Installation for packaging food products in bags made from flexible plastic material, and food product packaged by means of the said installation

摘要

The present invention relates to an installation for packaging food products in bags made from flexible plastic material, applicable particularly to the packaging of long-shelf-life sandwich loaves. This installation is characterised in that it comprises a station for opening the lips 5a of the bags 5 comprising, above the side of the conveyor 1 where the lips 5a of the bags 5 delimiting their open ends are located, means 9, 10, 11 for separating the two lips 5a of each bag from one another in the vertical direction and means 12, 13 for then exerting horizontal and longitudinal forces in opposite directions inside the open end of each bag 5 so as to stretch this open end longitudinally. IMAGE