| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 053444000 | Of slender rod-shaped contents (e.g., cigarette) | 14 |
| 20090241473 | Apparatus and Method For Packing Smoking Articles - A packaging apparatus comprises one or more packing machines (MC | 10-01-2009 |
| 20100139215 | Device and Method for Packing Syringes in Nests - A device for packing syringes in nests comprising means of setting the syringes to the right pitch and first means of gripping the said syringes set to the said pitch. The device is characterised in that it also comprises a transport chain with links having the said pitch, in closed circuit and in movement at least about two driving axes, the said gripping means being in movement synchronised with the movement of the chain, in order to pick up a predetermined quantity of syringes in movement from the said chain, | 06-10-2010 |
| 20100170202 | Packaging Machine and Method - A method and machine for packaging smoking articles or other tobacco industry products in which the products and packaging may be transported from selected product supply systems ( | 07-08-2010 |
| 20100212263 | Cable Dressing Fixture - A fixture for dressing a plurality of cables into cable bundles is provided. The fixture includes a first panel having a plurality of first apertures extending through the panel. The first apertures are configured in a predetermined array in the first panel, with each first aperture located a first distance from each adjacent first aperture. A second panel is disposed at a distance from the first panel, the second panel having a plurality of second apertures extending through the second panel. The second apertures are configured in a second array corresponding to the array of apertures in the first panel. Each second aperture is located a second distance from each adjacent second aperture. The first plurality of apertures receives a plurality of cables fed into the fixture. The second plurality of apertures is adapted to receive the cables from the first apertures and to feed the cables from the fixture in a cable array ready to be tied into a bundle. | 08-26-2010 |
| 20100251672 | ELECTRODE PACKAGING TO REDUCE HANDLING DAMAGE - Package for electrode rods includes a container for holding a plurality of rods, an insert for the container, the insert having a first section that fits into the container and generally conforms to an internal shape of the container, and a second section that generally conforms to a bundled shape of a plurality of the rods, with a binding that applies tension about the insert second section. In one embodiment the insert may be made of corrugated board. | 10-07-2010 |
| 20110167768 | STORAGE RECEPTACLE FOR USED SUTURE NEEDLES - A method for disposing of suture needles. The method includes attaching the needle storage receptacle to a mounting surface by positioning a first adhesive surface against the mounting surface, peeling back a strip of protective material from a second adhesive surface of a needle storage unit and placing a suture needle between the protective material and the second adhesive surface, removing the protective material from the second adhesive surface and a third adhesive surface adjacent the second adhesive surface, and folding the second adhesive surface into contact with the third adhesive surface to permanently trap the needle. | 07-14-2011 |
| 20110252744 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR STAMPING PACKAGED GOODS IN THE NATURE OF CIGARETTES - A computer-implemented method for processing tobacco-oriented goods is disclosed. The method includes moving, in a consecutive sequence, a plurality of tobacco product containers across a path. The path takes them within range of a pushing mechanism. The consecutive sequence is determined based at least upon a picking support component that causes the plurality of tobacco product containers to interject tobacco product containers of a first order in between two different collections of tobacco product containers of a second order. The method also includes utilizing the pushing mechanism so as to remove the tobacco products of the second order from the consecutive sequence. This is done through activation of the pushing mechanism so as to route the tobacco products of the second order to a takeaway mechanism. | 10-20-2011 |
| 20110265428 | METHOD OF CIGARETTE PACKAGING AND CIGARETTE PACKAGING SYSTEM - A method of cigarette packaging, the method comprising the steps of: Packing at least a first cigarette packet ( | 11-03-2011 |
| 20110302886 | Packing Method and Unit for Folding a Sheet of Packing Material about an Article Such as a Group of Cigarettes - A packing method and unit ( | 12-15-2011 |
| 20120000164 | MACHINE AND METHOD FOR PACKAGING FIBER MATERIAL - A machine for packaging fiber material comprises feed means ( | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120079794 | Method of cigarette package for two lengths of cigarettes - Method of cigarette package for two lengths of cigarettes size, fitted and divided to accommodates the two type of the different cigarettes, on, is the ordinary common cigarettes, and the second, is a shorter length of cigarettes, wherein, the longer cigarettes, the ordinary common cigarettes, designated to be use by the user to his purposes in a convenience time, and the seconded type of cigarettes, designated to be consumed by the users at time when the user expecting a minimum time or will of consuming the cigarettes. Wherein, the cigarette packaging box, designated from at list two compartments, one, is similar to the ordinary cigarette package, and the seconded one, has a higher raising hollowed platform, that enable the user to reach the cigarette as in the usual way. | 04-05-2012 |
| 20140157725 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FILLING CONTAINERS WITH ROD-SHAPED ARTICLES - In a method and an apparatus for filling containers with rod-shaped articles a hopper for feeding the articles includes at least two mouths for dispensing the articles through respective lower ends, a conveyor device located in the vicinity of the at least two dispensing mouths The conveyor device includes two conveyors placed side by side and designed to operate independently on the containers supported by the conveyor device, and respective motors mechanisms are associated with the two conveyors so that one of the two conveyors moves towards the hopper the empty containers carried on the conveyor device from the dispensing apparatus, and the other of the two conveyors moves away from the hopper the containers full of rod-shaped articles. | 06-12-2014 |
| 20150336695 | Packing Method and Packing Machine for Producing a Slide-Open Package of Tobacco Articles with a Hinged Lid - Packing method and packing machine for producing a slide-open package of tobacco articles with a hinged lid; a wrapped group of tobacco articles is obtained by means of a first packing unit; an inner container which houses the wrapped group of tobacco articles and has the hinged lid is obtained, by means of a second packing unit and by folding an inner blank about the wrapped group of tobacco articles; and an outer container which slidably houses the inner container inside and is provided with a connecting tab, that at one end is integral with the outer container and at the other end is glued to the lid of the inner container, is obtained by means of a third packing unit and by folding an outer blank about the inner container. | 11-26-2015 |
| 20160075459 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR HANDLING ELONGATED ARTICLES - A method for handling elongated articles wherein the articles are removed from a hopper, combined to form a group of articles, and supplied as a group of articles to a packaging process, wherein the formation of the articles in the group corresponds to the formation of the articles in the packaging process. The articles are removed from the hopper and are transferred to a pocket of a first intermediate conveyor as part groups with layers of several articles, wherein the number of layers of articles in the pocket of the first intermediate conveyor is smaller than the number of layers of articles in the group, and the part groups are transferred from the first intermediate conveyor to a second intermediate conveyor, and several part groups are transferred together as a group from the second intermediate conveyor to a removal conveyor, which supplies the group to a packaging device. | 03-17-2016 |
