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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7231748 | Adjusting device of film packaging machine An adjusting device that is mounted in a film packaging machine includes a moving mechanism that selectively moves two support blocks in opposite directions and toothed wheels mounted to the support blocks in a symmetric manner and driven by a timing belt that is me... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7065938 | Beverage bottling plant for filling bottles with a liquid beverage filling material, and a container filling plant container information adding station, such as, a labeling station having a gripper arrangement, configured to add information to containers, such as, bottles and cans A beverage bottling plant for filling bottles with a liquid beverage filling material, and a container filling plant container information adding station, such as, a labeling station having a griper arrangement, configured to add information to containers, such as, ... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7028452 | Packaging device for fitting and heat-shrinking packaging film A packaging device includes a film fitting mechanism, a film shrinking mechanism and a controller. The film fitting mechanism fits a tubular heat shrinkage film over a film cylinder and moves the film a distance along the cylinder and cuts a length of the film off. ... | 04/18/2006 |
| 6996954 | Horizontal sleeve applicator and method An apparatus and method are provided for enwrapping a horizontally oriented product in a sleeve. A sleeve is formed by opening a flat tubular film and cutting a selected length of tubing. The sleeve is further opened in a forming tube to a cross sectional shape comp... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6966164 | Tubular banding applicator and method The tubular banding applicator converts a flat tubular material into a cut length expanded tubular sleeve and mounts the sleeve circumferentially on a container. A driver moves a selected length of flat tubular material from a supply station, around a spreader, and ... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6955033 | Method of pushing tubular films onto elongate objects and processing apparatus for implementing the method The invention relates to apparatuses and a method for pushing tubular films over elongate objects, which preferably have varying cross sections, in which one, preferably two, conveyors (5, 6) transport the objects (4) lying freely, by the objects (4... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6357202 | Device for supplying package sleeves to a filling machine for filling liquid foodstuffs into multi-layer composite packages A device capable of transporting package sleeves in an upright position, from any of several filling lines to one or more filling machines, wherein said several filling lines are aligned parallel to each other. The device utilizes a manipulator capable of... | 03/19/2002 |
| 5737900 | Banding method and apparatus with acceleration of band along floating mandrel aimed toward article to be banded Banding apparatus in various embodiments include accelerator members for accelerating plastic bands downstream along a floating mandrel for propelling them at high speed with significant kinetic energy in being ejected off from an end of the mandrel towar... | 04/14/1998 |
| 5566527 | Apparatus for applying a heat-shrinkable band to the neck of a container The invention relates to an apparatus for applying a heat-shrinkable band to the neck or to the body of a container. The apparatus comprises a feeding assembly for advancing a continuous sleeve of heat-shrinkable polymeric material along a predetermined p... | 10/22/1996 |
| 5471814 | Ring handle applicator A pneumatically-controlled container ring handle applicator--a mechanical device for installing plastic handles around bottle necks by forcibly expanding a plastic ring of the handle as it is urged onto the bottle neck--includes a finger carrier to which ... | 12/05/1995 |
| 5398395 | Banding apparatus and method Apparatus for applying a sleeve of heat-shrink material (a "band") to a container comprises a rotary drum having a plurality of upstanding heads. A web of banding material is intermittently advanced and lengths cut off, each cut length being held by finge... | 03/21/1995 |
| 5275681 | Method and device for attaching tie-on tags to containers The invention concerns a method for attaching tags (14) provided with closed loops (34), so-called tie-on tags, to the necks of containers (27, 27A). Tags (14) of this type are usually slipped on by hand over the containers (27, 27A) passing by on an asse... | 01/04/1994 |
| 5101613 | Apparatus for positioning and shaping a tubular member over a container A system for properly opening, shaping, orienting and positioning of bands in high speed banders. A number of jet nozzles are attached to moveable arms, which hold the bands during placement, and compressed gas is blown through these nozzles to open and s... | 04/07/1992 |
| 5001887 | Method for applying a shrink sleeve to the closure end of a container and apparatus for performing such method A method for applying a shrink sleeve to the closure end of a conveyed container and apparatus for performing the method. Shrink sleeves supplied in the form of a hose are expanded over a mandrel which is disposed at an inclined position relative to the c... | 03/26/1991 |
| 4947627 | Heat-shrunk threaded bottle cap A recipient having an axially upwardly open neck formed with at least one radially projecting neck thread is capped by fitting a circumferentially thermally shrinkable sleeve around a plug, fitting the plug into the open neck to block same, fitting the sl... | 08/14/1990 |
| 4744206 | Apparatus for applying heat-shrinkable plastic sleeves to containers A flattened tubular plastic tube having one pair of edge creases is withdrawn from a vertical axis reel and passed through horizontal axis rollers to impart a pair of intermediate creases. Cooperating rotating and stationary blades cut the plastic tube in... | 05/17/1988 |
| 4545181 | Apparatus and method for opening and transporting a flat-folded tube of flexible material The operating speed of apparatus for opening and guiding a flat-folded tube of plastic wrapping film, especially a tube of heat shrinkable plastic film, which include a spreader mandrel for opening the tube and drive rollers or belts for transporting and ... | 10/08/1985 |
| 4497156 | Method of and apparatus for enveloping moving articles In order to envelop the necks of a series of continuously moving bottles with decorative or informative tubular attachments, an elongate tube of heat-shrinkable plastic material is flattened first in one longitudinal plane and then in another longitudinal... | 02/05/1985 |
| 4387553 | Banding apparatus A banding apparatus for automatically selecting successive bands from a source of bands and placing them on individual containers on an adjacent conveyor includes a finger gripping apparatus having a plurality of fingers moveable radially inwardly for ins... | 06/14/1983 |
| 4287700 | Machine for fitting a sleeve seal of a flat form over a container A machine for fitting a sleeve seal of a flat form over a container, wherein a pair of half-mandrels are mounted on a rotating member so as to be movable apart and together. A pair of suction cups grip the sleeve seal and move apart so as to somewhat open... | 09/08/1981 |
| 4248030 | Method for assembling plastic sleeve preforms and containers This invention relates to a method for producing a composite container having a body label or tubular sleeve mounted thereon adapted to be shrunken onto exterior surface areas of a cylindrical container. The tubular sleeve is preformed of thin flexible th... | 02/03/1981 |
| 4179863 | Apparatus for sectioning thermoplastic sheath and placing resulting sleeves around containers An apparatus for automatic cutting at a programmed rate of heat shrinkable plastic sheaths into sections or sleeves suitable for being placed and then heat-shrunk around containers. The apparatus includes means for feeding the plastic sheath in flat and t... | 12/25/1979 |
| 4118916 | Thermoplastic wrapping machine The invention relates to a machine for automatic, rhythmic wrapping of heat-shrinkable sleeves around containers, from a hopper where the sleeves are stacked flat to a device for continuous shrinking of these sleeves. The machine comprises in particular: means... | 10/10/1978 |
