Did You Know...
...that several people are credited with the invention of the flush toilet? Most people have heard of Thomas Crapper (1837-1910), the sanitary engineer who invented the valve-and-siphon arrangement that made the modern toilet possible. Another claimant to "the throne" was British inventor Alexander Cumming who patented a toilet in 1775. Then there's a nameless Minoan (a native of ancient Crete) who lived 4,000 years ago who supposedly was ahead of his time and created the first flush toilet!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7686753 | Bottom finishing station components for a cup making machine A cup making machine has a bottom finishing station provided with a mandrel for holding a sidewall blank and a bottom blank such that a flap portion of the sidewall blank is folded around a lip of the bottom blank. The bottom finishing station has a seam clamp engag... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7329216 | System for manufacturing containers A system (1) for manufacturing containers (5) is designed around a supporting structure (2) with which all the stations (7, 18, 19, 21, 24, 25) and the devices (14, 15, 16, 17, 20, 22, 26) needed to produce the containers are assoc... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7200978 | Process for producing hinge-lid boxes for cigarettes Process for producing packs made of thin cardboard with an outer wrapper made of shrink-wrap film. Folding tabs of the outer wrapper are connected to one another by full-surface-area heat sealing. The shrink-wrapping process for the outer wrapper may be initiated as... | 04/10/2007 |
| 6910314 | Random automatic case sealer A case sealer has a frame with a conveyor for moving boxes into a pair of spaced-apart lateral conveyors. The lateral conveyors have converging centering conveyor belts that center the boxes and first advancing conveyor belts that open to the width of the box to be ... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6270451 | Packaging manufacturing apparatus A package manufacturing apparatus which can fold a portion-to-be-processed accurately along a folding line without misalignment between the folding line and an actual fold. The package manufacturing apparatus comprises a pair of turnable arms (61), foldin... | 08/07/2001 |
| 6109518 | Heating-insulating cup and method of making same A heat-insulating cup comprises an inner sleeve and an outer sleeve. The latter is supported against an upper and a lower area of the inner sleeve. An annular space is located between the inner sleeve and the outer sleeve, which annular space is free of a... | 08/29/2000 |
| 5518748 | Edible containers and methods of making the same An edible container includes a truncated conically shaped side wall panel made of an edible dough having a pair of opposed side edges which are overlapped with one another, and arcuate upper and lower edges. A plurality of parabolic pieces are integral wi... | 05/21/1996 |
| 5228273 | Method of and apparatus for making packages A method of and apparatus for the production of packages each comprising a unit of product having opposite ends and a wrapper wrapped around the unit, the wrapper being wider than the length of the unit from end-to-end and initially extending outwardly be... | 07/20/1993 |
| 4907698 | Ice cream carton, carton blank, and method of assembly A carton blank and a method for folding and gluing it into a reclosable carton. Corner post flaps are releasably adhered to front end flaps to permit release of the corner post flaps from the front end flaps when the top of the top opening container is in... | 03/13/1990 |
| 4844327 | Pack for fluid media A pack for fluid media, comprising a tube (1) forming side walls (2, 3) as well as a cover (5) and a base, which cover and base are fitted to end edges (4) of the tube (1) is provided. At least the side walls (2, 3) and the base are made of plastics-coate... | 07/04/1989 |
| 4834823 | Package for flowable filling materials having a re-closable opening A fluid packaging means comprises tubular side walls and end walls disposed at the ends thereof, forming a bottom and a top, wherein the top comprises thermoplastic material without a carrier material, is injection moulded to the outer edge of the tube al... | 05/30/1989 |
| 4730766 | Sealing of void area at the top of cup bead of hot melt This relates to a carton or cup having a conventional type of gable end which includes sealing flaps which are heat sealed or bonded to one another. The cup is particularly adapted to be closed by hand wherein control over the sealing flap positions is no... | 03/15/1988 |
| 4636188 | Process and apparatus for manufacturing cardboard tubes with incorporated closure A process and apparatus are provided for manufacturing cardboard tubes with incorporated closure for packing or sending articles or documents and tubes obtained by implementing this process. The process comprises the continuous formation of a cardboard tu... | 01/13/1987 |
| 4621763 | Container end construction A paperboard container having a side wall formed from a single blank. A band or zone along one edge of the blank is provided with a plurality score lines each of whose edges are non-parallel to thereby yield a wedge score indentation. The blank is rolled ... | 11/11/1986 |
| 4620665 | Container with integral toggle closure A container defining an inner containment region and having means for positively sealing and opening at least one end to provide access to the containment region. An enclosure member is provided with at least one closure secured thereto for hinged movemen... | 11/04/1986 |
| 4541220 | Edge folder A device for folding the edge of a wrapping material wound around a roll against the end of the roll. The device comprises an endless rotating means, such as a chain or a belt, at least one wheel member around which the rotating means is arranged to rotat... | 09/17/1985 |
| 4300716 | Paperboard carton A one-piece T-shaped carton blank is disclosed which is utilized to form a rectangular cross-sectional container having its top and bottom end panels sealed in a plane substantially perpendicular to its sidewalls. The carton blank is formed having a defin... | 11/17/1981 |
| 4195555 | Method for folding a polygonal container The method for forming a polygonal container from a blank comprises placing the blank over a polygonal cone having the same number of sides as the side walls of the polygon to be formed. The blank is inverted during placement over the cone so that the upp... | 04/01/1980 |
