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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7712288 | Unified ingestion package and process for patient compliance with prescribed medication regimen Techniques for reducing non-compliance of medication use are described. The techniques involve generating and storing an identifier for a specific dosage instance of a specific patient, and creating a package that includes a mechanism for conveying the identifier. O... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7322170 | Apparatus and method of sterile filling of containers An apparatus for the sterile filling of containers sterilizes the containers before supplying them, with their caps on, to a substantially airtight chamber for filling. A precision lead screw precisely positions each container under the appropriate capping/uncapping... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7231749 | Apparatus and system for detecting under-filled cushions The invention is an under-filled cushion detector that is capable of conveying a string of packaging cushions and detecting whether the string of packaging cushions may be under-filled. The detector includes an upper driven belt that is movably suspended above a low... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7143569 | Calibrated shrink wrap packaging system and associated method An automatic high-speed wrapping system for wrapping packages in heat sealable thermoplastic film includes a film delivery unit wherein the film is dispensed and wrapped around the packages at a high rate of speed as the packages travel through the system. The packa... | 12/05/2006 |
| 6796108 | Method and apparatus for controlling the filling of containers under aseptic conditions The method comprises viewing by of a magnetic recording camera the zone for the opening of vials and for metered filling thereof and continuously recording the zones visually during the operation of the installation and simultaneously carrying out the identification... | 09/28/2004 |
| 6732638 | Time-out indicator for pneumatic strapper A time-out indicator is adapted for use in a pneumatic strapping tool for tensioning a strap around a load, adhering the strap onto itself, and cutting a feed end of the strap. The strapping tool has a cylinder housing, a piston disposed within a cylinder in the cyl... | 05/11/2004 |
| 6367232 | Tablet cassette installation-error preventing system for automatic tablet supplying and packaging apparatus A tablet cassette installation-error preventing system comprises cassette supports each having a front side, a rear side, a top side, and a rotor drive therein, wherein the rear side is fixedly attached on the outer periphery of a tablet dropping unit. Pi... | 04/09/2002 |
| 6331076 | Solder paste with a time-temperature indicator A solder paste product includes solder paste in a container with a time-temperature indicator positioned to measure the solder paste's cumulative exposure to heat.... | 12/18/2001 |
| 6327835 | Checking and controlling apparatus for use in capsule-packaging machines The thrusters or the rams for pressing the metered amounts of product into the metering seats are equipped with force transducers which emit an electrical signal proportional to the thrust exerted during the pressing step. This signal is transmitted to th... | 12/11/2001 |
| 6289656 | Packaging machine A packaging machine for enclosing items in a package delivers individual items, such as medicine, through a feeder that disposes the item between two strips of packaging material which are then joined together around the item by a closure member thus seal... | 09/18/2001 |
| 6035603 | Apparatus for handling or producing packs Apparatus for handling or producing packs made of packaging material, it being the case that folding elements, pressure-exerting elements, push rods, slides etc. act on blanks of the packaging material. In order to convert any possible incorrect positioni... | 03/14/2000 |
| 5997927 | Indicator, an associated package and associated methods An indicator including an indicator product that is adapted to change visual appearance, an indicator scale in near adjacency to the indicator product including substantially all of the visual appearances that the indicator product can display and a binar... | 12/07/1999 |
| 5910090 | DC drive positioning system An apparatus for positioning a guide slidably mounted on a machine wherein the guide is driven by a lead screw turned by a DC motor through a worm drive gearhead. The DC motor is controlled by a programmable logic controller (PLC) with input from an opera... | 06/08/1999 |
| 5857308 | Double lid system A double lid system is provided with an electric motor (44) to actuate mechanisms to release the lid (20) from a drum (18) and simultaneously clamp the lid (20) to a door (14) of a port (or vice versa), and with an electric motor (74) to withdraw the door... | 01/12/1999 |
| 5836136 | Seal integrity monitoring and adaptive control method and apparatus The integrity of a seal in packaging film is monitored during packaging of loose, free flowing product and adaptive control of the packaging method/apparatus is provided in response to the determination made. The pressure being exerted between the sealing... | 11/17/1998 |
| 5822951 | Apparatus and method for sampling gas in product packages An automated gas sampling system for connection into an industrial packaging line, wherein packaged products are sealed in a product chamber. Apparatus as provided for obtaining a gas sample from inside the product package and for transferring the sample ... | 10/20/1998 |
| 5702739 | Simplified method of coding packages and coded packages produced by such method A method of coding a package for identification includes the steps of providing a package including a product in a bag, the bag having a tail portion; and positioning at least one cut in the tail portion of the bag, the at least one cut having a pre-selec... | 12/30/1997 |
| 5555707 | Blister pack scanner device A blister pack scanning device for detection and removal of overfilled or defective pharmaceutical blister packs is comprised of a photoelectric LED transmitter and sensor with a scanning beam channel bar disposed therebetween. The blister pack web is pas... | 09/17/1996 |
| 5555703 | Method and system for preparing items to be mailed A method of preparing items to be mailed, in which periodically at least one main document is inserted into an envelope by way of a mail preparation system comprising an inserter station. A printing is printed through use of a printer on an envelope, whic... | 09/17/1996 |
| 5537798 | Package making machines and systems A packaging machine responds, when a kind of merchandise to be produced, the film or the former which is installed thereon is inputted through a touch panel, by causing its microcomputer to compare the inputted data with the data stored in a read-only mem... | 07/23/1996 |
| 5528925 | Method and apparatus for testing the seal between a container and a flexible lid A method and apparatus for testing the seal between a container and a flexible lid by measuring the lid's deflection. In the disclosed embodiment, an actuator impacts the lid and activates an alarm if the lid is not securely attached to the container.... | 06/25/1996 |
| 5388504 | Twine wrap control for round baler An automatic control device for controlling the placement of wrap material on a bale within a round baler. A pair of twine guide tubes are actuated for movement by an actuator which is energized by a controller for controlling a twine wrapping operation. ... | 02/14/1995 |
| 5226359 | Bale size indicator An adjustable bale size indicator for a baler which forms cylindrical bales comprising a first indicator member mounted for pivotal movement on the baler and having a bale diameter indicia exposed forwardly of the baler. The first indicator member is atta... | 07/13/1993 |
| 5182895 | Shopping bag system and method A system and method for shopping are described which includes a lightweight, compact carrier, made of nylon or fabric material, designed to carry a set of reusable shopping bags. The set of shopping bags comprise a plurality of bag structures made of eith... | 02/02/1993 |
| 5176605 | Folding device for producing cigarette packs Folding mandrels (11) of a folding turret (10) are in the form of elongate thin-walled hollow bodies and are susceptible to mechanical stress. The folding mandrels (11) are monitored by a monitoring unit (13) with inductive tracers (14, 15; 29, 30) as reg... | 01/05/1993 |
| 5147491 | Form, fill and seal process and device A detection apparatus is provided in a form, fill and seal operation to detect the position of sealing jaws with respect to one another during the sealing process.... | 09/15/1992 |
| 4870806 | Method and apparatus for monitoring the supply of cap members of capping machines A method and apparatus for monitoring the supply of cap members from a magazine or supply bin, via a channel, to the capping mechanism of a capping machine. At least one signal emitter, which is provided at the channel, generates an emitted signal that ch... | 10/03/1989 |
| 4768885 | Temperature monitoring systems A temperature monitoring system includes a linear array of six pyroelectric sensors mounted in a block. A through hole is provided in the block for each sensor. A bore in the block having an axis which intersects the axis of each through hole accommodates... | 09/06/1988 |
| 4733359 | Document collating and inserting system having displays for document count verification A document collating and inserting system having displays for document count verification. A plurality of bank checks belonging to a check set are fed, counted and stacked at a stacking station while simultaneously an associated statement is fed to an ima... | 03/22/1988 |
| 4558557 | Apparatus for automatically converting piles of freshly printed sheets of value tokens, in particular sheets of bank notes, into bundle packs The apparatus has a strip cutting device (6) in which the sheet piles (1) are cut into bundle strips (8), a bundle cutting device (16) for cutting the bundle strips into banknote bundles (17) and therebetween a banding station (9) for the bundle strips (8... | 12/17/1985 |
| 4535582 | Skin packaging machine having microprocessor-based control A skin packaging machine for the vacuum application of a film over goods to be packaged including a microprocessor-based control. The skin packaging machine includes a film supply, an oven, a film-bearing frame, a base having a platen with a perforated su... | 08/20/1985 |
| 4363032 | Sheet feeding control device for use in a coin wrapping machine A sensor is positioned adjacent the wrapping rollers of a coin wrapping machine in the passage of the wrapping sheet. The sensor issues a sheet detection signal when the sheet is detected by the sensor. The control device is also provided with sheet feedi... | 12/07/1982 |
| 4348851 | Packing machine for the production of filled sealed bags Disclosed is a packaging machine which forms, fills, and seals bags in vertical orientation, and includes a heat sealing and severing jaw mechanism located below a vertical forming and filling tube. One of the sealing jaws includes a defective package det... | 09/14/1982 |
| 4136503 | Error-detection system for packaging of articles and encoded container blank therefor A container blank is encoded on all flaps thereof in manner providing for presentation of the same coded pattern to a sensing unit irrespective of the flat registered with the sensing unit. The sensing unit is connected through article-designator apparatu... | 01/30/1979 |
| 4122760 | Carton jam detection means A carton jam detector means for use on a carton loader apparatus in a carton packaging machine. The loader push rod has mounted thereon a carrier block which has fixed thereto a valve body having pressurized air passages formed therethrough. A carton lift... | 10/31/1978 |
| 4077181 | Inserting apparatus Apparatus for inserting a stack of items into an envelope. A plurality of bank checks are serially fed, counted, and stacked at a receiving and stacking station while simultaneously an envelope is fed to an insertion station. A counter visually displays t... | 03/07/1978 |
| 4071998 | Apparatus for controlling dispensing of articles Apparatus and a method are disclosed for dispensing a plurality of articles, one at a time, at a filling zone into a plurality of containers so that when one of a series of containers is filled, the filling operation is automatically interrupted, the fill... | 02/07/1978 |
| 4068449 | Tool for placing lids on cups A tool for placing a lid or closure on a cup or container, such as a cardboard or plastic cup containing hot coffee delivered to a customer at a take-out food service establishment. The preferred form of tool has a upright handle with spring-loaded telesc... | 01/17/1978 |
| 4067170 | Tubular package forming apparatus and method Apparatus and method to change the amount of overlap in a tubular sheet material to maintain the registration of material printed thereon when the tubular sheet of material is converted into individual tetrahedral packages and to provide an alarm system t... | 01/10/1978 |
| 4035982 | Automatic vacuum packaging machine and method A bag filling and sealing mechanism having vertical tubes over which elongated sleeve-like bags are positioned to receive a stack of similar patty-type products, a composite plunger unit movable into the upper end of a bag containing a guantity of said pr... | 07/19/1977 |
