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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7328554 | Adjustable height film wrapping machine The invention is directed to changing the height of the wrapping bar on a lap seal machine so that articles of different heights can be accommodated by making the height of the wrapping bar adjustable to accommodate taller or shorter articles on a conveyor. ... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7322171 | Method and apparatus for constructing carton A method and apparatus for packaging articles such as pouches which do not have rigid structures. The method includes the steps of placing first and second sets of the articles onto spaced apart loading panels of a carton blank so that the article sets are spaced ap... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7313894 | Packaging and pricing device A packaging and pricing device for sticking labels on a packaged substance including a first label issuing unit and a second label issuing unit, arranged at both sides around the packaging unit, for issuing labels having different display contents. There is a first ... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7302786 | Method and device for wrapping products Products (2) presenting bevelled or rounded corner edges (35) are advanced singly and in succession along a predetermined path (P), each enveloped in a wrapper (11) of parallelepiped box-like shape, and directed ultimately into a station (15 | 12/04/2007 |
| 7302781 | Bander apparatus and method of using same A method and apparatus for wrapping stacks of web product with wrap web material supplied from a supply roll. The apparatus includes a conveyor for supporting and moving the stacks to be wrapped along a conveying path, a drive assembly operable to receive wrap mater... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7178572 | Label wrapper block assembly A label wrapper block assembly for mounting in a rotatably mounted wrapper frame in a label wrapper assembly includes a base having opposing ends joined by a top surface and a bottom surface. A channel extends between the ends in the top surface for receiving an obj... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7032358 | Device for closing the side ends of a package enclosing one roll or rolls of material in an automatic packaging machine In a device for closing side ends of packages enclosing only one roll or one row of rolls in an automatic packaging machine, operating apparatus are connected to the machine packaging line. A package, partially wrapped by a sheet, is fed to the packaging line in a f... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7000365 | Vertical sleeve sealer A method, apparatus and system are provided for packaging a group of articles into a container formed from a carton blank. The method includes associating a carton blank with a group of articles. The carton blank has at least one open portion and a plurality of bend... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6922978 | Wrapping device in a press for forming bales of textile material The press comprises at least one final pressing station with a standing press comprising one upper pressing plate and one lower pressing plate; the plates are fitted on coaxial coupling attachments (202) and turned on the vertical axis X—X with the bale aft... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6918226 | Automatic utensil wrapping machine The automatic utensil wrapping machine is an apparatus for wrapping a napkin around one or more utensils for use as a place setting. The apparatus comprises a housing, a support frame and an assembly of elements mounted to the support frame. The assembly of elements... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6916280 | Apparatus for folding cardboard articles To simplify and speed up folding of plate-like elements (1) along a fold line (2), more particularly in a continuous operation, a method and a an apparatus for folding plate-like elements (1) are proposed which eliminate the use of counter-impre... | 07/12/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6892514 | Method and apparatus for wrapping printed matters The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for wrapping bundles of printed matter by placing a folded film sheet around such bundles when these are conveyed to and through a wrapping station. The apparatus includes a lower, through-going belt conveyo... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6865862 | Log bander apparatus and method A log packaging apparatus for packaging logs using a turret or a shuttle. The turret or shuttle can be used in conjunction with a wrap conveyor. The turret system can include a rotatable turret with at least one clamp movable into different positions in the apparatu... | 03/15/2005 |
| 6851250 | Package wrapping machine with automatic package positioning prior to wrapping A method for conveying a package to a wrap station of a package wrapping machine involves the steps of providing a conveying system for moving the package to the wrap station, the conveying system being selectively adjustable for varying a lateral position of a pack... | 02/08/2005 |
| 6761014 | Apparatus and process for wrapping articles on a conveyer An apparatus for wrapping articles comprising a clamp for pulling a film, a first conveyor for moving an article to a second conveyor, a second conveyor, an opening between the first and second conveyor to allow the clamp to pull the film through the opening. A shea... | 07/13/2004 |
| 6510670 | Packaging apparatus and method for wrapping flat articles, such as books The invention relates to a packaging apparatus for wrapping flat articles, such as books, in a cardboard-made flat package blank, including first flaps remaining on the inside and second flaps remaining on the outside. The packaging apparatus comprises a ... | 01/28/2003 |
| 6499276 | Wrapping machine A wrapping machine includes a first wrapping station for applying a strip of wrapping around a bale to partially wrap the bale in wrapping material, a second wrapping station for applying a strip of wrapping material around the bale to completely wrap the... | 12/31/2002 |
| 6389782 | Method and apparatus for wrapping elongated article A method and an apparatus for wrapping an elongated article with using a tranfer printing film are provided. A transfer printing film comprising a substrate film and a pattern-decorated transfer layer on the substrate film is drawn out from a roll thereof... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6336310 | Method and apparatus for making compact packages for speadable product Method and apparatus for making compact packages for spreadable products involving flights mounted on a conveyor chain having tiny cam operated pivoting clamps which open to precut cards fed in by a card feeder. The pivoting clamps on the flights are open... | 01/08/2002 |
| 6282864 | Overhead boom arrangement for a packaging machine There is provided for a packaging machine an overhead boom arrangement 20 having a number of endless belts 22, 23 driven around sets of rollers 25. The belts 22, 23 contact the tops of articles/bottles 11 or carton blanks 50 and are driven at the same spe... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6101788 | Method for fastening a sheet of material about an article A method for forming a sheet of material about an article and for automatically fastening the sheet of material about the article, and optionally, for automatically placing a label on the sheet of material formed about the article.... | 08/15/2000 |
| 6038831 | Apparatus for packaging products in open or closed boxes, starting from a flat paperboard material An apparatus for packaging products in open or closed boxes, starting from a flat paperboard material, comprises a paperboard sheet removing assembly for successively removing individual paperboard die-cut sheets, to be supplied to an upward conveyor, sup... | 03/21/2000 |
| 5839256 | Conveyable cover former and fastening system A method for forming a cover about an article from a sheet of material and for automatically fastening the cover to the article, and optionally, for automatically placing a label on the covered article. The sheet od material is formed into a cover about t... | 11/24/1998 |
| 5661952 | Conveyable cover former and fastening system An apparatus and method for forming a cover about an article and for automatically fastening the cover to the article, and optionally, for automatically placing a label on the covered article. The apparatus is provided with a platform having at least one ... | 09/02/1997 |
| 5636499 | Method and apparatus for wrapping covering elements around printed products A method and apparatus for wrapping covering elements around flat objects. The method and apparatus involve the formation of a compound object comprising a flat object to be wrapped and a covering element. A first main surface of the flat object is covere... | 06/10/1997 |
| 5630309 | Method of and apparatus for supplying blanks to packing machines A packing machine receives stacks of blanks, which are to be converted into packets for cigarettes, from an apparatus wherein a first conveyor delivers stacks of blanks to a first station at a first frequency and a second conveyor advances stacks from a s... | 05/20/1997 |
| 5493957 | Vertical assembly extrusion ice cream sandwich making machine An apparatus for the preparation of comestible-containing sandwich products comprises a sandwich product assembly station and corresponding means for the fabrication and assembly of a sandwich product in the vertical direction. The apparatus includes an e... | 02/27/1996 |
| 5450707 | Conveyable cover former and fastening system An apparatus and method for forming a cover about an article and for automatically fastening the cover to the article, and optionally for automatically placing a label on the covered article. The article may be an article such as a potted plant and the co... | 09/19/1995 |
| 5410862 | Packaging machine for wrapping books or the like The invention relates to a packaging machine for wrapping books or the like for postal deliveries. The package blank includes a rectangularly shaped outer cardboard (2), which is folded by means of transverse belts (5) from a flat condition to a tube surr... | 05/02/1995 |
| 5359833 | Method of depositing extruded pieces of substances onto individual wrapping sheets and apparatus for carrying out the method A method of cutting pieces of an extruded substance and depositing the pieces on individual wrapping sheets which are being conveyed in the same direction and at the same velocity as the extruded substance is disclosed. The wrapping sheets are fed in an o... | 11/01/1994 |
| 5355657 | Article packaging machine The invention relates to a machine for packing articles of different sizes which is accordingly intended to use containers that vary in their dimensions and particularly in height. It is characterized in that it includes a working plane 20 and a reference ... | 10/18/1994 |
| 5287681 | Tube-forming apparatus A flexible heat-sealable web is shaped continuously into a tubular cross-sectional shape, e.g. as an intermediate stage in the production of infusion bags comprising severed and sealed lengths of the tubular shape. The web is drawn along a shaped shoe and... | 02/22/1994 |
| 5259170 | Apparatus and method for stretching of wrapping film An improvement to the conventional apparatus and method for wrapping products and product trays with a film is provided. As the wrapping film is carried over and with the product by chains fitted with gripper clamps, a set of guiding rollers is brought in... | 11/09/1993 |
| 5197260 | Method for packing articles, and machine for performing the method The invention relates to a machine for packing articles of different sizes which is accordingly intended to use containers that vary in their dimensions and particularly in height. It is characterized in that it includes a working plane 20 and a reference ... | 03/30/1993 |
| 5148654 | Packaging system A group of objects is packaged in a package formed of a blank having a base panel, base flaps joined at respective longitudinally extending fold lines to the base panel, a pair of side panels joined at respective transversely extending fold lines to and l... | 09/22/1992 |
| 5072572 | Method and apparatus for wrapping folio reams and the like Folio reams are draped into discrete panels of paper or other wrapping material while in continuous motion along a horizontal path. The panels are fed from below so that the front, lateral and rear portions of each panel extend beyond the respective sides... | 12/17/1991 |
| 5035102 | Methods and apparatus for applying C-shaped innerframes to cigarette bundles A C-shaped innerframe is preformed and then applied to a preformed cigarette bundle as part of a cigarette packing operation. The preformed innerframe first contacts the bundle with the back of the C in contact with the front surface of the bundle, and wi... | 07/30/1991 |
| 5005337 | Envelope mailer The present invention allows for producing an envelope by a process in which the envelope is die cut from a continuous paper web, folded in four directions to produce four flaps, glued such that the two side flaps are glued to the bottom flap and the top ... | 04/09/1991 |
| 4977729 | Apparatus for the automatic packaging of a fragile product in a folding carton The invention relates to a process and an apparatus for packaging a fragile product (8) in a folding carton (19), the problem being to carry out the forming of the folding carton blank (1), the filling of the carton (19) and the closing of the carton (19)... | 12/18/1990 |
