Did You Know...
...that the Band-Aid Bandage was invented by a Johnson & Johnson employee whose wife had cut herself? Earl Dickson's wife was rather accident prone, so he set out to develop a bandage that she could apply without help. He placed a small piece of gauze in the center of a small piece of surgical tape, and what we know today as the Band Aid bandage was born!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6062002 | Adjustable ultrasonic top sealer The ultrasonic sealing device (50) may be integrated on a packaging machine (20) such as a TETRA REX.RTM. packaging machine and used for sealing one end of a carton (200). The ultrasonic sealing device (50) includes a frame (52), an anvil (56), a horn (54... | 05/16/2000 |
| 6029423 | Process and apparatus for synthetic packaging In order to improve a process for producing plastic packaging, particularly using plastic sheets, lateral sections (14) projecting beyond goods to be packaged being at least partly shrunk by heat supply, so that heat-sensitive goods also can be packaged i... | 02/29/2000 |
| 5775065 | Method and apparatus for transverse cutting and sealing film wrapped around a product Method of and apparatus for cutting and heat sealing a film with a smooth seam which extends substantially the transverse width of a wrapped package utilizes a mechanism having a cool clamping portion and a hot sealing portion which are sequentially actua... | 07/07/1998 |
| 5522964 | Air injector for cooling envelope weldings This invention refers to a continuous or intermittent air injection system for enveloping machines consisting in an air tubing comprising suitable air expulsion means, controlled by an electrovalve and equipped with at least two impulsion positions when a... | 06/04/1996 |
| 5249416 | Cigarette packaging machine and apparatus Cigarette packaging apparatus and method utilizing packaging stock comprising a pre-applied adhesive to form cigarette packages that are sealed by activating and then preferably setting the pre-applied adhesive.... | 10/05/1993 |
| 4989391 | Automatic bagging, heat sealing and discharge machine An automatic bagging machine comprising a collector for receiving a predetermined number of articles to be placed in a single bag therein. A trap door is disposed under the collector. A first bag on a wicker is opened, filled through the trap door, and dr... | 02/05/1991 |
| 4614079 | Automatic packaging system An automatic packaging system comprising a container fabricating mechanism for forming a tubular structure from laminated paper capable of heat sealing, marking folding guidelines for forming rectangular-prism-shaped containers, cutting individual pouched... | 09/30/1986 |
| 4351692 | Apparatus and method for automatically filling and heat weld sealing lengths of plastic tubing A machine for automatically sealing the end of various sized lengths of plastic tubing and for filling same has a clamshell clamp for straightening and firmly positioning the tubing, a carriage with an alignment ring which is lowered over the end of the t... | 09/28/1982 |
| 4218863 | Continuous motion wrapping machine A synchronized wrapping machine which receives a series of articles to be wrapped and forms and heat seals a wrap of heat sealable material around each article. The incoming articles are longitudinally aligned and are thereafter conveyed in preselected sp... | 08/26/1980 |
| 4104849 | Container sealing apparatus Blank sleeves for forming gable-topped cartons are fed to an opening-out station and a bottom-sealing station. They are then advanced stepwise through pre-folding, filling, heating, panel-turning, and heat-sealing stations. At the panel-turning station, t... | 08/08/1978 |
| 4080237 | Method and apparatus for sticking down fillet seam on a package A method for flat pressing and sticking down of a fillet seam of a roof-shaped folding closure of a package whose outside surface is provided with a thermoplastic material, comprising transporting the package in a direction transverse to the fillet seam, ... | 03/21/1978 |
| 4020608 | Wrapping and sealing machine A device for sealing wrapping material on pieces of candy or similar products, in what is known as the "soap" style of wrapping, and for exiting the products, in their sealed wraps, from the wrapping machine. Each wrapped product is first received in a co... | 05/03/1977 |
| 3988876 | Device for sealing wrappers of candies and the like A device for sealing candies in wrappers comprises a rotary disk with circumferential compartments, each receptive of a candy wrapped in tip style, with folded tips of the wrap upwardly exposed. The disk conveys the so-received candies, intermittently, pa... | 11/02/1976 |
