Flexible funnel for filling a pouch with a product
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국가/구분
United States(US) Patent
등록
국제특허분류(IPC7판)
B65B-039/02
B65B-039/00
B65B-001/04
B65B-043/16
B65B-043/18
B65B-043/30
B65B-043/46
B65B-043/50
B65B-051/14
B65B-061/28
출원번호
US-0032230
(2013-09-20)
등록번호
US-9771174
(2017-09-26)
발명자
/ 주소
Murray, R. Charles
출원인 / 주소
Pouch Pac Innovations, LLC
대리인 / 주소
Dinsmore & Shohl LLP
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A flexible funnel positioned at a filling station of a fill machine. The flexible funnel directs a product dispensed at the filling station of the filling machine into a pouch. The flexible funnel having a rigid upper portion and a plurality of fingers. The rigid upper portion includes an open top e
A flexible funnel positioned at a filling station of a fill machine. The flexible funnel directs a product dispensed at the filling station of the filling machine into a pouch. The flexible funnel having a rigid upper portion and a plurality of fingers. The rigid upper portion includes an open top end and an open bottom end. Each of the plurality of elongated fingers hingedly connected to the upper portion. The rigid upper portion has a regular polygon shape having a plurality of sides, and each of the plurality of fingers is individually articulatable with respect to one of the plurality of sides of the upper rigid portion.
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1. A flexible funnel positioned at a filling station of a fill machine, said flexible funnel directing a product, dispensed at said filling station, into a pouch, said flexible funnel comprising: a rigid upper portion having an open top end and an open bottom end, the rigid upper portion having a re
1. A flexible funnel positioned at a filling station of a fill machine, said flexible funnel directing a product, dispensed at said filling station, into a pouch, said flexible funnel comprising: a rigid upper portion having an open top end and an open bottom end, the rigid upper portion having a regular polygon shape having a plurality of sides;a plurality of elongated fingers, each of said plurality of fingers being hingedly connected to an exterior surface of one of said plurality of sides of said rigid upper portion, each of said plurality of fingers is individually articulable in a radial direction; andan annular elastic member that extends around an outer surface of each of said plurality of fingers to partially restrain movement of said plurality of fingers,wherein each of said plurality of sides of said rigid upper portion tapers from said open top end to said open bottom end such that said open top end is larger than said open bottom end. 2. The flexible funnel of claim 1, wherein each of said plurality of fingers includes an upper end and an opposite a lower end, and wherein each of said upper ends of said plurality of fingers is hingedly connected to a portion of said open bottom end. 3. The flexible funnel of claim 2, wherein each of said plurality of sides having one of a hook or a slot positioned at said open bottom end, and each of said plurality of fingers having the other of said hook or slot positioned at said upper end of each of said plurality of fingers, and wherein each of said slots receives one of said hooks to hingedly connect one of said plurality of fingers to each of said plurality of sides. 4. The flexible funnel of claim 3, wherein each of said plurality of fingers tapers from said upper end to said lower end. 5. The flexible funnel of claim 3, wherein said elastic member retains said plurality of fingers into a generally frustoconical shape. 6. The flexible funnel of claim 5, wherein each of said plurality of fingers includes a tab extending from said outer surface, each of said tabs receives a portion of said elastic member to prevent movement of said elastic member in a longitudinal direction of said flexible funnel. 7. A fill machine for filling a pouch with a product, said fill machine comprising: a loading station into which the pouch is loaded into said fill machine;a filling station; anda flexible funnel positioned at said filling station, said flexible funnel having a rigid upper portion, a plurality of fingers, and an annular elastic member, said rigid upper portion having an open top end and an open bottom end, the rigid upper portion having a regular polygon shape having a plurality of sides, each of said plurality of elongated fingers is hingedly connected to an exterior surface of one of said plurality of sides of said rigid upper portion, said annular elastic member extends around an outer surface of each of said plurality of fingers to partially restrain movement of said plurality of fingers;wherein said flexible funnel directs the product dispensed at said filling station into the pouch,wherein each of said plurality of sides of said rigid upper portion tapers from said open top end to said open bottom end such that said open top end is larger than said open bottom end. 8. The fill machine of claim 7, wherein each of said plurality of fingers includes an upper end and an opposite a lower end, and wherein each of said upper ends of said plurality of fingers is hingedly connected to a portion of said open bottom end. 9. The fill machine of claim 8, wherein each of said plurality of sides having one of a hook or a slot positioned at said open bottom end, and each of said plurality of fingers having the other of said hook or slot positioned at said upper end of each of said plurality of fingers, and wherein each of said slots receives one of said hooks to hingedly connect one of said fingers to each of said plurality of sides. 10. The fill machine of claim 9, wherein each of said plurality of fingers tapers from said upper end to said lower end. 11. The fill machine of claim 7, wherein said elastic member retains said plurality of fingers into a generally frustoconical shape. 12. The fill machine of claim 11, wherein each of said plurality of fingers includes a tab extending from said outer surface, each of said tabs receives a portion of said elastic member to prevent movement of said elastic member in a longitudinal direction of said flexible funnel. 13. The fill machine of claim 12, wherein said flexible funnel is reciprocatingly moveable in a vertical direction such that during a filling operation at said filling station said flexible funnel is lowered such that a portion of said flexible lower portion enters an interior of the pouch, and wherein upon completion of said filling operation said flexible funnel is raised to withdrawal said flexible lower portion from the pouch interior. 14. A flexible funnel positioned at a filling station of a fill machine, said flexible funnel directing a product, dispensed at said filling station, into a pouch, said flexible funnel comprising: a rigid upper portion having an open top end and an open bottom end, the rigid upper portion having a regular polygon shape having a plurality of sides, each of said plurality of sides having a hook on an exterior surface of said plurality of sides of said rigid upper portion, said hook of each of said plurality of sides positioned above said open bottom end of said rigid upper portion;a plurality of elongated fingers, each of said plurality of fingers having a slot that engages with said hook on said plurality of sides of said rigid upper portion such that each of said plurality of fingers is hingedly connected to one of said plurality of sides of said rigid upper portion, each of said plurality of fingers is individually articulable; andan annular elastic member that extends around an outer surface of each of said plurality of fingers to partially restrain movement of said plurality of fingers.
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