How Does a Vertical Form Fill Machine Work?

As the time has passed and the industrial technology has developed, vertical form fill seal machine has started becoming more famous for the packaging of industrial goods. You might be thinking why people nowadays use vertical form fill seal machine? Well, it is because this machine save the time consumed in the packaging of goods and is super economical. If you are also one of the people who wish to know more about the vertical form fill machine, here is a complete guide we have assembled for your ease.

What is a Vertical Form Fill Seal Machine?

A vertical form fill seal machine is a type of machine that fills in the pouched with a vertical structure and style. This machine has a main purpose that is to pack and process the food and non-food products while providing a better, convenient, and an effective way to pack these goods in an automated way. This also helps in saving a lot of timing.

Although there are many different types of vertical packaging machines, yet vertical form fill seal machine is one of those which integrated multi-function bag filling, making, sealing and also the date printing procedures. It guarantees the vertical form fill seal machine to run smoothly with its servo motor film pulling the automated bias correction when the film is in its pulling process. Both the positions of the sealing, horizontally and vertically, use the pneumatic cylinder or servo motor with reasonable moves.

The vertical form fill seal machine is an amazing multi-function machine used in various industries, including sugar, pet food, coffee, tea, yeast, snacks, fertilizers, feedstuff, vegetables and etc. The best thing about the vertical form fill seal machine is its compact design and advanced electrical control.

To achieve and meet the demand for sealing different pouch styles the vertical form fill seal machine has been improved to work accordingly. There are many new gadgets the machine has added which helps in making plenty of new kinds of pouches. Some of the example includes the pillow pouch, gusset sachet, and quad sealed bag. Other than that the vertical form fill seal machine has another combination of filler, it is also known as the filling device, weigh filler, volumetric cup filler, pump filler, auger filler and etc.

What are the Main Components of a Vertical Form Fill Seal Machine?

The main components of a VFFS packing machine include:

· Film pulling system

· Film sensor

· Bag former

· Date printer

· Pouch cut

· Sealing jaws

· Control cabinet

In order to know more about the components of the VFFS packing machine it is very important to talk about the structure of this machine first. Afterwards it would become easier to know the working of a VFFS packing machine.

How Does Vertical Form Fill Seal Machine Work?

The procedure of packaging takes start with a large roll of plastic film that compounds the plastic film and turned it into a bag, it fills into it the bulk of product, and then seals it. This entire process is an action that has a speed of packing 40 bags within a minute.

Film Pulling System

This system comprises of a tensioner and an unwinding roller. There is a long film which is rolled and looks like a roll, in general called as a roll of film. In the vertical machine, usually the film is laminated PE, aluminum foil, PET, and paper.on the back if the VFFS packing machine, the roll stock film will be placed on the unwinding roller.

There are motors present in the machine that pull and drive the film on the reels of the pulling system of the film. It works perfectly while creating a constant motion of pulling the reel smoothly and reliably.

Printer

After the film is taken back into its position, the photo eye will pick the deepest color tag and print it on the roll stock of the film. Now it will start printing, date, production code and the rest of the things on the film. There are two kinds of printer for this purpose: one of them is black color ribbon, and the other one is TTO that is the thermo transfer overprint.

Bag Former

When the printing is completed, it then moves ahead into the pouch former. Different sizes can be produced with this bag former. This bag former can also fill in the pouches; the bulk material is filled into the pouch through this pouch former.

Filling and Sealing of Bags

There are two types of sealing devices used for sealing the pouches. One is the horizontal sealer and the other is the vertical sealer. When the bags are sealed, the weighed bulk products will now be filled into the bag sealing.

There is another machine that is needed to be used as the VFFS packing machine packs the goods from the industry.

Where to Get These Machines From?

Smart Weigh Packaging Machinery Co.Ltd is the producer of the design and manufacturing of a multi-head weigher, linear weigher, and the other packaging solutions, like Vertical form fill seal machine.

Smart Weigh offers the best quality VFFS packing machines, with the new exterior appearances. More than 85% of its spare parts are made up of stainless steel. Its longer film pulling belts are more than stable. The touch screen it comes with is easy to move and the machine works with minimum noise.

Conclusion

Above in the article we have talked about everything you need to know about VFFS packing machine. If you are looking for the best stop to get the machine for your industry goods packaging, Smart weigh provides you with the best VFFS packing machine along with the multihead weigher or linear weigher. You can get high quality result and reduce the amount of time needed for packaging in the industry.

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