a foil bag, and to a bag-producing apparatus for performing the method.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a sealing apparatus for sealing foil material, the apparatus comprising a foil conveying means and a sealing means including a sealing head which has at least one sealing position for performing the foil sealing operation, an intermediate position in which the sealing head has a predetermined distance from the sealing position, and an inoperative position in which the sealing head has a second predetermined distance from the sealing position that is greater than the first distance. Furthermore, the invention relates to a corresponding sealing method which can be carried out with the sealing apparatus, wherein the sealing head is removed from the foil material to a first distance during the further transporation of the foil material and is removed from the foil material to a second greater distance when the foil sealing operation is interrupted.

Abstract: A filling machine for sheet bags comprising a transportation means including a plurality of transportation elements for the sheet bags, for supplying the sheet bags to an opening station, a filling station, a closing station and a cooling station. The transportation means comprises a first conveying means including a plurality of first transportation elements for feeding sheet bags to the opening station, the filling station and the closing station, and a second conveying means including a plurality of second transportation elements for feeding the sheet bags to the cooling station. A transfer station is provided for transferring the sheet bags from the first conveying means to the second conveying means.

Abstract: Process for the preparation of low-salt liquid dyestuff preparations, characterized in that they are obtained by:a) diazotization of an aromatic amine,b) 2-fold coupling of the diazo component obtained according to a) to I-acid-urea, in the presence of an inorganic base and in the absence of an organic base,c) desalination and, if appropriate, concentration by means of a pressure permeation of the reaction mixture obtained according to b), so that an inorganic salt content of less than 1% by weight is achieved.