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Multi-flavor distribution deck for pouch packaging machine

  • US 5,605,183 A
  • Filed: 12/18/1995
  • Issued: 02/25/1997
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/29/1994
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. In a pouch packaging machine of the type having a continuous strip of pouches moving into and out of a product filling wheel which includes a plurality of moving pouch stations for positioning the moving pouches while they are filled, opening means for opening the top edge of the pouches, a product feed tube associated with each pouch station, each product feed tube comprising an inlet and a nozzle, the product feed tube being movable in synchronous motion with the pouch station for dispensing a product through the nozzle into an open pouch while the pouch is resident at a pouch station, the improvement comprising a multiple flavor distribution deck, comprising:

  • a plate including a hub adapted for mounting the plate to the filling wheel such that the plate is mounted above the filling wheel and is movable therewith;

    at least two channels formed in the plate by upstanding walls, the channels being open at the bottom and top thereof;

    a series of arcuate funnels for each channel, the funnels being mounted on the underside of the plate, each funnel having walls defining a mouth at the upper end and a spout at the lower end, the mouth being in fluid communication with the bottom of the channel while the spout is aligned with an inlet of a product feed tube, the funnel mouths of a series occupying substantially all of its channel; and

    product supply means for metering a desired amount of a first product to the top of one channel and a second product to the top of the other channel.

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