| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 053373200 | By means adapted to engage outturned seam of package cover | 23 |
| 20120186195 | ZIPPER PROFILE CLOSING TOOL - The disclosure relates to hand held closing tool for a zipper, typically but not necessary a double zipper, on a reclosable package or bag. The tool is used to manually close, and possibly lock the zipper. This may be used with vacuum or other bags. Various embodiments are disclosed including a pliers-type embodiment, a box-type embodiment and a book-type embodiment. | 07-26-2012 |
| 20130145726 | APPARATUS FOR SEALING AN OPEN END OF A CONTAINER - An apparatus for sealing an open end of a package comprises a first longitudinally extending sealing jaw, bearing mounted on a first eccentric shaft rotatable around a first rotational axis, and a second longitudinally extending sealing jaw, bearing mounted on a second eccentric shaft rotatable around a second rotational axis, the second sealing jaw being parallel with the first sealing jaw. At least one motor drives rotation around the first and second rotational axis in opposite directions, wherein the first and the second sealing jaws oppose each other, and are allowed to oscillate between sealing and open positions by moving towards and away from each other. A first and second transversally extending guiding bar cooperate with the first and second eccentric shaft via guiding pins running in guiding grooves, such that transverse play between the first and the second eccentric shaft and the first and second sealing jaw is allowed. | 06-13-2013 |
| 20150047296 | HORIZONTAL TRANSVERSE SEALING UNIT - The invention relates to a horizontal transverse sealing unit, in particular for a horizontal tubular bag machine for sealing at least one tubular film around at least one object to be packaged, having a first and a second rotational axis ( | 02-19-2015 |
| 053373400 | With means to trim excess from cover | 1 |
| 20130031870 | INTERCHANGEABLE CUTTING ELEMENTS FOR SEALING MACHINE - A sealing machine adapted to support a plurality of different heating/sealing/cutting mechanisms, including tubular heaters and heated cutting blades, is disclosed. The sealing machine utilizes a common interface and mounting system for all side sealers. In addition, in some embodiments, the control system within the sealing machine is adapted to monitor and control the temperature of these various mechanisms automatically so as to create proper seals. | 02-07-2013 |
| 053373700 | With means to heat or cool seam | 18 |
| 20090139186 | Retractable Clip Press - The specification discloses a cardboard and blister pack packaging and sealing machine that includes an upper and lower heater and die combination that can be compressed together over a package for sealing using heat activated adhesives. The machine may use at least one piston and rod device or pump to provide the necessary energy or pressure. | 06-04-2009 |
| 20090266030 | SEALING JAW FOR PRODUCING SEALED PACKAGES OF A FOOD PRODUCT - A sealing jaw for producing sealed packages of a food product from a tube of packaging material includes a supporting body, and a first work surface which interacts, in use, with a second work surface on a further jaw to grip the material to be sealed and perform a sealing operation; one of the jaws defines an anvil, and the other of the jaws defines heating means; the jaw has connecting means for connecting the first surface to the supporting body; the connecting means define a curved third and a curved fourth surface made of rigid material and cooperating mutually to allow the first surface to oscillate with respect to the supporting body when gripping the packaging material prior to the sealing operation. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20110041457 | HOT PUNCH ASSEMBLY FOR PROVIDING AN OPENING IN PACKAGING MATERIAL - A punch assembly is provided in a form, fill, and seal machine that provides a package that includes a sealed end portion and contains an article. The punch assembly includes a housing, and a heat sink provided in and retained by the housing, where the heat sink includes a punch tip that is to provide an opening in the sealed end portion of the package. The punch assembly also includes a coil heater contacting the heat sink to provide heat to the heat sink and the punch tip, where one or more air gaps are provided between the housing and the heat sink to prevent heat transfer from the heat sink to a seal jaw assembly of the form, fill, and seal machine. | 02-24-2011 |
| 20110088352 | Packaging Machine and Packages Made Therewith - Provided herein is a liquid-filled, non-reclosable tetrahedral or pillow-shaped packaging container having a longitudinal fin seal and a pair of transverse seals. In the case of tetrahedral packages, the transverse seals are perpendicular to one another. Also provided herein is an apparatus for the formation of such fin seals as part of a continuous packaging and filling operation. A third aspect of the apparatus of the present disclosure is the development of a heated jaw that exhibits consistent heating across the jaw face. Yet another feature of the apparatus of the present disclosure is provided in a modified, closed-loop electrical system for real-time monitoring and adjustment of the temperatures of the heated jaws, as they are moving. | 04-21-2011 |
| 20110179749 | SPLIT CRIMPER FOR HEAT SEALING PACKAGING MATERIAL - A split crimper for use in a crimping assembly for engaging and heat sealing overlapping layers of a packaging material includes a first crimper portion having a crimping surface and a second crimper portion that is secured to the first crimper portion to form a crimper. Portions of the first and second crimper portions cooperate to define an interior cavity, and a heating element is disposed completely within the interior cavity. | 07-28-2011 |
| 20140069055 | SUSPENSION FOR A SEALING JAW AND METHOD FOR CALIBRATING SEALING JAWS - A sealing jaw assembly for a sealing unit, and in particular an arrangement for suspending a sealing jaw in a socket is disclosed. The arrangement is based on a first and a second spring arrangement wherein the action of the first spring arrangement onto the sealing jaw may be activated and deactivated. | 03-13-2014 |
| 20140075884 | INDUCTION SEALING DEVICE FOR HEAT SEALING PACKAGING MATERIAL FOR PRODUCING SEALED PACKAGES OF POURABLE FOOD PRODUCTS - There is described a heating induction sealing device for forming a seal in a packaging material comprising an electrically conductive element and advancing along a direction; sealing device comprises one first inductive element and one second inductive element; first inductive element comprises a first portion facing second inductive element and defining with second inductive element a passage for packaging material; and a second portion; sealing device is selectively arrangeable in a first configuration, in which alternate currents flow within first and second inductive element; first portion and second inductive element are configured to generate a first magnetic flux transversally to direction, when sealing device is arranged in first configuration; second portion is configured to generate, in use, a second magnetic flux with a main component parallel to direction, when sealing device is arranged in first configuration. | 03-20-2014 |
| 20140083050 | SEALING UNIT AND A SUSPENSION FOR A SEALING JAW UTILIZED IN SUCH SEALING UNIT - A sealing unit for sealing and forming a packaging container is disclosed. The sealing unit operates on a principle that the motion of a pair of opposing sealing jaws is controlled by a cam-cam follower interaction combined with the action of a servomotor driving a cam wheel. | 03-27-2014 |
| 053374200 | With nonplanar sealing surface | 4 |
| 20090049800 | Heat sealing jaw, apparatus and method - A heat sealing jaw for use in cooperation with an opposing backing jaw for sealing layers of film together is described. The heat sealing jaw may be suitable for forming an easy-open feature on a packaging pouch used to contain flowable material. In certain embodiments the heat sealing jaw comprises a jaw body, a heat sealing element secured to the jaw body, a support surface for clamping the layers of film together against the opposing backing jaw, and, a heat sink coupled to the heat sealing element for inducing a temperature gradient along a sealing face of the heat sealing element. The sealing face may have a protrusion for forming a notch within the layers of film. Related apparatuses and methods are also described. | 02-26-2009 |
| 20090260324 | Pillow Packaging Bag, Pillow Type Packaged Body, Heat Seal Bar for Pillow Packaging Machine, and Pillow Packaging Machine - A pillow packaging bag, a pillow type packaging body, a heat seal bar for pillow packaging machine, and a pillow packaging machine. The pillow packaging bag enabling the suppression of the occurrence of pin holes in a handling step and a transportation course after packaging comprises two lateral seal parts positioned roughly parallel with each other and a contents filling part held by the two lateral seal parts. Damping portions connected to the contents filling portion are formed near both side end parts of the lateral seal part from the border line thereof with the contents filling part near the center part of the lateral seal part toward the lateral seal part. | 10-22-2009 |
| 20100199602 | SPLIT CRIMPER FOR HEAT SEALING PACKAGING MATERIAL - A split crimper for use in a crimping assembly for engaging and heat sealing overlapping layers of a packaging material includes a first crimper portion having a crimping surface and a second crimper portion that is secured to the first crimper portion to form a crimper. Portions of the first and second crimper portions cooperate to define an interior cavity, and a heating element is disposed completely within the interior cavity. | 08-12-2010 |
| 20120151876 | SPLIT CRIMPER FOR HEAT SEALING PACKAGING MATERIAL - A split crimper for use in a crimping assembly for engaging and heat sealing overlapping layers of a packaging material includes a first crimper portion having a crimping surface and a second crimper portion that is secured to the first crimper portion to form a crimper. Portions of the first and second crimper portions cooperate to define an interior cavity, and a heating element is disposed completely within the interior cavity. | 06-21-2012 |
| 053374300 | With means to advance package during closing | 3 |
| 053374400 | Closing means comprising roller or roller-like member | 2 |
| 20090313944 | Assembly for ultrasound sealing continuous tubular strips - A rotary assembly, for FFS (Form, Fill and Seal) machines, for ultrasound sealing a continuous tubular strip housing an orderly succession of products and travelling along a feed path extending through the sealing station; the rotary assembly having two rotors, which are located on opposite sides of the feed path, and rotate in opposite directions about respective axes; and at least one of the two rotors being fitted with at least one ultrasound sealing device, which cooperates at the sealing station with a corresponding anvil fitted to the other rotor with the interposition of elastic members. | 12-24-2009 |
| 20110126489 | SEALING DEVICE AND MEDICINE PACKAGING APPARATUS - A sealing device and a medicine packaging apparatus that includes the sealing device, wherein an engaging mechanism for coupling frames has good operability and the frames can firmly engage each other. The sealing device ( | 06-02-2011 |
| 053374700 | With means to fold cover after closing | 1 |
| 20090113848 | Folding unit for pourable food product packaging machines - A folding unit for producing packages of pourable food products from sealed packs having at least one projecting foldable end tab. At least one conveying member cyclically receives a relative pack, by the end corresponding to the tab, and feeds the pack along a forming path crosswise in the axis of the pack. A folding mechanism having an impact surface receives each pack by the end corresponding to the tab, and is carried by the conveying member to move between a first operating position, in which the impact surface forms, with the feed direction of the relative pack, an angle of over 90° and open in the direction of the forming path, to fold the relative tab, upon impact, onto the pack in the traveling direction of the pack, and a second operating position, in which the impact surface is rotated towards and cooperates with the pack. | 05-07-2009 |
| 053374800 | With package stationary during closing | 3 |
| 20090007521 | Portable sealing system - An improved sealing assembly for sealing flowable materials within containers for transport on commercial passenger flights includes at least one selectively sealable container having a volume of approximately three fluid ounces. A hand-held, portable sealing mechanism is adapted and constructed to hermetically seal flowable materials within the at least one sealable container. The sealing mechanism is of sufficient compactness and lightness to render it capable of being carried on the person of a user. The sealing mechanism is used to seal flowable materials in to the at least one container in sufficient quantity to permit transportation of the sealed, filled pouch in carry-on baggage of a passenger of the commercial passenger flight. | 01-08-2009 |
| 20110258966 | PACKAGING MACHINE WITH OSCILLATING SEALING TOOL - The invention relates to a packaging machine with a sealing device, whereby a sealing-tool upper part or sealing-tool lower part can be excited to a vibration (S) approximately parallel to a sealing plane (E). | 10-27-2011 |
| 053374900 | Pivoted means to close package | 1 |
| 20090173041 | Device and method of sealing packages - A device for sealing packages comprises a sealing bar ( | 07-09-2009 |
| 053375600 | With package stationary during closing | 1 |
| 053375700 | With means to fold package cover after closing | 1 |
| 20150344163 | FOLDING UNIT FOR POURABLE FOOD PRODUCT PACKAGING MACHINES - A folding unit for producing packages of pourable food products from sealed packs comprises a movable conveying member and a folding device arranged for folding at least one end portion of the packs, whilst the packs are conveyed by the conveying member, to obtain the packages, the conveying member carrying a plurality of plates, each plate being configured to receive a pack and to deliver a package to a transferring and up-ending unit arranged downstream of the folding unit, the folding unit further comprising a retention device arranged for keeping said packages on the plates. | 12-03-2015 |
