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Comic actor Danny Kaye received patent D166,807 for the co-design of "Blowout Toy or the Like". It's similar to one of those toys that unravels when you blow into at a birthday party except Kaye's has three blowouts going in different directions, not just one.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7762047 | Food article packaging apparatus and method Packaging apparatus and method for inserting food articles into a bag of comparable size. The apparatus has a conveyor that orients the product along a longitudinal axis and delivers the food article to a tray disposed below the conveyor so the product drops from th... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7421834 | Ice measuring and dispensing apparatus An ice measuring and dispensing apparatus includes a rotating drum rotatable about a horizontal axis. The rotating drum has a plurality of chambers, and an ice supply hopper has a delivery opening for delivering ice into the plurality of chambers. A discharge tube t... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7392642 | Packaging device for free-flowing bulk material (filling) The invention pertains to a device for the packaging of free-flowing fill materials in a tube-shaped casing with a feeder tube to conduct the flow of fill materials. The feeder tube features a hookup, a mouth, a basically straight first segment adjoining the hookup,... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7389630 | Packaging device and trash box The present invention automatically and continuously packs women's sanitary products, paper diapers, and the like in a sealed manner and is installed in toilets of hotels, public toilets, and the like used by general public. When a trash is put in, film pull-... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7386971 | Detergent products, methods and manufacture A water-soluble pouch suitable for use in machine dishwashing and which comprises a plurality of compartments in generally superposed or superposable relationship, each containing one or more detergent active or auxiliary components, and wherein the pouch has a volu... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7328560 | Apparatus for packaging products in boxes An apparatus for packaging products in boxes provided with a supporting footing, a box feeding magazine, at least one pick-up device, at least one feeder conveyor of products to be placed in the boxes, at least one rotating carousel for receiving in a plurality of p... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7320203 | Method for packaging articles in boxes and a machine which carries out the method In a method for packaging articles, a tubular blank is conveyed in flat folded configuration to an erecting station to be engaged and rotated by suction cups. The raised blank assumes a parallelepiped shape with a vertical axis, while a striker hit a lateral wall of... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7316103 | Continuous motion packaging system A continuous motion packaging system for packaging a series of articles in cartons as the cartons are moved along a carton conveyor. A series of selector wedges engage and form groups of articles received on the cartons, which are folded or wrapped about the article... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7310926 | Apparatus for producing film tube from film strip An apparatus for producing film tube which can be filled with liquid, viscous or granular filling material, from a film strip, is provided wherein the apparatus comprises a filling tube which can be connected to a filling machine, a device for transforming the film ... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7308784 | Apparatus and method for packaging articles in clear plastic packages Apparatus for packaging articles in clear clamshell packages includes a pair of parallel relatively narrow, laterally spaced apart conveyor belts that support there-between a package in open position by its opposing side peripheries. A stack of packages is supported... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7305808 | Packaging machine A packaging machine moves its heater unit for longitudinal sealing of a tubularly formed film between a sealing position at which the heater unit contacts the film and a retracted position at which it is separated from the film. In addition to the mechanism for this... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7168560 | Continuous strip of containers having traction pins In a continuous strip of containers, the latter are distributed stepwise from one another according to a longitudinal axis of the strip, two adjacent containers being separated by a step. From one longitudinal edge zone traction pins protrude laterally that are inte... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7146782 | Method of sealing a plug with a food sauce dispensing cartridge A method of sealing a plug with a food sauce dispensing cartridge enables leak proof operation of the dispensing cartridge at the site of the plug. The plug, having a circumferential edge, is positioned within the dispensing cartridge and oriented such that the edge... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7100346 | Machine for boxing wound coils of filamentary material A machine for winding and boxing wound coils of filamentary material having a payout hole extending from the outer to the inner coil winding wherein a turret mechanism mounting two oppositely disposed end forms and corresponding collapsible mandrels and operative be... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7076931 | Method for manufacturing container with inherently stable base A container made of flexible material with an inherently stable base and a method for manufacturing the container, the container being obtained in the shape of a pouch which has, in the region that will form the base, heat-sealed lateral regions and optionally ribbe... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7069707 | Vertical tubular bagging machine In order to be able to easily exchange the fill pipe in a vertical tubular bagging machine, where a flat foil web is reshaped on a forming shoulder into a foil tube running over a fill pipe, a forming shoulder is suggested which can be opened. A shoulder sleeve out ... | 07/04/2006 |
| 6955032 | Shuttle packer packaging machine A shuttle packaging machine includes a support structure having a servomotor driven shuttle device mounted thereon. A transfer arm having suction cups clamps, removes and holds a shipping blank on the shuttle device during all of the packaging functions. The major a... | 10/18/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6883294 | Method and device for the packaging of flat objects For packaging flat objects (4) using a packaging material (7) being supplied as a quasi-endless web, a string of bags (7′) being open on three sides and closed on one side is continuously formed and conveyed in a conveying direction. During co... | 04/26/2005 |
| 6880315 | Apparatus for forming a bait sack An apparatus for forming a bait sack using a netting material comprises a filling collar having a tubular configuration and an inside surface for directing bait into the netting material. A forming sleeve has a tubular configuration and is disposed coaxially about t... | 04/19/2005 |
| 6755010 | Capsules Capsules, for example for the delivery of pharmaceuticals, are produced from two films (18) of a water-soluble polymeric material, by deforming the films to form a multiplicity of recesses, and filling the recesses with a flowable filling material. This is pe... | 06/29/2004 |
| 6634158 | Form fill and seal packaging machine with replaceable forming neck A machine for forming reclosable packaging includes a removable forming neck which can be replaced with different forming necks of various diameters. The machine has a mechanism (40) for attaching closure strips (P) onto a film that have lengths up to hal... | 10/21/2003 |
| 6363696 | Mandrel for an automatic packaging machine for cardboard box with a latching flip top An automatic packaging machine for forming and filling a latching flip-top box uses a two part mandrel which are joined by a hinge. One of the two hinged parts has a roller thereon for following a cam track having a quarter turn spiral therein. As the rol... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6338233 | Packing machine assembly with integrated switch cabinet units A packing machine is assembled with one or more control cabinets into a compact aggregate wherein a wall of each control cabinet constitutes at least a portion of the rear wall of the frame of the packing machine. Each control cabinet is movable (such as ... | 01/15/2002 |
| 6223507 | Automatic packaging machine for cardboard box with a latching flip top An automatic packaging machine for forming and filling a latching flip-top box uses a two part mandrel which are joined by a hinge. One of the two hinged parts has a roller thereon for following a cam track having a quarter turn spiral therein. As the rol... | 05/01/2001 |
| 5941055 | Apparatus for making an instant beverage container with product therein An apparatus and method for making a beverage container which contains an instant beverage material individually sealed within the beverage container by a filter disk and an insert disk combination. The apparatus includes a mandrel having a flange and a f... | 08/24/1999 |
| 5776510 | On-demand production of foam cushions with defined three-dimensional geometry An apparatus is disclosed for automatically molding defined three-dimensional foam cushions. The apparatus comprises means for preparing a bag from plastic film material and for enclosing a foamable composition in the plastic bag, means for concurrently a... | 07/07/1998 |
| 5759218 | Point of fill air system In an apparatus for extruding plastic into a length of parison in the form of a vertically oriented hollow tube, molding a container from the parison and for filling the container with liquid product, the apparatus having a extruder, with a parison head, ... | 06/02/1998 |
| 5651237 | Apparatus and methodology for packaging items incorporating an inflatable packaging system A method of and apparatus for automatically feeding from a roll successive pairs of inflatable packaging bags each having a common intermediate inflation channel to present the end bag upon a base platform for receiving an item-to-be-packaged, and then to... | 07/29/1997 |
| 5475968 | Device for combining printed products that are supplied to a folded envelope A device is provided to combine printed products that are supplied to a folded envelope. A rotating conveying member is equipped with receiving pockets that are distributed over its circumference and can be closed and opened. The receiving pockets have an... | 12/19/1995 |
| 5417039 | Method and an apparatus for filling packaging, in particular paper sacks or paper bags A method for filling packaging including an outer paper packaging member and an inner plastic film bag member with a filling material that is contained in a filling material container arranged above the packaging. The method includes, in the vicinity of t... | 05/23/1995 |
| 5372000 | Apparatus for filling flexible bags An apparatus for filling flexible bags includes an endless conveyor having a generally horizontally oriented upper run; and a plurality of bag holders mounted on the conveyor and distributed therealong. Each bag holder includes two cooperating plates exte... | 12/13/1994 |
| 5341626 | Cartoning method and apparatus The packaging of articles grouped to form generally cuboid shaped package contents of variable dimensions includes the erection of carton blanks to form open-ended tubular receivers, insertion of the grouped articles into such an erected carton and foldin... | 08/30/1994 |
| 5094061 | Apparatus for packaging products An apparatus for packaging products in a bag of plastic material comprises means for transporting step by step a continuous tube-like material web with upper and lower layers lying flat one upon the other, a cutting unit for making a cut in the upper laye... | 03/10/1992 |
| 5054271 | Packaging apparatus Packaging apparatus for production of display packages in which an item is packaged on a card sealed under a transparent film, the cards each having a window being carried through the apparatus on jigs which are indexed around in an endless path travellin... | 10/08/1991 |
| 4995219 | Combination cutter and bagger for photographic negatives The present invention relates to a device for cutting photographic film into individual negatives and placing the cut negatives into envelopes. The invention utilizes a permeable conveyor and vacuum fan arrangement to transport the negatives after they ar... | 02/26/1991 |
| 4977729 | Apparatus for the automatic packaging of a fragile product in a folding carton The invention relates to a process and an apparatus for packaging a fragile product (8) in a folding carton (19), the problem being to carry out the forming of the folding carton blank (1), the filling of the carton (19) and the closing of the carton (19)... | 12/18/1990 |
| 4837905 | Method and apparatus of seat assembly The present invention provides an apparatus and method of enclosing a vehicle seat elastomeric foam bun assembly with a prefitted cover. In a preferred embodiment the bun assembly is enclosed with a generally impermeable cylindrical bag having a lower coe... | 06/13/1989 |
| 4709529 | High-speed wrapping machine In a sheet slider means used in a packaging system in which flat sheets are taken, one by one, out of a magazine and are delivered by a magazine conveyor, each sheet being transferred to a case transporting conveyor located adjacent the magazine conveyor ... | 12/01/1987 |
| 4693051 | Machine for boxing items in groups A machine for boxing items in groups, in particular sticks of sweets or similar, on which the sticks are fed in successive layers into a compartment for forming the aforementioned groups, which compartment is open vertically and designed to move, along a ... | 09/15/1987 |
