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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7175172 | Method and device for inserting a plurality of individual sheetlike forms of administration in a dispenser by forming a multilayer pile A process for introducing a plurality of segregated sheet-like administration forms into a dispenser under formation of a multilayered stack for individually dosable removal, with sheet-like tapes wound-up on rolls being present as starting material, utilizes the fo... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7121994 | Assembly for and method of adjusting the phasing of folding rolls to create a fold in sheets of material A folding machine includes a first folding roll with a series of the gripper assemblies and a series of tucker assemblies uniformly and alternately spaced to interact with a series of gripper and tucker assemblies of an adjacent second folding roll. The series of al... | 10/17/2006 |
| 6270073 | Stacking device A stacking apparatus comprising a rotatable stacking wheel with a multiplicity of fingers, of which one end is fastened on the circumference of a hub, enclosing a stacking-wheel spindle and between which there is formed in each case one receiving gap for ... | 08/07/2001 |
| 5975525 | Paddle wheel for laying out folded products A paddle wheel is used to deliver folded products to a conveyor belt in a shingled fashion. The paddle wheel has a plurality of pockets which are formed by circumferentially spaced curved paddles. The thickness or width of each product receiving product i... | 11/02/1999 |
| 5447262 | Apparatus for transporting and bending web-shaped packing material Apparatus for transporting a material web having lateral depressions (25, 27) arranged at regular distances from one another. For the transport of a material web (10, 35) of this type in the correct position, the web bears on a conveying drum (28) which h... | 09/05/1995 |
| 5094437 | Apparatus for the formation of stacks of tissues or the like of fibrous materials An apparatus for the formation of stacks of folded, zigzaggedly intermeshed tissues, sheets or the like of any kind of fibrous materials, with a folding device having two folder rolls, wherein each of the two folder rolls (23) is associated with at least ... | 03/10/1992 |
| 5005816 | Interfolder device with dynamic pressure section connected at the outlet side of the folding rollers An interfolder device for folding sheet material in a zig-zag manner which uses a pair of counter rotating rollers for receiving the sheet material and an elongated guide track disposed below the counter rotating rollers for receiving, supporting and conv... | 04/09/1991 |
| 4765604 | Resilient creaser This invention relates to a paper interfolding machine of the type having first and second folding rolls mounted adjacent each other for rotation about parallel axes with porous tissue paper carried by each roll. A wedge-shaped protrusion on a first foldi... | 08/23/1988 |
| 4494741 | Tissue cutting and interfolding apparatus for Z webs Apparatus for perforating Z-folding, and further processing long tissue webs to form stacks of Z-folded facial tissues or the like for being packaged in consumer boxes. In one embodiment, two webs are perforated and superimposed at the nip of counterrotat... | 01/22/1985 |
| 4070014 | Web folding apparatus An improved apparatus is disclosed, by which two individually transversely cut web pieces, successively supplied from two different sources, are each attracted by suction onto the surface of either of a pair of suction rolls disposed parallel and rotated ... | 01/24/1978 |