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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7335149 | Square bottom sealable bag forming machine A method and apparatus for the automatic manufacture of flat bottom bags from a substantially continuous supply of a sealable material whereby the material is formed as a bag having a reinforced sealed flat bottom formed by an interior bag forming assembly that is c... | 02/26/2008 |
| 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 |
| 5685816 | Envelope maker and method of use An improved envelope maker (10) including: a template member (20) having first (28) and second (29) indicia markings and a cutout (22); a primary center piece member (40) dimensioned to be received in the cutout (22); and; an auxiliary center piece member... | 11/11/1997 |
| 5518491 | Envelope maker and a method of using An envelope maker made of two pieces, a template which is used as a guide to dimension paper to the correct size and having a central cut out portion to position a second piece, called the center piece, with respect to the paper. The center piece is left ... | 05/21/1996 |
| 5452844 | Stand-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 |
| 5433692 | Gusset forming machine and gusset forming process A gusset forming machine includes a mandrel having a support surface on which a blank for the gusset is manually mounted, and one or more pusher assemblies which are driven into contact with the mandrel to deform the blank, thus forming a gusset. Preferab... | 07/18/1995 |
| 5411203 | Stand-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 |
| 5356069 | Stand-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 |
| 4862680 | Bottom-folding packer Apparatus for the packaging of cigarettes by successively folding inner and outer wrappers about a hollow open-ended mandrel, plural of the mandrels being supported from a rotary turret which is moved in step-wise fashion, which enables the use of a metal... | 09/05/1989 |
| 4708706 | Apparatus for shaping wrappers for packages A package wrapper shaping apparatus which has lateral folders and folding slides for wrapping a blank around a shaping mandrel. In order to guide the free portions of the blank in a defined manner in this process and to put their outer edge portions on on... | 11/24/1987 |
| 4608039 | Envelope folding system An apparatus for folding envelope blanks comprises a plurality of platform assemblies which are rotatably mounted on a base. The platform assemblies are incrementally advanced around the base, and separate mechanisms located around the periphery of the ba... | 08/26/1986 |
| 4559030 | Apparatus for folding jacket material An apparatus for folding a jacket material, used mainly for a magnetic cartridge, is characterized by using a folding insert, a folding bar, and a heater bar, to form the jacket material into a jacket of good external shape and high dimensional precision ... | 12/17/1985 |
| 4540390 | Method and apparatus for forming notches for gussets for expandable envelopes An improved method and apparatus for forming notches at a fold for the corner portion of an expandable gusset envelope, such as a file pocket. A pleated gusset member is placed on a ridged upper surface of a table structure of the apparatus, thereby initi... | 09/10/1985 |
| 4529396 | Apparatus for forming a rolled tubular fabric article An apparatus for rolling elongated tubular fabric surgical drapes and the like comprising an arrangement of at least four opposed drive belts mounted on a support frame for receiving an open end of the tubular article engageable with longitudinal runs of ... | 07/16/1985 |
| 4446676 | Bag handling apparatus for a bag making machine A bag making machine includes a generally vertically oriented forming element on which bags are formed in succession; a conveyor extending underneath the forming element and having a generally horizontal direction of advance, a first drive for intermitten... | 05/08/1984 |
| 4365459 | Apparatus for producing bag packages In apparatus for producing bag packages and including a shaping mandrel presenting a shaping surface and a longitudinal seal forming device for forming a panel of sealable material into a tube and transverse sealing jaws and severing blades for dividing t... | 12/28/1982 |
| 4269016 | Plural line bag forming and filling apparatus A packaging method and apparatus are disclosed. Two separate streams of bags are formed. The successive bags of each stream are alternately deposited on two side-by-side tracks of a conveyor, thus obtaining four partial streams of bags which are then succ... | 05/26/1981 |
| 4226172 | Method for manufacturing a square bottom bag A method and apparatus for manufacturing a square bottom bag is disclosed herein. The method comprises the steps of driving a web in a first direction and bending the web upon itself across its width as it is driven in the first direction to assume a U-sh... | 10/07/1980 |
| 4184413 | Apparatus for manufacturing a bag and delivering a bag in an open configuration to a check-out counter A method and apparatus for manufacturing a square bottom bag is disclosed herein. The method comprises the steps of driving a web in a first direction and bending the web upon itself across its width as it is driven in the first direction to assume a U-sh... | 01/22/1980 |
| 4129976 | Apparatus for forming, filling and closing bags An apparatus for forming, filling and closing bags has a hollow mandrel on which a hose is continuously formed from a sheet; two vertically reciprocating and horizontally oppositely movable shoes underneath the mandrel for cyclically pressing together a f... | 12/19/1978 |
| 4117649 | System for forming, filling and closing bags In a system including a bag forming apparatus for forming a succession of bags, bag filling and closing apparatus, and a conveying apparatus for conveying each bag, after it is formed, along a conveying path from the bag forming apparatus to the filling a... | 10/03/1978 |
| 4106394 | Method of forming a wrapping for a shipment unit and device for carrying out the method A method and apparatus are provided for fabricating a hooded thermoplastic shipping wrapper for enveloping three sides and the ends of elongated packages of lumber and the like. A table is provided for supporting the center piece of the wrapper, forming a... | 08/15/1978 |
| 4100718 | Means for the production and filling of a parallelepipedic packet The disclosure is of a cigarette or like packet of composite foil, with lateral end flaps separated from inner neighboring longitudinal end flaps but continuously connected with outer longitudinal end flaps and folded in between the inner and outer end fl... | 07/18/1978 |
| 4044528 | Method and apparatus for forming sealed packages A method and apparatus adapted for automatically and continuously forming a completely sealed package having fin type seals and made from a heat-sealable wrapping foil. The process basically embodies the steps of holding a portion of the foil adjacent the... | 08/30/1977 |
| 4034655 | Method and apparatus for producing a container A method of producing a container, such as a flip-top cigarette packet, is disclosed. The method includes the initial step of folding an elongate blank at a fold line so that first and second portions of the blank on respective opposite sides of the fold ... | 07/12/1977 |
| 3991662 | Packing machines A machine for packing cigarettes in which packets, having one open end, are made by successively wrapping an inner layer of foil and an outer layer of paper round a former, transferring the open ended packets into a pocket on a conveyor, and then insertin... | 11/16/1976 |
| 3988970 | Apparatus for forming flat bottom plastic bags Flat bottom bags are formed from a supply of substantially endless plastic tubing, gusseted along two sides to form a flat reel. A sleeve of predetermined length is withdrawn from the reel and allowed to hang along a vertical plane between two foraminous ... | 11/02/1976 |
| 3978639 | Method and apparatus for forming pack wrappers in cigarette packers This invention relates to cigarette packaging machines having continuously moving wrapper forming and closing devices. The wrapper forming devices including arbors on which wrappers are formed being rotated 90° on their longitudinal axes during closure o... | 09/07/1976 |
| 3956865 | Method and apparatus for producing a container A method of producing a container, such as a flip-top cigarette packet, is disclosed. The method includes the initial step of folding an elongate blank at a fold line so that first and second portions of the blank on respective opposite sides of the fold ... | 05/18/1976 |
| 3956870 | Machine for packing cigarettes or the like A packing machine wherein a first feeding unit supplies groups of cigarettes into successive mandrels of a first turret which is driven stepwise and moves successive mandrels into register with first and second supplying devices for tinfoil blanks and pap... | 05/18/1976 |
| 3946643 | Apparatus for manipulating sheet-like blanks in cigarette packing machines or the like A cigarette packing machine wherein a turret with equidistant prismatic mandrels is indexible stepwise so as to locate successive mandrels at a draping station during each period of idleness between successive stepwise advances. A sheet-like blank is drap... | 03/30/1976 |
