Packaging material roll, packing machine using the roll, and commercial goods processing system with the machine

Abstract

A packaging condition for packaging a product using a film roll is stored in a recording medium, and the packaging condition is read by a recording medium reading device in a rotator of a support shaft. In this case, an operator can set an optimum packaging condition at the time of exchange of packaging rolls regardless of his/her skill. Therefore, even an unskilled operator would not set an erroneous packaging condition which may result in additional time loss and film loss.

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TECHNICAL FIELD [0001] The present invention relates to a roll of packaging material mainly for use in packaging a product to be mass produced, a packaging machine that performs packaging using the roll of packaging material, and a product handling system comprising the packaging machine. BACKGROUND ART [0002] A bag forming and packaging machine is conventionally a sanitary and labor-saving machine without requiring much human effort in handling packaging material. There are two types for this bag forming and packaging machine, i.e., a horizontal pillow type bag forming and packaging machine and a vertical pillow type bag forming and packaging machine. [0003] As for the horizontal pillow type bag forming and packaging machine, pieces to be packaged are horizontally supplied into the machine, and pillow type (pillow-shaped) bags are horizontally produced, while the supplied pieces to be packaged are packaged into the bags. [0004] As for the vertical pillow type bag forming and packag...

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Benefits of technology

[0011] It is an object of the present invention to provide a roll of packaging material with which the shortening of downtime is easily achieved, and real-time production management is provided.

Problems solved by technology

In recent years, however, enterprises and the like manufacturing the products are demanding a speed increase in the bag forming and packaging machine for improved productivity, along with shortened downtime during which the manufacture of products is stopped.

In this manner, the conventional bag forming and packaging machine requires a great deal of time in exchanging film rolls and setting packaging conditions.

Moreover, the loss of films used for finding out optimum conditions in exchanging film rolls and setting packaging conditions greatly depend on the skill of the operator: in the case of an unskilled operator, additional loss of time and film loss are produced if he finds out erroneous packaging conditions.

A product handling system using the conventional bag forming and packaging machine, however, does not allow them to know the production result in real time.

For this reason, problems such as delay in communicating the production result and errors in the written information are occurring.

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