Packaging machine

Claim 1

A MACHINE FOR FORMING A PLURALITY OF INDIVIDUAL SEALED PACKAGES SIMULTANEOUSLY, SAID MACHINE COMPRISING A FIRST CONVEYOR FOR MOVING A SHEET HAVING A PLURALITY OF CUPS FORMED THEREIN AND ARRANGED IN ROWS, MEANS FOR DRIVING SAID CONVEYOR, A WAXING MECHANISM OPERATIVELY CONNECTED TO SAID CONVEYOR FOR APPLYING AN ADHESIVE COATING TO SAID SHEET IN THE AREA SURROUNDING EACH OF SAID CUPS, A FILLING UNIT MOUNTED ABOVE SAID CONVEYOR, MEANS OPERATIVELY CONNECTING SAID DRIVING MEANS TO SAID FILLING UNIT WHEREBY SAID FILLING UNIT IS ADAPTED TO FILL EACH ROW OF CUPS SIMULTANEOUSLY AS SAID ROWS OF CUPS ARE MOVED PAST THE FILLING UNIT, MEANS FOR ADHERING A COVER TO SAID SHEET TO SEAL EACH OF SAID CUPS, A PLURALITY OF SLITTING DISKS OPERATIVELY CONNECTED TO SAID FIRST CONVEYOR FOR SLITTING SAID SHEET AND THE COVER ADHERED THERETO INTO A PLURALITY OF STRIPS OF PACKAGES, A STATIONARY BED, A SECOND CONVEYOR ALIGNED WITH SAID FIRST CONVEYOR FOR MOVING SAID STRIPS OF PACKAGES ON TO SAID STATIONARY BED, A CROSS CONVEYOR FOR MOVING SAID STRIPS OF PACKAGES ALONG SAID STATIONARY BED TRANSVERSELY OF SAID FIRST AND SECOND CONVEYORS, A CROSS SLITTER OPERATIVELY CONNECTED TO SAID CROSS CONVEYOR FOR SLITTING EACH OF SAID STRIPS INTO INDIVIDUAL PACKAGES, A TRAY CONVEYOR FOR MOVING A PLURALITY OF TRAYS INTO ALIGNMENT WITH SAID STATINARY BED IN A PLANE BELOW THE PLANE OF SAID STATIONARY BED, MEANS FOR MOVING SAID TRAYS IN A PATH PARALLEL TO AND BELOW THE PATH OF SAID INDIVIDUAL PACKAGES, AND MEANS FOR SIMULTANEOUSLY DIRECTING SAID INDIVIDUAL PACKAGES FORMED FROM EACH STRIP OF PACKAGES INTO SAID TRAYS AS SAID TRAYS AND INDIVIDUAL PACKAGES ARE MOVED IN SAID PARALLEL PATHS.