Abstract

The apparatus for packaging fruit and vegetable products in mesh-material bags comprises a tubular member (3) suitable to gravity feed the fruit and vegetable products to be packaged, on whose external surface a mesh material is suitable to be applied. A welding and cutting unit (10) arranged at the exit of the tubular member (3) is suitable to carry out in sequence the welding and the cutting of respective portions of mesh material designed to form individual bags. A feeding unit (11) brings following sections of mesh material in correspondence to a filling area with the fruit and vegetable products. The feeding unit (11) comprises gripping tools (12) suitable to clutch the mesh material and to be operated alternatively from a drawn-back gripping position and an advanced release position of the mesh material, for the controlled feeding of a corre¬ sponding section of said mesh material.

IPC Classes  ?

• B65B 9/15 - Enclosing successive articles or quantities of material, in preformed tubular webs, or in webs formed into tubes around filling nozzles, e.g. extruded tubular webs the preformed tubular webs being stored on filling nozzles
• B65B 25/04 - Packaging fruit or vegetables