Method and device for handling bags combined into bundles

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9856043
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14359132

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A method for handling bags (10), in particular wicketed bags, combined into bundles (13) and for feeding the bags (10) to a packaging machine (11), and a corresponding apparatus. In the method and apparatus, the bags (10) are supplied in a plurality of bundles (13) in a magazine (14) arranged upstream of the packaging machine (11); the bundles (13) are arranged on bag carriers (15) in each case such that the bag carriers (15) extend through suspension holes (12) of the bags (10); the bag carriers (15) with the bags (10) located thereon are fed from the magazine (14) to the packaging machine (11); and the bundles (13) are transferred from the bag carriers (15) directly to appropriately arranged receiving pins (28) of a cyclically driven conveying device (29) of the packaging machine (11) and are then filled in the packaging machine (11).

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FOCKE & CO (GMBH & CO KG)SIEMENSSTRASSE 10 VERDEN 27283

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Brandhorst, Bjorn Horstel, DE 3 25
Sachs, Frank Saterland, DE 7 78
Schnecke, Jorg Castrop-Rauxel, DE 1 0

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