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Patent No. 5687752

Dining Table Having Integral Dishwasher

A space-saving dishwasher, which may be installed within a counter top or table, having a dish-carrying rack that is vertically shiftable through the open top of the dishwasher for facilitating loading and unloading of the dishes.

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Class 493/174 - And reciprocatory reaction member


Subclass of Class 493 - Manufacturing container or tube from paper; or other manufacturing from a sheet or web
Definition: Method or apparatus including use of a backing element against
No. of patents: 32
Last issue date: 09/02/2008


NumberTitleIssue Date
7419462Pressware die set with pneumatic blank feed
An improved apparatus for making disposable pressware features a pneumatic feeding system which accelerates a paperboard blank into a forming die. In a typical embodiment, a pair of adjustable air knives propel a paperboard blank into the forming cavity. ...
09/02/2008
7377891Carton bottom sealer apparatus and method
An apparatus for effecting closure of an open end of a carton blank by placing portions of the carton blank into overlying relationship to one another is provided. The apparatus includes a cam that rotates about an axis of rotation and a cam lever that is operativel...
05/27/2008
6449926Process and apparatus for producing (cigarette) packs
Process and apparatus for producing (cigarette) packs with supporting protrusions (17), formed within the pack, above a base wall (16), the supporting protrusions (17) being formed by folding webs (19). The folding webs (19) or folding tabs are pre-folded...
09/17/2002
6312370Container folding machine and product thereof
A machine for container formation by folding a die-scored paperboard structure to close flaps shaped by the scoring that serve as the top and bottom of the container. A scored paperboard sheet is loaded onto a male pedestal inner pattern such that the fol...
11/06/2001
5725469Toy for decorating articles
A tool for providing cup-shaped, three-dimensional ornamentations for various items, such as, pictures, jewelry, or three-dimensional objects. The various tool embodiments include a power- or manually-driven plunger that engages a section of deformable ma...
03/10/1998
5694746Paperboard package and method for forming same
A single generally rectangular blank which can be formed into a paperboard package. The four corners of the blank are trihedral. The blank is center folded. The width of a first portion of the blank, measured parallel to the centerfold, is greater than a ...
12/09/1997
5656007Apparatus for constructing multi-piece cartons
An apparatus for constructing multi-piece cartons, comprising a tray member supply hopper, a tray conveyor, a glue station, a web placement and compression station including a reciprocating placer, a preform conveyor, a forming station having at least thr...
08/12/1997
5577988Flower pot or flower pot cover with fins
An apparatus and method for forming a sheet of material into a flower pot or flower pot cover with fins. The apparatus comprises a male mold, a female mold having an opening mating with the male mold, and means for moving the male mold into and out of the...
11/26/1996
5452844Stand-up type sachet intended to contain a liquid, pasty or pulverulent product
Bag of the type obtained from a single elongate planar cutting presenting two parallel long edges with the cutting being backfolded in order to define the two faces of the bag. The faces meet at a transverse bottom formed by the medial portion of the cutt...
09/26/1995
5411203Stand-up type sachet intended to contain a liquid, pasty or pulverulent product
Bag of the type obtained from a single elongate planar cutting presenting two parallel long edges with the cutting being backfolded in order to define the two faces of the bag. The faces meet at a transverse bottom formed by the medial portion of the cutt...
05/02/1995
5356069Stand-up type sachet intended to contain a liquid, pasty or pulverulent product
Bag of the type obtained from a single elongate planar cutting presenting two parallel long edges witch the cutting being backfolded in order to define the two faces of the bag. The faces meet at a transverse bottom formed by the medial portion of the cut...
10/18/1994
5331793Apparatus for forming a coffee filter
An apparatus 10 for forming a coffee filter has a filter compartment 14 and a primary compartment 16. A filter roll 22 is unwound from the filter roll compartment 14 and fed into the primary compartment 16. Within the primary compartment 16 is a suspended...
07/26/1994
5313767Multiple package forming and filling machine
A machine for and a step by step method of forming packages or containers from blanks, heat sealing the sides of the packages and depositing the packages in fixtures, retaining the packages in fixtures during dosing of the packages with product, heat seal...
05/24/1994
5156583Apparatus for making a foldable one-piece double-laminated sidewall box
Box forming apparatus for forming a box from a box blank. The blank has a base with first, second, third and fourth side members extending along respective sides of the base. One of the opposed pairs of side members has parallel inner and outer portions. ...
10/20/1992
4832676Method and apparatus for forming paperboard containers
A method and apparatus for forming a container from a sheet of blank material, whereby a segmented male die member first forms the bottom and then the sidewall and rim of the container prior to the formation of the lip portion of the container while the b...
05/23/1989
4669253Method and apparatus for transforming semirigid blanks into containers
Rectangular blanks of laminated cardboard are converted into containers for foodstuffs or the like in an apparatus wherein the central portion of a blank is clamped between two coaxial tools one of which has a concave blank-contacting surface and the othe...
06/02/1987
4636187Methods and apparatus for erecting tray-type cartons
In the erection of rectangular tray-type cartons from blanks of foldable sheet material, corner tabs which are to be uppermost in the erected carton are first folded up from the plane of the blank, which is then passed through a die by a punch to form the...
01/13/1987
4522618Mechanism for assembling tapered, nested containers
Apparatus for forming a tapered, nestable leakproof container having a bottom wall integral with front and back panels and side panels and a triangular connecting panel between additional panels extending from the front and back panels and the side panels...
06/11/1985
4500306Method and apparatus for erecting a carton with integral interior partitions
An apparatus and method are disclosed for erecting from a single blank a carton having integral interior partitions. Blanks are supplied to the machine and, in three folding stations, are folded along score lines and cuts and then sealed to form the finis...
02/19/1985
4493682Apparatus and method for forming and debowing cartons with pinching wheels
An apparatus and method for forming flat cut carton blanks into erected cartons with debowed carton side panels is disclosed. The apparatus includes a forming head receiving and directing a carton blank through forming guides. Pinching wheels rotatably se...
01/15/1985
4490129Forming cartons
In the forming of cartons, a water-based adhesive, e.g. an aqueous-dispersed polyvinylacetate, is applied as an atomized spray by guns to selected parts of a carton blank of uncoated board and partially dried by hot gas (air) jets, and the carton is erect...
12/25/1984
4464155Apparatus and method for forming and debowing cartons
An apparatus and method for forming flat cut carton blanks into erected cartons with debowed carton side panels is disclosed. The apparatus includes a forming head receiving and directing a carton blank through forming guides, side walls engaging and supp...
08/07/1984
4417882Method and apparatus for erecting a carton tray
In the erection of a tray having edge flaps with end flaps which are to be fastened together for forming a rim of edge flaps intended for receiving a lid, the erection is performed in two separate tools. In the first tool only the one pair of opposing edg...
11/29/1983
4345905Making of containers with tri-laminated end walls
A machine for forming a container with full width 3-ply laminar end walls from a preformed cardboard container body blank having side and outer end wall ply forming panels along the sides and ends of a bottom forming panel and inner end wall ply forming p...
08/24/1982
4342563Box assembly system
An apparatus and method for forming a box having a box body comprising interconnected bottom, side and end walls, shoulder elements connected to the side walls and securing flaps connected to the shoulder elements....
08/03/1982
4295839Method and apparatus for forming a flanged tray
Method and apparatus for forming a stackable tray from a paperboard blank having a base panel, two pairs of wall panels attached to the base panel, adhesive coated gussets formed at the corners of the wall panels, and flanges formed along the outer edge o...
10/20/1981
4283190Method for forming paper boxes and the like
A box blank with receptacle and cover sections each with side flaps and end flaps has a hinge panel joining the two sections. A vacuum pickup draws a flat blank from a supply stack to a feed carriage which transfers the blank past sprays that apply glue t...
08/11/1981
4283188H-section carton forming machine
A machine for forming an H-section carton (19) from three corrugated blanks--two section blanks (21a and 21b) and a main body blank (23)--is disclosed. The machine has a generally L-shaped silhouette, with one leg of the L shape generally defining the pat...
08/11/1981
4174658Tray former
An improvement in a carton forming mechanism of the type wherein a mandrel is reciprocated through a die assembly to fold the side walls and tabs of an upwardly open carton assembly having perpendicular pairs of side walls. It is designed specifically for...
11/20/1979
4028999Carton forming machine
A machine for forming a precut paperboard blank into carton form with the lid extending vertically from its related back wall in unfolded condition. The forming means includes spring pressed rollers acting in cooperation with a mandrel to fold the carton ...
06/14/1977
3955482Tray forming and welding machine
Preformed tray blanks, e.g., of an expanded foam thermoplastic material, are individually transported from a supply hopper into registration with a die cavity through which a mandrel forces the blank. In passing through the die, the blank is sequentially ...
05/11/1976
3941037Case forming and transferring machine
A packaging process and machine for performing the process is disclosed by which flat case blanks are stripped from a stack of blanks at a case storage and stripping station and then formed into open cases at a case forming station. The open cases are the...
03/02/1976
 
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