A specially designed sonotrode and anvil are adapted to be used in combination for ultrasonic welding of work pieces, to produce a narrower weld region, but one exhibiting greater durability, thereby permitting use of less packaging material. The configuration register has a plurality of different settings each corresponding to a respective one of a plurality of different link information allocations. The data transmission is transmitted to a translation device. With this, the frozen particles deposited on the shelf 16 are evenly diffused on the shelf 16 in such a manner that a deposition thickness thereof becomes smaller or a single layer thereof is formed. A main block is attached to the main boom, depending from the main boom second end portion.