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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7325384 | Method of loading cartons Methods of loading cartons in a packaging machine are provided. A method comprises providing cartons with an end opening having a width less than a pitch of flight bars of a packaging machine, and detachably affixing the cartons so that one carton is horizontally ad... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7207152 | Method for handling, labeling and filling syringes An inventive method, system and apparatus are provided for syringe handling, and more particularly, for syringe labeling, filling and capping operations. To facilitate syringe handling, an inventive apparatus includes a plurality of syringe bodies interconnected in ... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7159759 | Fully enclosed wrap-around carton A fully enclosed pack is provided with a gusset that is capable of being formed from a blank without the use of tucker fingers. Nicks are provided between the side end panel and tuck-in panels of the carton. As the side end panels are folded, the nicks help pull the... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7073308 | Universal automated plastic container closing system By providing two endless loop belt drive assemblies forming a belt driven sealing section, a highly efficient and effective automatic, universally applicable, container closing system has been achieved which is capable of securely lockingly engaging both locking lug... | 07/11/2006 |
| 6904733 | Machine for packing bottles in cardboard boxes A machine is used for packing bottles by assembling cardboard boxes starting from an unfolded sheet (2) with adhesive strips, in such a way that in an initial step the bottles (6) to be packed are placed on a central part of the unfolded sheet of the b... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6834473 | Bottling plant and method of operating a bottling plant and a bottling plant with sections for stabilizing the bottled product There is now provided a method and an apparatus therefor for stabilizing products in containers in a continuous container flow by stationary, sequential sections by means of overflowing liquid, whereby the sections are graduated with respect to one another in terms ... | 12/28/2004 |
| 6374575 | Bottling plant and method of operating a bottling plant A method and an apparatus therefor for stabilizing products in containers in a continuous container flow by stationary, sequential sections by means of overflowing liquid, whereby the sections are graduated with respect to one another in terms of their li... | 04/23/2002 |
| 6295789 | Tightening arrangement for paperboard wrap There is provided a paperboard wrap and a tightening section for a paperboard wrapping apparatus for applying a paperboard wrap around a plurality of articles, said tightening section comprising an endless drive member having at least one straight line se... | 10/02/2001 |
| 6282864 | Overhead boom arrangement for a packaging machine There is provided for a packaging machine an overhead boom arrangement 20 having a number of endless belts 22, 23 driven around sets of rollers 25. The belts 22, 23 contact the tops of articles/bottles 11 or carton blanks 50 and are driven at the same spe... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6044627 | Device for conveying plastic pots in the transverse direction at high speed A device for displacing articles from a first substantially rectilinear feed track (23) to a second substantially rectilinear feed track (24) forming an angle with the first track (23), comprises apparatus (26) for grouping articles in batches of at least... | 04/04/2000 |
| 5809746 | Overhead flight conveyor assembly for erecting four-sided tapered paperboard cartons An overhead flight conveyor assembly for use with a continuous motion packaging machine to erect four-sided tapered paperboard cartons is disclosed. The packaging machine has an elongate carton transport conveyor supported on a framework of the packaging ... | 09/22/1998 |
| 5778630 | Carton folding mechanism for wraparound cartons A device is used in a machine for packaging articles in a wraparound carrier. The carrier is formed from a blank having a pair of foldable flaps struck therefrom. The packaging machine is arranged to advance the blank and articles associated therewith alo... | 07/14/1998 |
| 5765336 | Single and dual lane traypacker and shrinkwrapper A tray packing-shrink wrapping machine for packaging articles along a conveyor is disclosed. The machine is operable in a dual lane mode and a single lane mode. In both modes a collation section receives articles from an infeed section and arranges the ar... | 06/16/1998 |
| 5737898 | Packaging machinery priming technology An apparatus for controlling the input of articles at the start-up phase of a packaging machine of the type having at least one article conveyance lane and an article grouping mechanism constructed and arranged to meter articles moving in the conveyance l... | 04/14/1998 |
| 5673536 | Carton flap folding method and apparatus A carton flap folding method and apparatus for use on a continuous motion packaging machine is disclosed. The carton flap folding apparatus includes a spaced pair of generally parallel knock-down arms which are rotated in the direction of a path of travel... | 10/07/1997 |
| 5671587 | Method and apparatus for loading bottom-loading basket-style carrier An apparatus for loading containers into basket-style bottom-loading carriers has a container infeed conveyor; a divider for segregating the containers into columns; a container meterer for metering each of the columns of containers into groupings of a pr... | 09/30/1997 |
| 5669203 | Carton activating mechanism A carton activating mechanism (26) for opening the gatefold seats of a paperboard carton blank (13) is disclosed. A rotatable disc (30) carries a spaced series of activators (34), each of which includes a plate (35) having a pair of pivotally-connected fi... | 09/23/1997 |
| 5664401 | Carton folding mechanism for wraparound cartons A flap-folding device for use in a packaging machine comprises a rotational disc, drive means for rotating the disc in synchronization with movement of a blank and articles to be packaged in the blank, a pair of blank-engaging fingers pivotally mounted on... | 09/09/1997 |
| 5657615 | Spacing conveyor mechanism There is provided a spacing conveyor mechanism 10 having a pair of spaced, identical drive chains 13, 14. A number of conveyors 20 are attached to the chains, each conveyor having a leading carriage 21 pivotally attached to one chain 13 and a trailing car... | 08/19/1997 |
| 5653084 | Carton packing apparatus A carton packaging apparatus for use in wrapping open-ended sleeve type carton blanks around a pre-formed group of articles being moved along a path of travel through a packaging machine as disclosed. The apparatus includes a series of spaced guide member... | 08/05/1997 |
| 5642604 | Spacing conveyor mechanism A spacing conveyor mechanism (10) for conveying cans (11) along an article feed path (12) in a packaging machine for forming the cans into groups of cans is disclosed. The spacing conveyor mechanism has a pair of spaced drive sprockets (15) positioned alo... | 07/01/1997 |
| 5638665 | Spacing conveyor mechanism There is provided an article conveyor mechanism comprising a drive chain 13 on which is pivotally mounted a number of carriages 16 each having a conveyor 17 secured thereto. Each conveyor 17 has a plurality of pockets 18. Each conveyor 16 has two pins 19,... | 06/17/1997 |
| 5638659 | Packaging machine A packaging machine (5) for moving a spaced series of groups of containers along a path of travel in a packaging machine line is disclosed. The packaging machine includes a variable pitch lugged conveyor belt assembly (12) having a pair of conveyor chains... | 06/17/1997 |
| 5626002 | Packaging machine having overhead assembly for opening and lowering carton onto article groups A packaging machine places cartons on an carton conveyor in an inverted-T configuration with the panels of the carton being generally horizontal and the walls of the carton collapsed together in a generally vertical orientation. An overhead assembly has c... | 05/06/1997 |
| 5609008 | Carton flap folding assembly and method A carton flap folding assembly (10) and a method of folding carton flaps is disclosed. The carton flap folding assembly includes a rotatable cam plate (25) which defines upper and lower cam tracks (29, 30). The cam plate is affixed to drive sprockets (35,... | 03/11/1997 |
| 5592804 | Method and apparatus for positioning carton flaps A carton flap folding assembly (10) and a method of folding carton flaps is disclosed. The carton flap folding assembly includes a modular housing (12) positioned on the framework (22) of a packaging machine, and along the path of travel of articles of pr... | 01/14/1997 |
| 5579625 | Clip-type article carrier packaging mechanism An article clip packaging machine for applying carton members to the article rims of preselected article groups. The machine has a conveyor with an infeed end for receiving preselected article groups. At least two carton member feeding structures are sync... | 12/03/1996 |
| 5555700 | Bottle conveying system A bottle conveying and packaging system has guide tracks for guiding groups of bottles positioned adjacent one another in a transverse direction, from a grouping station to a packaging station. The guide tracks correspond in number to the transversely lyi... | 09/17/1996 |
| 5469687 | Apparatus for forming stacked article groups utilizing clip-type carriers An apparatus and method for forming stacked article groups utilizing clip-type article group carriers. The overall apparatus is aligned in a generally linear, continuous orientation. The apparatus longitudinally moves infeed cans from an infeed end to an ... | 11/28/1995 |
| 5291720 | Article rotating assembly An article rotating assembly and process for rotating articles to a predetermined orientation on a moving conveyor. The assembly comprises movable article control structures and cooperating vertical motion and rotational motion assemblies which are synchr... | 03/08/1994 |
| 5154039 | Packing method and machine A method and apparatus for packing pots or cups in two rows in a package formed of a jacket characterized by providing a blank having a base panel, a pair of lateral panels connected by fold lines to the base panel and a pair of upper panels connected to ... | 10/13/1992 |
| 5148654 | Packaging system A group of objects is packaged in a package formed of a blank having a base panel, base flaps joined at respective longitudinally extending fold lines to the base panel, a pair of side panels joined at respective transversely extending fold lines to and l... | 09/22/1992 |
| 4970843 | Carton flap folding mechanism In a machine for packaging articles in a tubular wrap-around carrier formed from a blank having a pair of walls adjoined together along a fold line and having a pair of article retaining and blank reinforcing flaps disposed astride the fold line, and whic... | 11/20/1990 |
| 4887414 | Article separating and loading apparatus A packaging machine for packaging containers such as bottles in a carton. Adjacent rows of bottles are conveyed downstream parallel to the downstream movement of spaced open-ended carton blanks. A separate conveying means in conjunction with stationary gu... | 12/19/1989 |
| 4663914 | Wrapping machine for applying a web to one or more articles to form a package This relates to a wrapping machine of the type wherein a web is automatically wrapped about one or a group of articles to form a package. A continuous web is provided and this web has at regular intervals a series of transversely aligned cutouts. After th... | 05/12/1987 |
| 4651502 | Variable plane compression apparatus, method of utilizing same, and carton for use therewith This relates to providing internal compression in packages of the type utilizing a wrap around carton. Instead of utilizing locking cut outs provided for receiving articles to be packaged, special compression cuts are formed in the closure panels of a wra... | 03/24/1987 |
| 4571916 | Secondary packaging machine A machine for segregating and packaging a plurality of articles in a wrap-around carton first separates a selected number of articles from those on an infeed conveyor, brings the selected articles together with an opened carton blank, and wraps and secure... | 02/25/1986 |
| 4571923 | Packaging machine and method A packaging machine (10) for wrapping together a plurality of uniform containers (c) which machine includes an infeed section (12) having conveying means (18) for continuously feeding a series of wrapper blanks in substantially flat condition longitudinal... | 02/25/1986 |
| 4554778 | Packaging machine and method A bottle carrier blank of the wraparound open ended neck through type is fed in a downwardly converging direction to a position such that the apertures in the top wall are disposed in coincidence with a bottle group which is continuously moving along a pr... | 11/26/1985 |
| 4285185 | Article carrier feeding and control apparatus Apparatus for continuously feeding and controlling wraparound carrier for packaging a plurality of articles or containers is disclosed. The carriers are of the type having at least two draw-down and feed openings, one opening formed on each side thereof. ... | 08/25/1981 |
