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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7681381 | Apparatus and method for loading an end-loadable carton A substantially tubular end-loadable carton (200) comprising a top wall (212), an inwardly-extending structure (X2) foldably adjoining said top wall (212) stowable in a substantially flat-face position with an underside of said top wall (... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7559186 | Wrap around carton packaging machine A packaging apparatus for wrapping a carton around a packaged product comprises a box mandrel conveyor including a plurality of mandrels which support the packaged product thereon. Packages are precisely fed to the mandrels of the box mandrel conveyor by a condition... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7549277 | Boxing machine In a boxing machine, a conveying and erecting device withdraws one box in an initial flattened configuration. The boxes are arranged with two overlapped layers. The conveying and erecting device gives to the withdrawn box a final erected configuration, in which the ... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7434376 | Machine for packaging articles into box-like containers In a machine for packaging articles into box-like containers, obtained from tubular blanks in flat folded configuration, tubular blanks are conveyed from a feeding station to an erecting station, by an erection unit, moving between the erecting station and a station... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7398629 | Flexible carton loading apparatus By loading both upright and flat tissue clips into their respective cartons by pushing on one end of the clip along the clip's longitudinal axis, a simple flexible carton loading apparatus is possible. To load flat tissue clips, the buckets of the carton loading app... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7328546 | Device for closing boxes and the like A device for closing boxes which are each provided, at least one end face, with at least one flap with a complementary end flap and with at least two folding lateral tabs which mutually interlock in the closure configuration with the complementary end flap, comprisi... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7310925 | Station for withdrawing and erecting flat folded tubular blanks In a station of a boxing machine, for withdrawing and erecting flat folded tubular blanks into boxes, a blank withdrawing rocker arm strips out a flat folded blank from a magazine and places it onto a operating member situated below and associated to an auxiliary co... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7284359 | Breech loader An apparatus for automatically delivering placed and oriented pieces of meat to a netter for wrapping and netting is described, in which the placement and orientation of the meat pieces remains unchanged from initial placement until final wrapping and netting. The a... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7217231 | Device for sealing spouts in pouches The invention relates to a device for sealing-in pouring spouts in bags (1), comprising at least one station for opening (4) the bag (1), a station for inserting (4) the pouring spout into the opened bag (1), and at least one stati... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7155877 | System for use in an assembly line A transfer system (10) is comprised of an air conveyor (11), a servo conveyor (12), and a fan feeder (13). In a typical configuration, the air conveyor is located at a first location where it receives packaged articles from a bagger syste... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7134258 | Packaging apparatus and methods A packaging system includes a transport defined by a linear motor driving independent elements in a path to carry out a packaging function. The elements are driven independently of other elements in the path and are driven by the linear motor in a section of the pat... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7100346 | Machine for boxing wound coils of filamentary material A machine for winding and boxing wound coils of filamentary material having a payout hole extending from the outer to the inner coil winding wherein a turret mechanism mounting two oppositely disposed end forms and corresponding collapsible mandrels and operative be... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7073310 | Flexible carton loading apparatus By loading both upright and flat tissue clips into their respective cartons by pushing on one end of the clip along the clip's longitudinal axis, a simple flexible carton loading apparatus is possible. To load flat tissue clips, the buckets of the carton loading app... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7028450 | System and method of processing and packing disk-like objects A system for automatically forming several parallel rows of disk-like objects on a conveyor into stacks and packing those stacks into boxes is disclosed along with a method of operating the system. The system includes a stacker receiving the disk-like objects as the... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7024838 | Packaging apparatus An apparatus for forming packages of pre-cooked meals. The package comprises a tray enclosed at least partially by a card sleeve having top and bottom faces and two opposing side walls. The forming apparatus includes a series of forming tools mounted for movement at... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7000363 | System and process for loading containers with formed product The invention relates to a system and process for loading containers with formed product. The system includes a container transport assembly, a product transport assembly and a combined transport assembly. The container transport assembly advances and positions the ... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6993889 | Product packaging system A product packaging system for receiving a series of products from one or more product transport lines. The products are loaded into a series of carriers and transported through a downstream inserter unit. Inserter assemblies moving in timed relation with the moveme... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6971215 | Device for inserting packing items into packing material An apparatus for inserting packaged material into packaging means is described. In the region of an insertion device and a preinsertion device, a packaged-material conveyor device and a packaging-means conveyor device are provided. The insertion device has at least ... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6955032 | Shuttle packer packaging machine A shuttle packaging machine includes a support structure having a servomotor driven shuttle device mounted thereon. A transfer arm having suction cups clamps, removes and holds a shipping blank on the shuttle device during all of the packaging functions. The major a... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6941725 | Method and device for closing a box by folding a closing lateral flap A method for closing a box (1) by folding a lateral closing flap (5) extending from an upper edge (6) of a lateral aperture (7) of the box (1) and having at least one foldable edge (8), while the box (1) is being move... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6929111 | Apparatus and a method for collating and cartonning product units Apparatus for collating and cartonning product units comprising: product infeed means adapted to dispense a succession of discrete product units; one or more servo-trains, the or each servo-train comprising a plurality of buckets in which each bucket is adapted to r... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6915622 | Method for packing a product using a flat tubular package A method and machine for packing a group of cartons of cigarettes using a flat tubular package, whereby a top wall of the flat tubular package is engaged by suction by a gripping head, which is then moved to feed the flat tubular package to a seat which engages a bo... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6913568 | Apparatus for removing and erecting a folding-box blank An apparatus for removing a folding-box blank (Z) from a magazine and for erecting the same has a first retaining means (6) with means (62) for gripping a first box wall (W1) of the blank (Z) and a second retaining means (7) with means ( | 07/05/2005 |
| 6910849 | Method and device for turning over stacks of products on a cartoning machine A method and device for turning over stacks of products on a cartoning machine, whereby a group of products, arranged in at least one stack, is fed into a container, from which the group is expelled by a push device after the container is rotated 90° about an axis ... | 06/28/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6766627 | Machine for boxing wound coils of filamentary material A machine for winding and boxing wound coils of filamentary material having a payout hole extending from the outer to the inner coil winding, a turret mechanism mounting two oppositely disposed end forms and corresponding collapsible mandrels and operative between f... | 07/27/2004 |
| 6732486 | Machine for conveying and moving into position tubes, in particular straws A machine for conveying and moving into position tubes (124), the machine including a chute (42) with a vertical feed station for said tubes, conveyor belts (12) and a motor (31) for moving said conveyor belts, characterized in that said ... | 05/11/2004 |
| 6725629 | Horizontal cartoner system and method for the use thereof A cartoner assembly comprises a loader and an indexer. The loader comprises at least one horizontally extending drive belt, an input end and an output end. The drive belt is adapted to support one or more packages as they are moved from the input end to the output e... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6688075 | Automatic machine for packaging products inside containers An automatic machine for packaging products, in particular cosmetic or pharmaceutical products, inside containers (11), comprising a series of stations (15-21, 21A, 21B, 21C, 23-28), in each of which the operations required to insert the products and thei... | 02/10/2004 |
| 6598380 | Method for packaging ordered groups of products and the relative cartoning device A method and the relative device for packaging ordered groups of products in a carton comprises the following stages: feeding one carton at a time, in the form of a flat pre-folded blank, to a loading table and simultaneous opening of the blank, by means,... | 07/29/2003 |
| 6574943 | Conveyor assembly for packagings, and method for delivery of a pack Conveyor assembly for packagings, comprising a substantially horizontally conveying conveyor. Situated near the delivery end of the conveyor is a bearing plate, which when the pack moves onto it moves further substantially at the same speed as the conveyo... | 06/10/2003 |
| 6571539 | Packaging machine and method of carton set up A carton manipulating device for rotating a carton in a packaging machine, which apparatus comprises carton pick up means adapted to engage at least one carton from the infeed stream and to convey the carton through a working reach of the apparatus and wh... | 06/03/2003 |
| 6490843 | Carton feeding method and apparatus A carton feeder for a continuous motion packaging machine utilizes a speed compensation mechanism implemented through a rotating valve assembly and actuation system. The rotating valve assembly provides a vacuum and compression to vacuum cups, for facilit... | 12/10/2002 |
| 6467241 | System for setting up boxes Flat box blanks are set up into boxes by feeding a succession of the blanks one at a time to a setup station and gripping the blanks and pulling them one after another by grippers in a direction without stopping through the station. A plurality of setup t... | 10/22/2002 |
| 6453649 | Device and method for feeding an article or several articles into a package A carrier (4) with articles (2) provided thereon is moved quickly toward a package (3) and is slowed down at the package (3) such that by utilizing the articles (2) kinetic energy, they slide off the carrier (4) and move into the package (3). The carrier ... | 09/24/2002 |
| 6449928 | Single motor drive system for the rotating boom and film carriage assembly of a stretch film wrapping system for palletzied loads In a stretch film wrapping system for wrapping stretch film around a load disposed at a wrapping station, a single motor drive system is provided for controlling both the rotation of a rotational or orbiting boom member with respect to a static boom membe... | 09/17/2002 |
| 6349525 | Method of filling an upright facial tissue carton with tissue and a support member A method of filling an upright facial tissue carton with a plurality of tissue and a support member is disclosed. The carton has a top wall, four sidewalls and a bottom wall. The top wall has an aperture formed therein through which the tissue can be with... | 02/26/2002 |
| 6311457 | Carton feeding method and apparatus A carton feeder for a continuous motion packaging machine includes a speed compensation controller and a solenoid dual valve assembly, which enable the feeder to operate at higher speeds. The dual valve assembly includes a vacuum valve coupled to an air p... | 11/06/2001 |
| 6266948 | Box opening and filling machine The base of the machine consists of three modular casings (1, 2, 3) which are aligned with one another and fixed together and inside which the synchronized systems for the various work stations are arranged. The frames of the parallel and vertical-axis be... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6202392 | Flexible tissue handling apparatus Tissue clips are placed on the upper level of bi-level product buckets, with the length of the tissue clips in the machine direction. The lower level of the product bucket is comprised of a full-width transverse channel whose width is greater than the wid... | 03/20/2001 |
