| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 053064000 | Of receptacle or cover feed or adjunct feed or application | 26 |
| 20080229707 | Automatic film changer for a film wrapping machine - A new and improved film wrapping machine includes a new and improved film changer, operatively associated with the film wrapping machine, for automatically exchanging rolls of wrapping film, wherein a depleted roll of wrapping film, or a roll of wrapping film that has experienced a breakage in the wrapping film, can be automatically removed from the film roll mounting and dispensing carriage assembly, and wherein further, a fresh roll of wrapping film can be positionally exchanged for the depleted roll of wrapping film, or for the roll of wrapping film that has experienced the breakage. | 09-25-2008 |
| 20100018155 | SEALING APPARATUS WITH SEALING LOAD CONTROL - An apparatus for sealing a cover film to a blister film having blisters holding respective small objects has a feed roll rotatable about an axis and formed with an array of radially outwardly open recesses arrayed like the blisters of the blister film. The blister film passes over the feed roll with the blisters in the recesses. A sealing roll is rotatable about an axis generally parallel to the feed-roll axis and presses the cover foil down against the blister foil on the feed roll. The feed roll is rotated to pull the films in a travel direction between the rolls so that the cover film is sealed to the blister film between the blisters thereof. A sensor detects movement of the sealing roll transversely of the feed-roll axis. A controller generates an output when the detected movement exceeds a threshold. | 01-28-2010 |
| 20100058711 | PACKAGING MACHINE - The invention relates to a packaging machine for closing a container having a lid, which includes a supply unit for delivering the container along with a loosely seated lid. A rotating crimping head is provided with a plurality of recesses for one container each, a plurality of tensioning units each hold a container into a recess, and a crimping unit crimps the lids onto the container in order to close the container. A plurality of sensor units are provided such that one sensor unit is arranged on each tensioning unit. Each sensor unit records a container rotation and/or a container tensioning force in the crimping head. Each sensor unit has a transmitter to send signals and a control unit which has a receiver to receive signals sent from the transmitter. | 03-11-2010 |
| 20100281822 | LOAD SMART SYSTEM FOR CONTINUOUS LOADING OF A PUCH INTO A FILL-SEAL MACHINE - A load smart system for continuously loading preformed pouches into a fill-seal machine is provided. A plurality of pouches are disposed within a pouch delivery device, each of the pouches having an upper edge and an indicia. The fill-seal machine includes a rotating turret having a plurality of radially extending grippers. The rotating turret rotates the plurality of gripper pairs between a loading station, an opening station, a filling station, a sealing station, and an unloading station. A robotic transfer device is positioned between the pouch delivery device and the loading station of the fill-seal machine. The robotic transfer device includes an optical sensor positioned on a gripper member. During operation, the optical sensor scans the indicia to determine the pouch characteristics and a controlling station controls the gripper member to deposits the pouch within the gripper pairs at the loading station a predetermined distance from the upper edge of the pouch. | 11-11-2010 |
| 20100287880 | Medicine Dispensing System and Medicine Dispensing Device - There is provided a medicine dispensing system configured such that a medicine dispensing device includes a sub unit having a function to dispense medicine that is connected to a medicine dispensing device that includes a main unit having a function of packing medicines. There is also provided a medicine dispensing device that can be appropriately integrated with such a medicine dispensing system. The medicine dispensing system includes, in some embodiments a main unit, a sub unit and a transfer device connecting the main unit and the sub unit. The medicine dispensing system transfers the medicine dispensed in the sub unit to the main unit by means of a transfer device and dispenses the medicine at a medicine packing part together with the medicine dispensed from a main storage part in the main unit. | 11-18-2010 |
| 20110154778 | Envelope filling apparatus - An envelope filling apparatus is an apparatus for inserting a sheet of paper into an envelope having a flap, including envelope feed means, an air nozzle for blowing air into an envelope fed by the envelope feed means from an open end of the envelope to open the open end, and sensing means for detecting that the open end of the envelope has been opened. The apparatus further includes insertion means for inserting a sheet of paper into an envelope from an open end, if the sensing means has detected that the open end of the envelope has been opened after the air nozzle is actuated, and removal means for removing an envelope from a transport route, if the sensing means does not detect that the open end of the envelope has been opened after the air nozzle is actuated and the insertion means is not actuated. The apparatus can detect whether a front and a back as well as forward and backward ends of an envelope into which a sheet of paper is to be inserted are placed properly for sheet insertion without requiring complicated and expensive means and cumbersome man-hours. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110203221 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETECTING THE POSITION OF APPLICATION OF A SEALING STRIP ONTO A WEB OF PACKAGING MATERIAL FOR FOOD PRODUCTS - An apparatus for detecting the position of application of a sealing strip of heat-seal plastic material onto a multilayer web of packaging material for food products advanced along a predetermined path and including at least one base layer for stiffness and strength and one or more heat-seal plastic layers; the sealing strip has a first longitudinal portion, applied onto a longitudinal edge of the web, and a second longitudinal portion projecting laterally from the longitudinal edge. The apparatus comprises a light source for irradiating a transversal portion of the web during movement thereof along its path, and a sensor detecting a quantity related to different behavior of the materials forming the web and the sealing strip to light exposure and generating an output signal related to the width of the second portion of the sealing strip in a direction orthogonal to the web travelling direction and parallel to said web. | 08-25-2011 |
| 20120042608 | COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR RUCKERS CAPABLE OF RUCKING FIXED DIAMETER COVERINGS - Computer program products for ruckers for rucking sleeves of covering material onto a chute body include a translating member disposed in a housing having an axis of movement configured to reciprocally translate a chute body about the axis of movement; and at least one gripping member disposed in the housing in cooperating alignment with the translating member. In operation, the at least one gripping member has an automated stroke cycle whereby the at least one gripping member is configured to travel inwardly a distance sufficient to snugly abut an outer surface of the chute body while the chute body travels in a first direction about the axis of movement and to travel outwardly a sufficient distance to prevent contact with the chute body while the chute body travels in a second opposing direction about the axis of movement. | 02-23-2012 |
| 20120073242 | PACKAGING MATERIAL COMPRISING MAGNETISABLE PORTIONS - A packaging material comprises a plurality of magnetisable portions thereon, the magnetisable portions comprising at least one spot per package to be formed from the packaging laminate. The packaging material further comprises at least one preparation feature for enhancing finishing of packages, wherein the at least one preparation feature is aligned with a magnetic field mark in the at least one magnetisable portion. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120216485 | MEDICATION PAY-OUT DEVICE - A medication dispensing device has: a medication preparation unit provided with a storage section that can store and discharge one package at a time of a solid medication supplied by a medication supply unit; and a counting unit that can count the solid medication discharged from the storage section. The counting unit is provided with: a monitoring platform on which the solid medication discharged from the storage section rests; an vibration unit that can vibrate the monitoring platform horizontally; an imaging unit that can image the solid medication on the monitoring platform that has been vibrated; and an image recognition unit that can count the solid medication on the basis of the image obtained by the imaging unit. | 08-30-2012 |
| 20120311960 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PACKAGING ARTICLES INTO FLEXIBLE BAGS - An apparatus for the packaging of articles into flexible plastic bags supplies a continuous web formed by two flat superimposed layers to a fill-in station and the web is cut transversally to form web lengths of the desired length. The upper edges of the web lengths are grasped and spread apart to introduce articles, while contemporaneously the presence/absence of such edges is detected to automatically allow or inhibit the operation of the apparatus, respectively. | 12-13-2012 |
| 20130227912 | COMPUTER PROGRAMS TO OPERATE LOW PROFILE RUCKERS USING LOADING CAPS CAPABLE OF RUCKING FIXED DIAMETER COVERINGS - Loading caps suitable to mount to product chutes for rucking sleeves of covering material onto a chute body include a conical or frustoconical upper portion. | 09-05-2013 |
| 20140096478 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DYNAMICALLY ADJUSTING THE RELATIVE POSITION OF INTERNAL CONTENT MATERIAL IN A MAILPIECE FABRICATION SYSTEM - A method and system for dynamically adjusting the placement of internal content material to optimally position the content material relative to a wrapped enclosure, and obviate the requirement to out-sort the assembled envelope. Upon assembly, a detection system visually images each envelope in predetermined regions of interest (ROIs). A controller captures the image data for comparison with a set of predefined position data and issues a feedback signal indicative of a directional change which drives an error signal to zero. The correction signal is used by the phase nip roller assembly to adaptively adjust the position of the content material by incrementally adjusting, advancing or retarding, the phase-nip roller assembly, i.e., forward or aft. A predefined number of envelopes is selected to acquire a running average of the image data. | 04-10-2014 |
| 20150033665 | EMBOSSING DEVICE - An embossing device comprises a first embossing roller and a second embossing roller forming a passage for a strip of wrapping material to be embossed; the first embossing roller comprises on its surface a tooth set to imprint a pattern and an imprinting system to imprint a reference on the strip to identify a section of the strip: the imprinting system comprises an area without teeth in the tooth set, extending along a sheaf of directrices of the first roller for forming on the strip a non-embossed band in the pattern; the imprinting system comprises a second tooth set lying on the sheaf of directrices to imprint an embossed mark on the strip in the non-embossed band. | 02-05-2015 |
| 20150113914 | Counterbalanced Servo End Seal Carriages - A sealing machine having a movable carriage assembly which utilizes a counterbalance and two servo motors is disclosed. The counterbalance allows high throughput operation without excessive mechanical vibration. The use of two servo motors allows independent control of the horizontal movement of the movable carriage assembly and the vertical movement of the jaws. The use of two servo motors also allows adaptation to articles or packages of various dimensions. In some embodiments, an optical sensor is used to detect the position of the package to be sealed, and the movement of the movable carriage assembly and the jaw is altered based on the detected position. | 04-30-2015 |
| 20160009435 | CAPPING MACHINE IN A BEVERAGE BOTTLING PLANT CONFIGURED TO CAP BEVERAGE BOTTLES WITH BEVERAGE BOTTLE CROWN CAPS OR BEVERAGE BOTTLE SCREW CAPS AND A CAPPING MACHINE CONFIGURED TO CAP CONTAINERS WITH CONTAINER CAPS | 01-14-2016 |
| 20160009436 | MACHINE FOR PACKING MEDICAL PRODUCTS AND PRINTING MEDICAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR A NURSE IN A HOSPITAL ENVIRONMENT | 01-14-2016 |
| 20160031578 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM WITH INFORMATION PRESENTATION FOR RESUMING PRINTING AFTER OCCURRENCE OF ERROR - A letter number specifying unit specifies a letter number of a sealed letter to be informed to a user, based on a content of a transfer error detected by an error detector. A searching unit searches a letter-number-specific print content table, in which letter number identification information for identifying each letter number, and print content information indicating a content of an image to be printed on a sheet which forms the sealed letter of each letter number are associated with each other, and finds the print content information associated with the letter number identification information of a letter number identification code read by a code reader from the sheet which forms the sealed letter of the letter number specified by the letter number specifying unit. An information displaying unit displays the print content information found by the searching unit on a display. | 02-04-2016 |
| 20160114923 | CONTROL APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM LIBRARY - A structure accurately detects biting of a foreign object in a packaging machine. A control apparatus controls a packaging machine that sequentially seals and/or cuts a packaging material transported in a first direction using a rotor. The rotor is arranged to have a tangent to its outer circumference portion in contact with the packaging material extending in the first direction. The rotor is drivable and rotatable by a driver. The control apparatus includes an information obtaining unit that obtains information indicating a rotational position of the rotor and a status value of the driver in predetermined cycles, and a determination unit that determines a presence of an abnormality in a sealed portion of the packaging material using, from the information obtained by the information obtaining unit, a status value of the driver corresponding to a rotational position of the rotor falling within a predetermined range or being a predetermined position. | 04-28-2016 |
| 20160167817 | PAPER SHEET BUNDLING DEVICE | 06-16-2016 |
| 053065000 | Of marker by defective package component | 1 |
| 20110167760 | PACKAGING PLANT WITH A DISCHARGE STATION - A packaging plant comprises several test stations as well as a transport system and a control system. The control system is configured to manage packages which are transported in the packaging plant on the transport system along the test stations such that a status is assigned on each package by the control system which can be changed by the test stations together with the control system. A discharge station for defective packages is arranged in the direction of production downstream of at least two test stations. The status of the packages can be changed by at least two test stations to be passed one after the other, and the packages can be marked by a marking means corresponding to their status. | 07-14-2011 |
| 053067000 | Responsive to presence or absence of preformed receptacle | 2 |
| 20080196358 | System and Assembly for Sealing Containers - The invention is based on the objective of disclosing a method for sealing containers, particularly bottles, in a mechanized fashion by means of rigid closures, particularly rigid glass stoppers that require careful handling. | 08-21-2008 |
| 20120042609 | MEDICAMENT FILLING MACHINE - The medicine packing machine is equipped with a loading means that is capable of receiving and delivering vials retrieved from a stocker, and a supplying means that is capable of delivering the vials from the loading means in an upright position. A control means is also disposed between the loading means and the supplying means. As a result of the presence of the control means, the transfer of vials received by the loading means is controlled by the control means in such a manner that the vials are not ejected towards the supplying means. The vials are also controlled so as to be in an upright position once loaded into the loading means. As a result of these actions, the vials received by the loading means are reliably delivered to the supplying means without being ejected or jamming at unanticipated locations. | 02-23-2012 |
| 053074000 | Triggered by presence of contents | 3 |
| 20090038264 | Rotating-head machine for packaging products in sealed film - A machine for packaging products ( | 02-12-2009 |
| 20150135639 | ROUND BALER WITH A BRAKE SYSTEM - A system for controlling a braking mechanism for a supply roll with wrapping material for a round baler that passes through a first phase wherein, after detection of sufficient crop material in the baling chamber, wrapping material is brought up to the baling chamber and introduced into the baling chamber. The braking mechanism provides a higher braking force during the wrapping operation than the first phase. The wrapping operation is started on detection of movement in the wrapping material. This prevents the braking mechanism from being activated prematurely and leaves sufficient time to deactivate the braking mechanism after the wrapping operation. | 05-21-2015 |
| 20150360801 | SYSTEM FOR PACKAGING ITEMS IN A CUSTOM SIZED BOX - A system for packaging items in a custom sized box comprises a blank forming apparatus for forming a custom sized blank and a box folding apparatus for folding a custom sized box from the custom sized blank. The box folding apparatus comprises a rectangular throat frame having an adjustable rectangular throat opening and a suction device with suction nozzles for sucking the bottom panel of the blank. A displacement device is provided for lowering the suction nozzles from a top position in which top surfaces of the suction nozzles lie in a plane supporting the blank towards a bottom position, thereby causing folding of the side and end panels of the blank with respect to the bottom panel as the blank is drawn through the throat opening. | 12-17-2015 |
