Open mouth bag fillers weigh, fill, and seal different types and sizes of bags and containers with dry bulk solids and products like powders, flakes, granules, and irregular shaped pieces. The filled bags and containers usually fall in the 20 lb. - 110 lb. weight range. There are many different types of open mouth bag fillers including manual, semi-automatic, and automatic versions with filling speeds up to 24 bags per minute with 50 lb. bagging machines being the most popular. Once the bags have been filled, they are usually moved through a bag sealer or sealer machine. Then, they are conveyed to a station where the bags are palletized, stacked, and wrapped for shipping, storage, and sale.
View ( 27 ) Open Mouth Bag Filler Case Studies Below
To give you a good idea about the types of open mouth bag filling machines available, we have included different examples with descriptions, images, and videos. Learn more about filling plastic and paper bags with products like deer corn, seeds, cattle feed, fertilizer, wood pellets, flour, mixes, sugar, sand, pellets, and more. We have tried to include as many details as possible including how fast you can fill bags, how each machine operates, and how bag sealing works.
View of Rice Bagging Equipment and Automated Bag Closing System
Rice producers face several challenges when it comes to bagging and packaging their product. Manual bagging processes can be time-consuming, labor-intensive, and prone to errors. To overcome these challenges, a USA-based rice producer sought an automated rice bagging solution that could increase production efficiency, reduce labor costs, and improve bagging accuracy. In this case study, we’ll examine how the company successfully implemented an automated rice bagging system, resulting in significant time and cost savings.
This packaging and robotic palletizer system fills craft paper bags with 25, 40, or 50 Lbs. of livestock minerals and supplements. It includes a hopper, net weigh bag filling machine, high-speed sewing system, and robotic palletizer with 2 bag stack zones. It replaced an existing bag filling and packaging line at the feed service company that has been in business since 1946.
The Grain and Corn Bagging System combines product storage, filling, and bag closing into one system. Efficiently fill and close 30-50 lb. paper and poly-woven open mouth style bags.
The system has been engineered for bagging deer corn (whole corn), feed, seed, and other grains. The manual, or mechanical, bagging option includes automatic weighing. The system is upgradeable to a higher packaging speed with the addition of a high-speed bag sewing system to quickly close the bags. Additional options are available including hand held bag sewing machines, bag flattening conveyors, and bag stacking systems.
This system is used for bagging salt into 40 Lb. poly bags. It includes a hopper, net weigh bagging machine, band sealer, and manual bag stacking station with pallet wrapper machine.
A co-op in Iowa replaced their existing bagging machine with a high-speed net-weigher used to fill 50Lb craft paper bags with cracked corn and pelleted feeds.
High-speed bagging machine added to existing packaging system
This cooperative grinds approximately 50,000+ bushels of corn per day at all of their feed mills. They primarily supply swine feed, but also produce cattle feed and dairy feed.
The automatic bag placer machine picks up, hangs, and clamps an empty open mouth bag onto a bagger before product is discharged into a bag. Up to 20 bags per minute are possible and it works with both new / existing net weigh and gross weigh bagging scales. With this type of automation, one full-time operator can be removed from the bagging system.
Packaging system fills open mouth paper bags at a rate of 4-6 bags per minute with granular and powder products, such as zeolite and guar gum.
System Overview
The system repackages products from big bags, also called bulk bags or Super Sacks®. It includes a forklift loaded bulk bag unloader with an extended frame to accommodate an open mouth bagging machine underneath.
Bagging system, bag sewing system, and bag handling conveyors
This 40kg bagging system fills open mouth plastic bags with different types of livestock feed for poultry, pigs, dairy cows, sheep, and horses. This semi-automated system also includes a high-speed bagger, bag handling conveyors, and a palletizing robot with automatic pallet dispenser and pallet stretch wrapper.
Dry pet food bagging systems and machines automatically weigh and fill 1-50 lb. bags, pouches, containers, and multi-wall open mouth bags with different types of dry pet food. This includes dog food, cat food, rabbit food, hamster food, food for mice, and more.
Fill small bags, pouches, and containers that weigh 1 – 10 pounds or larger open mouth paper or poly bags that weigh 10 – 50 pounds, or bulk bags that weigh up to 4,400 pounds. All packaging machines have an accuracy of +/- 0.5-1% of target weight and can operate at different bagging speeds.
This commercial equipment is used for repackaging bulk dry goods stored in bulk bags, bins, totes, pro boxes, 40-50Lb bags, and more into small bags, pouches, and containers.
Examples of free-flowing bulk dry goods to repackage or re-bag would be food products such as rice, nuts, coffee beans, sprinkles, pasta, beans, candy, seeds, dog food, and cat food as well as products such as feed pellets, wood pellets, and plastic pellets.
This milk powder bag packing machine fills 50 lb. open mouth bags at a rate of 2-3 bags per minute. It provides an accurate and dust tight filling process. The machine is designed to be quickly and easily disassembled for access to internal components when cleaning and sanitation is required.
The video below shows an automated feed bagging system that quickly fills and packages multi-wall paper bags with 50lbs. of alfalfa pellets (pasture cubes or range cubes) to be used for livestock feed. This system uses a high-speed net weigh bagger with 2 internal weigh hoppers.
Automated Feed Bagging System - 50lb. bags Alfalfa Pellets
Auto Bagging and Palletizing System (click for larger image)
This auto bagging and palletizing system is designed to fill 50 lb. open mouth poly bags at a rate of 10 bags per minute. Free-flowing and dry bulk material flows from the 80 cu. ft. hopper into a net weigh gravity flow bagger that includes a vibrating feeder with gravity gate. The feeder doses a set amount of product into the internal weigh hopper.
This aggregate bagging plant fills multiwall paper bags (also known as open top, 25kg kraft paper bags) with aggregate and crushed rock at a rate of 10 bags per minute. The plant also includes a dust collection system. The customer is adding a robotic palletizer to further automate the packaging process.
Aggregate Bagging Plant Fills Multiwall Paper Bags
