Toshiharu Kageyama, mechanical engineer with Ishida Research and Development in Japan, was awarded the 62nd Kyoto Inventors Award for his invention: the oval-shaped 18-head multihead weigher.
High Speed Production Demand
High-speed vertical form fill seal (VFFS) packaging machines grew in demand around ten years ago in response to the industry’s need for improved productivity. For high speed accurate weighing to effectively support high speed bagmaking, product had to be evenly and consistently fed to all weigh hoppers. If product feeding to each hopper was inadequate, high speed bagmaking became impossible because of a lack of available combination heads. Development of a new multihead weigher