...When G.G. Hubbard learned of his future son-in-law's invention, he called it "only a toy." His daughter was engaged to a young man named Alexander Graham Bell.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7955242 | Folding unit for producing sealed packages of pourable food products A folding unit for producing sealed packages of pourable food products from respective packs, each having a main portion folded into a desired shape, and opposite end portions to be folded to form respective folded ends of a relative finished package. The unit has a... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7001320 | Process for producing hinge-lid boxes In the production of (cigarette) packs of the hinge-lid-box type with round edges, preliminary deformation of blanks (10) is desirable for producing hinge-lid boxes of satisfactory quality. The preliminary deformation of the round edges takes place in the reg... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6406415 | Apparatus for forming a container The apparatus for forming a container is situated in a container-forming unit comprising different processing stations. The apparatus for forming a container includes a wrapping mandrel attached to a moving structure, which is arranged to move the wrappin... | 06/18/2002 |
| 4804356 | Apparatus for processing baglike container blanks An apparatus for processing baglike container blanks by fitting the blank around a pair of forming plates arranged at a distance from each other in parallel, folding a pair of triangular ears flat while projecting the ears sidewise from the portion of the... | 02/14/1989 |
| 4616475 | Package forming apparatus A package forming apparatus comprises a pushing member which is capable of being inserted into a core member to form the bottom of a package by folding an end portion of the sheet material wound on the core member is driven by a driving mechanism. The dri... | 10/14/1986 |
| 4608039 | Envelope folding system An apparatus for folding envelope blanks comprises a plurality of platform assemblies which are rotatably mounted on a base. The platform assemblies are incrementally advanced around the base, and separate mechanisms located around the periphery of the ba... | 08/26/1986 |
| 4528803 | Machine for the fabrication, filling, and sealing of packages Blanks are produced from a continuous sheet (3) of material comprised of plastic-coated paper. Said blanks are conveyed on an expanding mandrel carousel (13) to a bottom weld flap forming station (17) and then transferred to a filling carousel (19). The p... | 07/16/1985 |
| 4510732 | Machine for the processing of packing containers A machine for the processing of packing containers of the type used for example for milk products. Such packing containers are manufactured from a filled material tube and are first given cushion-shape. With the help of the machine in accordance with the ... | 04/16/1985 |
| 4391083 | Packing machine A packing machine for cigarettes, in particular for soft packs, with a plurality of pack-forming assemblies 1-16, has at least one operating member 21-23 in each assembly which is movable, e.g. to clamp a sheet of foil 300 or a paper lable 400 against a p... | 07/05/1983 |
| 4338082 | Positioning mechanism for support arm of heat sealing and cooling devices This relates to a drive system for selectively positioning a heat sealer and a cooler relative to mandrels supporting bags or pouches, which mandrels are carried by a turret and indexed thereby. A simple oscillating shaft driven by a cam oscillates a doub... | 07/06/1982 |
| 4310371 | Process for the manufacture of a jacket for a flexible disk for data recording A process for the manufacture of a jacket, comprising two cover sheets joined to one another, for a flexible disk for data recording, the cover sheets and the nonwoven lining being punched out in the form of blanks including the functional apertures, and ... | 01/12/1982 |
| 4304621 | Apparatus for the manufacture of a jacket for a flexible disk for data recording An apparatus for the manufacture of a jacket, comprising two cover sheets joined to one another, for a flexible disk for data recording, the cover sheets and the nonwoven lining being punched out in the form of blanks including the functional apertures, a... | 12/08/1981 |
| 4279608 | Bag bottom forming machine and transfer apparatus This relates to a bag forming machine wherein a continuous tube is formed from a contuous web, the tube having a side seam and being cut off at predetermined intervals to form short tubes with closed bottoms. The tubes are placed on mandrel assemblies of ... | 07/21/1981 |