A tea bag for ice tea beverages. The tea bag contains a tea mixture
made up of about 30% to about 95% by weight of tea leaves, and about
5% to about 70% by weight of dried soluble tea solids. The tea bag
may be immersed in cold water to provide a tea beverage of acceptable
color and flavor in less than about 10 minutes.
A transferring device for transferring filled tea bags from a single
track tea packaging machine to a two-track processing machine has
a pivoting device with a pivot arm and a tea bag receptacle for
receiving a vertically positioned tea bag. The pivoting device has
a pivot drive for alternatingly pivoting the receptacle to the left
and to the right about 90.degree. into a first and a second end
position. A first swiveling device is provided for swiveling a tea
bag, contained in the receptacle in the first end position, into
a horizontal position. A second swiveling device is provided for
swiveling a tea bag, contained in the receptacle in the second end
position, into a horizontal position. A first tea bag pusher for
moving the tea bag from the first swiveling device onto a first
track of a two-track transport device for transporting the tea bag
to a processing machine is provided. A second tea bag pusher is
provided for moving the tea bag from the second swiveling device
onto a second track of the two-track transporting device for transporting
the tea bag to a processing machine.
A method for transferring filled tea bags from a single track tea
packaging machine to a two-track processing machine includes the
steps of feeding tea bags in single file to a transfer station and
positioning each tea bag individually therein. The tea bags are
deposited alternatingly to the left and to the right onto a left
and a right track of the two-track transporting table by pivoting
the tea bags in sequential movements about a first axis and about
a second axis, wherein the first and second axes extend transverse
to one another. The tea bags are then transported on the left and
right tracks in double file to the processing machine.
A method for attaching a tag to a tea bag, where the bag and the
tag both have at least one border with reduced thickness, includes
the following steps: hooking of a first end or leader of the thread
by an eye of a needle and running the thread into the border through
to the opposite side of the border so as to make a loop in the thread;
widening the loop in such a way as to form an aperture through which
the thread can be inserted; inserting the leader into the aperture
in the loop and releasing the thread from the needle, the thread
being pulled in such a way as to tighten the resulting knot. |