ARTICLE FEEDING DEVICE FOR HORIZONTAL BAG MAKING AND FILLING MACHINE

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To facilitate maintenance by moving a feeding conveyor directly bringing into contact with an article to the outside without installing/removing a film and a bag-making means. SOLUTION: A moving means 22 is slidably arranged on fixed guides 28 and 28 arranged on a frame in the front and behind direction. An elevating body 38 is arranged in a moving-up and down state on a base 36 arranged on second sliders 34 and 34 of the moving means 22. The feeding conveyor 18 is detachably arranged the elevating body 38. The feeding conveyor 18 moves up and down between an article feeding position capable of transferring an article W supplied from a supply conveyor 12 into a cylindrical film F while facing a space and a descended position separated below rather than the article feeding position so that the elevating body 38 is moved up and down by an air cylinder 56. The feeding conveyor 18 at the descended position is pulled out at a pulling-out position separated to a side of the outside at this side as one side of a bag-making means 10 so that an operation handle 46 is pulled in at this side by holding the operation handle 46. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT