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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7503885 | Flexible storage tank A soft shell, flexible storage tank is provided, including corners of an improved configuration adapted to resist leaks. The walls of the tank and the corners are relatively more rounded and larger in radius than those of conventional flexible tanks. The walls and t... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7322919 | Machine and method for forming tubular lengths of packaging film A machine for forming tubular film lengths from a linear portion of film comprises: a unit (1) for feeding linear film portions (2); at least one forming roller (3) that revolves about an axis (7) transversal to the direction of film feed... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7290337 | Manufacturing method for frame body and frame body In this manufacturing method for a frame body, after ring rolling a metal material to form a ring-shaped member, a rectangular member is formed by pressing and deforming this ring-shaped member in the radial direction. At this time, an angle of corner portions that ... | 11/06/2007 |
| 6904733 | Machine for packing bottles in cardboard boxes A machine is used for packing bottles by assembling cardboard boxes starting from an unfolded sheet (2) with adhesive strips, in such a way that in an initial step the bottles (6) to be packed are placed on a central part of the unfolded sheet of the b... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6589147 | Lightweight former and former assembly A former whose wing component incorporates periodic openings, a tube component (that may, or may not, incorporate periodic openings) and a base component (that is shaped to conform substantially to the former's tube geometry) is described. Such a former, ... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6514185 | Method and apparatus for producing tubular hollow items In a method and an apparatus for producing tubular hollow items, in particular for containers, form card material or the like, to improve the efficiency and thus to reduce the costs on the production of known packages, the following steps are proposed: tr... | 02/04/2003 |
| 6106451 | Method and apparatus for forming spirally wound rectangular cross-section tubes of thermoplastic cardboard strips A method of producing a rectangular cross-section cardboard tubing by passing a plurality of cardboard strips having a thermoplastic coating thereon through a heating unit so as to hear the plurality of strips and melt the thermoplastic coating. Thereafte... | 08/22/2000 |
| 6027439 | Two-piece paperboard lids having spiral-wound side wall and non-circular geometries, and methods of making the same Spirally-wound circular side walls may be re-formed into non-circular geometries which are then mechanically joined to conformably shaped non-circular closure disks and thereby produce non-circular two-piece paperboard container lids.... | 02/22/2000 |
| 5957823 | Folding mechanism for a bag knitting apparatus A folding mechanism for a bag knitting apparatus which is intended to fold inwardly the text-printed sides of the double-layer material strip to overcome the problems of conventional bag knitting apparatus. The folding mechanism comprises a clamping rolle... | 09/28/1999 |
| 5908135 | Sleeve pack A sleeve pack to be used with a pallet base and cover to form a container for shipping bulk goods comprises four vertical walls arranged such that each vertical wall is orthogonal to two adjacent walls. At least one vertical wall of corrugated plastic is ... | 06/01/1999 |
| 5685132 | Bag forming, filling and sealing machine A bag forming, filling and sealing machine for producing bag packages with a base or block bottom comprising a forming tube whose lower part has two segments that accomplish a transition from a circular inlet cross section to a rectangular outlet cross se... | 11/11/1997 |
| 5584789 | Method and apparatus for forming non-round containers In a non-round container forming machine having a device for receiving and delivering flat container wall blanks to a wrapping station, at which the blanks are wrapped around a non-round mandrel. The non-round mandrel has a front end facing the blank. The... | 12/17/1996 |
| 5421938 | Circular duct and apparatus and method of fabrication A round duct and apparatus and method of forming the duct in which the side edges of the duct are formed to interlock when the duct is folded and the flap is secured in place to provide support when the finishing duct tape is applied to seal the flap and ... | 06/06/1995 |
| 5205807 | Apparatus and method for forming hinged top cigarette box An apparatus for forming a hinged top cigarette box having a cross-section with one or more arcuate surfaces from a one piece blank, the apparatus comprising a mandrel that engages the one piece blank along an edge, and which mandrel rotates to wrap the b... | 04/27/1993 |
| 5186704 | Duct forming machine A duct closure machine for closing duct board into duct with tape which can close duct having four or more sides. Duct board is moved through the machine by a single source of power driving upper and lower rollers with the lower set of rollers movable to ... | 02/16/1993 |
| 5160307 | Machine for making a tapering carton A pack made of sheet material such as card or corrugated card has rectangular side faces that are interconnected in pairs by respective fold lines, said fold lines being mutually parallel and said side faces forming a rectangular parallelepiped. According... | 11/03/1992 |
| 5147271 | Machine for producing polygonal cases A case, made from a sheet material such as cardboard or corrugated board, having rectangular lateral faces connected in twos by a fold line. The fold lines are parallel to each other. Such a case comprises at least five lateral faces. It may be obtained b... | 09/15/1992 |
| 5074834 | Method of making multi-cell container cell unit A blank for constructing a cell unit includes first, second, third, and fourth walls which each have inner and outer planar surfaces and are separated by fold lines. Each of the walls have upper and lower flaps, the upper and lower flaps of the first wall... | 12/24/1991 |
| 5066270 | Apparatus for forming innerframe for cigarette pack with rounded corners Apparatus is shown for preforming a rounded-corner C-shaped innerframe for use in a rounded corner cigarette pack. Contoured rollers are used to preform the rounded corners in the innerframe.... | 11/19/1991 |
| 5064409 | Method and apparatus for forming containers with rounded edges To produce a container with a rounded edge, the container blank is scored with several substantially parallel, laterally spaced score lines adjacent the intended location of the rounded edge. When the blank is bent, a portion of the total deflection is ab... | 11/12/1991 |
| 4986806 | Gusset tubing former A gusseted tubing former designed to be incorporated in a bag manufacturing line, preferably for manufacturing paper bags from a continuous paper web. The web is formed around the periphery of the former to produce a continuous tubing. As the tubing moves... | 01/22/1991 |
| 4976675 | Automatic machine for folding flat pre-creased die-cuts into tubular shape The automatic machine comprises a magazine, dispensing die-cuts pre-creased longitudinally with fold lines providing divisions between at least four side panels and a securing flap, suckers by which the die-cuts are picked up from the magazine, and a revo... | 12/11/1990 |
| 4969861 | Apparatus for squaring sleeves An apparatus for squaring a sleeve having at least one pair of opposed bevelled corners comprises a cradle having sleeve supporting members merging towards an apex but terminating spaced from the apex and having a support beam in the space between the mem... | 11/13/1990 |
| 4932930 | Method and machine for forming cases with polygonal section made from a sheet material and cases thus obtained A method and machine for forming a case with polygonal section from a blank of sheet material. There is an assembly of panels. The assembly of panels is wound about a mandrel with polygonal section. The tongue is fixed to the free edge of the endmost pane... | 06/12/1990 |
| 4925440 | Apparatus for the winding of container jackets An apparatus for the making of container jackets from flat cardboard or plastic blanks. The blank is folded around a core by means of pivoted fingers which are moved toward the core while ends of the fingers are guided in guide passages to produce pivotin... | 05/15/1990 |
| 4908009 | Corner-forming unit of a carton container-forming machine A corner forming unit of a package forming machine which employs an H-shaped guide over which the packaging material passes after it has been longitudinally sealed. A pair of rollers outside of the tube of material forms the edges of the packaging materia... | 03/13/1990 |
| 4880944 | Bar for induction devices A bar for electric induction devices is in the form of a lengthwise rolled-up strip of an insulating material, having at least one layer, the figure obtained in the cross-section of this rolled-up strip being a polygon.... | 11/14/1989 |
| 4870804 | Method of forming a parallelepiped container made of machine-glazed paper to be filled with liquid Method of forming a parallelepiped container from a roll of packaging material by sequentially folding and sealing the longitudinal edge of the paper material, forming corners in the web of material, cutting the material into flat tubes, sealing the botto... | 10/03/1989 |
| 4717371 | Apparatus for making bulk containers from laminated paperboard Apparatus and method for making a bulk container from a pair of outer and inner blanks of foldable sheet material such as paperboard wherein the blanks are laminated to each other to form a multi-ply sheet then scored to provide fold lines, and then glued... | 01/05/1988 |
| 4714164 | Stacking tab for tapered container A carton blank and method for forming a liquid-tight tapered container having a denesting tab. When the blank is folded and sealed to form an open-topped tapered container, a destacking tab is formed as a result of abhesion. The tab facilitates destacking... | 12/22/1987 |
| 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 |
| 4563169 | Method and apparatus for folding container blanks A method and apparatus for folding a flat container blank about parallel score lines to bring a glue flap on the blank into juxtaposed relationship with respect to a side panel of the blank. Gripping mechanisms are associated with an intermittently operat... | 01/07/1986 |
| 4505769 | Method and apparatus for making a wrapper sleeve A wrapper sleeve is made from a film length in the following consecutive steps: wrapping the film length about a sealing mandrel such that opposite longitudinal edge zones of the film length are in a face-to-face oriented relationship; providing a sealing... | 03/19/1985 |
| 4474564 | Machine for forming tubular profile In a machine for forming a continuous tube which is then cut up into sections, for example to make containers, a plurality of bands of fibrous, cellulosic, metallic, plastic or other material are drawn from supply reels and pass through a gluing and label... | 10/02/1984 |
| 4469542 | Method of making a piece of tube from a flat web of flexible material, and apparatus for carrying out the method Pieces of tube are produced from a flat flexible web by feeding the web intermittently into apparatus which first makes transverse incisions from each edge partly across the web at a spacing equal to the desired tube lengths. The side portions between the... | 09/04/1984 |
| 4441948 | Method and apparatus for constructing multiple layer corrugated board containers A method and an apparatus is disclosed for forming a multi-layered container of compressible sheet layers, such as corrugated board. The containers are formed in a single operation and avoids the known techniques of folding the layers before laminating in... | 04/10/1984 |
| 4368052 | Method and apparatus for lining bulk box blanks A method and apparatus for lining bulk box blanks starting with flat, seamed blanks and resulting in flat, lined, tubular blanks. Glue is applied across the length of the seamed blanks excluding the seam regions. After a liner is placed on the adhesive be... | 01/11/1983 |
| 4349345 | Blank wrapping mechanism for non-cylindrical container-making machines A machine for making non-cylindrical paper container, including wings for wrapping a container blank around a non-cylindrical mandrel. The wings each have a supplement wing portion pivotably attached thereto, and as the wings are moved into the mandrel-en... | 09/14/1982 |
| 4319878 | Method and apparatus for forming a reinforced half-slotted container A method and apparatus for forming a reinforced half-slotted container in which each of the side walls is formed by outer side wall and a reinforcing panel which is the same size and height as the outer side wall. The reinforcing panel is attached to the ... | 03/16/1982 |
| 4308023 | Machine for manufacturing a tubular element A process and machine for manufacturing a tubular element, for example for use in forming boxes, in which a strip of material is wound around a mandrel having a cross-section corresponding to that of the tubular element to be formed. The strip of material... | 12/29/1981 |
