A method (400) for producing packages (112) holding liquid food products from a web (102) of packaging material, wherein the web (102) comprises a number of blanks (300) placed after one another, wherein each blank corresponds to one package, the method comprising receiving (402) a reel (204) holding the web (102) of packaging material, capturing (402) reel data (210) from a tag (206) attached to the reel (204), transferring (404) the reel data (210) to a printing information database (218), receiving (406) printing information data (PID) (220) related to the reel data (210) from the printing information database (218), printing (408) décors on each of the blanks (300) of the web (102) of packaging material based on information provided via the PID (220) such that a décor provided web (246) is formed, transferring (410) the reel data (210) to a packaging machine information database (224), receiving (412) packaging machine information data (PMID) (226) related to the reel data (210) from the packaging machine information database (224), and forming (414) the packages (112) from the decor provided web (246) in a packaging machine (100) based on information provided via the PMID (226).

A machine for making filter bags of different shapes for infusion products includes: a wheel defining a work surface and rotating about a relative axis; feed stations for placing tags on the work surface, a continuous thread, along a weave path, and a strip of filter material superposing the weave of thread and the tag. A sealing device is located downstream of the feed stations for sealing between the thread, tag and strip of filter material. A feed device moving the strip along a feed line is positioned downstream of the wheel. A station introduces a dose of infusion product in bag and closes the bag. The feed device has two feed rollers, for unwinding the strip, controlled by a control system for adjusting the speed of rotation of the feed rollers as a function of the length of the filter material needed to form the bag.

A bag-making and packaging machine has a film supply unit that supplies film to a bag-making and packaging unit. The film supply unit has a film conveyance mechanism that conveys a first film so that a trailing end portion of the first film heads toward a film splicing position for splicing to a leading end portion of a second film, a first sensor detecting a mark on the first film, a second sensor detecting the mark at downstream, and a controller for the film conveyance mechanism. The controller judges, based on detection of the second sensor, that the trailing end portion of the first film has reached the splicing position and stops conveyance of the first film. The controller controls the conveyance mechanism so that the conveyance speed of the first film before the detection of the mark by the first sensor is faster than the speed after the detection.

To provide a medicine inspection system capable of appropriately outputting an inspection result while minimizing damage and the like to a packaging bag and a medicine. A medicine inspection system 10 includes an inspection device 20 which inspects a numerical quantity and/or a type of a medicine contained in a packaging bag p based on an image photographed of the packaging bag p to be inspected, and a marking device 50 which records an inspection result from the inspection device on the packaging bag p. After the packaging bag p, which has a seal section S formed by pressure bonding an overlapping portion of a packaging paper, is inspected at the inspection device 20, a stamp which indicates the inspection result thereof is output by a marking device 50 onto the seal section S.

To provide a medicine inspection system capable of appropriately outputting an inspection result while minimizing damage and the like to a packaging bag and a medicine. A medicine inspection system 10 includes an inspection device 20 which inspects a numerical quantity and/or a type of a medicine contained in a packaging bag p based on an image photographed of the packaging bag p to be inspected, and a marking device 50 which records an inspection result from the inspection device on the packaging bag p. After the packaging bag p, which has a seal section S formed by pressure bonding an overlapping portion of a packaging paper, is inspected at the inspection device 20, a stamp which indicates the inspection result thereof is output by a marking device 50 onto the seal section S.

In a film supplying device in a package machine, a film drawn out from a film roll is fed downstream between a drive roll and a driven roll. The drive roll is rotatably supported by a first support fixed to a main frame. A second support for rotatably supporting the driven roll is supported on the main frame so as to be rotatable. The second support is movable between a sandwiched position where the driven roll approaches the drive roll to be aligned therewith to hold the film therebetween, and a retract position in which the driven roll is spaced apart from the drive roll.

There is described a web alignment device for aligning a web comprising an engagement surface for supporting the web, a clamp assembly for clamping the web on at least a clamp portion of the engagement surface, an alignment control assembly for controlling a correct alignment of the web. The alignment control assembly comprises a control unit for generating a trigger signal if the web is correctly aligned, a first sensor device for detecting and/or determining a desired position of a first section of the web and to send at least a first signal to the control unit if the first section is positioned in the desired position, and a second sensor device for detecting and/or determining a desired position of a second section of the web and to send a second signal to the control unit if the second section is positioned in the desired position.

The invention relates to a roll take-up device (110) designed for a) taking up a sheetlike composite (101), and b) rolling up or unrolling or both rolling up and unrolling a roll (102) of the sheetlike composite (101); i) a carrier layer (304), ii) a barrier layer (306) and iii) an inner polymer layer (308); wherein, in the roll (102), at least 10 laminas of the sheetlike composite (101) are overlaid on one another from the inside outwards or vice versa; wherein the laminas respectively have the series of layers (304, 306, 308); wherein one layer (306) of the series of layers of the sheetlike composite (101) is an electrically conductive layer.

A bag-making and packaging machine includes a film supply unit that supplies film to a bag-making and packaging unit. The film supply unit has a film roll holding unit that rotatably holds a first film roll, a film temporary placement member on which a vicinity of a leading end portion of a first film wound into the first film roll is manually temporarily placed when attaching the first film roll to the film roll holding unit, a leading end portion detection sensor configured to detect that the leading end portion of the first film is positioned in a prescribed position, and a controller configured to control a rotating mechanism to convey the first film along a predetermined conveyance path until the leading end portion detection sensor detects that the leading end portion of the first film is positioned in the prescribed position.

A bag-making and packaging machine has a film supply unit that supplies film to a bag-making and packaging unit. The film supply unit has a film conveyance mechanism that conveys a first film so that a trailing end portion of the first film heads toward a film splicing position for splicing to a leading end portion of a second film, a first sensor detecting a mark on the first film, a second sensor detecting the mark at downstream, and a controller for the film conveyance mechanism. The controller judges, based on detection of the second sensor, that the trailing end portion of the first film has reached the splicing position and stops conveyance of the first film. The controller controls the conveyance mechanism so that the conveyance speed of the first film before the detection of the mark by the first sensor is faster than the speed after the detection.