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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7434376 | Machine for packaging articles into box-like containers In a machine for packaging articles into box-like containers, obtained from tubular blanks in flat folded configuration, tubular blanks are conveyed from a feeding station to an erecting station, by an erection unit, moving between the erecting station and a station... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7390291 | Apparatus for rapidly expanding and folding cardboard boxes feeding mechanism, an expanding mechanism, a folding mechanism for folding front and rear parts of a bottom of a cardboard box, a folding mechanism for folding left and right parts of a bottom of a cardboard box, and a conveying mechanism; the feeding mechanism has ... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7316642 | Apparatus for forming containers An apparatus for forming containers fed with their side walls arranged in a flattened tubular configuration, comprising a device for opening the containers that is associated with abutment-retention elements for the abutment and retention of the containers in the op... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7163502 | Carton erecting apparatus Rotary transfer mechanism is mounted on a frame for removing a flat folded carton from a storage hopper to move the carton to a flight conveyor assembly and in cooperation therewith erect the carton to be in an open rectangular condition. The transfer mechanism incl... | 01/16/2007 |
| 6971980 | Machine for spreading out cardboard boxes automatically A machine is provided for spreading out cardboard boxes automatically, which is structured such that cardboards can be held in a holding mechanism upright and closely side by side, and fed to a main body one after another, and which have sucking disks for drawing th... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6960157 | Automated system and method for handling food containers An automated food processing system and method is provided that allows food to be dispensed, fried and packaged in a suitable container, which may be an individual portion-sized container. In one embodiment, the system includes separate automated modules for dispens... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6929593 | Machine for spreading out cardboard boxes automatically A machine is provided for spreading out cardboard boxes automatically, which is structured such that cardboards can be held in a holding mechanism upright and closely side by side, and fed to a main body one after another, and which have sucking disks for drawing th... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6764436 | Method and apparatus for squaring cases A case is gripped by its side panel by suction cups mounted on a squaring arm and rotated out of a magazine into contact with a squaring rail, which forces the case into a squared configuration as the case rotates into position between two drive belts, one fixed, an... | 07/20/2004 |
| 6758800 | Machine for assembling cardboard boxes The machine assembles cardboard boxes of the type that comprises a main piece or sheet and two independent sheets comprising the front ends, lateral sheets that attach to some laps that form part of the main piece. As a novel characteristic, it includes some side fe... | 07/06/2004 |
| 6708970 | Supply device for a machine working cardboard sheets A supply device for a machine working cardboard sheets. At least one conveying unit for the conveyance one by one of the sheets. A hold-down stop for preventing conveyance of a pile of the sheets above the conveying unit while permitting conveyance of the bottom she... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6699165 | Apparatus for removing and transferring folding boxes An apparatus for removing folding box blanks from a folding box magazine and transferring them to between drivers of a conveyor system has a suction rotor with suction cups. The suction rotor is coupled to a four-bar mechanism, which erects the folding bo... | 03/02/2004 |
| 6582348 | Machine for the creasing, perforation or circular cutting of paper and the like A machine is provided for the creasing, perforation or circular cutting of a material in the form of sheets such as paper, plastic and the like. The machine includes a bed, a horizontal loading plane (11) that is intended to accommodate at least one stack... | 06/24/2003 |
| 6309335 | Vertically displaced hopper for bliss machines Disclosed is a supply hopper apparatus for 3-part (Bliss) box forming machines having a vertical or substantially vertical orientation that is capable of holding a large supply of end panels. The trays of the hopper are open at the top and bottom, and may... | 10/30/2001 |
| 5924968 | Box-erecting apparatus An apparatus for erecting flat blanks into three-dimensional box parts has a machine frame, a bin on the frame holding a stack of the blanks with a lower surface of a lowermost blank largely exposed at a base of the stack, an erecting unit on the frame sp... | 07/20/1999 |
| 5876319 | Container forming method and apparatus A machine for forming a variety of different sturdy, stackable three-part fiberboard containers having a depth dimension greater than their width dimension, and which are suitable for holding bags filled with liquid. The machine includes a slidable, remov... | 03/02/1999 |
| 5807223 | Container forming method and apparatus A machine for forming a variety of different sturdy, stackable three-part fiberboard containers having a depth dimension greater than their width dimension, and which are suitable for holding bags filled with liquid. The machine includes a slidable, remov... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5704196 | High speed blank set-up apparatus and methods Apparatus (10) for partially setting up a blank (12) is disclosed including first suction cups (122) for removing the first blank (12) from a magazine (96). The first suction cups (122) are pivotally mounted to the ends of pivot arms (110) to move the fir... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5167605 | Automatic setting apparatus in box or carton blank erection machines A selection and setting apparatus in box or carton blank erecting machines which enables changing of the blank format in the machine. The apparatus includes format selectors coating with at least two setting wheels. The setting wheels each include at leas... | 12/01/1992 |
| 5162033 | Blank feeder A blank feeder has a pair of guide rails for guiding blanks having a tubular form of square cross section to a bottom forming mandrel. The guide rails are formed with opposed recessed portions which are V-shaped in cross section for holding therebetween t... | 11/10/1992 |
| 5131899 | Magazine and method of feeding articles A magazine for holding a plurality of articles, such as cartons, which are to be singularly withdrawn at a downstream end, and a method of feeding articles. The magazine includes guides, spaced apart by a distance greater than the width of the cartons in ... | 07/21/1992 |
| 5057066 | Magazine and method of feeding articles A magazine for holding a plurality of articles, such as cartons, which are to be singularly withdrawn at a downstream end, and a method of feeding articles. The magazine includes guides, spaced apart by a distance greater than the width of the cartons in ... | 10/15/1991 |
| 5024351 | Dispenser device for removing planar panels from a hopper A dispenser device for removing planar panels from a hopper is provided with a panel engagement drum located at the discharge of the hopper which includes friction surfaces at spaced apart locations around the perimeter for sequentially engaging subsequen... | 06/18/1991 |
| 5007889 | Apparatus for feeding container blanks to container bottom forming mandrel An apparatus for use with blanks folded to a flat form for unfolding each blank into a tube of rectangular to square cross section and feeding the tubular blank to one of container bottom forming mandrels which is at rest at a feed station. The apparatus ... | 04/16/1991 |
| 4976675 | Automatic machine for folding flat pre-creased die-cuts into tubular shape The automatic machine comprises a magazine, dispensing die-cuts pre-creased longitudinally with fold lines providing divisions between at least four side panels and a securing flap, suckers by which the die-cuts are picked up from the magazine, and a revo... | 12/11/1990 |
| 4776830 | Packaging machine A packaging machine including a rotor having a plurality of radial mandrels each for carrying a container as fitted therearound and intermittently drivingly rotatable so that the mandrels successively stop at processing stations equal in number to the num... | 10/11/1988 |
| 4708707 | Blank feeder for packaging machine A blank feeder for a packaging machine for use with folded flat blanks unfoldable into tubes of square to rectangular cross section and having different lengths to form containers of different capacities. The feeder includes a magazine for containing a st... | 11/24/1987 |
| 4553954 | Automatic case erector and sealer An automatic case erector and sealer apparatus useful in the erecting of packaging cases, boxes and cartons from flats, utilizing case puncturing and gripping pins, spraying adhesive onto the interior surfaces of the case flaps, while the flaps are in a s... | 11/19/1985 |
| 4364549 | Apparatus for feeding cardboard blanks or the like to a magazine Apparatus for supplying preselected numbers of superimposed prefabricated cardboard blanks of the type having alternating larger and smaller marginal flaps from an auxiliary magazine into the main magazine of a packing machine has a frame which carries th... | 12/21/1982 |
| 4348853 | Case opening and sealing apparatus A case opening and sealing apparatus comprises a magazine having a plurality of flattened case blanks stacked therein, a conveyor underlying the magazine, and a plurality of suction cups for opening each case into tubular form for subsequent filling. Each... | 09/14/1982 |
| 4273322 | Gate mechanism for carton erecting machine Gate has two carton restrainers. First restrainer holds the lead carton in magazine stack while the second is inoperative. For take-down of the lead carton, first restrainer is moved away while at the same time the second restrainer engages and holds the ... | 06/16/1981 |
| 4100842 | Apparatus for forming a container An apparatus for forming a container is provided wherein the container is comprised of a side wall having a top bead and also a bottom member secured to the side wall with the side wall being formed from a blank which is wrapped with convolute form having... | 07/18/1978 |
| 4027578 | Device for attaching box handles A device for securing a web handle to a container blank includes a feed station having means for storing a supply of blanks above a conveyor which removes individual blanks from the feed station and carries the blanks therewith, with one edge of the blank... | 06/07/1977 |
