Introduction

Packaging is one system whose objective is to protect the contained product against an always-hostile environment of water, water vapor, air and its oxygen, microorganisms, insects, other intruders, dirt, pilferage, and so on—because a constant competition exists between humans and their surroundings. Packaging is designed to facilitate the movement of a product from its point of production to its ultimate consumption. If there is no product, there is no need for a package

Packaging is arguably the single most important link in the distribution chain that places a product into the hands of the consumer. In a very real sense, in today’s society, packaging might be regarded as an integral component of the product contained

The words package or packaging have different meanings, intended to convey different images. The package is the physical entity that actually contains the product. Packaging is the integration of the physical elements

So the packing service is considered as an important factor in progress of the industry and so the product that will be delivered to the costumer at a god condition. In spite of this important of packing process, we found that there are no factories in Egypt rake responsibility of producing such machines which have a great variety in shape, size and function to suit the great variety of products in weight and type. Each packing machine concerns with a certain product with a little variety in its shape and size

It is worth to mention that the famous countries in this technology ( packing technology) are ; Japan, Spain and Italy. It is found that there is local attempt to manufacture simple packing machines for packaging a certain simple product. It is seen that it is worth to try putting a real picture for the ability of design and manufacture such machines

This project comes to put a solid foundation to start producing such machines and pay attention to this problem and start to solve it

The aim of this project is to design an automatic vertical packing machine which gives a package of 0.5 litter. A requirement of this machine has come to view in Egypt when the Egyptian market and consumer require such type

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of packages beside large ones. Another reason for selection such machine is the lack of local designs or production of these machines

A start point of our attempt was collecting all information related to these machines that was through specific catalogues and references. The next step was visiting some factories and packing units to see more about these machines. After these stages we could make the proposed design and manufacture the prototype

Acknowledgments

Our first and greatest thanks are to Allah. He above all was, is, and will be the source of help and guidance that counts. His help kept us going through many frustrations and His guidance brought us back on track when our frustrations tended to drive us astray

Next , we would like to express our deep gratitude to our supervisor Dr. Neyara Radwan for her effort and encouragement throughout the preparation of this project. Her Knowledge and endless support was a great asset from which we learned plenty. She was very enthusiastic about the project, which gave us a motive to work harder and harder

We would like to thank special Engineers who did their best whenever we needed or asked for anything. No matter what the task was or how busy she was, she always found the time. These thanks go to

Eng. Abdel Magied Mahmoud

Eng. Ahmed Nader Galal

who helped in the preparation of this project

And Porta Egypt Company and El-Safwa packaging company

Also we would like to thank Mr. Mohamed Abed rab-elrasoul and he was very generous with

It is difficult to acknowledge everyone who was involved in preparation of this project by name. Nevertheless we appreciate their help no matter how simple it might have been.

Finally, we owe our colleagues great thanks for supporting us through our college years and for making those years the best years of our life.