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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7895812 | Machine for raising planar articles A machine for raising planar articles (2), preferably made of cardboard, corrugated cardboard or plastics, in order to manufacture box-shaped or crate-shaped packaging. The machine comprises at least one main conveyor (16) for advancing the planar arti... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7568325 | Device for gripping and transferring articles, in particular boxes In a device with a plurality of holding units, each holding unit has a leading prong and a rear prong resiliently kept closed for holding a box in vertical orientation. The holding units are arranged spaced out on an operating group for intermittent motion through w... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7441388 | Automated device for packaging food 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... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7422551 | Method for erecting tubular blanks and a station, in which this method is carried out In a station for erecting tubular blanks in boxes, a gripping and raising unit engages a second lateral wall of the blank and subsequently raises the blank into a 90° rotation, so that the blank assumes, due to raising and rotating and because of the weight, a para... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7418809 | Device for picking and opening boxes suitable for packaging products A device for picking and opening boxes suitable for packaging products, comprising at least one magazine for substantially parallelepipedal boxes in a flattened configuration, at least one rotating drum provided peripherally with elements for picking the boxes one b... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7398632 | Methods and systems for packaging a product A method for applying a heat shrinkable film to a carton for forming a shape of the carton is provided. The carton includes a top panel, a bottom panel, at least one side panel extending between the top panel and the bottom panel, and a movable section that is movab... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7356980 | Automated method for packaging food 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... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7343722 | Unwrapping stretch film from a palletized load An apparatus for unwrapping stretch film from a palletized load. The unwrapping apparatus can also include a spooler unit for collecting the film after the film has been cut by the cutting unit. The spooler unit can include a roller guide having two roller members w... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7322166 | Apparatus for unwrapping and transporting frangible wafers for ice cream sandwiches and the like The present invention is an apparatus and method for unwrapping a package of frangible articles bearing a wrapping material, the wrapping material having a rear portion and a forward tab, the forward tab adapted to open the wrapping material when pulled, the apparat... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7320204 | Process and apparatus for encapsulating a photo-stimuable phosphor imaging plate within a barrier envelope and a barrier envelope therefore There are disclosed by a process and apparatus for positioning and sealing photostimuable phosphor imaging plates within barriers envelope blanks therefore and formed on a roll thereof wherein a barrier envelope blank including a U-shaped heat sealed portion thereof... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7316643 | Carton flap gripping system A gripping system uses a pin mounting block having at least one passage for accommodating holding pins of a holding pin member that cooperate with a dome to hold a laminate ply there between, the improvement being a releasable latch positioned to engage the pin memb... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7311650 | Thickness adjustment and stabilizer bar system for a case erector A case forming machine for erecting cases from knock down case form to an open form and move an opened case downward to a bottom forming station using a fixed and a moveable jaw system is improved by providing a plurality of stabilizer bars having their bottom edges... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7303090 | Liquid container sealing jacket, and method for unsealing liquid container fitted with liquid container jacket A packaging structure for a liquid container including a liquid containing portion accommodating liquid, a liquid supply portion for supplying the liquid to an outside and an air vent for fluid communication with an ambience, the packing structure includes a coverin... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7229241 | Automatic printing plate feeding system An automatic plate feeding system for loading plates of various sizes into a printing plate imaging device, which includes a plurality of trays staggered one on top of the other is provided. At least two of the trays contain plates of different sizes stacked with th... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7192393 | Carton flap gripping system A gripping system uses a pin mounting block having at least one passage for accommodating holding pins of a holding pin member that cooperate with a dome to hold a laminate ply there between, the improvement being a releasable latch positioned to engage the pin memb... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7024838 | Packaging apparatus An apparatus for forming packages of pre-cooked meals. The package comprises a tray enclosed at least partially by a card sleeve having top and bottom faces and two opposing side walls. The forming apparatus includes a series of forming tools mounted for movement at... | 04/11/2006 |
| 6974406 | Side-sealed bag having label section and method of production therefor The present invention provides an improved side-sealed bag comprising an open, mesh-like fabric and a label section. The bag has a closed end formed by a fold in the fabric, an opposing end and longitudinal, heat-sealed side seams extending from the closed end to th... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6955032 | Shuttle packer packaging machine A shuttle packaging machine includes a support structure having a servomotor driven shuttle device mounted thereon. A transfer arm having suction cups clamps, removes and holds a shipping blank on the shuttle device during all of the packaging functions. The major a... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6935246 | Pre-table for container treatment machines A receiving table for container processing machines having a table top (3) which stands on feet (2) and has transport elements (T) for the containers arranged on it, the table top housing an inclined top plate (3a) and a bottom plate (... | 08/30/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6915622 | Method for packing a product using a flat tubular package A method and machine for packing a group of cartons of cigarettes using a flat tubular package, whereby a top wall of the flat tubular package is engaged by suction by a gripping head, which is then moved to feed the flat tubular package to a seat which engages a bo... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6901718 | Paper packaging apparatus The invention includes a method of packaging paper products (such as facial tissue) in a dispenser. A clip of paper product is folded. The folded clip has a central region and a pair of opposing peripheral regions separated from one another by the central region. Th... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6901721 | Unit for overwrapping packets Packets are overwrapped in a cellophaner unit equipped with a wheel by which the packets are directed through an assembly station together with leaves of wrapping material and toward a folding station where the leaves are bent around the packets, also a suction roll... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6823648 | Media disc packaging apparatus and method In some preferred embodiments of the media packaging apparatus and method according to the present invention, a plurality of stations are positioned adjacent to a conveyor. A disc case enters a feed path preferably from an empty disc case receptacle, is conveyed to ... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6775960 | Separation of joined sheets The present invention concerns a device, an arrangement and a method for opening or separating two closely joined sheets of flexible material, e.g. sheet pieces and folded pieces of film or paper, by applying vacuum on the opposite outer sides of these joined sheets... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6766630 | Method and apparatus for unwrapping stretch film from a stretch wrapped palletized load An apparatus and a method for unwrapping stretch film from a palletized load. The unwrapping apparatus has two legs between which a load to be unwrapped is positioned, each leg including an upper and lower portion. Upper and lower grippers are attached to the upper ... | 07/27/2004 |
| 6705818 | Package take-out apparatus, package container thereof and unwrapping apparatus A slide pack container housing a plurality of piled slide packs has a cut-off portion. The cut-off portion has a width slightly larger than the width of a slide contained in each slide pack. As a sucker of a package take-out apparatus draws one of the slide packs fr... | 03/16/2004 |
| 6659928 | Device for removing flat articles A device for removing flat articles, in particular blanks of collapsed boxes from a delivery station and for transferring them to a receiving station which has a transport device thereat. Plural suction arms each with suction devices thereon are provided,... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6629403 | Mandrel with variable pocket widths for automatic packaging machines An automatic packaging machine has mandrels with a plurality of fingers for gripping an object. A cam track has contours which defines the location of positions along a conveyor carrying the mandrels. The fingers are closed by a spring and opened by a cam... | 10/07/2003 |
| 6619013 | Container flap pull A flap pull tool used in conjunction with a separate closure in fastening containers having a pair of upper entry-exit flaps and at least one lower entry-exit flap. The closure includes an upper member, a lower member and a connector disposed between and ... | 09/16/2003 |
| 6581653 | Sealed rotary joint for connecting a liquid feed pipe to the rotating supply container of a filling machine A device for feeding liquid substances in filling machine for filling bottles and the like includes a first tubular member (4), which is integral with a stationary structure (1) of the machine (M) and a second tubular member (5) made integral with a rotat... | 06/24/2003 |
| 6557320 | Compact disk packing machine A the compact disk packing machine includes a base having a box providing device for move empty boxes to a box opening device which opens the empty boxes one by one. A transferring device transfers the opened boxes to a disk providing device and a disk po... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6381927 | Method and apparatus for folding carton flaps in a packaging machine A flap folding assembly for engaging a work piece, such as a paperboard carton flap, and moving that flap into a desired position. The flap folding apparatus can be used in a continuous motion packaging machine to engage a sleeve type carton flap as the c... | 05/07/2002 |
| 6338371 | Apparatus for conveying, supplying, and filling unshaped containers, and method for conveying and supplying the same A filling apparatus of irregular--formed vessels having an intermittent swinging table (111) disposed above a continuous rotation table (5) and having a plurality of filling nozzles (121) at a same pitch as the vessel holding pitch, filling means for push... | 01/15/2002 |
| 6289650 | Automatic plate making machine equipped with photosensitive printing plate supplying apparatus and printing plate packaging means A photosensitive printing plate supplying apparatus for supplying a photosensitive printing plate to an automatic plate making machine for a photosensitive printing plate includes a printing plate packaging device which accommodates a bundle of photosensi... | 09/18/2001 |
| 6263646 | Apparatus and method for opening a perforated article such as a corrugated box An apparatus for bursting perforations on an article, such as a corrugated box, has a rotatable, retractable burst member that exerts an impact force on opposing sides of end portions of the perforated lid. Burst member is arranged for vertical movement t... | 07/24/2001 |
| 6240707 | Carton opening apparatus A carton opening assembly for a continuous motion packaging machine directs opposed carton engaging plates perpendicular to opposite side walls of a collapsed carton moving through the opening assembly. A vacuum is applied to the opposed carton side walls... | 06/05/2001 |
| 6233905 | Fill and form with multiple flat packages A package for holding and displaying a plurality of separately packaged flat items comprises a paper wrapping folding into a free-standing bag and containing the items in parallel stacked relation. The upper edges of the packages preferably protrude above... | 05/22/2001 |
| 6216421 | Device for seating and unseating a lid from a carrying cassette A method and a system for seating and unseating cassette lids from cassettes include utilizing two upright guides that are spaced apart by a distance that causes each guide to project between a cassette and a flap of a cassette lid. Outwardly facing surfa... | 04/17/2001 |
| 6151864 | System and method for transferring components between packing media A system for transferring components between packing media, such as tube packing media and tape packing media, is provided. The system includes a first packing media handling system, such as a tube handling system. The system also includes a second packin... | 11/28/2000 |
