Compacting, filling, heat sealing, quality controlling, and severing semi-fluent material into discrete packages

Abstract From the Canadian patent

A machine for forming continuously, distinct, portions of smokeless tobacco in a pouch or pocket form and, continuously forming a chain of individual pouches containing the distinct portions of smokeless tobacco cutting each pouch from a string of pouches counting out a, pre-set number of pouches for filling a container with the pre-set number of pouches with a set moisture content; further indexing each container relative to its production cycle, including means for rejecting improperly filled containers based on improperly filled individual or a plurality of pouches, closing each container with a lid and, pneumatic and other control means for controlling the production cycle of the …