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...that in 1800 ether was first used by partyers as a fun diversion? Sniffing the gas led to hilarious and raucous laughter as people watched each other become more and more intoxicated and silly. Several doctors independently realized the value ether would have to anesthetize surgery patients. Of those who claimed rights to the "discovery," none had a happy ending. One had a seizure and died defending his rights. Another spent his life in an asylum because he had been denied acclaim. A third became addicted to chloroform and, in a New York City jail, he soaked a cloth in the drug, severed an artery and bled to death.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8087218 | Packaging method with void-fill density determination A system, and associated components and methodology, that provides for automatic determination and supply of an amount of dunnage to fill the void left in a container in which one or more objects have been placed. The system comprises a dunnage dispenser which is op... | 01/03/2012 |
| 7426812 | Ice bagging apparatus A method for bagging ice using an ice-bagging apparatus comprising an ice maker for making ice and hopper for receiving the ice from the ice maker, a door and drawer system operatively associated with the hopper for measuring the ice and delivering of the ice, a bag... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7337595 | Packaging system with void fill measurement A system, and associated components and methodology, that provides for automatic determination and supply of an amount of dunnage to fill the void left in a container in which one or more objects have been placed. The system comprises a dunnage dispenser which is op... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7313901 | Packaging apparatus, packaging method, packaging system The present invention provides a packaging apparatus (1) capable of adjusting the thickness of a package with a simple configuration. The packaging apparatus (1) is a packaging apparatus that manufactures a package (B) wherein articles to be packaged, ... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7299607 | Beverage bottling plant for filling bottles with a liquid beverage, having a filling element for filling bottles with a liquid beverage and a filling machine having such a filling element A beverage bottling plant for filling bottles with a liquid beverage, having a filling element for filling bottles with a liquid beverage and a filling machine having such a filling element. ... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7287637 | Conveyor system for minimizing product damage during collection A conveyor system is provided to limit the vertical fall experienced by a product transported along the conveyor and falling into a collection bin. A sensor in a fixed position relative to the product conveying plane of the conveyor measures product collection heigh... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7260922 | Packing material product and method and apparatus for making, monitoring and controlling the same A monitoring system for monitoring one or more packaging material conversion machines includes one or more sensors for monitoring one or more operating characteristics of the one or more conversion machines. The system also includes a controller in communication wit... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7117653 | Flavoring system and method A flavoring system has a portioning device such as a weigher for receiving unflavored food items and sequentially supplying batches of a specified quantity of them, dispenses measured quantities of a flavoring material with a dispenser, applies these measured quanti... | 10/10/2006 |
| 6877297 | Cushioning conversion system and method A packaging system includes a cushioning conversion machine for converting stock material into relatively low density cushioning material or dunnage and a packaging system controller. The packaging system controller provides packaging instructions related to a part ... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6770823 | System and method for check-weighing the content of a blister A system for check weighing the content of a blister strip which includes a guide adapted to receive a blister strip comprised of at least one blister, a punch aligned with the guide for receiving the at least one blister, an actuator engaged with the punch for driv... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6729110 | System for inflating packing material A dunnage bag includes a sealed, flexible bag, and a rigid valve assembly connected in fluid communication to the flexible bag. The valve assembly has a rigid collar which mounts in an opening in a wall of a container to receive an exit end of a fill nozzle of an in... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6715268 | Card package production system with card package stacker and method A card package production system (100) for producing card packages (115) composed of printed paper carriers (113) with matching cards (128) attached to the carriers (113) selectively outputs the card packages through a card package... | 04/06/2004 |
| 6688083 | Drop control mechanism for flat articles This invention provides a mechanism for receiving flat articles, such as mail, moving in a travel path with a substantially horizontal orientation and for dropping selected such articles into either a single receptacle positioned below the mechanism or in... | 02/10/2004 |
| 6684609 | Packaging machine for continuously producing sealed packages of a pourable food product, and having a capacitive level sensor A packaging machine (1) for continuously producing sealed packages (2) of a pourable food product from a tube (4) of heat-seal sheet packaging material fed along a vertical path (A) and filled continuously with the food product by means of a fill conduit ... | 02/03/2004 |
| 6499279 | Capsule filling machine A capsule filling machine is provided which is characterized in that contents substance m is force fed into a body B accommodated and held in a body pocket 221 using a force feeding screw 33 to fill the contents substance m.... | 12/31/2002 |
| 6474048 | Automatic ice producing, bagging, and dispensing machine A machine that produces, dispenses and automatically bags ice. The machine will have at least one ice producing unit for producing ice. An auger mechanism is coupled to the ice producing unit for collecting and moving the ice that has been produced by the... | 11/05/2002 |
| 6421982 | Apparatus for filling in containers with discrete articles A container filling apparatus for filling containers with discrete articles is disclosed. The apparatus has a container conveyor for transporting containers to and from the apparatus and a rotatable filling head adjacent the conveyor. The head has a plura... | 07/23/2002 |
| 6405100 | Process and device for automatic provision of piece-type goods into or onto individual transport units The invention concerns a method and device for the automatic loading of e.g. commissioned goods in the form of articles into or onto individual transport containers such as cardboard boxes or pallets. The goods, all or some of which may be commissioned, a... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6055795 | Cushioning conversion machine A cushioning conversion machine for converting a sheet-like stock material into a dunnage product includes a frame having an upstream end and a downstream end, conversion assemblies, mounted on the frame, which convert the sheet-like stock material into a... | 05/02/2000 |
| 5960609 | Metering and packaging method and device for pharmaceuticals and drugs Electrostatic phototechnology is used to package microgram quantities of fine powders such as drugs in discrete capsule and tablet form. An electrostatic "image" having a given size and charge density is exposed to ionized drug powder to attract a known a... | 10/05/1999 |
| 5871429 | Cushioning conversion machine including a probe for sensing packaging requirements A cushioning conversion machine for converting a sheet-like stock material into a dunnage product includes a frame having an upstream end and a downstream end, conversion assemblies, mounted on the frame, which convert the sheet-like stock material into a... | 02/16/1999 |
| 5715646 | Aseptic chemical transfer system A method and an apparatus for aseptically producing, harvesting and packaging a pharmaceutical product. A section of the apparatus includes an aseptic reactor and structure for introducing a reactant thereinto so that a reaction can be conducted for the p... | 02/10/1998 |
| 5699649 | Metering and packaging device for dry powders Electrostatic phototechnology is used to package microgram quantities of fine powders such as drugs. An electrostatic "image" having a given size and charge density is exposed to ionized drug powder to attract a known amount of drug to the image. The resu... | 12/23/1997 |
| 5685348 | Electromagnetic filler for developer material A method and apparatus for filling a container with toner using a series of traveling magnetic fields to control the flow of toner from a supply of toner to the container. Initially, an empty container is placed under a fill tube through which the toner w... | 11/11/1997 |
| 5664398 | Apparatus for charging flat cans with sliver at a sliver producing fiber processing machine A system for charging a coiler can of elongated horizontal cross section with sliver obtained from a sliver producing fiber processing machine includes a stationarily supported rotary coiler head discharging sliver in coils; a sled disposed underneath the... | 09/09/1997 |
| 5634316 | Method and apparatus for handling flat coiler cans before, during and after filling the cans by a sliver-producing textile machine An apparatus for handling flat coiler cans before, during and after filling the cans with sliver by a sliver producing textile machine. The apparatus includes an empty-can storing device; a full-can storing device; an intermediate space defined between th... | 06/03/1997 |
| 5586587 | High rate pressure vessel filling process The invention comprises a high rate pressure vessel filling process which improves the accuracy of filling pressure vessels to required gas mass. The approach overcomes heating effects of high rate filling and volume variation effects by slowly prefilling... | 12/24/1996 |
| 5560179 | Apparatus for handling flat coiler cans before, during and after filling by a sliver producing textile processing machine A conveyor apparatus for moving flat coiler cans into and out of a sliver filling station and for reciprocating the cans in the sliver filling station while being filled with sliver by a sliver producing textile machine, includes a conveyor element extend... | 10/01/1996 |
| 5555704 | Sterilization system A gas sterilizer in which liquid phase ethylene oxide (ETO) is dispensed into an evaporator which converts the liquid to a gas and partially inflates a sterilization bag. After the sterilization bag has been partially filed with the is closed and sealed.... | 09/17/1996 |
| 5546733 | Method and an apparatus for registering a level of contents Methods and apparatuses for registering the level of contents in a packaging material tube which is formed in a packaging machine and is continuously supplied with contents and sealed-off transversely for the formation of individual packaging containers f... | 08/20/1996 |
| 5423162 | Automatic packing and sealing machine An automatic packing and sealing machine comprising a front conveyor set, a fast locating device for quickly adjusting and locating the front conveyor set and a sensing device for sensing an article passing therethrough. The sensing device employs a close... | 06/13/1995 |
| 5390406 | Process and apparatus for the partial filling of spacer frames with material A spacer frame consisting of a hollow profile strip bent three times and still open at the fourth corner, wherein one leg (2) is longer than the other leg leading to the open corner, is filled with granulated desiccant by way of a probe (20) introduced in... | 02/21/1995 |
| 5365722 | Method and apparatus for filling a container with a fluid An apparatus for filling a container with a fluid comprising a fluid supply source having a pump fluidly coupled thereto and electrically interfaced to a controller. Fluidly coupled to the pump is a nozzle valve which is also electrically interfaced to th... | 11/22/1994 |
| 5357733 | Aseptic packaging apparatus and method including a control system for accurately dispensing material An apparatus and method is disclosed for filling successive pouches which are interconnected in a continuous web by a tubular top portion. Material is dispensed into the pouches by an elongated filling pipe and a mass flow meter monitors the amount of mat... | 10/25/1994 |
| 5241800 | Chub machine An automatically controlled Chub packaging machine wherein the product delivery pump, tube or film feed, and clamping mechanism of the vertically reciprocating clipping head, are automatically controlled by means of servo actuators operatively connected t... | 09/07/1993 |
| 5230203 | Apparatus and method for providing sealed containers filled with a liquid A modular system for filling and seaming a plurality of containers moving in parallel linear directions using a plurality of modules wherein each module comprises container filling apparatus, lid placing apparatus and lid seaming apparatus.... | 07/27/1993 |
| 5159959 | Double feedback packing system for pasty material In a packaging system where a pasty material is dosed as portions into individual containers to form individual packages, at least one dimension of the portions is measured to produce actual-value outputs that correspond to the volumes of the respective p... | 11/03/1992 |
| 5067301 | Balloon inflating machine An apparatus for inflating balloons of the kind having a body and a filling neck terminating in a beaded edge, said apparatus comprising a balloon support plate having a sealing surface and an open ended slot extending from one edge thereof to receive the... | 11/26/1991 |
| 5036190 | Method and apparatus for candling envelopes A candling system for a mail extraction device incorporates a light source in the form of a light emitting diode and a cooperating photo-transistor detector which operate in the infrared range, to increase the system's immunity to environmental variations... | 07/30/1991 |
| 5014493 | Form-fill-seal packaging Vertical form-fill-seal packaging of a fluent product, such as flour, wherein flexible packaging material is formed into tubing around a downwardly extending mandrel, the tubing is intermittently fed downwardly in package length increments off the lower e... | 05/14/1991 |
