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HFFS MACHINE [1 record]

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Record 1 1993-05-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Packaging Machinery and Equipment
CONT

Horizontal form-fill-seal (HFFS) machines ... utilize packaging materials in roll-stock form. The roll is placed on a mandrel on one end of the machine and is fed through a series of rollers.... The web is then drawn over the machine bed and through a forming shoulder. The product is placed on the moving web and the forming shoulder shapes the web around the product into a tube. A back seal is then made by heated rollers....

French

Domaine(s)
  • Machines et équipement d'emballage
DEF

Machine d'ensachage combinant les opérations de formage, d'ensachage et de scellage sur un plan horizontal, c'est-à-dire que le défilement de la pellicule et des paquets remplis se fait en position couchée.

OBS

Proposés d'après "formeuse-ensacheuse-scelleuse verticale" figurant dans le "Vocabulaire des sacs" de l'OLF.

Spanish

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