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Pneumatic Shoe Lacing Apparatus

This invention provides a pneumatic shoe lacing apparatus for the pneumatic lacing of shoe.

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Class 53/551 - Vertically disposed tube


Subclass of Class 53 - Package making
Definition: Apparatus for forming an upwardly open tubular cover, the
No. of patents: 519
Last issue date: 03/06/2012


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NumberTitleIssue Date
8127520Device for the filling of bags
The invention relates to a device for the filling of bags in automatic machines for the formation, filling and closing in a continuous process of bags from a tubular mesh, of those comprising a tubular body outside which the storage of tubular mesh is assembled, the...
03/06/2012
8015783Form-fill-seal machine
A form-fill-seal machine for manufacturing pouches of a plurality of types having different shapes includes a tubular part, a conveying part and a sealing part. The tubular part is replaceable according to a shape of the pouch to be manufactured. The conveying part ...
09/13/2011
7950208Sealing jaw for producing sealed packages of a food product
A sealing jaw for producing sealed packages of a food product from a tube of packaging material includes a supporting body, and a first work surface which interacts, in use, with a second work surface on a further jaw to grip the material to be sealed and perform a ...
05/31/2011
7934361Packaging apparatus
There is provided a packaging apparatus including a mechanism for joining a film from a film roll and a film from another film roll to each other. The packaging apparatus is capable of preventing a joint of the films from suffering a thermal sealing failure thereby ...
05/03/2011
7866131Vertical bagging machine comprising two linear motors
The invention relates to a vertical bagging machine (1), equipped with a first linear motor (18) for displacing a transversal seal unit (10) in a first direction, preferably vertically (20), and a second linear motor (19) for execu...
01/11/2011
7748201Form-and-seal unit for a machine for packaging pourable food products
A form-and-seal unit for producing aseptic sealed packages from a tube of packaging material filled with a pourable food product. The unit comprises a fixed structure and two forming assemblies which interact alternately and cyclically with the tube of packaging mat...
07/06/2010
7617658Sealing device for producing sealed packages of a pourable food product
A sealing device producing sealed packages filled with pourable food product from sheet packaging material comprises a supporting frame, a forming mechanism movable with respect to the frame along a path to fold the sheet packaging material, a sealing arrangement ca...
11/17/2009
7562512Bag manufacturing and packaging system
A bag manufacturing and packaging system includes a vertical bag manufacturing and packaging machine, a conveyor part, a pair of rotating brushes and a guide member. The vertical bag manufacturing and packaging machine is arranged to manufacture a bag, and to cut ou...
07/21/2009
7559184Packaging machine for tubular bags
When viewing in the direction of material flow of a flat film web of a packaging machine for tubular bags, a film conveying device is situated behind a shaping shoulder of a packaging machine for tubular bags. The film conveying device enables the film web to be dra...
07/14/2009
7546722Vertical filling-packaging machine and method of manufacturing packaging bag
A vertical filling-packaging machine is provided for satisfactorily forming a heat-sealed part by heat-sealing, cooling, and cutting a cylindrical film without moving the same and also for manufacturing a variety of packaging bags in different outline shapes. The ve...
06/16/2009
7526906Apparatus and method for automated forming of sleeves for sliced products
A forming apparatus is provided for forming a film into a sleeve around a filling tube. The forming apparatus has contact surface geometry that is contacted by the film as it travels thereacross configured to ensure smooth forming of the film into the sleeve. Smooth...
05/05/2009
7500340Quick change module with adjustable former attachments
A quick change module operable for being removably attached to and extending below a forming tube of a conventional vertical form, fill, and seal machine to produce a wide assortment of differently sized vertical stand-up pouches or gusseted flat bottom bags. The qu...
03/10/2009
7484347Packaging filling apparatus and transversal sealing apparatus
A packaging filling apparatus, which can obtain the most suitable sealing quality by an automatic control without checking the condition of the sealing by the operator on a regular basis, is provided. A transversal sealing apparatus 48 of the packaging filling appar...
02/03/2009
7472528Vacuum belt assembly to drive tubular bag material
A vacuum belt assembly (10) to drive tubular bag material (11) through a packaging machine. The assembly (10) includes three belts (19, 20, 21) with the belts (19, 20, 21) being driven by rollers (22). The belts (20, 21
01/06/2009
7448189Filling apparatus
An object of the present invention is to provide a filling apparatus capable of reliably correcting the position of an overlap portion. The filling apparatus includes a forming ring including a plurality of forming rollers and disposed at a predetermined position al...
11/11/2008
7448188Continuously operating vertical bag forming filling and sealing machine
A machine for forming a bag of a strip of weldable material, filling the bag with a fluent filling, and sealing the filled bag forms the strip into a longitudinally extending and laterally closed tube and continuously advances the tube longitudinally downward throug...
11/11/2008
7441390Device for forming containers produced continuously from a tubular wrapper and unit for packaging the containers
A device (8) for forming containers (2) produced continuously from a tubular wrapper (3) fed along a substantially vertical direction of advance (A). The device has at least one support carriage (8a) movable along a respective clos...
10/28/2008
7441391Device for forming containers produced continuously from a tubular wrapper and unit for packaging the containers
A device (8) for forming containers (2) produced continuously from a tubular wrapper (3) fed along a substantially vertical direction of advance (A). The device has at least one support carriage (8a) movable along a respective clos...
10/28/2008
7415810Methods of manufacturing hooded slider-operated zippered bags
A method of manufacturing a reclosable package having a hooded slider-operated zipper, comprising the following steps: (a) interlocking profiled closure members of first and second flanged zipper strips; (b) inserting a slider on the zipper strips; (c) folding zippe...
08/26/2008
7415809Packaging machine former support
A packaging apparatus 10 including a cabinet 11 provided with a door 12 which is movable relative to an axis opening 13. Within the cabinet 11 is a packaging machine 15 with which there is associated a former 14. The ...
08/26/2008
7409810Vertical pouch making machine and method of making pouches
A vertical form fill and seal continuous pouch machine includes a forming tube having a cross section area of CA is disclosed. A film tube is continuously formed about the forming tube and fed downward. A horizontal sealing assembly includes at least one pair of opp...
08/12/2008
7395642Method of manufacturing packages incorporating easy-open strips
A method of manufacture comprising the following steps: (a) guiding a web material in a machine direction through a vertical form-fill-seal (VFFS) machine with a portion of the web material being wrapped around a tube; (b) joining first and second portions of a clos...
07/08/2008
7383672Package assembly and machine and method for manufacture thereof
A package assembly (10) that includes a strip (11) of flexible plastic material. Attached to the strip (11) at spaced positions longitudinally of the strip (11) are bags (12). The bags (12) are sealingly closed and include e...
06/10/2008
7367171Venting system for use with a foam-in bag dispensing system
A venting device with base and an adjuster supported by the base, and a driver driving the adjuster. The adjuster includes a film vent former moved by the driver between vent formation mode and non-vent formation mode. The adjuster includes an adjustable blade movin...
05/06/2008
7356979Method and apparatus for manufacturing a bag package, and bag package
A method for manufacturing bag packages, in which netting material of bags to be formed is connected to at least two foil strips which are each provided with a printing repeating in the longitudinal direction of the strip, with the foil strips being supplied in a co...
04/15/2008
7350339Mixing system
A mixing system includes a portioning device for sequentially supplying batches of a specified quantity of foodstuffs at a supply location. A mixing device includes a number of mixing chambers which can be sequentially aligned with the foodstuff supply location. A d...
04/01/2008
7338424Packaging machine
A horizontal packaging machine (10) for making fluid-tight packages (11) equipped with zip closure (15) comprises: at least one unit (12) for unwinding a film (13) of synthetic material for packag...
03/04/2008
7334378Packaging machine and weighing apparatus
A packaging machine and a weighing apparatus low in equipment cost, small in installation space, and allowing a reduction in time required from the manufacture of packaged bodies to the completion of weighing to increase productivity. The stick packaged bodies are w...
02/26/2008
7325383Bag making and filling method using double film
A tubular film is flattened to form a continuous two-ply film in which the two side edges are continuously connected in the longitudinal direction. This two-ply film is curved into a tubular form, the two side edges are overlapped, and a vertical seal portion is for...
02/05/2008
7325379Pleat adjustment in vertical, form, film and seal packaging system and method
A method and apparatus for continuously or intermittently and vertically forming, filling and sealing packaging includes an infeed section, a pleating assembly, a forming tube and a sealing assembly. The pleating assembly imparts at least one pleat to the film. The ...
02/05/2008
7325386Double action vertical form-fill-seal apparatus
This is a double acting, multi-lane machine and method for the forming, filling and sealing of plastic or paper film pouches of various sizes commonly used to hold liquid viscous, dry, particulated or powdery materials or other substances. The machine includes a fou...
02/05/2008
7322169Vertical, form, fill and seal packaging system
A method and apparatus for continuously or intermittently and vertically forming, filling and sealing packaging includes an infeed section, a pleating assembly, a forming tube and a sealing assembly. The pleating assembly imparts at least one pleat to the film. The ...
01/29/2008
7311647Methods for sensing features on moving fastener tape during automated production
A method of manufacture comprises the following steps: (a) advancing a fastener tape made of flexible thermoplastic material along a process pathway during an indexing portion of a work cycle, the fastener tape not advancing during a dwell time of the work cycle; (b...
12/25/2007
7310923Timing gates for a packaging machine
A chute assembly to be positioned between a weigher and a former of a packaging machine. The chute assembly includes a timing gate device including a plurality of timing gates that regulates the delivery of batches of product from the weigher to the former. The gate...
12/25/2007
7305808Packaging machine
A packaging machine moves its heater unit for longitudinal sealing of a tubularly formed film between a sealing position at which the heater unit contacts the film and a retracted position at which it is separated from the film. In addition to the mechanism for this...
12/11/2007
7305805Method for making a flexible reclosable package
A flexible package having an integrated reclose strip, and method for manufacturing same, constructed by modification to existing vertical form and fill packaging machines. The reclose strip comprises a length of tacky two-sided adhesive tape. The apparatus for appl...
12/11/2007
7299604Method and apparatus for moving a welding jaw
To be able to weld different items, in particular films of different thickness and composition, in an optimized way in each case, it is proposed in the case of a welding jaw circulating along a closed path, for example a transverse welding jaw of a vertical tubular ...
11/27/2007
7299608Quick change module with adjustable former attachments
A quick change module operable for being removably attached to and extending below a forming tube of a conventional vertical form, fill, and seal machine to produce a wide assortment of differently sized vertical stand-up pouches or gusseted flat bottom bags. The qu...
11/27/2007
7290382Container packaging apparatus
A wafer case is inserted into a packaging bag, and an ear folding and shaping bar is pressed against a root of each corresponding triangular ear portion, making a folding back line in each triangular ear portion. Each of the triangular ear portions is folded back ov...
11/06/2007
7275354Vertical form, fill and seal packaging system
A method and apparatus for continuously or intermittently and vertically forming, filling and sealing packaging includes an infeed section, a pleating assembly, a forming tube and a sealing assembly. The pleating assembly imparts at least one pleat to the film. The ...
10/02/2007
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