Did You Know...
...that it was melting ice cream that inspired the invention of the outboard motor? It was a lovely August day and Ole Evinrude was rowing his boat to his favorite island picnic spot. As he rowed, he watched his ice cream melt and wished he had a faster way to get to the island. At that moment the idea for the outboard motor was born!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7269931 | Overwrapping machine for packets of cigarettes An overwrapping machine for packets of cigarettes, wherein a first feed line feeds the packets of cigarettes successively along a first path, and a second feed line feeds sheets of transparent packing material successively along a second path intersecting the first ... | 09/18/2007 |
| 6766625 | Apparatus and relative method for wrapping reams of paper An apparatus for wrapping reams of paper in which the units for forming the first tube are adjacent to the devices for lateral folding of the first tube in order simultaneously to form lateral flaps. ... | 07/27/2004 |
| 6085494 | Method of and apparatus for wrapping articles of the tobacco processing industry into blanks of packing material Cardboard blanks with fold lines between their panels are partially draped around arrays of cigarette packets in an apparatus wherein successive arrays which are being advanced along an elongated path at a first speed strip discrete blanks off a mouthpiec... | 07/11/2000 |
| 6067780 | Automatic packaging machine for packaging products An automatic packaging machine for packaging products into packs comprises: a wrapper forming line along which there is a succession of at least three operating stations positioned above a sliding surface along which the products are fed with a stepping m... | 05/30/2000 |
| 5331788 | Device for inducing slack in a wrapping film, associated with means for conveying packs of rolls In a machine for packaging rolls of household paper products, packs are restrained between groups of vertical teeth associated with a conveyor passing through a wrapping station, a folding station and a heat seal station; equipping the wrapping station wi... | 07/26/1994 |
| 5327702 | Wrapping articles In a machine for wrapping articles such as cigarette packets, feed rolls deliver a wrapper web onto a suction drum at a controlled speed which is less than the peripheral speed of the drum. The drum carries a cutter blade which cooperates with a fixed bla... | 07/12/1994 |
| 4653248 | Apparatus for making cartons of cigarette packs and the like Apparatus for making cartons with arrays of cigarette packs therein has a conveyor which transports the arrays to a transfer station and a feeding unit which delivers successive blanks to the transfer station so that a freshly delivered blank is adjacent ... | 03/31/1987 |
| 4603534 | Apparatus for wrapping articles, especially cigarette groups For the wrapping of cigarette groups 10 in blanks 13 (tin foil), a sheet of material 28 is fed at a constant conveying speed V1 to a suction and cutting cylinder 32 rotating at a relatively considerably higher speed. On the latter, the blank 13 is severed... | 08/05/1986 |
| 4516385 | Wrapping machine An apparatus for wrapping objects in heat-sealable film which provides for continuous mechanical wrapping of objects and which is suitable for wrapping objects which have poorly-defined shape or which are non-uniform in size or shape is described. The app... | 05/14/1985 |
| 4452031 | Automatic card dispenser and pick-off assembly A cardboard sheet dispenser is incorporated in a bacon slicing machine line that is operable to group slices in shingled fashion and into segregated batches of predetermined weight. The dispenser directs a cardboard sheet in synchronization with the movem... | 06/05/1984 |
| 4328657 | Automatic card dispenser and pick-off assembly A cardboard sheet dispenser is incorporated in a bacon or pork product slicing machine line that is operable to group slices in shingled fashion into segregated batches of predetermined weight. The dispenser directs a cardboard sheet in synchronized fashi... | 05/11/1982 |
| 4186544 | Wrapping machines A wrapping machine comprising an intermittently rotating wrapping wheel having individual pockets for receiving in succession an article to be wrapped and a wrapper, the wrapping wheel being operative during its rotation to fold the wrappers partially aro... | 02/05/1980 |
