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Class 493/260 - Closing of flap


Subclass of Class 493 - Manufacturing container or tube from paper; or other manufacturing from a sheet or web
Definition: Method or apparatus comprising manipulation of a projecting
No. of patents: 16
Last issue date: 04/19/2005


NumberTitleIssue Date
6881180Apparatus for forming a bottom closure for a container
A method and apparatus for forming a bottom closure of a container employing multiple assembly lines and including a universally foldable seal fin as a part of the bottom closure. A novel blank for the container is disclosed. ...
04/19/2005
6569073Telescoping platform assembly for packaging systems
A packaging system (1) includes a telescoping platform assembly (100) having a guide mount (30) and an extension platform (40). The packaging system (1) incorporating the telescoping platform assembly (100) includes a panel (22) and a flap member (26). Th...
05/27/2003
6223507Automatic 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
6041569Mailing machine having envelope closing and sealing device
A mailing machine has an envelope transport device extending longitudinally therethrough and a digital ink jet printing device located adjacent the downstream end of the transport device. Due to the criticality of the spacing between the upper surface of ...
03/28/2000
5569145Method and apparatus for manufacturing a sack bottom
The invention concerns a method and an apparatus for manufacturing a bag or sack bottom from tubular sections of paper or plastic web. Tubular sections of web material are fed into a feeding plane where they are subsequently sealed along selected seams by...
10/29/1996
5385627Mailing machine including mailpiece guiding apparatus
In a machine for processing a mailpiece, wherein the machine includes an elongate horizontally-extending deck, the machine includes structure for feeding a mailpiece in a downstream path of travel on the deck, the machine includes an upright mailpiece reg...
01/31/1995
5026340Flap closer
This disclosure provides an apparatus used in combination with an envelope feeder of the type having a frame with a generally horizontal feeder tray and a rack holding a stack of envelopes, the feeder having an endless belt supported on the feeder tray an...
06/25/1991
4877526Flexible filter bag and method of fabrication
A flexible filter bag, the filter element of which is seamless and avoids prior leakage problems, is made by wrapping a flexible, preferably perforated, filtering fabric and a flexible nonfiltering transport material together onto a cylindrical mandrel to...
10/31/1989
4817860Fragrance releasing envelope
A foldable envelope blank provides an envelope structure having a closure flap presealed with a temporary bond including microencapsulated fragrance dispersed within an adhesive matrix. The adhesive material is disposed on a coplanar surface on the envelo...
04/04/1989
4618341Tube positioning and transfer system
A tube transfer system wherein a hand of tubes is delivered to ender devices in any of four orientations, the system including a by-pass section for receiving hands when the ender devices are unable to accept tubes. The by-pass section is reversed to deli...
10/21/1986
4609421Automatic envelope sealing device
An automatic envelope sealing device wherein envelopes of different sizes can be sealed without adjustment any component of the device. A size of an enveloped supplied into the device is detected by a sensor, and in response to a signal from the sensor, a...
09/02/1986
4493685Method of making tubular bag
In making a tubular bag, a first band of thermosetting glue is printed across the length of a web, and a second and third band of such glue is printed on the opposite side of the web in registry with the ends of the first band. The printed glue is then dr...
01/15/1985
4490131Method of making bags
A method of making bags of the automatic or self-opening satchel-bottom type having an outer sheet of paper and a plastic inner liner in which a tab portion is formed with a portion of the inner liner removed so that when the bag bottom is formed a paper ...
12/25/1984
4036115Sack making equipment
The present invention relates to bag making machines, a particular embodiment of which comprises a system of two-way gates, a tubing machine which forms a tube of suitable material, cuts the formed tube into tube lengths and axially discharges the tube le...
07/19/1977
3962848Envelope flap processing apparatus
Apparatus for automatically opening and closing the flaps of a plurality of mailing envelopes. The apparatus includes means for forcing open flaps which have become stuck to the associated envelope body and has means for closing the flaps of such envelope...
06/15/1976
3958500Bottom forming device for a bag forming machine
A bottom forming device for a bag forming machine including a pair of bottom formers, each bottom former being of plate-like construction and having a vertical side portion and a horizontal top portion connected along a fold line, the horizontal top porti...
05/25/1976
 
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