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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7407359 | Funnel plate The invention relates to a funnel plate and method of use thereof which facilitates transfer of components from a first tray to a second tray assisting in the packaging, shipping, or assembly of electronic components. The invention provides a plate which includes at... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7313897 | Garment bagging apparatus A garment bagging apparatus having a frame connected to a feeder drive train for supporting a supply of bagging material. A garment support is positioned relative to the feeder drive train. Suspension members attached to the frame suspend the apparatus off of and in... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7266925 | Pot having a plant cover secured thereto A plant package comprising a pot covered with a plant cover, the plant cover at least comprising a base portion, and optionally having a skirt or a detachable upper portion. The plant cover has a heat shrinkable bonding material for heat shrinking to secure the plan... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7251913 | Method of covering a potted plant A method of covering a flower pot with an oversized sleeve. The sleeve has an inner diameter which is greater than the maximum diameter of a pot disposed therein. The sleeve may have a detachable upper portion, a skirt portion, with a linear or non-linear upper end,... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7191561 | Pot having a plant cover secured thereto A plant package comprising a pot covered with a plant cover, the plant cover at least comprising a base portion, and optionally having a skirt or a detachable upper portion. The plant cover has a heat shrinkable bonding material for heat shrinking to secure the plan... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7104007 | Floral sleeve with deployable flap A flexible sleeve for containing a pot and/or floral grouping and/or growing or retaining medium. The flexible sleeve has a body and a flap. The body has an outer peripheral surface, an inner peripheral surface and a skirt. The flap is connected to the inner periphe... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7093813 | Apparatuses for supporting medical equipment and methods of adjusting support devices Apparatuses for supporting medical equipment are provided. Some apparatuses provide a support arm comprising a resilient assembly. The resilient assembly preferably comprises a detent and receives force imparted upon the support arm. Essentially, the assembly limits... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7073290 | Decorative assembly for a floral grouping A decorative assembly for a floral grouping wherein the decorative assembly includes a floral holding material and a sheet of fluid impermeable material. The floral holding material is a preformed shape-sustaining support member movable between a flattened condition... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7065921 | Method of attaching a floral sleeve to a pot via bonding material A plant packaging method providing a tubular sleeve and attaching the sleeve to a potted plant via a bonding material which may be disposed on the tubular sleeve, or on the pot of the potted plant, and a plant package produced by the method. ... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7021000 | Method of covering a potted plant A method of covering a flower pot with an oversized sleeve. The sleeve has an inner diameter which is greater than the maximum diameter of a pot disposed therein. The sleeve may have a detachable upper portion, a skirt portion, with a linear or non-linear upper end,... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7000350 | Floral sleeve with deployable flap A flexible sleeve for containing a pot and/or floral grouping and/or growing or retaining medium. The flexible sleeve has a body and a flap. The body has an outer peripheral surface, an inner peripheral surface and a skirt. The flap is connected to the inner periphe... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6962021 | Plant sleeve A sleeve comprising a lower portion preferably having a base portion and a skirt portion for packaging a floral grouping or plant. The sleeve may have an upper portion which can be detached from the lower portion of the sleeve once the function of the upper portion ... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6938320 | Method for covering a flower pot and floral grouping A method of covering a flower pot with a floral grouping disposed therein. In the method, a cover having an upper extension is formed about the flower pot. The upper extension is formed about the floral grouping to a position wherein the upper extension extends abou... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6912810 | Conical floral sleeve A floral sleeve sized to fit a flower pot, the sleeve generally having a conical shape and having a bonding material disposed thereon for connecting the sleeve to a pot disposed within the sleeve or connected via a banding element to a pot disposed within the sleeve... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6840025 | Depositing a stack of flexible articles Apparatus for depositing a stack of flexible articles, includes stack deposit means (12) for contacting the stack and placing it with respect to a reference point. The stack deposit means has at least one surface means (30) for contacting the top or bo... | 01/11/2005 |
| 6817164 | Apparatus for packing objects into an elongated tube The invention relates to an apparatus for packaging objects, like soiled diapers, into an elongated flexible plastic tube. The apparatus includes a container with an upper portion with an opening and a lower portion. A cassette is mounted in the upper portion of the... | 11/16/2004 |
| 6792741 | Container packing system Container packing system for use with conveyed articles. The system includes a carton having four sidewalls with four carton upper edges and four carton lower edges. Four upper flaps are connected to the respective upper edges and four lower flaps are connected to t... | 09/21/2004 |
| 6711882 | Device for producing and withdrawing stacks of plastic bags, especially bags for automatic machines The invention relates to a device for producing and withdrawing stacks of plastic bags, especially bags for automatic machines, in coordination with a gradually moving pin stack chain (4) from which the bag packages (6) are removed in a simplified and ... | 03/30/2004 |
| 6182424 | Packaging apparatus and method A method and apparatus for packaging articles such as flatbreads and stacks of flatbreads utilizes flat loading plates which move axially and rotate about a longitudinal axis. The loading plates have an initial position underneath an input conveyor, and f... | 02/06/2001 |
| 5930978 | Apparatus for packing products and method for controlling the same A product such as a monitor is transferred by a transferring unit such as a conveyor, stopped at a working position, elevated to a packing position by an elevating unit, packed with packing material, such as with a vinyl cover, buffering materials and a b... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5887407 | Clothing protection apparatus A clothing protection apparatus for protecting clothing or the like during storage and transportation. The apparatus having a top attachment device to secure onto the top of a door thus allowing the user to easily manipulate the invention during use. A lo... | 03/30/1999 |
| 5740959 | Pre-wrapped gift package The present invention provides a method of forming a pre-wrapped gift package which appears to have been hand wrapped. The method includes forming a sheet of box construction material with decorative paper affixed thereto into a box tube by joining ends t... | 04/21/1998 |
| 5233814 | Box filling device, especially at the output of a postal sorting machine A device for filling boxes, especially at the output of a machine sorting flat objects, particularly postal items, has at least one inclined support plate for diverted letters, a jogging member and a sliding plate subject to a restoring force. The device ... | 08/10/1993 |
| 5207727 | Can end handling system A system for storing and transporting can end members comprising multiple tray units having multiple parallel rows of elongated compartments for receiving and supporting stacks of end members. The tray units are nestable and stackable one upon another to ... | 05/04/1993 |
| 5180277 | Can end handling system A system for storing and transporting can end members comprising multiple tray units having multiple parallel rows of elongated compartment for receiving and supporting stacks of end members. The tray units are nestable and stackable one upon another to p... | 01/19/1993 |
| 5056293 | Apparatus for producing layered tubes or rings An annular container mounted at the base of a passage between a layering tube and a central mandrel is charged with a layered tube of flexible tubing delivered over a floating mandrel when coaxially in contact with mandrel by driving rollers coacting with... | 10/15/1991 |
| 5020302 | Roll inserter A roll of plastic bags is inserted into an empty carton using a finger body having a finger that radially extends to securely grip the inside of the roll. The roll is drawn into an already formed empty carton where the finger is lowered and the finger bod... | 06/04/1991 |
| 4873812 | Clothing article packaging machine A packaging machine for packaging clothing articles in a packaging portion of a hose-shaped synthetic plastic material foil includes a machine frame on which a roll of the synthetic plastic material foil is rotatably mounted. The foil unwound from the rol... | 10/17/1989 |
| 4796407 | Method and fittings enabling articles to be rapidly taken into and out of a case A method and apparatus are disclosed enabling articles to be rapidly packed into and unpacked from a case. The apparatus has a floating top such that the contents of the case will remain motionless, while the case is lowered or raised by a lifting device ... | 01/10/1989 |
| 4757669 | Vacuum packaging machinery and process There is provided an overall system of packaging commodities such as garments or other like compressible articles in which the articles are initially conditioned to provide relatively low temperatures and relative humidity, following which the garments ar... | 07/19/1988 |
| 4640079 | Device for packaging plants A device for packaging plants including a base, and a vertical column is mounted on the base and carries a generally conical sleeve support. A multiplicity of nested paper or plastic sleeves are carried by the sleeve support. A pedestal extends upwardly f... | 02/03/1987 |
| 4481754 | Equipment for covering stacked goods with shrinkable hoods Apparatus for pulling hoods made of shrinkable foil over stacks of wares comprising a supply spool, a continuous, flattened foil sleeve having a free openable end wound upon the supply spool, mobile gripping means for seizing the free end of the sleeve an... | 11/13/1984 |
| 4389832 | Method and apparatus for loading bottles into open top bottle carriers Set-up open top bottle carriers having apertured bottom walls are continuously supplied in abutting relationship by conveyor means to a loading station while bottles are moved continuously along a dead plate having its outfeed end at said loading station,... | 06/28/1983 |
| 4341583 | Garment bag bottom sealing machine for the garment manufacturing and dry cleaning industries A garment bag bottom sealing machine used in a dry cleaning operation or garment manufacturing industry includes a V-link belt which receives hangers fed thereto one at a time by a feeder. A sealer on the machine effects a double seal of a garment bag, an... | 07/27/1982 |
| 4324087 | Garment bagging system Tubular bag material is threaded downwardly between spaced support members. A garment support assembly is inserted into the tubular bag material at a level below the support members and then moved upwardly between the support members and rests on the supp... | 04/13/1982 |
| 4280314 | Device for packaging elongated articles A device for packaging elongated articles, such as plants and cut flowers, in a protective bag. The device includes a tubular frame having a generally horizontal section and a vertical section which is connected to one end of the horizontal section. A sup... | 07/28/1981 |
| 4264395 | Automated garment bagging system A method and apparatus for bagging a garment which is supported on a hanger wherein the bag is closed at both the upper and lower ends. The bag is placed or formed about the garment and the upper end, through which the hook extends, is closed with the han... | 04/28/1981 |
| 4233797 | Automatic bagging machine A bagging machine which automatically encloses a garment in a bag. A continuous web of flexible material is fed into the machine, separated to form a tube, and that tube of material is pulled down over the garment. Material pulldown is stopped according t... | 11/18/1980 |
| 4147010 | Photoelectrically controlled garment bagger A photoelectrically controlled garment bagger. The bagger comprises a support frame for the bagger housing and for a roll of translucent sequentially detachable bags. The roll is provided with transverse perforations along which individual bags may be det... | 04/03/1979 |
| 4100719 | Floating hook arrangement for an apparatus for bagging garments An elongated central shaft is provided at one end with a hook for supporting thereon a hanger for a garment contained thereon. The other end of the central elongated shaft is connected to a mounting element which mounts the arrangement on an apparatus for... | 07/18/1978 |
