Form-Fill-Seal for Integrated Package Processing

Eco-friendly packaging solution for food products that allows using biodegradable materials in existing packaging machines. The solution involves creating stackable packs of biodegradable packaging pots that can be used in existing thermoforming/filling/sealing (FFS) machines. The packs have interlocking elements on opposite edges to connect adjacent packs into chains. This allows stacking the packs without additional equipment. The interlocking elements stabilize the stack. The packs can be made from biodegradable materials like molded cellulose. The packs can be filled and sealed using FFS machines without modification. This provides a way to transition to eco-friendly packaging without replacing the existing FFS machines.

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A food processing and packaging system that enhances food preservation, safety, and efficiency by integrating processing and packaging steps. The system has a core structure to transfer liquids and particulates, an adjustable gate to regulate flow, and a scrubbing unit to clean. An actuation mechanism controls the gate opening. This allows precise liquid transfer, prevention of contamination, and temperature management. The integrated design improves efficiency compared to separate processing and packaging steps.

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Eco-friendly packaging material that releases gas without tearing or contamination, and a manufacturing process that reduces complexity, shortens time, increases productivity, and lowers costs. The packaging has sealing sections on opposite sides and a curved section with a cutout in between. This forms an internal space with an airflow path. The cutout allows gas to escape when contents expand. The manufacturing involves stacking fabrics, aligning centers, simultaneous vertical sealing/punching, cutting, and horizontal sealing.

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Automatic packaging machine that folds and seals products in customized packages without using preformed packages. The machine has a feeder, folding assembly, and sealing assembly. The feeder supplies material. The folding assembly receives products and wraps the material around them. The sealing assembly seals the wrapped material to form packages. The folding and sealing are synchronized to create customized packages without preformed forms.

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A packaging machine for forming sealed packages filled with pourable products like juice or milk that allows flexible production speeds without modifying the machine. The machine has a feature to maintain hydrostatic pressure inside the tube during package formation without requiring long extensions. It uses a delimiter inside the tube, pressurized auxiliary gas, and level sensing to maintain consistent pressure for proper sealing. The delimiter prevents collapse of the product column. Pressurized auxiliary gas acts on the product column to match the inner environment pressure. Level sensing detects the column height and adjusts the auxiliary gas pressure to compensate for variations. This allows shortening the tube length needed for hydrostatic pressure compared to traditional methods.

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A packaging machine and apparatus for forming packages of pourable products like juice or milk that allows faster and more efficient production compared to existing methods. The machine uses a unique sealing and cutting mechanism to form the packages directly from a sterilized packaging material web. The apparatus has two operative groups that cooperate to form, seal, and cut the tube into individual packages. This eliminates the need for separate tube forming and sealing steps. The packages have transverse sealing bands at each end. The machine sterilizes the web before forming, then advances it into an isolated chamber to seal and cut the packages. This enables high-speed production of aseptic packages without the need for separate sterilization and tube forming steps.

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A liquid and powder pouch packaging device that enables rapid and automated packaging of both liquids and powders in pouches without needing separate machines for each. The device has a main frame with upper and lower spaces. A storage hopper above the upper space holds the liquid or powder. Below the upper space are two pouch loading boxes. The lower space has a moving part that moves pouches along a closed curve path using transfer jigs. The upper space has symmetrically arranged packaging units with content supply units. This allows simultaneous packaging of liquids and powders as the moving part transports pouches between loading and packaging.

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A packaging machine for filling bags with material like food products. The machine has a rotary table with sealing parts that fold and seal a strip of material into bags. The sealing parts move in and out of the rotation path to form the bags. A movable seal part can engage a fixed seal part during rotation to seal the bags, or disengage to allow the material to pass. A guide mechanism moves the movable seal part between sealed and non-sealed positions. This allows the machine to continuously form and fill the bags.

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Packaging method and apparatus for producing sealed packages filled with injectable products like food products. The packaging apparatus has a sterilization unit, a tube forming unit, and a filling unit. Inside an isolated sterile chamber, the apparatus forms a tube from a sterilized web, fills it with the product, and seals it. An auxiliary gas compression unit sterilizes the tube's interior by pressurizing gas between the product column and a separator. This avoids needing long product columns to generate hydrostatic pressure. The pressurized gas sterilizes instead.

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Packaging comestibles like candy directly after forming instead of conditioning them first. The method involves forming the candy into its final shape using a machine, then applying packaging material while the candy is still in contact with the forming station. This eliminates the need for separate conditioning steps and allows continuous in-line packaging. The candy avoids contact with force-generating components during packaging.

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Barrier paper for packaging that allows high-speed filling and sealing of contents while maintaining low-temperature sealing properties. The paper has a laminated structure with a paper base layer, barrier layer, anchor coat, adhesive resin, and sealant layer. The base layer is 50% or more of the weight. The barrier layer traps water vapor and gases. The sealant layer is made of polyolefin resin for low-temp sealing. This allows high-speed bag making and filling at temps like 100-130°C. The paper tear strength is 300-2000 mN.

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Packaging comestibles like candy directly after forming and sizing to eliminate additional handling and reduce breakage. The packaging involves applying two packaging materials, one to each surface of the candy, and then sealing them together to enclose the candy. The candy is continuously conveyed from the forming station to a conveyor with a first packaging roller. This allows immediate packaging without transfer steps. The packaging material can be cut after sealing to size the packaging.

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Packaging material supply system for a bag-forming-fill-sealing machine that allows continuous supply of leading packaging material while setting trailing material without stopping. Multiple reel shafts loaded with packaging material rotate between a feeding position and a standby position. A rotating arm moves reels between a lock position for connecting and a standby position. A pedestal sandwiches leading and trailing material. A movable holding member temporarily fixes trailing material tip. This lets trailing material be set without reel shaft motion affecting feeding.

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Automated packaging system for efficiently and securely packaging multiple items in a carton using a blank sheet. The system involves transporting the items on a conveyor with a blank sheet above them. The blank is folded around the items at the ends to form side panels. An alignment machine then bends the side panels at an angle while doubling over the top cover. This creates a box shape around the items. The folded blank is then sealed to complete the packaging.

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Unprinted inkjet-printable fillable pouch which is used in the food or pet food sector. The pouch includes a multilayer polymer film, a method for producing the pouch, a method for printing the pouch with inkjet-printing and a combined method of producing and printing a fillable pouch.

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A continuous in-line method and system for manufacturing and packaging comestibles like gum that avoids the need for conditioning. The method involves forming the comestible directly on the packaging roller as it moves through the forming station. This eliminates the step of removing the comestible to condition it separately. The packaging material is applied to the comestible while it's still in contact with the forming station. This allows continuous in-line packaging without interruption. The comestible is packaged without cooling, which prevents damage during processing. The in-line packaging also allows for cutting and sealing the packaging materials around the comestible. This enables fully automated, continuous manufacturing and packaging of comestibles without requiring conditioning.

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Linear plastic bottle packaging equipment that integrates injection molding, blow molding, filling, and sealing into a single continuous process to improve efficiency and eliminate separate steps like disinfection and transportation. The equipment has modules in a straight line for injection molding, blow molding, filling, and sealing. It uses a transfer mechanism to move the molded bottles between modules. This allows synchronized filling of multiple bottles at once. The blow molding module uses a preheating mechanism to warm the blanks before molding. The sealing module uses a gland, screw cap, or welding cap to seal the filled bottles.

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A packaging method for cream/processed cheeses that eliminates the need for wrapping the cheese in foil and secondary boxes. The method involves forming a triangular package body from thermoform material, filling it with cheese, then sealing the mouth with a foil sheet using a sealing mechanism. This provides a hermetically sealed package without the extra steps and costs of wrapping in foil. After filling, vibration can be applied to the package to smooth the cheese surface.

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Simplified method and device for packaging small items like candies, tablets, etc. with overlapping folds without multiple transfers. The method involves picking up the item in a rotating workstation, packing it with forming and fixing overlapping folds, then outputting. The device has a rotating head with workstations to hold, pack, and seal the item. This eliminates transfers between heads for complete packaging. The fold fixing is optional, but helps prevent unwrapping. The device can have stationary elements or moving folding mechanisms.

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Packaging machine for high-speed, high-quality packaging of products like pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, and food in bags. The machine forms the bags vertically from a sheet, then horizontally moves the bag rows to fill and seal stations. This allows dosing multiple products without heat exposure. The vertical forming reduces machine length versus horizontal machines. The horizontal movement keeps rows aligned for consistent filling and sealing.

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Continuous packaging system for products like food, cosmetics, etc. that allows producing and selling the packaging in a continuous line. The packaging consists of a series of containers formed by folding and sealing a film. Each container has a closure element like a cap. The containers are separated by die-cut lines. This allows automated production using a machine with features like a movable opener, dosing nozzle, feeder for the closure elements, movable welding jaws, and a cutting unit. The machine operations like filling, sealing, and cutting are synchronized to continuously produce the packaged products.

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A high-speed rotary mask packaging system that dramatically improves the efficiency of packaging masks by automating the process. The system uses a rotating mechanism with grippers to transport masks from a transfer unit to seating stations. Another rotating unit grips and seals pouches from a magazine. The mask and pouch rotary units align for insertion. This allows simultaneous mask loading, pouch loading, pouch sealing, and mask insertion in a continuous loop for rapid packaging.

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Packaging assembly for forming and sealing packages containing a pourable product. The assembly comprises a forming device configured to form and seal a tube, so as to imprint an external shape to the tube, such external shape corresponding to the desired shape of the package, and a sealing device configured to seal the tube at equally spaced cross-sections orthogonal to the tube advancement direction.

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Automated packaging system for containers like vials, bottles, etc. that allows continuous filling and closing without interruptions. The system has multiple robotic arms that coordinate to move containers between filling, closing, and weighing stations. The robots transfer containers one at a time so they can be filled and closed simultaneously. This avoids waiting for robots to finish before starting new cycles. The robots have identical movements to prevent interference. The robotic arms are coordinated by a programmable controller.

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Automatic packaging system for containers like vials, bottles, flasks, etc. that can fill and close containers continuously without stopping. The system has multiple robotic arms coordinated by programmable control to move containers along the packaging line. This allows filling and closing of multiple containers concurrently instead of waiting for one robot to complete. The robots can also move containers between stations autonomously. This reduces dead time compared to single robot systems.

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High-speed packaging machine for forming sealed packages of pourable products like juice, milk, or sauces. The machine has a unique tube forming unit that improves efficiency by allowing the tube to be formed and sealed while the web advances. This eliminates the need for a separate tube forming station and associated movements. The web is sterilized upstream and advanced through an isolated chamber where the tube is formed and sealed in place. This allows faster production speeds compared to traditional packaging lines. The machine also has an atmosphere control unit to maintain sterility during packaging.

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Automatic packaging machine that increases efficiency and reduces defects compared to conventional machines. The machine allows faster packaging speeds by overlapping operations instead of sequential steps. It packs items into a triangular-ended bag, seals the opening, then moves the packaged item to an ejection mechanism to extract it. This avoids waiting for sealing to complete before ejecting. The overlapping steps reduce packaging time compared to separate opening, sealing, and ejection steps.

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Automated sauce packaging system for meal kits and packaged foods that accurately, hygienically, and efficiently fills sauce packets. The system has a stirring chamber, discharge unit, source feeder, and pouch film feeder. The discharge unit pushes sauce out at set amounts using a reciprocating piston. The source feeder transfers ingredients into the chamber. The pouch film feeder seals sauce packets. This allows consistent, automated filling without manual intervention.

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Automated system for packaging bags inside larger bags to efficiently and continuously fill and seal multiple smaller bags into a larger bag. The system has a secondary bag packaging device that receives bags from multiple bag filling stations. It moves the bags into position between two attracting parts, displaces the parts to stagger the sides of the opening, and seals the larger bag around the smaller bags. This allows automated transfer of bags into larger bags without manual intervention.

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Automatic four-side sealing three-dimensional bag packaging machine for efficiently and consistently packaging food products like bread in three-dimensional bags. The machine has a quantitative conveying line with a film supply module, punching device, and three-side sealing module to shape and seal the three-dimensional sides of the bags. The bags are then transferred to a back-end conveyor line for final port sealing. This compact, integrated design allows simultaneous bag formation and food packaging, improving efficiency and quality compared to manual bagging.

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Automatic packaging device for simultaneously filling dissimilar contents like pills and syrup into a divided stick-pack pouch. The device has separate supply units for pills and syrup, a rolling film forming block, and reciprocating sealing blocks to create a divided pouch. The pills and syrup supplies simultaneously feed into the formed pouch as it's sealed.

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Vertical form-fill-seal machine and method for manufacturing double-gusset film packaging bags with contents. The machine efficiently forms and fills the bags by folding, sealing, and correcting the film shape. The bags have a top gusset, bottom gusset, and spout protrusion. The fold width of the top gusset is larger than the bottom gusset to stabilize fill volume. The machine has sections for conveying, filling, correcting, sealing, and cutting the film.

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High speed filling and packaging machine for nested bags. The machine has separate inner and outer bag packaging lines that are synchronized to fill and seal the inner bag inside the outer bag. The inner bag line folds, fills, cuts, and raises the inner bags to match the outer bag line's pitch. This allows continuous high speed production of nested bags. The inner bag line runs parallel to the outer bag line during filling to enable synchronized processing.

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Automated packaging of items like masks using a single film roll to eliminate manual intervention and increase speed and efficiency. The method involves printing both top and bottom content on one side of the film. The film is then divided vertically into upper and lower sections. This allows packaging an item between the divided sections, sealing the edges, and cutting the packaged item. The vertical division prevents misalignment issues with top and bottom printed areas. The process is fully automated using a single film unwinder, conveyors, sealing equipment, and cutting apparatus.

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A method for manufacturing packaged products with high volume efficiency in multiple rows simultaneously using a fill-packaging machine. The method involves forming a wide cylindrical bag from a folded plastic film, sealing and cutting it into narrow rows, and then horizontally sealing and filling each row independently. This allows independent expansion of the narrow rows during horizontal sealing to prevent wrinkles. The cut width between rows is 0.3-3 mm to balance ease of cutting and row separation.

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Automated item packing system for warehouses that replaces manual packing with robots to improve efficiency and reduce errors. The system uses a robotic packing process that involves determining optimal item placement in the box, filling gaps with pressurized material, and sealing the box. This replaces manual packing steps like cutting filler and filling gaps. The system involves determining the box size based on item volume, calculating fill amount, controlling fill pressure, and detecting fill level.

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Autonomous packaging module for continuously shrink-wrapping food products in containers using synchronized motion. The module has a frame, lower and upper film unwinders, a movable welding unit, conveyor, control panel, traffic light, compensator, and shrink chamber. The welding unit and conveyor move together to pack products in containers with synchronized motion. This allows continuous group packaging of containers in a film and shrinking them in a chamber.

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Miniaturized vertical bag-making filling and packaging machine that reduces machine size by integrating functions like film connecting, braking, and suction into a compact configuration. The machine forms tubular bags from a strip of film, fills them, and seals them. It has a film feed belt to insert products into the bags. The film connection region between the roll and end of processed film adsorbs excess film. A single film suction holding member connects and holds the new film tip. This eliminates separate film connecting, braking, and suction devices, allowing a more compact machine design.

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Automated powder packaging machine that quickly and accurately fills stick bags with precise amounts of powder. The machine has a powder storage unit, main hopper, quantitative supply unit, film winding roll, film cutting unit, container forming unit, and side bonding part. Powder is stored, mixed, and dispensed in precise quantities. Film is wound, cut, and formed into stick containers. The containers are sealed by bonding the side ends. This automates stick bag molding and filling to rapidly and accurately mass package powders in precise amounts.

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Method to manufacture recyclable pouches with resealable closures at high speeds using horizontal form-fill-seal (HFFS) equipment. The key innovation is crushing the closure edges before or after heat sealing the side edges to flatten them sufficiently for a quality seal. This allows using a film with an outer layer melting temperature 30°C higher than the heat seal layer for recyclability. The higher melting outer layer prevents deformation during the short dwell time needed for high speed production. The crushed closure edges overlap the side seal for a sealed pouch.

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Manufacturing a sachet for a concentrated liquid product that can be used to refill existing product containers, or to make new product containers from alternative containers, such as spray bottles, flip-top bottles and jars. The sachet is made by providing a sheet of water soluble film wrapped around a mandrel, ii) wrapping the sheet around a mandrel, iii) heat sealing edges of the sheet to form a tubular roll, iv) removing the mandrel; v) filling the tubular roll with a liquid concentrated product; and vi) heat sealing a base and a top of the tubular roll to form a sealed sachet comprising the liquid concentrated product.

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Automatic packaging machine that improves yield and speed compared to conventional machines. The machine uses a unitized gusset forming assembly that fills, shapes, and seals packaging bags in one continuous motion. The assembly has claws that fold the bag into a gusset shape while filling, then a blade seals the excess. The unitized assembly moves with the filling head. This allows faster packaging by concurrently filling, gusseting, and sealing. The discharge mechanism moves the packaged item parallel to the assembly's retraction. This avoids needing a separate moving mechanism to transfer the item. The discharge stopper regulates item release as the assembly retracts.

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A film for forming packaging that enables pure and recyclable packaging by using a film with a meltable adhesive layer. The film has an outer cover layer made of a first polyolefin-based plastic and an inner adhesive layer made of a second polyolefin-based plastic. The adhesive layer is designed to be meltable. This allows the film to be welded together at high speeds during packaging processes without adding additional adhesives. The meltable adhesive layer connects to target surfaces when welded, providing a pure and recyclable packaging. The film can be used to create packaging like bags and containers that can be formed, filled, and sealed in a continuous process.

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Automated customizable packaging system for order fulfillment centers that allows efficient and waste-reducing packaging of single and multi-item orders. The system uses inflatable cushions that are customized to fit the items being packed. The cushions are prepared by inflating a film to a desired shape using air pressure. Items are then inducted into the cushion and sealed to create a package. This eliminates wasted space compared to fixed-size envelopes and reduces volume compared to roll-based cushioning materials. The customizable cushions can be made from various materials like plant-based films that cannot be deformed for bubble formation. The system uses robots to automate the cushion preparation, item induction, and sealing processes.

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Automated machine that converts a web of preformed pouch envelopes into inflated padded envelopes. The machine moves the web along, inflates the pouches by inserting pins into the inflation channels, seals the pouches simultaneously, and separates them from the web to create standalone padded envelopes. This allows on-demand production of inflated envelopes without requiring separate inflation and sealing steps.

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Packaging equipment for forming sealed packages filled with injectable products like sterile liquids. The equipment aims to improve accuracy and efficiency in forming the packages compared to existing methods. The improvements include: 1) Aligning the forming rings inside the equipment to avoid manual adjustment for coaxiality. 2) Changing packaging types without needing to align the equipment as precisely. 3) Reducing downtime for format changes. The equipment uses a sterile chamber with a transfer device to advance the packaging material, a tube forming device, a sealing device, a filling device, and a packaging unit to produce single packages.

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Automatic tea packaging system that uses integrated units for bagging, bag formation, tea filling, deoxidizer filling, shaping, and sealing to provide a fully automated tea packaging process with improved quality and efficiency compared to manual systems. The system uses a turntable to synchronize the operation of the units in a one-to-one matching relationship. This allows the deoxidizer to be filled and fixed on top of the tea in the bag before sealing, preventing it from sticking to the bag walls.

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Apparatus and method for making pouch products like oral tobacco pouches with elastic outer layers. The method involves transferring a material with an elastic layer and support layer to a receiving location. A stripper removes the support layer to create a web. Vacuum draws portions for dosing. Filled portions are conveyed and aligned with another material's web. The webs are sealed to enclose the filling in a pouch.

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Automatic packaging machine for ice packs that can efficiently seal packaged ice packs by inserting an absorber and refrigerant into the pouch and then sealing it to minimize air inside. The machine uses a rotating turntable with grippers to grab the pouch, an absorber supply unit, a refrigerant injection unit, and a sealing mechanism. It inserts the absorber, then refrigerant, and seals the packaged ice pack to reduce volume and maintain shape during freezing.

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Intermittent packaging device with a two-row, three-sided sealing structure to reduce packaging waste, improve productivity, and prevent product deterioration compared to conventional four-side sealing. The device separates the supplied wrapping paper into two rows, seals three sides on each row instead of four, and allows simultaneous packaging of both rows. This avoids wasted paper and prevents an air layer forming above the product.

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