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The film passes over the collar and is joined using a vertical hot iron, a horizontal Irons and blade at the bottom of the formed bag seal the top of the bag thats filled and the bottom of the bag thats filling. When the heater jaws open the cut bag drops (the bottom of the next bag is already formed). The bags dropped onto conveyors and taken to Bosch packing machines. It picked up a flat cardboared box and using a series of steel tines folded and glued the base of the box, the bags of milk dropped in off the conveyor and the box then traveled through anothe couple of metal tyne which folded the box shut + a squirt of glue. Cant remember how many packs per box or boxes per pallet layre but they travelled into an old palletiser which was like an elevator as a layre was built up the layre would lower untill a full pallet was made up. The paletiser was interesting as it used a cam for its control logic. Like an old music box. It had a series of cams and limit switches to time all the machine functions, it was a bit of a bitch to be honest.
Were they Bosch or perhaps Bobst machines?