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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7886508 | Medicine packaging apparatus A distance from a printing section to a heat sealing section of a medicine packaging apparatus is shortened without generating wrinkles on a package sheet. A unfolding guide included in a packaging unit for unfolding and opening a package sheet has a main ridge exte... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7424798 | Inserter for inserting postal items into envelopes Inserter for inserting postal items into envelopes, wherein an envelope catcher separates the envelopes and transports the envelopes away from the stack of empty envelopes and the envelopes are subsequently transported further with the initially leading flap end tra... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7347911 | Devices and methods for manufacturing packaging materials Devices and methods for inflating and sealing packaging pillows from a material web are shown for consistently producing high-quality packaging pillows. A web of material is advanced past an inflation nozzle, inflated with gas, and sealed closed by a sealing element... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7325374 | Modular infeeds for automatic forms/fill/seal equipment Apparatus for the automatic packaging of one or more articles. One or more modular infeed systems are provided, each adapted to feed product to a wrapping machine, and each preferably adapted to communicate with a wrapping machine to identify its configuration to th... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7323665 | Heating element for high-speed film-sealing apparatus, and method for making same A heating element for a film-sealing apparatus comprises a heating wire segment formed of a first metal having a first reflectance to laser radiation of a predetermined wavelength. The heating element further comprises a first conductor lead comprising a wire having... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7225599 | Apparatus and method for forming inflated articles An apparatus for making inflated articles from a film web having two juxtaposed film plies. One version of the apparatus generally includes a first rotary sealing device for producing transverse seals that bond the film plies together, an inflation assembly for dire... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7182319 | Roller assembly for a lifting device for a personal-transportation vehicle A preferred embodiment of a roller assembly for a lifting device for a personal-transportation vehicle includes a shaft member for mounting on a lifting arm assembly of the lifting device and having an outer surface, and a roller member for supporting a lifting stra... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7143569 | Calibrated shrink wrap packaging system and associated method An automatic high-speed wrapping system for wrapping packages in heat sealable thermoplastic film includes a film delivery unit wherein the film is dispensed and wrapped around the packages at a high rate of speed as the packages travel through the system. The packa... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7117656 | Apparatus and methods for bagging organic and other materials Apparatus and methods for bagging organic and other material such as silage, compost, grain, sawdust, dirt, sand, etc., wherein plastic material is dispensed from a roll mounted on the bagging machine so that the plastic material is at least partially wrapped around... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7076936 | Film delivery unit for shrink wrap packaging system An automatic high-speed wrapping system for wrapping packages in heat sealable thermoplastic film includes a film delivery unit wherein the film is dispensed and wrapped around the packages at a high rate of speed as the packages travel through the system. The packa... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7059097 | Apparatus for inflating and sealing air-filled packing cushions A machine which inflates and seals pillows in packaging is compact in overall size, can be conveniently operated to produce varied lengths of strips of inflated pillow-type packaging as needed, can begin production of inflated pillow-type strip packaging immediately... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7059098 | Automatic medication dispensing and packaging system An automatic medication dispensing and packaging system comprising a medication dispensing unit having base and door cabinets, the door cabinet rear portion correspondingly and detachably engaged to the base cabinet rear portion, the base cabinets distanced from eac... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7048441 | Method and system for filling goods in bags from a coherent series of bag members In connection with the packaging of items or loose material in sheet packings it is known to use a web of cohering flat bag members, which is successively conveyed to a filling station, in which the bag members are opened, one by one, for filling and subsequent clos... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7036293 | Device for welding of a foil tube In order to be able to realize complicated jaw movements in a device for welding of a foil tube, comprising two welding jaws, which can be moved opposingly and clamp the foil tube between one another, whereby a linear motor is provided as the jaw drive, it is sugges... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7032365 | Packaging machine for wrapping products in related wrapping sheets made of heat-sealable material The wrapping of groups of products positioned according to a determined number of mutually superposed layers is achieved by feeding in succession groups of products firstly into a tubular case made to heat-sealable material and, then, to a first wrapping device when... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7028447 | Package paper thermal printer of tablet packing machine A package paper thermal printer of a tablet packing machine for printing information about prescription medicines on package paper by a thermal print head and a ribbon tape, so that the information is very easily printed and the patient can easily recognize the info... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7000369 | Feed roll for package tubing equipped with cutting and sealing means The invention concerns packaging of products on sale outlets. It concerns a feed roll for heat sealing package tubing reel (11), comprising a body (3) provided with, in particular: means (4) supporting at least one reel (2) of package tub... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6971740 | Ink cartridge refill system and method of use A system for refilling a printer cartridge is disclosed herein. The system includes an ink refill device having ink-dispensing tubes. The system also includes a guide that mounts to the printer cartridge and functions to guide the ink-dispensing tubes into ink refil... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6967051 | Thermal insulation systems Thermal insulation systems and with methods of their production. The thermal insulation systems incorporate at least one reflection layer and at least one spacer layer in an alternating pattern. Each spacer layer includes a fill layer and a carrier layer. The fill l... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6962033 | Automatic high speed wrapping machine An automatic high speed packaging machine for wrapping packages in polymer film is disclosed wherein the film seal at the sides and ends of the packages is made at a high rate of speed as the packages travel through the machine. The packages travel continuously in a... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6952910 | Gas filled bodies In a plastic tube (1) for the production of gas filled bodies, with two superimposed sheets, connected in a gas tight manner to each other along a first longitudinal edge thereof, the upper sheet (2) and the lower sheet (3) are welded together i... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6868649 | Zipper applicator for packaging machine A zipper applicator operatively attachable to and usable with a horizontal form, fill, seal and separate packaging machine of the type used to make reclosable containers from a folded web of flexible material such as, for example, plastic film. The applicator is ver... | 03/22/2005 |
| 6817163 | Film delivery unit for shrink wrap packaging system and associated method An automatic high-speed wrapping system for wrapping packages in heat sealable thermoplastic film includes a film delivery unit wherein the film is dispensed and wrapped around the packages at a high rate of speed as the packages travel through the system. The packa... | 11/16/2004 |
| 6804933 | Apparatus and method for forming inflated containers An apparatus for forming inflated containers generally includes a mechanism that conveys a web of film along a path of travel, the film web including one or more pre-formed flexible containers; an inflation assembly positioned adjacent the travel path to direct gas ... | 10/19/2004 |
| 6775962 | Vertical bagging apparatus A vertical bagging apparatus includes a vertically mounted spool for dispensing a roll of centerfold plastic film with the fold in the upper position. A pair of vertical metering rollers are mounted adjacent to the spool for advancing the film from the spool. An adj... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6751926 | Packaging filler product and machine for producing same A machine for producing a packaging filler material employing inflated pouches or cells fabricated from a tubular supply of plastic-like material having a top and bottom integral fold so that a pair of sheets are defined with their opposing inner surfaces establishi... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6701696 | Packaging machine of the tunnel type for carrying out packaging with a heat-shrinkable film A packaging machine using a heat-shrinkable film comprises a frame (14, 16) for peripheral sealing of a film (19) segment and a tunnel (21) disposed alongside the frame, in which means (27) for air circulation is arranged, which air is heated by electrica... | 03/09/2004 |
| 6698164 | Method for producing containers from a film of heat-sealable flexible material The method entails unwinding portion of film stored in roll form. The film is made of a heat-sealable single- or multilayer flexible material. The flaps for the unwound portion are folded until they are side by side or overlapped along a narrow band. The ... | 03/02/2004 |
| 6647702 | Automatic tablet dispensing and packaging system An automatic tablet dispensing and packaging system for processing a prescription input into tablet containing serial paper bags comprises a tablet dropping unit having a hopper guiding each tablet batch from the unit to drop therethrough, and shafts each... | 11/18/2003 |
| 6625956 | Device and method for continuously manufacturing foam cushions for packaging purposes A device and a method for continuously manufacturing foam cushions for packaging purposes. The device comprising a supply station and a foam dispensing station, said supply station being provided for continuously supplying to the dispensing station a web ... | 09/30/2003 |
| 6604340 | Side sealing device of packaging machine incorporating sealing line adjusting mechanism A packaging machine for packaging an article having a lateral side along which a sealing line is formed by heat sealing operation is disclosed. The packaging machine includes a machine frame having transversely-extending rails on which a conveyor for carr... | 08/12/2003 |
| 6598373 | Apparatus and method for forming inflated containers An apparatus for forming inflated containers generally includes a mechanism that conveys a web of film along a path of travel, the film web including one or more pre-formed flexible containers; an inflation assembly positioned adjacent the travel path to ... | 07/29/2003 |
| 6550229 | Device for sealing two plies of film together, particularly for enclosing a foamable composition in a flexible container A device for sealing two plies of plastic film together generally includes an electrically conductive heating element and a rotatable support cylinder having an outer, circumferential surface, the cylinder being positioned in abutting relationship with th... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6526728 | Method and apparatus for sealing articles A method and apparatus for grasping and advancing adjacent layers of thermoplastic film through the side sealing mechanism of a packaging machine includes a plurality of belts which travel about two sets of cooperating pulleys. Each pulley has two circumf... | 03/04/2003 |
| 6470652 | Device for packaging materials in a vacuum chamber A packaging device, particularly for foodstuffs or technical materials, comprising a bell-shaped vacuum chamber. A single-folded film can be placed in the vacuum chamber and the foodstuff can be inserted from the open longitudinal side of the film. Inside... | 10/29/2002 |
| 6460313 | Packaging filler product and machine for producing same A machine for producing a packaging filler material employing inflated pouches or cells fabricated from a tubular supply of plastic-like material having a top and bottom integral fold so that a pair of sheets are defined with their opposing inner surfaces... | 10/08/2002 |
| 6457300 | Plastic film guiding device of packaging machine The present invention proposes a plastic film guiding device of a packaging machine, which comprises a frame, a screw rod, a walking block, a positioning rod, a pair of slanting rods, and a pair of slide bodies. The plastic film guiding device of the pres... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6421988 | Automatic packing sealing and cutting machine for plastic film The present invention relates to a packing, sealing and cutting machine for plastic film comprising a film-delivery device mounted with a film tension adjusting button and a rolling needle delivery shaft such that the film is provided with a plurality of ... | 07/23/2002 |
| 6385950 | Carton bottom folder A method and apparatus for forming the bottom of a carton on a form, fill and seal packaging machine such as the TETRA REX.RTM. packaging machine includes a sealing station for a bottom forming station that includes a pair of rotating spindles. Each spind... | 05/14/2002 |
| 6371279 | Feeding apparatus for wrapping machine A packaging machine is shown for individually wrapping objects, such as candies. The machine has a rotary hopper for selecting the objects to be wrapped, folding them and ejecting them precisely onto a delivery conveyor. A continuous wrapping film is laid... | 04/16/2002 |
