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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5832696 | Method and apparatus for packaging compressible insulation material A method of packaging compressible insulation material includes feeding insulation material into contact with a mandrel, rolling up the insulation material on the mandrel to form an insulation roll, applying pressure on the insulation material, during the... | 11/10/1998 |
| 5595049 | Method and apparatus for depositing sliver from a sliver-producing machine into a coiler can An apparatus for depositing sliver from a sliver-producing machine into a coiler can includes an arrangement for outputting the sliver by the sliver-producing machine with a delivery speed; a movable coiler can platform for receiving an upwardly open coil... | 01/21/1997 |
| 5564254 | Method, a machine and an installation for packaging a load provided with at least one edge-protecting angle strip; apparatus for grasping, displacing, depositioning and holding such an angle strip A method of packaging a load that is generally prismatic in shape in which at least one rigid protective angle strip is initially placed on at least one edge of the load. The strip is then rigidly and permanently secured to the load. An apparatus is used ... | 10/15/1996 |
| 5561965 | Method for providing a wrapper for a floral grouping having a flap for closing the upper end or the lower end of the wrapper A wrapper for a floral grouping formed from a sheet of material having a closure bonding material on a portion thereof. The sheet of material is wrapped about the floral grouping with the closure bonding material securing the sheet of material in a wrappe... | 10/08/1996 |
| 5560183 | Blister package collator and stacking apparatus, system and method A collator and stacking apparatus, system and method for the collation and stacking of asymmetric plastic blister packages having a blister at or toward one end on a flat card, which comprises package-receiving inverter and sliding trays each with a tray ... | 10/01/1996 |
| 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 |
| 5560179 | Apparatus for handling flat coiler cans before, during and after filling by a sliver producing textile processing machine A conveyor apparatus for moving flat coiler cans into and out of a sliver filling station and for reciprocating the cans in the sliver filling station while being filled with sliver by a sliver producing textile machine, includes a conveyor element extend... | 10/01/1996 |
| 5555702 | Process and apparatus for packaging liquid food products A liquid food product packaging process and apparatus is disclosed. The process may be employed for filling gable top cartons with high acid liquids such as orange juice. The product is heated to a sufficiently high temperature to sterilize the product fo... | 09/17/1996 |
| 5553442 | Robotic system for mixing articles in containers A method and apparatus for changing the mix of articles in a plurality of containers. A first set of containers is conveyed to a mixing station, each container of the first set of containers containing a plurality of articles having physical characteristi... | 09/10/1996 |
| 5551214 | Ligaclip loading machine and process An apparatus and process for loading ligating clips into ligating clip cartridges. Ligating clips are fed to an inversion wheel having cavities for receiving the clips. The clips are inverted by rotating the wheel. The clips are pushed into ligating clip ... | 09/03/1996 |
| 5548941 | Method of feeding groups of tobacco items, in particular cigarettes, to a continuous packing machine A method of feeding a continuous packing machine with groups of tobacco items, in particular cigarettes, composed of at least one layer of items, whereby a continuously-moving conveyor with pockets for respective groups is supplied successively with the g... | 08/27/1996 |
| 5548943 | Method for assembling dispenser with plunging sleeve This invention has as its subject a dispensing device for fluid-like products, composed of a container having a cylindrical drum, of which one end is provided with a movable base and the other end includes a neck which is capped by a distributor assembly ... | 08/27/1996 |
| 5546734 | Packaging machine and method of packaging articles A continuous motion, end loading packaging machine forms article groups of a predetermined number and configuration using a flight type article selector. The packaging machine is flexible in its ability to package articles of different heights and diamete... | 08/20/1996 |
| 5537799 | Method for providing a wrapper for a floral grouping having a flap for closing the upper end or the lower end of the wrapper A wrapper for a floral grouping formed from a sheet of material having a closure bonding material on a portion thereof. The sheet of material is wrapped about the floral grouping with the closure bonding material securing the sheet of material in a wrappe... | 07/23/1996 |
| 5535574 | Method for providing a wrapper for a floral grouping having a flap for closing the upper end or the lower end of the wrapper A wrapper for a floral grouping formed from a sheet of material having a closure bonding material on a portion thereof. The sheet of material is wrapped about the floral grouping with the closure bonding material securing the sheet of material in a wrappe... | 07/16/1996 |
| 5524416 | Tube picker The invention relates to a tube picker for picking out unfilled tubes which are to be filled with some mass, such as creams or the like. The tube picker comprises rigidly fixed fingers (5) on a movable support (7) intended to be inserted into the unfilled... | 06/11/1996 |
| 5522203 | Biaxial stretch wrapping Stretch wrapping packaging material on a load includes introducing such wrapped packaging material onto tips of projecting portions of the first grooved rollers so that the packaging material spans the nonprojecting portions of the first grooved roller. T... | 06/04/1996 |
| 5522206 | Self fastening guide for guide rails A self fastening plastic guide for attachment to a metal guide rail having openings formed therein has a first guide member and a second guide member. The guide members are provided with protruding locking tangs that lock the members to each other when th... | 06/04/1996 |
| 5517806 | Agricultural feed bagging machine An improved agricultural feed bagging machine for bagging feed materials in a bag including a rearwardly extending tunnel having elongated and arcuate spaced-apart ridges provided on the inside surfaces of the side walls of the tunnel to create turbulence... | 05/21/1996 |
| 5515667 | Device for forming a stack extending perpendicular to the standing, sequential printed sheets A device for forming a stack of printed sheets. The device includes a conveying device for conveying the printed sheets in an imbricated flow vertically downwards and an approximately horizontal stack support disposed below the conveying device and having... | 05/14/1996 |
| 5515668 | Laning conveyor with changeover system A laning conveyor is provided which may be used as an infeed for a packer. The laning conveyor comprises a central lane guide and a movable lane guide unit including at least two lane guides connected thereto spaced apart a first lane width. The unit is m... | 05/14/1996 |
| 5513481 | Coin handling machine A coin handling machine includes a rotatable disk for receiving deposited coins and feeding out the received coins to a coin sorting passage by the centrifugal force produced by rotation thereof, the coin sorting passage having a pair of guide members for... | 05/07/1996 |
| 5513478 | Method and apparatus for the manufacture of individual rolls from a web of material An apparatus and method for preparing wound rolls from a web of material is disclosed having a feeding roller which feeds a web of material into contact with a core having a central axis. A plurality of tuckers tuck the web of material about the core, the... | 05/07/1996 |
| 5511360 | Container for receiving head shrinking film and method for forming a spill-resistant cover therefor A device for heat shrinking thin film onto open-topped containers to form spill-resistant covers is shown. A radiant energy source is intermittently energized in association with timers to direct radiant energy towards the thin film. An energy absorbing b... | 04/30/1996 |
| 5511361 | Encapsulation method Method for encapsulating small articles such as medicines in caplet or cylindrical form are disclosed. Gelatin half capsules are formed on the pins of pin blocks and are delivered to a station at which they are trimmed and fitted over the opposite ends of... | 04/30/1996 |
| 5507134 | Package rectifying apparatus A package rectifying apparatus designed to prevent a rearmost one of packages (3) from being toppled rearwardly to fall down even though the packages have been rectified so as to partially overlap with each other and also to enable the amount of overlap b... | 04/16/1996 |
| 5505041 | Method for producing deodorant/antiperspirant still refill A deodorant/antiperspirant solid stick form product, formed and extruded from a mold having a cavity in the shape of the desired stick and within said cavity a threaded shaft axially oriented therein and rotably mounted at the bottom side through an apert... | 04/09/1996 |
| 5501061 | Method and apparatus for clearing excess beverage containers from a beverage container packaging machine A method is disclosed for clearing excess trailing beverage containers from the lanes defined between guide rails in a beverage container packaging machine. The method includes providing the guide rails with compressed air nozzles that are positioned and ... | 03/26/1996 |
| 5495700 | Process and apparatus for processing printing products The pack-forming unit (12) brings printing products into a tube-like form and sheathes them with a retaining element. The packs (20) thus formed are ejected into a first stack compartment (22) which is emptied into a second stack compartment (24) as soon ... | 03/05/1996 |
| 5493841 | Apparatus for producing portable, tube-like packs from printing products The printing product (16) is inserted from above into a compartment (52) and between two pairs of fingers (56), and is positioned such that it is arranged approximately symmetrically with respect to the axis of rotation (54') of the fingers (56). Upon rot... | 02/27/1996 |
| 5491954 | Suture winder machine A suture winder machine and, more particularly, a semi-automated suture winding station of the machine adapted to facilitate the high-speed winding of multiple sutures, which are each attached to needles, into a peripheral channel of a tray utilized for p... | 02/20/1996 |
| 5491959 | Drop packers Bottles or like articles are fed singly in ungrouped bottle-to-bottle contact in a continuous path by gravity feed in sequence onto horizontally moved cases carried by a conveyor disposed below the line of movement of the bottles or like articles, the cas... | 02/20/1996 |
| 5491955 | Suture winder machine A suture winder machine and, more particularly, a semi-automated suture winding station of the machine adapted to facilitate the high-speed winding of multiple sutures, which are each attached to needles, into a peripheral channel of a tray utilized for p... | 02/20/1996 |
| 5487257 | Packing and unpacking machine A conveyor conveys boxes that are empty and boxes that are filled with articles in a horizontal plane past an article handling machine where articles of a first type are removed from some boxes and articles of a second type are inserted in empty boxes. Th... | 01/30/1996 |
| 5481847 | Apparatus for, and a method of, placing an insert in a container An apparatus for, and a method of, placing an elongated insert 1 in a can 2 through a narrow top opening 6 has a head assembly 10 formed by a sleeve 21 slidable over a core 20. The core 20 has an inclined end face 23 with a vacuum suction port 25. The ins... | 01/09/1996 |
| 5475969 | System for applying a heat-shrinkable sleeve to a container An improved system for applying labels to pharmaceutical vials or the like includes a heating tunnel assembly having an insulated heating chamber defined by a first stationary portion and a second removable portion, with a heater positioned within the ins... | 12/19/1995 |
| 5473854 | Machine for the automated packaging of needles and attached sutures and method of utilizing the packaging machine An automated machine for the high-speed packaging of multiple surgical needles each with an attached suture into a tray and detachable cover structure providing a suture package utilized for the packaging of the needles and attached sutures. Additionally,... | 12/12/1995 |
| 5471813 | Ball placer A ball placer device is provided for containers in a capping machine, which consists of a vertical tube assembly mounted to the capping machine to receive a series of balls therein. A feed assembly for the balls is retained above the vertical tube assembl... | 12/05/1995 |
| 5471815 | Continuously rotating platform with multiple mounted double clippers for continuously forming link product An improved packaging device designed for the filling of flexible, tubular casing and for the sealing of the casing in discreet lengths which may then be further processed or packaged. The device includes a mounting assembly having a floor mounted frame w... | 12/05/1995 |
| 5469689 | Machine for the automated packaging of needles and attached sutures and method of utilizing the packaging machine An automated machine for the high-speed packaging of multiple surgical needles each with an attached suture into a tray and detachable cover structure providing a suture package utilized for the packaging of the needles and attached sutures. Additionally,... | 11/28/1995 |
