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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7331156 | System for securely conveying articles and related components A system is disclosed for conveying articles for processing, the system including a conveyor configured to convey articles to the processing station. The conveyor includes a plurality of links, each link including at least one movable gripper for gripping an article... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7328557 | Apparatus for loading small objects into blisters of a foil web An apparatus for loading small objects into respective blisters of a foil web has a plurality of substantially identical fill plates each having an array of receptacles corresponding to the blisters of an area of the foil. A conveyor moves the fill plates one after ... | 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 |
| 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 |
| 6993889 | Product packaging system A product packaging system for receiving a series of products from one or more product transport lines. The products are loaded into a series of carriers and transported through a downstream inserter unit. Inserter assemblies moving in timed relation with the moveme... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6968667 | Cigarette packing method and machine A cigarette packing method and machine, whereby an output wheel feeds along a folding path a number of gripping heads, each of which receives and retains, by the ends, a relative packet having minor lateral walls, each defined by an inner longitudinal tab and an out... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6694708 | Method and machine for producing a rigid packet of cigarettes A method and machine for producing a rigid packet of cigarettes from a flat, substantially rectangular blank; the blank has two main longitudinal crease lines, and a number of transverse crease lines defining, between the two main longitudinal crease line... | 02/24/2004 |
| 6484479 | Form, fill and seal apparatus with cavity bar A form, fill and seal packaging machine is adapted to receive a carton blank, erect the carton blank into an open-top carton, fill and seal the open-top carton. The cartons have a predetermined cross-sectional shape and size. The packaging machine include... | 11/26/2002 |
| 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 |
| 6286291 | Method and machine for wrapping a product A method and machine for wrapping a product in a sheet of wrapping material, whereby a wrapping head is fed along a wrapping path, along a first portion of which, the wrapping head is positioned perpendicular with respect to the wrapping path to receive t... | 09/11/2001 |
| 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 |
| 6141944 | Continuous product wrapping method and machine A method and machine for continuously wrapping a product, whereby a sheet of wrapping material is transferred, from an output of a line for supply wrapping material, into a seat of a wrapping conveyor onto which the sheet of wrapping material, folded into... | 11/07/2000 |
| 6085497 | Lifting device for a working station of a packaging machine A working station of a packaging machine comprises a first tool member and a second tool member which can be lowered to a lowered position relative to the first tool member and lifted to a raised position relative to the first tool member. Both tool membe... | 07/11/2000 |
| 6073423 | Methods and apparatus for erecting tubular carton blanks Apparatus for loading carton blanks into a packing machine comprises a magazine containing a stack of flattened, tubular blanks, a dog chain driving the blanks out of the magazine into the nip of rollers and then into the nip of overdriven rollers which a... | 06/13/2000 |
| 5979140 | Packaging machine for the production of cigarette packets The core of a packaging machine for cigarette packets or similar packets is a rotary folding unit (11). On the perimeter of the folding unit, there are arranged holding members for packets or packet contents, for example folding mandrels (18) on the one h... | 11/09/1999 |
| 5850725 | Packaging machine for multi-packs A carton feeding and erecting mechanism is disclosed for a packaging machine for packaging articles such as beverage containers or the like into cartons, the packaging machine including a carton conveyor for conveying an open-ended carton through the mach... | 12/22/1998 |
| 5697877 | Apparatus for feeding packaging machines An apparatus for periodically feeding a packaging machine with semi-finished packages formed from flat blanks (2), provided with a magazine (6) for storing such blanks (2), a feed path (11) extending in a feed plane (13) with a pair of feed dogs (16), spa... | 12/16/1997 |
| 5694741 | Easter grass bag forming An apparatus and method for forming an Easter grass bag from a sheet of material. The apparatus includes a mold having side walls and a bottom defining a mold opening. The side walls and bottom of the mold have vacuum holes connected to a vacuum source. A... | 12/09/1997 |
| 5678388 | Apparatus and method for making and bagging decorative grass An apparatus and method for producing and bagging decorative grass, such as Easter grass. The apparatus includes an extruder, a godet, a slitter, a cutter, a bagging assembly and a programmable logic controller. The extruder produces a continuous sheet of... | 10/21/1997 |
| 5562581 | Device for withdrawing and opening cases made of sheet material and for feeding them to a packaging line The device has a rotating member including pulleys that and joined to a belt conveyor along which flat folded cases advance. Suction cups are mounted on shafts situated along the periphery of the rotary member and a coaxial drum, rotating in synchrony wit... | 10/08/1996 |
| 5544738 | Adjustable pocket mechanism An adjustable pocket mechanism for a vertical cartoner includes a plurality of adjustable pockets to accommodate different sizes of cartons. The pocket mechanism includes a pair of endless parallel chains which pass around a pair of upper and lower sprock... | 08/13/1996 |
| 5537802 | Packaging apparatus and method for preventing separation of package seals A packaging apparatus for sealing spaced groups of absorbent articles intermediate layers of a continuous wrapper is provided. The apparatus comprises a wrapper sealing apparatus for thermally bonding the layers; a wrapper seal cutting apparatus positione... | 07/23/1996 |
| 5517805 | Vacuum-packaging machine with translating tools A vacuum-packaging machine is provided with a drive mechanism for each of the tools at the forming and sealing stations that not only vertically reciprocate the tools, but which also horizontally reciprocate the tools. Before the next section of the film ... | 05/21/1996 |
| 5452568 | Automatic packaging equipment An automatic packaging machine comprises a spaced parallel pair of conveyor chains for transporting a plurality of pallets around an endless path. A pair of guide rails are connected between the conveyor chains for slidingly carrying each pallet. A plural... | 09/26/1995 |
| 5388389 | Automatic packaging equipment An automatic packaging machine comprises a spaced parallel pair of conveyor chains for transporting a plurality of mandrels. A pair of guide rails connected between the conveyor chains for slidably carrying each mandrel, so that a mandrel may be moved in ... | 02/14/1995 |
| 5357734 | Apparatus for producing package composed of part packs Packages consisting of two part packs are in increasing demand as so-called cigarette sticks, because consumers want "half sticks", that is to say part packs having a smaller number of cigarette packs. The part packs are produced from a common one-piece b... | 10/25/1994 |
| 5185984 | Automatic packaging equipment An automatic packaging machine comprises a spaced parallel pair of conveyor chains for transporting a plurality of mandrels. A pair of guide rails connected between the conveyor chains for slidably carrying each mandrel, so that a mandrel may be moved in ... | 02/16/1993 |
| 5170611 | Web supply mechanism for an indexing motion packaging machine An apparatus and method for supplying web material to an indexing advancement mechanism, such as may be associated with a packaging machine which forms the web into a component of a package. The web is supplied from a supply roll to an unwind mechanism, w... | 12/15/1992 |
| 5081819 | Method and apparatus for manufacture and packaging of filter packs for use in a brew basket A packaging machine and a method for continuous forming of filled packages from relatively unstretchable roll stock of crinkled heat sealable filter paper. A series of pouch forming drum sockets are provided in an outer surface of a revolving drum and the... | 01/21/1992 |
| 5079896 | Carton loading machine In a carton loading machine, there is provided a mechanism which will initially displace one row of cylindrical-shaped objects with respect to its adjacent row such that load items in one row are located in a staggered relationship with respect to the loa... | 01/14/1992 |
| 5070681 | Machine for packaging products in general by producing cases or boxes of the hinged-lid type which can be closed over a collar with a guarantee seal starting from individual flat blanks with multiple component parts A machine for packaging products by producing boxes of the hinged-lid type which can be closed over a collar with a guarantee seal starting from individual flat blanks with multiple component parts formed by three operationally independent machine section... | 12/10/1991 |
| 5054274 | Automatic molten substance bagging method and system An automatic molten substance bagging method and system which facilitates introduction and extrusion of molten substance into and from a fixed volume member and performs extrusion of molten substance rapidly by reduced driving force. A carrying can in whi... | 10/08/1991 |
| 5020301 | Method and machine for baling shrubs and bushes For baling shrubs or bushes, in particular rose bushes, the roots (12) of the plants (10) substantially freed from soil are embedded in a moisture-containing substrate (14) such as peat and provided with a sheath or envelope. For this purpose a hollow of ... | 06/04/1991 |
| 4993211 | Soft chewing gum wrapping machine and method A high speed apparatus for cutting and wrapping soft chewing gum comprises a plurality of substantially parallel cutters having cutting heads to cut the gum into relatively thin rectangular-shaped pieces. The cutters are moved to a position where each ind... | 02/19/1991 |
| 4918908 | Apparatus for feeding blanks to a folding turret of a packaging machine To increase the output of a packaging machine especially for hinge-lid packs produced from individual blanks, the latter are fed to folding members (folding turret 31) along two parallel tracks (blank tracks 39, 40). To guarantee faultless and efficient c... | 04/24/1990 |
| 4917663 | Packaging machine with direct blank setup A packaging machine and more particularly a machine for setting up a container from a blank (16) of corrugated board is disclosed as including a uniquely arranged magazine (10) for a plurality of container blanks (16) of corrugated board and including a s... | 04/17/1990 |
| 4875326 | Soft chewing gum wrapping machine and method An apparatus for wrapping soft chewing gum comprises a turret having means to cut the gum into relatively thin rectangular shaped pieces. Operatively associated with the turret are means to hold the shaped pieces of gum thereon for transport to a position... | 10/24/1989 |
| 4823539 | Forming and filing device for cardboard package In an apparatus for forming, filling and closing packages made of cardboard, cassettes for receiving the package are provided, which may be rearranged in differing processing positions. These cassettes are designed in such a way that they may be either ex... | 04/25/1989 |
| 4802324 | Vertical cartoning assembly and method A vertical cartoner assembly and method is for placing and assembling cartons over preselected product groups moved on a conveyor. The assembly has a frame structure having an elongated circular portion and vertically disposed drive shafts each having upp... | 02/07/1989 |
| 4759167 | Packaging machine A machine for erecting, loading and closing an end loading carton. The machine has a dispenser station in which a knocked-down carton is removed from a storage magazine and deposited in the form of an open sleeve. A top closure station is provided in whic... | 07/26/1988 |
