Method and device for the automatic filling of bags with articles arriving from a checking station

Abstract

Abstract This invention relates to a process and apparatus for packing articles in bags, at a check-out desk of a self-service retail store, for example. It comprises, downstream of said check-out desk, a reserve of bags in the form of a stack of vertically stacked bags, with their side provided with handles and forming the opening, oriented upwardly, means for guiding a bag lying at the top of the stack, from an inactive position against the stack towards an active, open position, separated and detached from the stack, a conveyor lying from a zone plumb with said stack and terminating at an exit station, said conveyor allowing the bottom of the bag to rest thereon when the bag is full of articles introduced through its upper opening, said conveyor being associated with means for controlling its displacement and each face of a bag being connected to the opposite face of the adjacent bag by a detachable point of connection.

Inventors

• 👤 Pierre Destaintot

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