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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7266925 | Pot having a plant cover secured thereto A plant package comprising a pot covered with a plant cover, the plant cover at least comprising a base portion, and optionally having a skirt or a detachable upper portion. The plant cover has a heat shrinkable bonding material for heat shrinking to secure the plan... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7251913 | Method of covering a potted plant A method of covering a flower pot with an oversized sleeve. The sleeve has an inner diameter which is greater than the maximum diameter of a pot disposed therein. The sleeve may have a detachable upper portion, a skirt portion, with a linear or non-linear upper end,... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7191561 | Pot having a plant cover secured thereto A plant package comprising a pot covered with a plant cover, the plant cover at least comprising a base portion, and optionally having a skirt or a detachable upper portion. The plant cover has a heat shrinkable bonding material for heat shrinking to secure the plan... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7152369 | Wrapper with decorative extension and method A wrapper for wrapping a flower pot and/or floral grouping. The wrapper is constructed of a sheet of material having an extension attached to a portion of the sheet of material. Preferably the extension has a lace pattern thereon. When the wrapper is formed about a ... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7104007 | Floral sleeve with deployable flap A flexible sleeve for containing a pot and/or floral grouping and/or growing or retaining medium. The flexible sleeve has a body and a flap. The body has an outer peripheral surface, an inner peripheral surface and a skirt. The flap is connected to the inner periphe... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7065921 | Method of attaching a floral sleeve to a pot via bonding material A plant packaging method providing a tubular sleeve and attaching the sleeve to a potted plant via a bonding material which may be disposed on the tubular sleeve, or on the pot of the potted plant, and a plant package produced by the method. ... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7044902 | Printing press folder and folder components A folder operable to cut a printed web received from a printing press. The folder includes a cutting section having cutting cylinders that cut the web into individual printed products, and a cutting motor that is operable to drive the cutting cylinders. A delivery a... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7021000 | Method of covering a potted plant A method of covering a flower pot with an oversized sleeve. The sleeve has an inner diameter which is greater than the maximum diameter of a pot disposed therein. The sleeve may have a detachable upper portion, a skirt portion, with a linear or non-linear upper end,... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7011615 | Method for making a multicompartment thermoplastic bag A method of making a multicompartment reclosable thermoplastic bag having at least two compartments is disclosed. Each compartment has a top, a bottom, two side edges, and two opposing sidewalls joined at the side edges and the bottom. Each compartment has a closure... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7000350 | Floral sleeve with deployable flap A flexible sleeve for containing a pot and/or floral grouping and/or growing or retaining medium. The flexible sleeve has a body and a flap. The body has an outer peripheral surface, an inner peripheral surface and a skirt. The flap is connected to the inner periphe... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6986730 | Continuous web of breather pouches and automated method of packaging medical devices utilizing such pouches A continuous web of breather pouches separated by detachment lines and automated method of packaging medical devices using such a continuous web. ... | 01/17/2006 |
| 6962021 | Plant sleeve A sleeve comprising a lower portion preferably having a base portion and a skirt portion for packaging a floral grouping or plant. The sleeve may have an upper portion which can be detached from the lower portion of the sleeve once the function of the upper portion ... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6912810 | Conical floral sleeve A floral sleeve sized to fit a flower pot, the sleeve generally having a conical shape and having a bonding material disposed thereon for connecting the sleeve to a pot disposed within the sleeve or connected via a banding element to a pot disposed within the sleeve... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6513305 | Wrapping method, particularly for edible products such as chocolates and the like, and the finished wrap obtained Chocolates are wrapped individually by a method that involves feeding single wrapping sheets along a first path in a first direction spaced at a selected pitch, in such a way that the trailing edge of one wrapping sheet and the leading edge of the next ar... | 02/04/2003 |
| 6416452 | Method of producing mutliwall plastic bags, especially tie bags A method of making multiwall plastic bags wherein half-width foil webs are unwound from respective rolls below a segment of a path within which a multilayer full-width web is guided. The half-width webs can be slit and unfolded or simply unfolded to form ... | 07/09/2002 |
| 6135938 | Machines for manufacturing containers of plastic material such as envelopes, bags, handbags and the like The machine (1) is provided for production of containers (8) having a trapezoid or triangular form in plane, starting from two films (4) of plastic material superposed on each other. The machine (1) comprises a work station (6) provided with a pair of hea... | 10/24/2000 |
| 6090235 | Process for formation of a continuous composite tape for the production of wrappings for food products A machine and a process for formation of a continuous composite tape for the production of wrappings for food products, along with the tape and a wrapping formed using the same; the machine being such that it includes; supply means to provide materials fo... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6068585 | Gored packing bag with an opening and closing fastener and method for producing same A gored packing bag which comprises a front body 1, a rear body 2, gores 3,4 formed by gluing the front body and the rear body into a combined situation, and a pair of fasteners 5, 6 in arranged between the front or rear body and the gores, one of a base ... | 05/30/2000 |
| 5797828 | Draw tape machines and methods This invention pertains to draw tape equipment, and methods for incorporating draw tapes into plastic and like bags. In general, a continuous plastic web is slit at a slitting station to form layers, and respective free edges. The web then passes to a hol... | 08/25/1998 |
| 5776044 | Closable bag and method of making same A method of making continuous rolls of a thin laminate composite that is ideally suited for the large scale production of reclosable bags which can be used for sealably packaging a wide variety of articles, including food products. The bags of the inventi... | 07/07/1998 |
| 5711751 | Hermetic seal for a plastic bag A plastic bag manufacturing method to produce bags with a removable release strip in covering relation over an adhesive deposit adjacent an upper edge of the bag rear panel, in which the height of the release strip is increased to provide continuity along... | 01/27/1998 |
| 5674344 | Loose fill packaging material Loose fill packaging material consists of elements (21) having a central liner (15) and a corrugated medium (17) on both sides of the liner. The element is made from fibreboard material. A method is disclosed of making the element by securing together the... | 10/07/1997 |
| 5618255 | Method for manufacturing a baffle liner A method for manufacturing a liner having baffles therein for use in flexible bulk containers, having the steps of: positioning a baffle strip of thermoplastic material adjacent to a continuous sheet of thermoplastic film; heat sealing the baffle strip to... | 04/08/1997 |
| 5542902 | Vented pouch arrangement and method A vented pouch arrangement is described which comprises: first and second opposed panel sections; a base gusset member; and, a gas filter arrangement oriented in one of the panel sections. The gusset member is preferably oriented between the panel section... | 08/06/1996 |
| 5503611 | Method for the manufacture of padded mailing containers, and apparatus therefor A mailing container having upper and lower plain paper layers padded with at least two layers of globular paper is made with feed and unwinding devices for upper and lower paper webs and an unwinding device for the padded webs. A device connects the paper... | 04/02/1996 |
| 5496251 | Method and apparatus for manufacturing a shell-shaped package, and such shell-shaped package The invention relates to a method of manufacturing shell-shaped packages, in particular flower sleeves, in which two superposed bands of synthetic material are supplied and machined through die cutting, in such a manner that at least one edge of each pack... | 03/05/1996 |
| 5496252 | Method for making a flat trapezoidal container of brightly printed thermally sealable film A flat trapezoidal container provides a generally frustoconical bag with a single cavity when at least partially filled with a pulverulent material such as soil which may have a live plant growing therein, or comestible goods such as popcorn and other sna... | 03/05/1996 |
| 5414915 | Needled felt filter bags and method for forming same Multiple filter bags are formed from a layered composite sheet of two, essentially identical fibrous or felt layers by needling a plurality of transverse paths each 0.75 to 1.5 inches wide on the composite sheet, the paths being spaced 4-18 inches apart s... | 05/16/1995 |
| 5346456 | Plastic film bag manufacturing apparatus and associated methods, and plastic film bags produced thereby An in-line machine for attaching elongated, flexible closure tie elements to the individual bag portions of a laterally folded plastic film web being continuously discharged from a bag forming station, and being forcibly captured by a winder mechanism, en... | 09/13/1994 |
| 5312318 | Packaging method and means Twin compartment packets, e.g. tea bags, are formed with the compartments connected at the heads of the packet and optionally at the tails. The packets are produced from a pair of compartmented tubular webs that are brought together with the compartments ... | 05/17/1994 |
| 5286248 | Flexible pouch with folded spout A flexible pouch formed from a single sheet of plastic material folded over upon itself along an umbrella like fold assembly to provide the opposed walls of a chamber for storing a product and an optional second sheet to form the bottom of the chamber. Th... | 02/15/1994 |
| 5273514 | Method for making a flexible pouch A flexible pouch is made having a gusseted bottom structure and an inwardly folded top structure from two webs. A first web is folded over on itself to form an inverted U-shape portion and excess web material is pushed inwardly at the top of the fold to c... | 12/28/1993 |
| 5273511 | Method to improve welding of profiled plastic film or tape A method for providing a welded side seam area in a plastic bag or package having interlocking male and female profile sections on plies of plastic sheeting material includes the provision of cut-outs through one of the male and female profile sections an... | 12/28/1993 |
| 5254074 | Inflatable packaging bag A novel process provides an inflatable bag for filling the void and particularly head space of partially filled boxes, the bag comprising an air chamber therein and manufactured from a single sheet of linear, low density polyethylene folded and heat seale... | 10/19/1993 |
| 5254073 | Method of making a vented pouch A vented pouch is described which comprises: first and second opposed panels; a base gusset; and, a gas filter arrangement oriented in one of the panels. The gusset member is preferably oriented between the panels, along edges thereof, to form a base by w... | 10/19/1993 |
| 5147272 | Method of making a vented pouch A vented pouch is described which comprises: first and second opposed panels; a base gusset; and, a gas filter arrangement oriented in one of the panels. The gusset member is preferably oriented between the panels, along edges thereof, to form a base by w... | 09/15/1992 |
| 5096516 | Method of making dual reuseable pouches Dual flexible plastic pouches and a method of making the pouches where the pouches are reuseable and reclosable and have a double fastener strip arranged along the center between the pouches, the double strip is formed with a lower layer and upper pull fl... | 03/17/1992 |
| 4979933 | Reclosable bag A reclosable bag having an open end with a side margin adjacent the open end, a metal segment in the side margin having ends extending beyond the opening and a sealing tape overlying the metal strip for encapsulation thereof. Apparatus for manufacturing r... | 12/25/1990 |
| 4936817 | Reclosable bag A reclosable bag having an open end with a side margin adjacent the open end, a metal segment in the side margin having ends extending beyond the opening and a sealing tape overlying the metal strip for encapsulation thereof. Apparatus for manufacturing r... | 06/26/1990 |
| 4931035 | Mailer with oversized insert and method of making A mailer having an oversized insert and method wherein an interior ply is transversely folded and adhered to an unfolded interior ply.... | 06/05/1990 |
