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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4517788 | Mechanism for filling bags of different sizes An automated bag filling machine particularly adapted to handle reclosable fastener strip profile-type plastic bags fed into the machine in a bag chain employs stations for opening, filling, reclosing, and separating filled and closed bags from the remain... | 05/21/1985 |
| 4467589 | Method and apparatus for splicing packing material webs A method for splicing the trailing end portion of an advancing web of packing material to the leading end portion of an initially stationary second web of the same packing material such that after splicing marks provided on each of the webs in an equally ... | 08/28/1984 |
| 4420923 | Method and apparatus for combined guidance, incorporating a register, of two continuously advanced foil strips A method and apparatus are proposed for the combined guidance, incorporating a register, of two continuously advanced foil strips, such as when attaching a foil cover strip to a lower foil strip including container-like recesses. The foil cover strip is p... | 12/20/1983 |
| 4415386 | Method and apparatus for assembling and attaching zipper closure strips to sacks Apparatus and method for assembling and attaching zipper closure means in strip form to open ends of flat sacks fed serratim into an attachment station. Consecutive sections of the closure means must be in proper registration with the sacks in such statio... | 11/15/1983 |
| 4400230 | Label indexing and applicator apparatus The label indexing and applicator apparatus of the present invention includes laminating means for bonding labels in a controlled index from a rolled strip of flexible and stretchable label stock to a surface of a substrate to form a laminate. The apparat... | 08/23/1983 |
| 4391079 | Control system for cyclic machines Method and apparatus for controlling a machine which is operable in cycles, the machine carrying out a plurality of functions during each cycle. Values representing the stages of the machine in its cycle are generated as the machine progresses through a c... | 07/05/1983 |
| 4384438 | Arrangement on packing machines The invention relates to a regulating arrangement in particular on packing machines for the feed of weblike packing material in register with decorations or folding indications, so-called crease lines, present on the web. In accordance with the invention ... | 05/24/1983 |
| 4381637 | Device for correctly positioning the film relative to the articles to be wrapped in a packaging machine In a machine for wrapping individual articles with a thermoplastic film, a device is provided for correctly positioning the film, which is for example printed with certain symbols, relative to the articles. Said device comprises a mechanism for detecting ... | 05/03/1983 |
| 4353196 | Package and automatic method of forming same This invention relates to a method of automatically forming packages of materials or goods such as milk packages from flexible film and to the novel packages produced thereby. The roll stock film is passed over a forming shoulder to give it a tubular shap... | 10/12/1982 |
| 4349997 | Device for enabling registry of operations in an apparatus for continuously forming containers filled with material An apparatus for continuously forming containers, filling the containers with material and packing the containers containing material includes a heating device for heating a bottom sheet of thermoplastic resin supplied intermittently thereto, a forming de... | 09/21/1982 |
| 4316566 | Apparatus for registration and control for a moving web In apparatus for pouch forming, filling and sealing, a printed web, having registration marks at locations where transverse seals are to be formed in order to form a pouch, is fed through drive rolls; over a plow which forms a longitudinal fold in the web... | 02/23/1982 |
| 4263767 | Meat packaging machine The meat packaging machine of the present invention is designed to vacuum pack meat products between two webs of heat sealable thermo-plastic material. One web of each package is formed with at least two pockets connected by and bounded by a sealing flang... | 04/28/1981 |
| 4217163 | Advancing arrangement with adjustable stepwise advancing distance In a hot forming machine in which molding means deform a thermoplastic foil band and cutting and stamping means further process the deformed foil band. A photocell is adapted to scan marking indicia on the foil band and to adjust a lengthwise adjustable c... | 08/12/1980 |
| 4144693 | Food packaging method and apparatus Method and apparatus for continuously and automatically packaging preferably particulate food in successive fixed amounts by using a ribbon-like film, preferably of a synthetic resin. The film is continuously payed out from a roll and is progressively wra... | 03/20/1979 |
| 4128985 | Control system for package making machine A package making machine of the vertical form, fill and seal type has an improved electrical control system operable on demand irrespective of the intervals of time between a train of cycle start signals and operable independently of the mechanical power ... | 12/12/1978 |
| 4094127 | Apparatus for forming, filling and closing plastics trays Apparatus for manufacturing thermoformed plastics trays comprising means for entraining along a plane a thermodeformable strip proceeding through a heating station, a station for forming container cells in the strip, a station for filling with a product t... | 06/13/1978 |
| 4081944 | Arrangement for the reading of photocell markings on a material web provided with decoration An apparatus for reading photocell markings applied at equal intervals on the decorated side of a material web run through a packing machine for the continuous manufacture of separatable packages provided with transverse crease lines in which a cylindrica... | 04/04/1978 |
| 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 |
| 4048782 | Controlled film advance apparatus The apparatus and method of this invention pertains to a web film advance in which a film advancing roll is carried on a frame moved by a reciprocating pitman arm. This arm is adjustable as to its stroke or travel so that a corresponding travel of the fra... | 09/20/1977 |
| 4023327 | Control system for package making machine A package making machine of the vertical form, fill and seal variety has an electrical control system allowing the length of the package or bag made during each machine cycle to be controlled easily by manual adjustment of a control knob. In particular, t... | 05/17/1977 |
| 4018028 | Arrangement for aligning heat-sealable lids on mating product-filled containers An arrangement is described for registering stretchable lids with mating product-filled troughs of a heat-sealed product container prior to the heat-sealing operation. The troughs are preformed at first intervals on a first strip, which is successively in... | 04/19/1977 |
| 4009551 | Method and apparatus for registration of web material in forming filling and sealing industrial bags Side gusseted industrial bags are continuously (or intermittently) formed from continuous web materials, and simultaneously filled and sealed in one fast operation by the method and apparatus of this invention. The various features of the invention includ... | 03/01/1977 |
| 3996726 | Packaging machine A device for controlling the speed of sheet materials which are fed to a deep-drawing station in a packaging machine. The sheets are advanced by the control device in a step-by-step manner toward the deep-drawing station. The speed of the motor is control... | 12/14/1976 |
| 3979877 | Vacuum packaging machine with web registration means A vacuum packaging machine is disclosed for the production of packages from two different packaging material webs, one having printing marks on it. By controlling the movement of the individual working stations in accordance with the spacing of the printi... | 09/14/1976 |
| 3977152 | Method and apparatus for automatically packaging flexible flat goods Foldable sheet articles are packaged by forming a stack of the articles, folding the stack about a center line by exerting pressure from above the stack onto the center line, suspending a doubled-over web of packaging film by its edges below the stack, in... | 08/31/1976 |
| 3943683 | Packaging apparatus Packaging apparatus for packaging units in flexible sheet material with the units spaced longitudinally in a tube formed of a web of the material and with the tube sealed together between successive units. The apparatus includes a rotary sealing wheel car... | 03/16/1976 |
