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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4685271 | Medication packaging and dispensing system A packaging and dispensing system for pills and like objects includes a rectangular, box-like housing preferably made of metal or other durable material. On the floor of the housing is a sliding template which is equipped with three or more spaced-apart p... | 08/11/1987 |
| 4681032 | Bundling device A bundling device is disclosed for providing bundle units of waste paper or other articles. The device comprises (a) a quantity of serially dispensable, flexible, elongated ties of a length sufficient to encompass a stack of articles to be bundled, (b) me... | 07/21/1987 |
| 4680918 | Packaging with cohesive coated materials Apparatus and method for folding cohesive coated material like corrugated paper and coated film about three dimensional solids like paper products, toys, machinery and books for transport is accomplished by a framework supporting a roll or other supply of... | 07/21/1987 |
| 4676378 | Bag pack A bag pack formed of multiple stacked handle bags having aligned mounting apertures defined through the handles thereof for reception of mounting rods therethrough. The apertures are formed by partially severed flaps which are in turn bonded together to m... | 06/30/1987 |
| 4674967 | Apparatus for forming rolled food products An apparatus for forming rolled food products includes a pair of end members in generally spaced parallel relation. The end members each include an arcuate recess with a support member maintaining the end members in fixed relation to one another. The supp... | 06/23/1987 |
| 4672797 | Method and apparatus for securing and transferring grid specimens An apparatus (10) for use in securing a specimen (S) in a folding specimen holder (58) having an arm blade (12). A spring clip (26) releasably secures the grid (58) to the arm blade (12) so that one or more specimens may be loaded into the holder (58). A ... | 06/16/1987 |
| 4669252 | Manual coin counter and packager A manual coin counting and packaging apparatus for quickly measuring the predetermined number of coins necessary to fill a paper coin roll wrapper of any denomination and for inserting the coins into the coin roll wrapper. The apparatus includes a transpa... | 06/02/1987 |
| 4667456 | Machine for packing products in a thermoretractable film Machine for packing products in a thermoretractable film is disclosed and includes a roll supplying a supple film center-folded in two layers for wrapping a product, means for separating the two layers of film, means for welding the periphery of said film... | 05/26/1987 |
| 4665680 | Method of making extruded plastic holder for handled bags An extruded cylinder of plastic material having open ends and die-cut flaps on opposite sides is a supporting holder for limp plastic bags. The holder is formed by an inexpensive process of extruding plastic and cutting the tube into cylinders of the prop... | 05/19/1987 |
| 4662150 | Apparatus for erecting and loading a paperboard carton manually Apparatus for facilitating the manual erection and loading of a partially assembled paperboard carton blank. The machine includes a work table on which the carton blank is manipulated selectively to open the blank and close the bottom thereof by utilizing... | 05/05/1987 |
| 4659031 | Inserts and cooperating retaining means for use with web dispensing means Inserts for facilitating dispensing of wrapping material comprising an elongated web wrapped about a hollow cylindrical core. The inserts are telescopingly received within opposite ends of the hollow cylindrical core and are retained by a force-fit cylind... | 04/21/1987 |
| 4649690 | Apparatus for applying carriers onto containers An apparatus for applying a carrier member onto the lip of a container is provided. The apparatus includes a stationary base unit and first stretcher elements fixed to the base unit for engaging one of the pair of openings of the carrier member by its inn... | 03/17/1987 |
| 4649693 | Wrapping apparatus Apparatus for use in hand wrapping articles, for example trays of meat, with thermoplastic wrapping sheet material (plastic film) that includes a frame which mounts a wrapping platform, a heated device for severing the wrapping material, a heat sealing pl... | 03/17/1987 |
| 4641483 | Container holder fitting device A device for manually and simultaneously forcing four, contoured, flexible, six pack type holders over the necks of twenty-four bottles. The device includes a pair of parallel, spaced apart pipes to which a plurality of parallel, spaced apart cross bars a... | 02/10/1987 |
| 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 |
| 4619104 | Net bag forming method and machine A novel machine for forming bags from expandable continuous rope net material having a spherical expanding body positioned within the tubular net material to expand the material as the material is drawn around the body and a basin for supporting the body.... | 10/28/1986 |
| 4617778 | Apparatus to facilitate hand packing of containers Packaging apparatus for facilitating the rapid hand packing of fragile ingredients such as used in salads. Mechanisms are provided to transport empty containers to a filling station, introducing the ingredients by a hand raking procedure into the containe... | 10/21/1986 |
| 4612755 | Blister pack laminating device and method A device and method for laminating a barrier film to a blister pack utilizing a two-cycle, reciprocatory carriage assembly. The carriage assembly includes a tray upon which the blister pack is placed and reciprocated in and out of the device housing. Duri... | 09/23/1986 |
| 4603535 | Portable sealing device Portable sealing apparatus for the sealing of plastic coated paperboard cartons includes a frame and a fixed jaw mounted thereto. A single movable jaw is utilized to seal top portions of the carton by fusing of a polyethylene coating thereon. Guide means ... | 08/05/1986 |
| 4603542 | Booklet criss-cross stacking fixture A receiving cradle for the pre-packaging of items (e.g., stamp booklets) to be oriented in and then dispensed from a criss-cross stack. Initially, pairs of rubber bands are placed on the fixture in a preferred sequence, followed by the loading of alternat... | 08/05/1986 |
| 4599847 | Thermal cut-off device for packaging machine In wrapping machinery for wrapping articles in heat sealable plastic film, a web of film is drawn from a supply roll and is severed by pulling the film under tension downwardly onto the narrow edge of a thermal cut-off device, which may be a heated rod or... | 07/15/1986 |
| 4600163 | Apparatus for controlled manual unrolling of rolled flexible material A hand grip member for insertion in the end of a tubular core for flexible rolled material such as plastic stretch film includes opposed handle portions projecting from one side of a support web which includes cylindrical bearing shoe segments projecting ... | 07/15/1986 |
| 4598531 | Sheet material dispenser and methods of dispensing sheet material and of wrapping items A free end portion of sheet wrapping material is grasped and pulled from a dispenser transversely past and spaced from a cutting element mounted on a housing. The cutting element is displaced in response to the movement of the withdrawn material by genera... | 07/08/1986 |
| 4595389 | Stack of detachably-connected bags with punch-out handle-grip openings and process for making same A stack of detachably-connected, individually carryable bags of a plastic material, preferably plastic foil. Each bag has a front wall, a rear wall and an upper bag opening. The bag walls of each bag are provided with centrally positioned punch-out pieces... | 06/17/1986 |
| 4583349 | Method of storing handle bags A method for supporting a bundle of two-handle bags so as to better insure that only one bag at a time will be removed.... | 04/22/1986 |
| 4575020 | Portable chuck for dispensing wrapping material A portable chuck for dispensing under tension a roll of wrapping material wound about a tubular core is disclosed herein. The portable chuck includes an expandable spindle insertable within one end of the tubular core, and a handle for selectively expandi... | 03/11/1986 |
| 4572251 | Pneumatic bagger ring An item is placed into a relatively close fitting pliant bag by first turning the bag inside out over a horizontal ring mounted over a work surface on at least one upright support leg. Desirably, at least half of the peripheral extent of the ring is unsup... | 02/25/1986 |
| 4570423 | Tree ball wrapping device A tree ball tying apparatus is disclosed comprising a tripartile inverted, truncated conically shaped holder whose included angle is less than 60° and is made of sheet metal attached to a stand by its rearmost part. The two forward parts are hinged, latc... | 02/18/1986 |
| 4570415 | Vegetable banding apparatus An apparatus for placing an elastic band (22A) around a vegetable bunch (19) comprising a band stretcher assembly (26) for receiving the band, a plurality of fingers (46) for stretching the band, and means (37) for moving the band stretcher towards a top ... | 02/18/1986 |
| 4568818 | Heat cutter for plastic wrapping films using film resistors A hand wrapper for plastic film that thermally cuts a length of plastic wrapping film withdrawn from a supply roll includes an improved heat cutter that uses film resistors instead of a metal blade or a single heater wire for the cutting because the film ... | 02/04/1986 |
| 4565045 | Wrapping device A wrapping device comprises a free wheeling film roll mounted on a frame, a film withdrawal slot to guide the film exterior of the frame, a detector to detect the withdrawn film length, a comparator which produces a locker signal each time when the film w... | 01/21/1986 |
| 4563856 | Bag closing apparatus using closure tags The bag closing apparatus includes a horizontal plate for supporting a coiled strip of bag closure tags, a channel having a width corresponding to the thickness of the bag closure tags and a height greater than the height of the bag closure tags. The chan... | 01/14/1986 |
| 4555893 | Fish bait tier A device is provided for enclosing fish bait in a permeable mesh bag using a base with a well therein into which the central portion of such mesh may be depressed and wherein the bait may be placed in the mesh. A pair of metal plates are provided which ac... | 12/03/1985 |
| 4551962 | Weighing and packing apparatus A novel weighing and packing apparatus is provided by which an article is weighed, and weighed article is manually packed with film. The apparatus may be provided at its working table with a packing device for manual packing and a weighing mechanism in an... | 11/12/1985 |
| 4546598 | Stretch wrapping apparatus Stretch wrapping apparatus comprising a puckering device and an expandible rectangular frame demountably supported on the puckering device. Belts on the puckering device are provided to feed a length of plastic film tube onto pillars on the expandible fra... | 10/15/1985 |
| 4535951 | Stretch film wrapping device A stretch film wrapping device for rotatably supporting a roll of plastic film having a tubular rigid central core includes a pair of opposed core holders interconnected by a length adjustable axle member to effect clamping of the film roll between the co... | 08/20/1985 |
| 4534150 | Tool for use with refilling empty ampules with dental impression materials A block-like tool has a hole in its upper surface and contains a hollow needle projecting at one of its ends into said hole and opening at its other end to the atmosphere. Said hole is disposed removably to receive and stably support therein the lower end... | 08/13/1985 |
| 4530473 | Apparatus for application of plastics stretch films The invention is an improved apparatus for the manual application of plastics stretch films to materials and items to be packaged and secured as a unit, or packaged and secured to a shipping and transporting device. The apparatus is particularly useful fo... | 07/23/1985 |
| 4528795 | Device for manually inserting a slide into a slide frame This invention relates to a device for expanding the entrance slot of a plastic slide frame having at least one resiliently expandable entrance slot, which device comprises two noses, which are arranged to engage the top surfaces of frame edge portions di... | 07/16/1985 |
| 4528802 | Food wrap sealer A food sealing device for shrink-wrapping foods such as pizza includes a heat source surrounded by an inner shroud to create an updraft for heating the film. A second outer shroud is positioned around the inner shroud to prevent the film from contacting t... | 07/16/1985 |
