Toshiharu Kageyama, mechanical engineer with Ishida Research and Development in Japan, was awarded the 62nd Kyoto Inventors Award for an oval-shaped 18-head multihead weigher.
With high-speed vertical form fill seal (VFFS) packaging machines to effectively support high-speed bagmaking, product has to be evenly and consistently fed to all weigh hoppers. If product feeding to each hopper is inadequate, high-speed bagmaking can become impossible because of a lack of available combination heads.