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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7416521 | Easy-open packages An apparatus and method for making a composite packaging material for easy-open packages includes means for pulling a running length of packaging film, the film having defined rupture characteristics. The packaging film is perforated with a sequence of spaced apart ... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7172546 | Apparatus for sealing bag bottom An apparatus for sealing the bottom of a bag includes a frame through which a bag to be folded is longitudinally advanced. The apparatus includes a pair of cooperating grippers carried by a reciprocably movable gripper carrier. The grippers are operated to opposite ... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7037250 | Method of forming a burst-resistant easy-open corner in a heavy duty bag A method of forming a perforated tear line in a bag to form an easy-open corner portion. The perforation blade includes a base formed to span the corner portion of the bag. The base has a first end adapted to extend to the end edge of the bag proximate a seal line, ... | 05/02/2006 |
| 6889483 | Easy-opening feature for flexible packages and process and apparatus for forming same An easy-opening feature in a flexible package is provided by forming a tear feature in the package material by slitting, perforating, or otherwise forming a stress riser in the material, and affixing a label to the package material so that the label adheres to the t... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6609998 | Method and apparatus for fabricating double-ended closure bags and double compartment bags A method and a machine for making a plastic film bag with opposed closable end openings as well as a double compartment bag is described. The bags may be formed from J-folded, U-folded or tubular film sheets. In one embodiment, a bag is formed with a guss... | 08/26/2003 |
| 6539688 | Easy open package for food items such as loaves of processed cheese A hermetically sealed package for food items, such as loaves of processed cheese, employing plastic film with serrated ends and an accessible tear strip, which together provide points of focus for easy opening of the package without unwanted tearing or un... | 04/01/2003 |
| 6440051 | Method and apparatus for fabricating double-ended closure bags and double compartment bags A method and a machine for making a plastic film bag with opposed closable end openings as well as a double compartment bag is described. The bags may be formed from J-folded, U-folded or tubular film sheets. In one embodiment, a bag is formed with a guss... | 08/27/2002 |
| 6212860 | Apparatus for wrapping drinking straws Sipping straws are confined in discrete envelopes while advancing in a single file of spaced-apart straws through a wrapping station. The envelopes are obtained from a continuous strip of wrapping paper which is conveyed to the wrapping station in the dir... | 04/10/2001 |
| 6061997 | Method for wrapping up a cassette case in a thin film A wrapping method in which a wrapped product is wrapped by a sheath film and partly-overlapped portions of the sheath film are melt-bonded by heat to heat-seal the sheath film. When the user opens the sheath film, the user can tear the same with ease. A h... | 05/16/2000 |
| 6023917 | Method of producing finned packages, and a separating device for carrying out the method The method proposed calls for a crush blade (9), which separates cross-sealed plastic bags from each other, to be built into a cross-sealing jaw. The crush blade (9) has a zig-zag crush edge (16) made up of V-shaped grooves (17,18) laterally staggered wit... | 02/15/2000 |
| 5829227 | Product package having reliable openability A plastic packaging material which, when formed as a package having seams, will provide a predictable line of failure along a seam when the package is opened to prevent the package from tearing down the side. The predictable failure path is provided throu... | 11/03/1998 |
| 5759145 | Tearability imparting apparatus An apparatus for imparting a tearable region to a pre-formed pouch. A lower block has a flat surface on which is provided a lower perforating member that corresponds to a corner of the unsealed pouch. The lower perforating member has been formed by deposi... | 06/02/1998 |
| 5689935 | Product package having reliable openability A plastic packaging material which, when formed as a package having seams, will provide a predictable line of failure along a seam when the package is opened to prevent the package from tearing down the side. The predictable failure path is provided throu... | 11/25/1997 |
| 4872301 | Packaging machinery and a method of making a wrap-around shipper package A packaging machine for wrapping a flexible web around an assembled load in a wrapping station consists of a wrapping mandrel which is located in the wrapping station and a web dispenser for dispensing a web into the wrapping station and a wrapper mechani... | 10/10/1989 |
| 4725329 | Apparatus for manufacturing easy-to open synthetic resin bag An apparatus for manufacturing easy-to-open bags comprising a pair of feed rollers, at least one puncher disposed downstream of said feed rollers, upper and lower separating rollers disposed downstream of said puncher, tear string positioning member dispo... | 02/16/1988 |
| 4655028 | Method of producing film-wrapped packages or packaged units A method of producing film-wrapped packages or packaged units, wherein a package or packaged unit is wrapped in a film hose formed by helical wrapping of the film (web) (30). In front of the wrapping front advancing relative to the package, a tear-up thre... | 04/07/1987 |
| 3940905 | Method and apparatus for making a thermal compress A thermal compress has an outer container defining an inner space. An inner wall provided within the container divides the space into two separate compartments each bounded in part by the outer container in one embodiment of the invention. A control is ph... | 03/02/1976 |
