Did You Know...
...that one person who claimed to be the inventor of the television is Russian emigre Vladimir Zworykin? In 1929 David Sarnoff, founder of RCA, asked Zworykin what it would take to develop TV for commercial use. He said: a year and a half and $100,000. In reality, it took 20 years and $50 million! Before his death in 1982 at the age of 92, Zworykin said of his invention: "The technique is wonderful. It is beyond my expectations. But the programs! I would never let my children even come close to this thing."
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7399261 | System for forming containers Containers (2) for food products are manufactured employing a system that includes a feed station (4) supplying a succession of tubular elements (2a), and a heat sealer (10) positioned to close and secure a first open end (2... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7390290 | Packaging machine The present invention relates to an apparatus for manufacturing packages, comprising a fist plurality of arms (2) which are at substantially equal mutual spacing, on symmetric distribution about a circle, radially extend about a geometric axis (X) and located... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7338423 | System and method for assembling a package with a flip-top An automatic packaging machine for forming a latching flip-top box from a blank. A plurality of mandrels are coupled to a conveyor system. Each of the mandrels includes a mounting block for coupling the mandrel to the automatic packaging machine, a package-holding a... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7299600 | Device for sealing lengths of filter paper A device for sealing filter bags for products for infusion, where each filter bag is made from a flat web (1) of filter paper and has applied to it a tag (1b) and a tie string (1a) connecting the tag (1b) to the filte... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7134257 | Method and device for producing hard packs for cigarettes For producing hard packs, namely hinge-lid boxes or shell and slide packs in particular, inner and outer pack units are prepared separately in each case, namely a shell (20), on the one hand, and a blank for a hinge-lid box, on the other hand. The inner pack ... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7090630 | Machine for forming containers in particular containers for food products Containers (2) for food products are manufactured on a machine (1) equipped with a feed station (4) supplying a single file of tubular elements (2a), a first heat sealer (10) by which a first open end (2b) of e... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7080726 | Carton transfer unit A transfer unit is configured for use with a form, fill and seal packaging machine. The transfer unit receives a partially erected carton from a first station in a tubular form, conveys the carton to a second station, and conveys the carton from the second station t... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7077259 | Carton transfer unit A transfer unit is configured for use with a form, fill and seal packaging machine. The transfer unit receives a partially erected carton from a first station in a tubular form, conveys the carton to a second station, and conveys the carton from the second station t... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7001320 | Process for producing hinge-lid boxes In the production of (cigarette) packs of the hinge-lid-box type with round edges, preliminary deformation of blanks (10) is desirable for producing hinge-lid boxes of satisfactory quality. The preliminary deformation of the round edges takes place in the reg... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6962556 | System and method for assembling a package with a flip-top An automatic packaging machine for forming a latching flip-top box from a blank. A plurality of mandrels are coupled to a conveyor system. Each of the mandrels include a mounting block for coupling the mandrel to the automatic packaging machine, a package-holding as... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6837029 | Method and apparatus for closing open end of carton blank A carton closure method wherein heated end side walls of the open end of a carton are initially infolded to partially close the open end of the carton and thereafter subjected to capture between a backup pad and a pressure pad by a linearly reciprocative cam to whic... | 01/04/2005 |
| 6669614 | Method and apparatus for closing open end of carton blank A carton closure system including a cam having a rear face and a camming surface opposite the rear face, the cam being mounted for linear reciprocation between a position wherein there is applied pressure against partially infolded portions of the end sid... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6575886 | High speed wrap-around multipacker A packaging machine for loading of individual articles into a product cartons that includes a rotary blank feeder and a rotary board erector. The rotary blank feeder includes a plurality of feeder arms each having a vacuum head. The feeder arms are each r... | 06/10/2003 |
| 6520899 | Method and device for feeding blanks In the method for feeding blanks in the container-forming unit, the blank is advanced onto the wrapping mandrel which is attached to a moving structure, which moves the wrapping mandrel between the different processing stations of the container-forming un... | 02/18/2003 |
| 6406415 | Apparatus for forming a container The apparatus for forming a container is situated in a container-forming unit comprising different processing stations. The apparatus for forming a container includes a wrapping mandrel attached to a moving structure, which is arranged to move the wrappin... | 06/18/2002 |
| 6385950 | Carton bottom folder A method and apparatus for forming the bottom of a carton on a form, fill and seal packaging machine such as the TETRA REX.RTM. packaging machine includes a sealing station for a bottom forming station that includes a pair of rotating spindles. Each spind... | 05/14/2002 |
| 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 |
| 6195959 | Automatic packaging machine for cardboard box with 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... | 03/06/2001 |
| 6149566 | Heating device for heat-sealing bottom portions of containers A heating device for heat-sealing bottom portions of containers has a hot air nozzle 62. The nozzle 62 is positionable as opposed to a bottom forming end portion 14 of a tubular blank 11 of square cross section as fitted around an intermittently drivable ... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6094884 | Forming apparatus for an elevated bottom carton A bottom forming apparatus having a mandrel cap and a sealing plate configured to create a carton with an elevated bottom. The present invention alleviates the problem of cartons having soggy bottoms since the point of absorption, the raw paperboard edge,... | 08/01/2000 |
| 5983595 | Packaging machine for producing hinge-lid boxes A packaging machine for producing hinge-lid boxes for cigarettes has a rotating folding turret which has a plurality of pockets (21) which are open in the radial direction. For the purpose of securing blanks (11) or partially completed hinge-lid boxes (10... | 11/16/1999 |
| 5806289 | Continuous cigarette packing machine A packing machine presenting a wrapping conveyor for continuously feeding a succession of wrapping spindles along a given path; a feed device for continuously feeding a succession of sheets of wrapping material in a direction tangent to the path, along th... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5555708 | Pressure closing mechanism A pressure sealing mechanism having a yoke into which a mandrel is positioned while having a carton tube mounted thereon with overlapped end closure panels, the yoke including side walls, a closed outer end wall, oppositely disposed, inwardly extending fl... | 09/17/1996 |
| 5324250 | Method and apparatus for folding bottom panels of a carton blank An apparatus and method for folding the bottom panels of a carton blank that includes side walls, first and third bottom panels extending from opposite side walls, second and fourth bottom panels extending from opposite side walls, and a bottom panel flap... | 06/28/1994 |
| 5295941 | Apparatus for producing containers made of paper-base laminate An apparatus for producing containers made of paper-base laminate, the apparatus comprising: an intermittently drivable rotor 42 having radial mandrels 43 each adapted to support a tubular container blank of square to rectangular cross section as fitted t... | 03/22/1994 |
| 5162033 | Blank feeder A blank feeder has a pair of guide rails for guiding blanks having a tubular form of square cross section to a bottom forming mandrel. The guide rails are formed with opposed recessed portions which are V-shaped in cross section for holding therebetween t... | 11/10/1992 |
| 5120292 | Apparatus for forming containers An apparatus is disclosed for forming planar sheets into containers for containing a flowable food or like product. The container-forming apparatus has an apparatus frame with a plurality of treating stations including a planar sheet feed station. The app... | 06/09/1992 |
| 5069021 | Apparatus for producing a fluids package The invention describes an apparatus for producing a fluids package, with a synthetic plastics coated paper tube, of which one end is closed by an injected synthetic plastics lid while its other end is closed by holding and welding the tube material, with... | 12/03/1991 |
| 5007889 | Apparatus for feeding container blanks to container bottom forming mandrel An apparatus for use with blanks folded to a flat form for unfolding each blank into a tube of rectangular to square cross section and feeding the tubular blank to one of container bottom forming mandrels which is at rest at a feed station. The apparatus ... | 04/16/1991 |
| 4986803 | Apparatus for the production of cigarette packs In packaging machines with an integrated apparatus for the production, storage and conveyance of blanks, the arrangement of the apparatus within the packaging machine is important. It is necessary to ensure that, especially when the reel being, for instan... | 01/22/1991 |
| 4943271 | Apparatus for the production of (cigarette) packs In packaging machines with an integrated apparatus for the production, storage and conveyance of blanks, the arrangement of the apparatus within the packaging machine is important. It is necessary to ensure that free unimpeded access to the units is possi... | 07/24/1990 |
| 4913692 | Apparatus for pressing the overlapped area of a blank being formed into a jacket An apparatus for producing container jackets from blanks comprises a winding core around which a blank is wound in a manner forming an overlapped area. A pressing element is arranged to engage and press the overlapped area. An actuating mechanism urges th... | 04/03/1990 |
| 4852335 | Apparatus for producing (cigarette) packs from at least one foldable blank Apparatus for producing packs from at least one foldable blank, especially soft-cup cigarette packs, in which, in a transfer station, individual blanks can be fed by means of a feed unit with a blank-holder to a receptacle (hollow mandrel) of a folding tu... | 08/01/1989 |
| 4838847 | Packaging machine A packaging machine for preparing sealed containers filled with contents each from a blank having a thermoplastic synthetic resin layer over each surface thereof. The container is recessed in the central portion of its bottom so as to seat stably. A botto... | 06/13/1989 |
| 4838846 | Apparatus for coating glue onto packaging blanks In the production of cigarette packs, especially soft-cup packs 11, folding tabs have to be provided with glue marks 15. To make accurate glue marks 15 even on packaging machines operating at a high working speed, a glue unit 16 is arranged on the periphe... | 06/13/1989 |
| 4804356 | Apparatus for processing baglike container blanks An apparatus for processing baglike container blanks by fitting the blank around a pair of forming plates arranged at a distance from each other in parallel, folding a pair of triangular ears flat while projecting the ears sidewise from the portion of the... | 02/14/1989 |
| 4776830 | Packaging machine A packaging machine including a rotor having a plurality of radial mandrels each for carrying a container as fitted therearound and intermittently drivingly rotatable so that the mandrels successively stop at processing stations equal in number to the num... | 10/11/1988 |
| 4759171 | Arrangement on packing machines An arrangement for the retaining of container blanks (1) in a predetermined correct position on mandrels on a packing machine of the type which manufactures filled and closed packing containers from tubular container blanks and which comprises a stepwise ... | 07/26/1988 |
| 4746321 | Automatic machine for forming boxes of the double-plinth type A machine for forming cardboard boxes of the double-plinth type provides for the supply to the machine of flat punched sheets, already partially glued, intended to constitute the bottom, the side walls and the hinged lid with a first attached plinth of th... | 05/24/1988 |
| 4718882 | Carton stop assembly Disclosed is a carton stop assembly for use in a machine which performs operations on a carton blank, and which includes a rotatable hub carrying a plurality of spaced radial mandrels, and insertion mechanism for telescopically inserting a carton blank ov... | 01/12/1988 |
