Did You Know...
...that Robert Adler has the dubious distinction of being the Father of the Couch Potato? Back in 1955 Adler was employed by what was then Zenith Radio Corp., where he was charged to invent something that would allow viewers to turn down the TV volume without leaving their chairs. After a series of flops (such as a wired contraption that people tripped over), Adler hit on the idea of using sound waves. Thus the Remote Control was born...
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4566251 | Carton forming, sterilizing, filling and sealing machine The disclosure illustrates and describes a modular forming, sterilizing, filling and sealing machine for containers, including a front bottom forming and sealing section; an intermediate sterilizing section; and a rear filling, top forming and sealing sec... | 01/28/1986 |
| 4552613 | Apparatus for producing pouch packages in pairs The apparatus for producing pouch packages in pairs has two tube shaping devices disposed beside one another and two crosswise closure devices. To prevent having to stop both tubular pouch shaping devices at the same time in the event of an interruption o... | 11/12/1985 |
| 4545173 | Apparatus for securing cartons on the top of articles carried in a case A device for feeding cartons in succession from a stack of cartons for being deposited on top of articles carried in a case being moved on a conveyor. A plurality of picker fingers are selectively moved to and from the stack of cartons, and outwardly exte... | 10/08/1985 |
| 4539795 | Orientation, accumulation and positioning machine A machine for orienting, accumulating and positioning packages received from two sources for loading into containers has an oscillating member which oscillates between the two sources during which time it both receives packages from one source while parti... | 09/10/1985 |
| 4530435 | Packaging apparatus for stick confections A packaging apparatus for assembling wrapped stick confections from a multi-lane packaging machine into groups with the stick ends of the wrapped stick confections overlapping. The packaging apparatus comprises endless type first and second conveyors each... | 07/23/1985 |
| 4509311 | Method and apparatus for loading and unloading package-forming machine A method and apparatus are disclosed for simultaneously loading and unloading food packages into and from a package-forming machine. A pusher and puller are mounted on opposite directions, toward and away from the machine, whereby packages can be inserted... | 04/09/1985 |
| 4480425 | Vacuum packaging apparatus A vacuum packaging apparatus has two lower chambers with open upper face in side-by-side arrangement in a base box and a single upper chamber with an open bottom face in an upper head which is supported by a plurality of links on the base box and can be s... | 11/06/1984 |
| 4473987 | Double case loading bottle packer grid assembly A bottle packer grid assembly is disclosed which is capable of packing two cases simultaneously wherein the construction provides the capability for each individual single case grid section to be separately removable from the surrounding support structure... | 10/02/1984 |
| 4467847 | Machine for labeling and/or filling bottles along two paths In a processing machine for objects, such as a labeling or filling machine for bottles, comprising a turntable having at least two arcuate transport path sections each for one string of objects and stationary or co-moving processing structure, such as lab... | 08/28/1984 |
| 4448008 | Multiple mandrel carton erecting, filling and sealing machine with two-stage loading A machine for erecting flat, collapsed tubular cartons and for filling and sealing the erected cartons provides higher production rates without significantly increasing the cycle rate or the floor space required by the machine. A rotatable mandrel assembl... | 05/15/1984 |
| 4388797 | Banding machine A banding machine for continuously forming and applying the bands on articles comprises means for arranging rows of the articles, means for receiving the articles at the front end of the arranging means and transferring the articles to a band receiving po... | 06/21/1983 |
| 4370844 | Packaging apparatus From a row of objects which are conveyed on an intermittently movable feeding conveyor, every second object is deposited on lines of wrapping materials at a first station, which lines are advanced continuously under the feeding conveyor, and the remaining... | 02/01/1983 |
| 4308708 | Apparatus for folding hinged lid boxes from cardboard blanks and filling them with tinfoil wrapped cigarette blocks An apparatus for making and filling a hinged box of a foldable material, more particularly cardboard, especially a hinged box for cigarettes, which box comprises a blank with front, rear and end walls, side walls formed from lateral flaps and a hinged lid... | 01/05/1982 |
| 4299075 | Method for packing articles into a number of strips of packing material and apparatus for carrying out the method The method is of the kind whereby a number of strips of packing material is conducted through a cross section shaping station, through a filling station at which articles are arranged on the strips, through a longitudinally extending welding station at wh... | 11/10/1981 |
| 4292788 | Nuclear fuel rod loading apparatus An apparatus incorporating a microprocessor control is provided for automatically loading nuclear fuel pellets into fuel rods commonly used in nuclear reactor cores. The apparatus comprises first and second elongated members having "V" troughs for alterna... | 10/06/1981 |
| 4269016 | Plural line bag forming and filling apparatus A packaging method and apparatus are disclosed. Two separate streams of bags are formed. The successive bags of each stream are alternately deposited on two side-by-side tracks of a conveyor, thus obtaining four partial streams of bags which are then succ... | 05/26/1981 |
| 4262470 | Packaging system with cantilevered web feed system accessible for changing web This invention provides a packaging system for processing a web from a roll to fold it, insert a product and to seal it about the product to form the package. All web processing equipment is cantilevered to one side of a panel to permit ready replacement ... | 04/21/1981 |
| 4258528 | Method and apparatus for introducing groups of cigarettes into a packet and folding wrapper flaps Two laterally spaced groups of cigarettes 11, 12 partially encased in tinfoil wrappers 27 are discharged from a chain conveyor 26 onto a reciprocating platform 33 by entraining members 24, 25. The groups are then discharged by pushers 42 onto a folding p... | 03/31/1981 |
| 4244158 | Package forming method and apparatus Ice cream sandwich packages, containing an ice cream block and two wafers in separate adjacent compartments of a flat flexible polymeric material wrapper comprised of overlying layers of material heat sealed together at the marginal edges thereof, to sepa... | 01/13/1981 |
| 4217745 | Twin packaging machine In a twin packaging machine composed of two packaging units each including a folding device, an inlet path for feeding objects to be packaged to the device, a member storing a sheet of packaging material, a device for cutting successive packaging foils fr... | 08/19/1980 |
| 4161094 | Apparatus for processing biscuits or the like Apparatus for treating biscuits which are discharged from an oven in the form of several rows has a discrete conveyor system for each row of biscuits. The biscuits of each row are converted into blocks each consisting of several arrayed biscuits, and such... | 07/17/1979 |
| 4142345 | Nestable container packaging apparatus A cup packaging device for seriately receiving, counting and loosely nesting into a group on a first conveyor segment a preset number of cups, nesting the cups into a more tightly nested stack on a subsequent conveyor segment, conveying the tightly nested... | 03/06/1979 |
| 4121403 | Flat mail sorter and loader Apparatus for sorting flat mail bearing postage indicia adjacent one corner thereof. Pieces bearing postage indicia adjacent their leading edges are selectively sent to first or second transfer stations according to whether the indicia is adjacent the top... | 10/24/1978 |
| 4107903 | Fully automatic device for packing piece goods, in particular fruits A fully automatized packing apparatus for bulk articles or goods such as fruits in which the goods to be bagged are supplied through a filling tube and a length of packing material in the form of a continuous hose is withdrawn from a packing material supp... | 08/22/1978 |
| 4082187 | Means and method for packaging frangible articles A system of packaging frozen onion rings and other frangible articles for transport and storage is disclosed. Vacuum formed polystyrene packages having a shock absorbing flange are stacked in rigid walled shipping containers, each package resting with a d... | 04/04/1978 |
| 4067173 | Packaging machine The packaging machine is provided with a dumper shaft which includes material receiving chambers which can be adjusted in size to receive and measure varying amounts of material. Each material receiving means is made up of a pair of coaxial discs and radi... | 01/10/1978 |
| 4056920 | Loading apparatus Apparatus is provided for loading a plurality of articles into a receptacle having parallel rows of openings each of which is adapted to receive a respective one of the articles. The apparatus comprises at least one loading station, and preferably two loa... | 11/08/1977 |
| 4045941 | Method and apparatus for casing flexible containers Apparatus and method is disclosed for loading a plurality of bales or containers containing pouches filled with a liquid such as milk into a rectangular open-top case. An empty case is located on the apparatus and a rotatable divider is positioned on the ... | 09/06/1977 |
| 4035984 | Wrapping method and apparatus A method and apparatus for packaging a twin row of articles in a web of wrapping material by moving longitudinally and transversely spaced pairs of articles along two rows onto a moving web of wrapping material which is then folded over the articles to fo... | 07/19/1977 |
| 4004400 | Article wrapping machine A machine for wrapping articles in an elongated strip of wrapping material of the type in which the machine forms the strip into a channel as the strip is advanced past the loading station, articles are deposited in the strip at the loading station, and t... | 01/25/1977 |
| 3956868 | Carton opening, filling and closing apparatus An apparatus for opening collapsed tubular cartons, filling the same with a plurality of product filled beverage cans, or the like, and closing the carton flaps wherein successive cartons, in flattened form, are fed onto a traveling conveyor with end clos... | 05/18/1976 |
| 3948019 | Apparatus for the fully automatic production of filled, gusseted bags of plastic Automatic Production, filling, and closing of bags, especially plastic guted bags. The bag is produced at a first station of the apparatus for carrying out the invention, from a flat tube. The bag is then successively moved to a second station where it i... | 04/06/1976 |
| 3948018 | Dual conveyor case packer Apparatus for packing bottles in cases wherein bottles are marshalled in two parallel lines with a case conveyor between the bottle lines. A bottle transfer mechanism straddles the bottle lines and case conveyor, the transfer mechanism having at least one... | 04/06/1976 |
