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| 493352000 |
And with bending
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| 493343000 |
Including assembling or disassembling of distinct members
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| 493370000 |
By rotary tool | 5 |
| 20080261794 | Cutting Device For Cushioning Dunnage Producing Machine - A cushioning dunnage producing machine comprises a crumpler, a roll of paper sheet material having a first end at a radially innermost location and a second end at a radially outermost location, the first end fed into the crumpler, the crumpler drawing the paper sheet from the roll and crumpling the paper sheet into cushioning dunnage, and a cutter which travels laterally across the cushioning dunnage to cut the dunnage into a strip of a desired length. | 10-23-2008 |
| 20120178605 | CUTTING AND GROOVING DEVICE AS WELL AS METHOD FOR CUTTING AND/OR GROOVING - The present invention relates to a cutting and grooving device ( | 07-12-2012 |
| 20130281278 | Method and Apparatus For Making Skirtless Seals - A machine and method for converting film into bags or other articles includes a web traveling from an input section to a rotary drum, to an output section. The rotary drum includes at least one seal bar with a sealing zone and a weakening zone, or it can include or at least one sealing die that extends in the machine direction. The single sealing zone or sealing die may be a heated perforator, and may include a heating wire. The heating wire may be an NiCr wire stitched into the heater, and be disposed on a cap or on the seal bar. The weakening zone may create a line of weakness that is uniform or varies in intensity. The sealing zone may include temperature zones, cartridge heaters, cooling air, or heated air, or a source of ultrasonic, microwave or radiative energy. | 10-24-2013 |
| 20140005021 | Method and Apparatus for Attaching Components to Absorbent Articles | 01-02-2014 |
| 20150018189 | CONVERTING MACHINE - A system that converts sheet material into packaging templates includes a converting assembly that performs conversion functions, such as cutting, creasing, and scoring, on the sheet material as the sheet material moves through the converting machine in a first direction. The converting assembly may be mounted on a frame such that the converting assembly is elevated above a support surface. One or more longhead converting tools performs conversion functions on the sheet material in a first direction and a crosshead converting tool performs conversion functions on the sheet material in a second direction in order to create packaging templates. | 01-15-2015 |
| 493369000 |
Of moving work | 5 |
| 20100167896 | Method For Perforating Tissue Sheets - Curvilinear or other complex perforation patterns for paper products, such as paper towels and bath tissue, can be produced using a differential speed perforation nip formed between a rotating pattern roll and a moving anvil surface. The relative speed between the perforation elements on the surface of the pattern roll and the anvil surface shears the web at the perforation points. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20120157279 | Process and Apparatus for Joining Flexible Components - A process and apparatus for handling flexible components during manufacturing of an assembled article. The process and apparatus involve at least one transfer of the flexible components from one support surface to another. Control of the position and orientation of the flexible components during transfer from one support surface to another may be managed through the spacing between the support surfaces and/or coordinated air pressure changes. | 06-21-2012 |
| 20140011654 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS - In the control of a cutting mechanism of a sheet processing apparatus, when rear end cut region of a sheet is finely cut and divided into predetermined fine-cutting unit length, if sheet conveying direction length of rearmost end divided region is equal to or more than minimum reference length corresponding to the distance between cutting position of the cutting mechanism and nipping position of a pair of first conveying rollers and is less than maximum reference length in which predetermined fine-cutting unit length is added to minimum reference length, upper and lower blades of the cutting mechanism are held opened immediately after the downstream edge of rearmost end divided region is cut and the pair of first conveying rollers are driven at limited conveying speed lower than normal conveying speed. | 01-09-2014 |
| 20140080692 | Methods and Apparatuses for Conveying Absorbent Articles in a Converting Line - The apparatuses and methods herein may be configured to transport articles in the form of continuous lengths of substrates having thicknesses that varies along a machine direction and/or cross direction. The conveyance apparatuses may be configured to include a first carrier and second carrier, wherein each carrier includes an endless belt positioned adjacent to the other so as to define a nip region between the endless belts, the nip region extending in a machine direction and a cross direction. The carriers may also include compliant rollers in rolling contact with the endless belts. Each compliant roller may be elastomeric and adapted to provide a reaction force normal to the endless belt along the machine and/or cross direction of the nip region. As such, the compliant rollers help maintain and hold the endless belts in contact with both relatively thin and thick areas of the substrate advancing through the nip region. | 03-20-2014 |
| 20140113792 | Method And Apparatus For Forming An Adjustable Pant-Like Disposable Undergarment With Fully Severed Front Panel With Altered Area - A method and apparatus for producing a pre-fastened adjustable pant-like disposable absorbent undergarment including a fully severed front body panel is disclosed. The method includes the steps of providing a moving web and first creating an altered area on the moving web at an altering station to define a leading portion of the moving web and a trailing portion of the moving web connected at the altered area. The moving web then passes through a fastener attachment station to bridge the connected leading portion and trailing portion together with a fastener assembly that extends over the altered area. Finally, the moving web is then passed through a web breaking station to completely separate the leading portion and trailing portion of the moving web at the altered area, such that the leading portion and trailing portion remained bridged together by the fastener assembly. | 04-24-2014 |
| 493363000 |
Making plural, separate cuts by distinct cutting edges | 4 |
| 20090029837 | STITCH FLAP CUTTING BLOCK - A stitch flap cutting block is mountable to a cutting head of a board blank cutting machine, along with a slotting knife. A sheet of board passed between the cutting head and an anvil head is cut to form a blank for a box or the like. The cutting block comprises a steel body with a cylindrical barrel holding a cylindrical spring block, to which is mounted a blade holder carrying an elongate blade. The blade moves within a transverse slot across the body and is deflectable into the body and may rock about a midpoint of the slot. Impact forces are reduced, cleaner cuts are produced, and re-setting of the blade is required much less often. An alternative stitch flap cutting block is mountable to the cutting head by a separate side arm, facilitating mounting cutting to heads having different diameters. | 01-29-2009 |
| 20100093508 | Method and Apparatus for a Rules-Based Utilization of a Minimum-Slit-Head Configuration Plunger Slitter - A method and apparatus for performing an order change in a corrugator uses a minimum slit head configuration with all slit heads carried on two sides of a single tool support structure. A single robot is operable on the support structure to independently reset the positions of slit heads during a running order to prepare for subsequent order change in a most efficient manner, utilizing order scheduling that eliminates order changes that cannot be formed with the minimum slit head configuration. | 04-15-2010 |
| 20130217557 | Method and Apparatus for a Rules Based Utilization of a Minimum-Slit-Head Configuration Plunge Slitter - A method and apparatus for performing an order change in a corrugator uses a minimum slit head configuration with all slit heads carried on two sides of a single tool support structure. A single robot is operable on the support structure to independently reset the positions of slit heads during a running order to prepare for subsequent order change in a most efficient manner, utilizing order scheduling that eliminates order changes that cannot be formed with the minimum slit head configuration. | 08-22-2013 |
| 20090156382 | Method and apparatus for making curled decorative grass - Curled decorative grass having a variety of configurations and methods for making such decorative grass is provided which, because of its increased bulk, can also be used as a packing material, an animal bedding, cat litter, mulch for soil and a media for plants. The curled decorative grass is produced by curling a substantially flat sheet of material and thereafter cutting the resulting curled sheet of material, or by cutting a pre-curled material. | 06-18-2009 |
| 493342000 |
With scrap material separation or removal | 4 |
| 20120040814 | POST-PRESS APPARATUS AND A METHOD TO ACCOMPLISH HOT FOIL STAMPING, DIE-CUTTING AND BLANK SEPARATION IN A SINGLE PASS - A post-press apparatus which advances paper once to accomplish processing of cotton boxes, includes a sheet feeder unit, a hot foil stamping unit, a die-cutting unit, a waste stripping unit, a blank separation unit, a waste conveying unit, a gripper bar and a gripper bar chain. The advantages are that works to be done by multiple apparatuses are accomplished on one apparatus, reducing a number of times of paper advancing to improve a production efficiency and decreasing staffs to reduce a labor cost; inaccuracy of repetitive positioning by multiple times of paper advancing is avoided, improving a processing quality and reducing a defect rate to decrease a loss. | 02-16-2012 |
| 20130035222 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR APPLICATION OF NESTED ZERO WASTE EAR TO TRAVELING WEB - The present invention provides a method of providing a disposable product with zero waste ear formation and attaching the ears to a running chassis web. | 02-07-2013 |
| 20160121572 | UNIT FOR CONVERTING A CONTINUOUS WEB SUBSTRATE, AND PACKAGING PRODUCTION MACHINE THUS EQUIPPED - A conversion unit converting a first continuous web substrate ( | 05-05-2016 |
| 20160152435 | DEVICE FOR MANIPULATING PAPER STRIPS AND MACHINE FOR PRODUCING BOOKLETS OF PAPER SHEETS | 06-02-2016 |
| 493341000 |
Including application of heat | 3 |
| 20090048085 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MAKING DUNNAGE - An apparatus for manufacturing dunnage including a plurality of rollers for pulling a web of material through the machine, a nozzle with at least one port through which gas or liquid flows, a plurality of ceramic elements in opposing positions such that the web of material can pass between the plurality of ceramic elements. A heating element is routed through each of the plurality of ceramic elements such that heat will radiate through openings in the top surfaces of the ceramic elements that will melt the portion of the material that is passing between the opposing ceramic elements. The apparatus may be equipped to manufacture multiple pieces of dunnage simultaneously. | 02-19-2009 |
| 20120220439 | Heat Sealing Jaw, Apparatus and Method - This invention relates to a method for sealing film layers to form a sealed portion and a notch within the sealed portion, comprising: providing film layers between sealing jaws comprising a heat sealing element, with a sealing face having a length and a protrusion extending partly along the length of its sealing face; inducing a temperature gradient along the of sealing face length, wherein the temperature proximate to the protrusion is higher than at a distance from the protrusion; closing the jaws and simultaneously clamping the film at a location adjacent to the sealing face; holding the jaws closed for a period of time; and opening the jaws to release the layers of film. | 08-30-2012 |
| 20160193799 | DEVICE FOR PROCESSING CARDBOARD BLANKS | 07-07-2016 |
| 493361000 |
Plural cutting, breaking, tearing, or abrading stations | 1 |
| 20140113791 | APPARATUS FOR TRIMMING PAPER ROLLS OR LOGS AND AN OPERATING METHOD FOR TREATING THE LOGS - Apparatus for trimming paper rolls or logs ( | 04-24-2014 |
| 493372000 |
By reciprocatory tool | 1 |
| 20120231942 | SHEET FOLDING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS USING THE SAME, AND SHEET FOLDING METHOD - A sheet folding apparatus includes a fold unit which folds a center of a sheet bundle to form a fold line, and a reinforce roller which moves along the fold line while applying pressure to the fold line to reinforce the fold line. The reinforce roller includes plural sub-rollers which are concentrically coupled to each other in a rotation axis direction, and the respective sub-rollers apply different pressures to the fold line. | 09-13-2012 |
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| 20080318751 | One-piece integrated paper art and method for making the same - A method of generating an integrated module directly by the design patterns of a cardboard, a method of modularizing a variety of paper crafts can transform to a method of combining a set of modules into an integrated module via pattern designs. In addition to using double etching to etch directly the cutting lines, perforation dots, embossments, and protrusion dots on a thick steel plate to be a male die of the module, the present inventions is characterized in that the differences of the fissures among the modules and the thicknesses of the plates are used to reach the effects of holes and extensions, and it has force points on the same level while it generates different effects at the same time. | 12-25-2008 |
| 20090298660 | Paper Scoring System - A scoring system uses a grooved roller and a variety of resilient annular scoring tools. The scoring tools have scoring features or blades of different profiles, and further have annular bases uniform in width to enable their interchangeable installation into one or more tool-retaining grooves formed into the roller. The bases are much larger than the scoring features to provide increased strength and durability, along with more stable mounting of the scoring tool. In one version, a single roller assembly is formed by removably securing processing sleeves and spacing sleeves on a common support member. | 12-03-2009 |
| 20100160132 | SELECTIVELY TEARABLE STOCK MATERIAL FOR A DUNNAGE CONVERSION MACHINE AND METHOD - A stock material ( | 06-24-2010 |
| 20110143903 | RELEASABLE BASKET AND METHOD OF MAKING THEREOF - A medical retrieval device includes a basket formed of two or more loops. The basket may be used to retrieve material (e.g., a urinary stone) from a body. The basket opens and closes for end-encapsulation of a stone and is strengthened by support members that interconnect the basket loops. A captured stone may be released from the basket with the basket still in the body by opening the loops. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110143904 | DECORATIVE ELEMENTS PROVIDED WITH A CIRCULAR OR CRIMPED CONFIGURATION AT POINT OF SALE OR POINT OF USE - Decorative elements and decorative grass provided with a substantially flat configuration which, upon activation, can assume a curled or crimped configuration at the point of sale or point of use, as well as methods for producing the same. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20120115700 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING DISPOSABLE WORN ARTICLE - A method comprising the steps of: carrying a continuous sheet W | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120122648 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CREATING SURFACE ADHESIVE RULE COUNTER DIE - A Surface-adhesive-rule counter die that comprises a base associated to a flexible-counter film. Wherein the flexible-counter film may comprise one or more types of polymers and has resilience attribute. Wherein the SAR counter die acts as a counter die for pre-treating a plurality of cardboard. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120129672 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CREATING CO-LAYER SURFACE ADHESIVE RULE - A co-layer surface-adhesive rule (SAR) that has a pre-defined cross-section profile. The co-layer surface-adhesive rule (SAR) has two or more layers, wherein at least one layer is made from flexible material and wherein at least two layers differ one from the other. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20130102449 | PERFORATION SCORING ON EXTRUDED FILM - Systems, methods, and devices are provided for applying a perforation layout to an extruded film. The extruded film may be processed into film roil stock used to make individual perforated bags. A perforation layout is determined based on a desired perforation design for individual bags, and the determined layout is applied to the film by a perforating element. A variety of different perforations are accommodated by a variable perforating machine that produces perforations of different size, spacing, uniformity, and linearity. A laser perforating element may be implemented and controlled by a programming module configured to produce a particular perforation. | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130143726 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FORMING RUFFLES ON A WEB - Systems and methods for forming creased or uncreased ruffles along one or more outside edges of a sheet entail integral formation or attachment of a ruffle strip. Integral formation entails selectively embossing ruffled areas of a web. Perforations may be formed to impart a lace appearance. The result is an integrally formed ruffled in a paper napkin, towel or the like. | 06-06-2013 |
| 20130244852 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PRODUCING COFFEE FILTERS - A method for a continuous production of filters, particularly coffee filters and the like, from a material web, including the steps of (a) cutting parallel in reference to the direction of transportation of the material web to separate at least two rows of filter contours extending parallel in reference to the direction of transportation of the material web into one partial material web each, and (b) separating the filters of the respective partial material webs. The cutting to separate at least two rows into one partial material web each occurs essentially based on a cut with a wave-like progression. At least two partial material webs are arranged over top of each other such that a separation of the filters of the respective partial material webs occurs by a joint cut. A device for a continuous production of filters is also provided. | 09-19-2013 |
| 20140128238 | SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED METHOD FOR DIGITAL SCORING OF CARTON BLANKS - A method and system for digitally scoring a substrate prior to completing a carton blank is disclosed. After digitally printing a substrate, it is processed through a series of scoring wheels, male on top, female wheel on bottom. The scoring wheels (and transfer belts which help move the substrate through the wheels) are controlled from the same computer file used to create the graphic image. Subsequent to the first scoring sequence, the substrate is turned 90 degrees and a second scoring sequence takes place. After the scoring sequences have been performed, the substrate continues to the laser die cutter where the same computer or digital file determines where to physically cut the sheet into a carton blank. | 05-08-2014 |
| 20140364294 | LATTICE LOSS REDUCTION - Methods for producing systems for the transdermal or permucosal administration of active substances and particularly transdermal therapeutic systems (TTS), wherein the active substance depots thereof have a shape that deviates from a rectangular design. | 12-11-2014 |
| 20150105232 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CREATING CO-LAYER SURFACE ADHESIVE RULE - A co-layer surface-adhesive rule (SAR) that has a pre-defined cross-section profile. The co-layer surface-adhesive rule (SAR) has two or more layers, wherein at least one layer is made from flexible material and wherein at least two layers differ one from the other. | 04-16-2015 |
| 20150351602 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANUFACTURING CLEANING MEMBER - The present invention is a method for manufacturing cleaning members obtained by cutting multi-layer webs formed by: spreading fiber bundles, the lengthwise directions of which are parallel to the direction in which said fiber bundles are conveyed; and layering together at least the spread fiber bundles and non-woven fabric strips. Said method includes a step in which, before spreading, two or more fiber bundles are joined together, forming one or more join sections. Said joins are performed by joining the back end (with respect to the conveyance direction) of one fiber bundle to the front end (with respect to the conveyance direction) of the next fiber bundle. | 12-10-2015 |
| 20160193800 | Containers | 07-07-2016 |
