PACKAGING MECHANISM FOR VEGETABLE AND THE LIKE

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a packaging mechanism which mechanically performs an action such as opening a packaging bag or a band-shape ring material for packaging by a mechanical force, and providing a state of waiting for the charging of a vegetable, and manually performs an action such as charging the vegetable into the bag or the ring material by gripping a set of the bag and the ring material and the vegetable, and can greatly rationalize a bag packing work or a band placing work for vegetables and so forth. SOLUTION: This packaging mechanism for vegetables and so forth is equipped with a casing 1, and a bottom lid body 7 which forms the bottom of the casing 1 and is formed to be freely openable/closable. In this case, the casing 1 has double walls 2 and 3 which are formed into an approximately annular shape in the plane view, and a ventilation part 5 by a hole or a slit for ventilation is formed on the peripheral wall 2 on the internal side, and at the same time, a suction port 6 of an external air suction means 9 is connected with the wall 3 on the external side. In this packaging mechanism, the air suction means 9 is driven under a state wherein the bottom lid body 7 is closed, and a suction force is applied to the annular double wall 4, and the suction force is applied to the ventilation part 5. Thus, the packaging mechanism is constituted in such a manner that the flexible bag B made of a vinyl or the like or the band-shape ring material R being thrown into the casing is opened along the inner peripheral wall 2. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI