Class 53/113 - Reshaping

Subclass of Class 53 - Package making
Definition: Apparatus in which the contents material as a result of
No. of patents: 27
Last issue date: 07/08/2008

Number	Title	Issue Date
7395643	Method of manufacturing rigid cigarette packs including deforming at least one lateral face of the wrapper A rigid pack for tobacco products comprises an outer wrapper (3) furnished with a container (4) presenting an open top (5), surmounted by a lid (6) hinged to the container (4) and rotatable between a position in which the open top ...	07/08/2008
6938396	Containers for packaging glass substrates Containers (19) are provided for packaging flexible substrates (13) such as the glass substrates used in the manufacture of liquid crystal displays. The containers include arc-shaped grooves (25) which apply an elastic strain to the substrates. ...	09/06/2005
6735491	System and method for optimally designing automobile door seals Disclosed herein is a system and method for optimally designing automobile door seals. The system comprises data storage, data management and model design. The data storage consists of a plurality of storage units, each of which has data necessary for each condition...	05/11/2004
6546701	Package and method of packaging A packaging material comprising a plurality of cushioning members for cushioning an article in a container is provided. The cushioning members being formed by crumpling a flexible sheet of material having a plurality of slits extending through the sheet o...	04/15/2003
6385949	Packaging material A packaging material comprising a plurality of cushioning members for cushioning an article in a container is provided. The cushioning members being formed by crumpling a flexible sheet of material into a globular configuration having a plurality of rando...	05/14/2002
6192659	Packaging material A packaging material comprising a plurality of cushioning members for cushioning an article in a container is provided. The cushioning members being formed by crumpling a flexible sheet of material into a globular configuration having a plurality of rando...	02/27/2001
6189297	Packaging material A packaging material comprising a plurality of cushioning members for cushioning an article in a container is provided. The cushioning members being formed by crumpling a flexible sheet of material into a globular configuration having a plurality of rando...	02/20/2001
5873212	Stand alone swage dial drive assembly A semi-automated machine for singulating individual surgical needles from an bulk supply and attaching a suture to the surgical needle is described. The machine includes a needle singulation station, a precise positioning station, a suture feeding station...	02/23/1999
5836143	Drive device for use in packaging machines A packaging machine comprises a device for forming incomplete containers by forming a web into a tube, filling contents into the tube, thereafter transporting the tube by a length corresponding to one container at a time, and sealing and cutting the tube ...	11/17/1998
5794406	Foam cushioning panels for packaging purposes An apparatus and associated method are disclosed for making a polymer foam cushioning element. The method comprises advancing a pair of sheets of plastic film material in parallel face-to-face relationship; injecting foam precursors between the advancing ...	08/18/1998
5466583	Method and apparatus for performing 3-dimensional antibiotic susceptibility tests An apparatus for performing 3-dimensional antibiotic susceptibility tests includes a plate with culture medium thereon, the plate rotatably mounted to a support for selective rotation. A knife is located to cut a slit in the culture medium as the plate is...	11/14/1995
5331790	Pouch conditioning methods and apparatus A pouch conditioner inverts a group of pouches, urges them together while conditioning the by vibrating them, reinverts them and deposits them into a confine container. Product is more evenly dispersed throughout the pouch, reducing the maximum pouch thic...	07/26/1994
5220771	Tetrahedron volume control A tetrahedronal packaging machine packaging liquids which has a package-forming member mounted on each heat jaw to maintain the shape of the package being filled. The package-forming member is spring loaded to allow the forming member to be rotated to a s...	06/22/1993
5210992	Apparatus for shaping and for setting the glue of cuboidal (cigarette) packs Drying turrets (10) serve for stabilizing the shape of cigarette packs (13) immediately after their completion. For this purpose, the drying turret (10) is provided with a plurality of pockets (11) for receiving the cuboidal cigarette packs (13) in a posi...	05/18/1993
5060450	Apparatus for shifting particulate material in pouches Apparatus for shifting particulate material from one end of a pouch toward the other. In pouch form, fill, seal apparatus, a web of pouches is filled, the material tending to lodge in the bottom portion of each pouch. A pair of twisted belts pass the web ...	10/29/1991
4881360	High capacity package seal, sever, and brick apparatus and method Improved clamp, seal, sever, and brick apparatus for use in form, fill, and seal machines that form a polyfoil tube filled with a product into a plurality of sealed packages, preferably aseptic packages. The improved apparatus incorporates a plurality of ...	11/21/1989
4864800	Device and method for bagging thin flexible members A device and method for bagging thin flexible members such as a stack of tortillas having a curved pan for accepting and bending the stack of tortillas, a bagging head for opening and positioning a bag adjacent curved pan and an actuator for inserting the...	09/12/1989
4819411	High capacity continuous package seam and tab folding and tacking apparatus and method Improved method and apparatus for continuously folding, heating, and tacking to the sides of the package panel the excess packaging material created by forming the package from a web of polyfoil material. The method and apparatus is particularly useful in...	04/11/1989
4817366	High capacity package seal, sever, and brick apparatus and method Improved clamp, seal, sever, and brick apparatus for use in form, fill, and seal machines that form a polyfoil tube filled with a product into a plurality of sealed packages, preferably aseptic packages. The improved apparatus incorporates a plurality of ...	04/04/1989
4712358	Production of tea and the like bags The invention provides a machine for manufacturing and handling tea bags, wherein the tea bags are produced by laminating together two webs with individual quantities for tea therebetween. Two rows of tea bags, formed in the webs, and the tea in the bags ...	12/15/1987
4677810	Method and apparatus for placing flexible web pieces into concave shaped shells A method and apparatus for placing multiple crimped flexible pieces into concave formed shells. In the method, a plurality of flat fibrous web pieces are provided on a shuttle device and are picked up and crimped longitudinally by gripper fingers, and eac...	07/07/1987
4534388	Dispersion system and method A self-cleaning system and method for dispersing aggregates in a fluid medium is provided. The system is comprised of first and second members operatively associated to form an internal chamber and having an inlet to the chamber for admitting the fluid to...	08/13/1985
4527376	Apparatus for processing box partitions A collapser/collector and strapping apparatus for processing box partitions to place them in condition for shipment. The assembled partitions are collapsed and moved vertically into transversely indexed slots of a collector. From the indexed slots, the pa...	07/09/1985
4458380	On line automatic poultry shaper When hanging from a conveyor line, cleaned eviscerated, whole poultry is stiff and in a "rigor mortis" type condition. This condition makes it very difficult to compress the stretched-out, stiff bird into a compact, plumb-appearing shape so that it can be...	07/10/1984
4355493	Roller chute A roller chute apparatus for packaging a flexible plastic bag filled with liquid in a box has four stacks of rotatably supported vertically spaced rollers. The four stacks extend a substantial depth into the box around the inside of the box sidewalls form...	10/26/1982
4270424	Method and apparatus for cutting and racking lead frame strips of boxed capacitors A continuous strip (16) of metal with boxed discrete capacitors (10) assembled thereon is cyclically advanced to move a leading section of the strip into a positioned chamber (48) of a multi-chamber magazine (46). After a predetermined number of advanceme...	06/02/1981
3987604	Apparatus for packing gable top containers An apparatus and method for folding the gable top of gable top containers into a flat condition preparatory to packing a plurality of such containers into a carton so as to avoid wasted volume during transport of such containers. A gable top container hav...	10/26/1976

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