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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7647745 | Adjustable transmission channel for a medication dispensing apparatus At least one movable interlocking sidewall structure provides alteration of the physical dimensions for a solid pharmaceutical or nutraceutical temporary storage cavity and/or transmission channel. Preferably a plurality of interlocking sidewall structures are simul... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7134256 | Packaging system The present invention provides a packaging system that includes a beak-shaped hopper, a pair of opening and closing bars, and a sensor for sensing a limitless opening and closing movement of the opening and closing bars. The beak-shaped hopper and the pair of openin... | 11/14/2006 |
| 6799410 | Conveying device for machines for packaging rolls and the like A conveying device for machines for packaging rolled articles includes a series of carriages, fastened, regularly spaced apart, to conveying means moved stepwise along an endless path. Each pair of adjacent carriages define holding seats for respective groups of art... | 10/05/2004 |
| 6775963 | Tunnel extension for bagging machine A combination including, preferably, alternate tunnel extensions for a bagging machine, the extensions alternately fitted to a primary tunnel with quick-release fasteners. One of the extensions for filling a determined bag size and the other extension for filling a ... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6591588 | Crop material bagger having convertible tunnel A bag filling machine having a tunnel and a bag fitted to the tunnel for transferring material compacted in the tunnel and in the compacted state, into the bag. The tunnel is composed of a bottom portion and alternating top portions that are alternatively... | 07/15/2003 |
| 6571533 | Bottle handling device A bottle handling device for assisting in inserting a number of similar sized bottles into a secondary container, such as a partitionless beer carton. The device comprises a frame which, when inserted into the empty carton, provides a number of similar si... | 06/03/2003 |
| 6374997 | Conveyor system A conveyor system has a bucket with a pivoting side wall. The pivoting movement of the leading side wall is actuated by a cam follower which engage; a cam rail. As the bucket passes through a carton loading station, the cam rail moves the cam follower to ... | 04/23/2002 |
| 6016640 | Detachable spoon for a dough packing machine An apparatus for loading dough product into a container through a container opening includes a spoon assembly and a carriage. The spoon assembly includes a support rail and a spoon joined to the support rail, the spoon having a discharge opening. A contai... | 01/25/2000 |
| 6000195 | Packaging machine with capability to convert to different carton cross-sections A packaging that is capable to simultaneously process cartons having two different cross-sections, or to convert from processing a carton having one cross-section to a processing cartons having another cross-section. Using TETRA REX.RTM. gable top cartons... | 12/14/1999 |
| 5910090 | DC drive positioning system An apparatus for positioning a guide slidably mounted on a machine wherein the guide is driven by a lead screw turned by a DC motor through a worm drive gearhead. The DC motor is controlled by a programmable logic controller (PLC) with input from an opera... | 06/08/1999 |
| 5887414 | Solid pack fish canning machine A fish-canning machine having two adjacent parallel rotary turrets each having fish-receiving forming pockets in the periphery thereof. The turrets are positioned to align two of the pockets with each other to form a single combined pocket which is then f... | 03/30/1999 |
| 5887413 | Solid pack fish canning machine A fish-canning machine having two adjacent parallel rotary turrets each having fish-receiving forming pockets in the periphery thereof. The turrets are positioned to align two of the pockets with each other to form a single combined pocket which is then f... | 03/30/1999 |
| 5819502 | Shifting apparatus for objects such as eggs An apparatus is provided for shifting objects from a first conveyor to a container transferred by a second conveyor. The apparatus includes a holder guide, a displacing mechanism for moving the holder guide, a plurality of holders carried by the holder gu... | 10/13/1998 |
| 5799465 | Bag filling station A bag filling station including a main body having a loading bay with a bottom, a first end, and a second end. The bottom of the loading bay may be movable in a horizontal direction. At the first end of the loading bay is a loading ram or actuator having ... | 09/01/1998 |
| 5787680 | Horizontal cartoner with vertically articulating product trays for multiple counts/layers of wrapped products An automatic packaging machine is adapted to insert a plurality of layers of product into a carton. In a preferred embodiment, the product is carried in an X-Y tray which is able to expand or to contract in width and to raise or lower, thereby giving two ... | 08/04/1998 |
| 5737899 | Insertion packet centering device This invention provides utilizes a centering device located in the accumulation portion of mail production equipment to reduce jamming caused by the insertion of material into an open envelope. The apparatus of this invention is located in the accumulatio... | 04/14/1998 |
| 5701719 | Loading device Loading device, particularly for loading containers carried on a conveyor, including a vertically fixed funnel with a shutter arranged in the area of its delivery aperture. In order to ensure reliable loading of the containers in such a device, it is prov... | 12/30/1997 |
| 5603203 | Process and apparatus for handling food, chemical or pharmaceutical products, and corresponding handling trays A process and an apparatus for handling food, chemical or pharmaceutical products effects sequentially the thermoforming, the loading with products, and the final production of trays for handling the products. These handling trays comprise a receiving rec... | 02/18/1997 |
| 5588284 | Method and apparatus for packing a plurality of articles in cartons A method and apparatus for continuously packing a plurality of articles into receiving cartons. A loading station is utilized in combination with a carton feeding queue for delivering a continuous sequence of cartons to the loading station. A mechanism is... | 12/31/1996 |
| 5560184 | Means for and methods of loading and packaging variable numbers of products A loader for an automatic packaging machine has a plurality of input conveyor belts that run at successively slower speeds in order to bring products into a predetermined product density. A metering wheel picks up the products one at a time and delivers t... | 10/01/1996 |
| 5553441 | Carton conveyor and loading apparatus with adjustable guide members A vertically oriented horizontally extending carton conveyor and loading apparatus incorporates a mechanical mechanism for simultaneously adjusting the distance between a pair of longitudinally extending guide rails at a plurality of locations. The carton... | 09/10/1996 |
| 5544738 | Adjustable pocket mechanism An adjustable pocket mechanism for a vertical cartoner includes a plurality of adjustable pockets to accommodate different sizes of cartons. The pocket mechanism includes a pair of endless parallel chains which pass around a pair of upper and lower sprock... | 08/13/1996 |
| 5517798 | Carton conveyor and loading apparatus A vertically oriented horizontally extending carton conveyor and loading apparatus includes a mechanical mechanism for transporting a plurality of cartons along an endless pathway in a horizontal plane. The apparatus also includes carton finishing systems... | 05/21/1996 |
| 5483786 | Apparatus for packaging articles An apparatus for packaging articles straddles a conveyor line delivering articles to be packaged. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes an article holding unit moveable linearly between a retracted position wherein it is positioned to one side of the ... | 01/16/1996 |
| 5482423 | Goods drop out device Goods drop out device 14 having goods receptacle portions 27 defined in a drop out box 23 and shutter devices 21 for opening and closing the bottoms of the goods receptacle portions 27, comprises the shutter devices 21 each comprise a smaller opening and ... | 01/09/1996 |
| 5469693 | Bale bagging apparatus A bale bagging method and apparatus are disclosed. Bales are passed through a collapsible tunnel, preferably formed of panels of flexible, yet self-supporting plastic material. A plastic film tube is supported on the tunnel as the bales are passed through... | 11/28/1995 |
| 5465550 | Quick-release conveying arm in machines for assembling and wrapping packs of rolls The conveying arm is composed of a first lower portion by which products assembled for wrapping are restrained, and a supporting upper portion embodied integrally with the first, which affords two slots occupying the full width of the arm as measured tran... | 11/14/1995 |
| 5452568 | Automatic packaging equipment An automatic packaging machine comprises a spaced parallel pair of conveyor chains for transporting a plurality of pallets around an endless path. A pair of guide rails are connected between the conveyor chains for slidingly carrying each pallet. A plural... | 09/26/1995 |
| 5419102 | Grain bagging machine A crop bagging machine is provided with a movable chassis having adjustable brakes and a grain container having a rear tunnel defining a rear opening. A pliable plastic bag is fit to the tunnel with the bag bottom closing the opening. A bin on the chassis... | 05/30/1995 |
| 5388389 | Automatic packaging equipment An automatic packaging machine comprises a spaced parallel pair of conveyor chains for transporting a plurality of mandrels. A pair of guide rails connected between the conveyor chains for slidably carrying each mandrel, so that a mandrel may be moved in ... | 02/14/1995 |
| 5371995 | Hesitating carton loading machine A carton loading system has a carton carrier movable along a carton carrier support track driven by a continuous conveyor. The continuous conveyor has a first path segment in which the continuous conveyor drives the carton carrier along the track while a ... | 12/13/1994 |
| 5347788 | Apparatus for adjusting the holding capacity of a workpiece carrier An apparatus is described for the adjustment of the holding capacity of a package carrier (3) supported on a line (1) and which comprises at least one externally plane side wall (4) which is closest to the line (1) and which extends parallel with this lat... | 09/20/1994 |
| 5343671 | Means for and methods of loading irregularly shaped objects into automatic packaging machines A portable loader may be brought up to and selectively positioned to deliver product into mandrels carried by an automatic packaging machine. The loader may receive product on an asynchronous and on-demand basis and delivers product on a time basis coordi... | 09/06/1994 |
| 5241806 | Continuous motion cartoner assembly A cartoner assembly loading article groups into open carton sleeves. The cartoner assembly comprises an article infeed mechanism supplying at least one stream of articles, an article selecting mechanism intersecting the article infeed mechanism to form an... | 09/07/1993 |
| 5185984 | Automatic packaging equipment An automatic packaging machine comprises a spaced parallel pair of conveyor chains for transporting a plurality of mandrels. A pair of guide rails connected between the conveyor chains for slidably carrying each mandrel, so that a mandrel may be moved in ... | 02/16/1993 |
| 5072573 | Apparatus with adjustable width trays for automatic packaging machines A tray-like mandrel for an automatic packaging machine has a telescoping bottom so that it may be made wide in order to receive a product or narrow in order to fit into a box. The telescoping is controlled by a slot track cam extending along a path follow... | 12/17/1991 |
| 4691502 | Apparatus for placing a card on a bundle of sheet-like articles An apparatus for placing a card on a bundle of sheet-like articles comprises a support for supporting the card adjacent the bundle, a feed device for feeding the card into the support, and a mechanism for placing a strap around the bundle, the card being ... | 09/08/1987 |
| 4473987 | Double case loading bottle packer grid assembly A bottle packer grid assembly is disclosed which is capable of packing two cases simultaneously wherein the construction provides the capability for each individual single case grid section to be separately removable from the surrounding support structure... | 10/02/1984 |
| 4344270 | Method and apparatus for packaging commodities There is provided an apparatus and method of packaging commodities in a flexible wrapper. The apparatus includes first and second stations with a wrapper engaging assembly moving between the first and second stations, wrapper cutting and sealing means whi... | 08/17/1982 |
| 4248032 | Bagging apparatus An apparatus for inserting a carton into a thermoplastic bag includes a table for supporting the bag, a pusher assembly for transferring a carton into the bag, and a guide assembly for first opening the bag mouth and for thereafter guiding the carton into... | 02/03/1981 |
