FILLING APPARATUS OF ARTICLE TO BE PACKAGED AND FILLING METHOD OF ARTICLE TO BE PACKAGED IN VERTICAL BAG-FILLING PACKAGING MACHINE OF INTERMITTENT TRANSFERRING TYPE

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a filling apparatus of articles to be packaged and a filing method of the article to be packaged in a vertical bag-filling packaging machine of an intermittent transferring type capable of balancing improvement in filling precision and improvement in productivity and being filled with the articles to be packaged more efficiently as compared with that of a prior art.SOLUTION: When it is determined by a level detecting sensor 24 that a storage level of articles to be packaged in a tank 20 is higher than a predetermined value, replacing work performed by a replacing and metering apparatus 26 is not performed, but an auger screw 22 of an auger type filling apparatus 18 is rotated by a servo motor only by a predetermined rotational angle (number of pulses) to fill the articles to be packaged into a bag 6. On the other hand, when it is determined that the storage level of the articles to be packaged is lower than the predetermined value, the bag 6 is replaced by a chuck 28 of the replacing and metering apparatus 26 in place of a gripper 4, and then the filling is carried out by the auger type filling apparatus 18 while an amount of filling is controlled by a metering unit 30 in reference to an actual metered value. Upon reaching of the metered value to the predetermined value, the filling operation is stopped to get the bag 6 back from the chuck 28 to the gripper 4.