Packaging method and means
First Claim
1. A method of producing twin compartment packets, comprising the steps of dividing each of a pair of tubular webs along its length into a series of discrete compartments, locating said tubular webs in overlapping relationship with their compartments in register, joining the webs at the divisions between the compartments and, after said joining of the webs, severing the interconnected pairs of compartments from the webs as separate twin-compartment packets.
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Abstract
Twin compartment packets, e.g. tea bags, are formed with the compartments connected at the heads of the packet and optionally at the tails. The packets are produced from a pair of compartmented tubular webs that are brought together with the compartments in register, the webs then being interconnected at the compartment end seals and severed at those seals to form the separate packets. Apparatus for performing the process deposits doses of tea at spaced intervals onto the two separate webs before forming them into the tubular compartmented webs, brings the compartments of the two webs into register, interconnects the registered compartments, and separates the interconnected compartments into individual packets while the web advances continously through the apparatus. The process is capable of high production rates because the webs are able to move through the successive stages at a uniform speed.
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- 1. A method of producing twin compartment packets, comprising the steps of dividing each of a pair of tubular webs along its length into a series of discrete compartments, locating said tubular webs in overlapping relationship with their compartments in register, joining the webs at the divisions between the compartments and, after said joining of the webs, severing the interconnected pairs of compartments from the webs as separate twin-compartment packets.
- 11. Apparatus for forming twin-compartment packets from a pair of compartmented webs, comprising means for feeding the webs in overlapping relationship with pairs of compartments of the respective webs in register, and means for connecting the pairs of compartments together at least at one end of each pair of mutually registered compartments and means for separating the connected pairs of compartments from the webs to produce the individual packets.
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