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Abstract

A vertical-type filling and packaging machine for filling and packaging a filling material in a tubular film of resin has a pair of squeezing rollers rotatably disposed one on each side of the tubular film filled with a filling material. The squeezing rollers press against the tubular film to clamp and feed the tubular film downwardly and create an unfilled region in the tubular film. A heat sealing mechanism which is disposed downwardly of the squeezing rollers for heat-sealing and severing the unfilled region has a heater bar for heat-sealing the unfilled region and a cooling bar for cooling the portion which has been heat-sealed by the heater bar. The heater bar and the cooling bar are successively pressable against a portion of the unfilled region while the tubular film is being held at rest. A cutting device, which may be an independent cutting blade or a triangular protrusion on the heater bar, severs the heat-sealed portion, thereby producing a sacked product. A plurality of film support members are disposed downwardly of the heat-sealing mechanism for gripping and holding a lower end of the unfilled region from the time the unfilled region is heat-sealed until the unfilled region is severed by the heat sealing mechanism.

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