Manufacturing container or tube from paper; or other manufacturing from a sheet or web inventions 05/06

20060111224 - Apparatus and process for positioning a fitment: An apparatus for positioning and attaching a plurality of fitments to a film includes a guiding device for guiding a plurality of fitments; an attaching device for attaching the fitments to the film; a means for advancing the attached fitments and film; and an indexing device for indexing the fitments,...

20060111225 - Reclosable bag produciton: The bags are produced on a form-fill-seal machine operating horizontally or vertically. Zipper strips (16) are initially attached to a continuous web (12) which is subsequently formed into a continuous run of bags having end seals (20) and a back seal (18). The continuous run is separated into individual bags...

20060111226 - Methods of making reclosable packages for vacuum, pressure and/or liquid containment: A method of manufacturing flexible containers that are hermetically resealable. Each resealable container comprises a receptacle and a pair of plastic zipper strips. The zipper strips are flattened at the ends within the side seal regions and are joined to each other, without substantial deformation of the closure profiles, in...

20060111227 - Longitudinal folding apparatus: A longitudinal folding apparatus for webs on a folder of a rotary press includes a variable-position folding former arranged behind a former roll and ahead of folding rolls in the web running direction, it being possible to adjust the folding former approximately in parallel in the direction of longitudinal axes...

20060111228 - Dunnage conversion machine, method and dunnage product: A dunnage conversion machine is characterized by a forming assembly which causes lateral edge portions of a substantially continuous sheet stock material to crumple and to fold upon themselves, leaving an unfolded central portion between the laterally spaced apart folded portions. The layers of sheet stock material in the folded...

20060100078 - Carton flap gripping system: A gripping system uses a pin mounting block mounted having at least one passage there for accommodating holding pins of a holding pin member that cooperate with a dome to hold a laminate ply there between, the improvement being a releasable latch positioned to engage the pin member and hold...

20060100079 - Methods and apparatus for forming a container: An apparatus for forming a container includes a frame, and a forming station coupled to the frame. The forming apparatus includes a plurality of folding plows configured to fold portions of a blank to form a container. The apparatus also includes a transfer assembly including a plurality of containment bars...

20060100080 - Bag-making machine: An apparatus for successively making plastic bags of plastic film, each of the plastic bags having a size, comprising an upstream feeder by which superposed layers of plastic film are fed intermittently along an upstream feeding path for a length which is N times as much as the size of...

20060100081 - Thickness adjustment and stabilizer bar system for a case erector: A case forming machine for erecting cases from knock down case form to an open form and move an opened case downward to bottom forming station using a fixed and a moveable jaw system is improved by providing a plurality of radially spaced, concentric stabilizer bars fixed to the fixed...

20060100082 - Method of and apparatus for making window envelopes: Disclosed are a method and an apparatus designed to make a window envelope rapidly using a water-soluble clarifying agent without causing an inconvenience in its window area. Upstream of an envelope making stage wherein a continuous paper while traveling along a continuous path of travel is successively folded, pasted and...

20060094577 - Bottom sealing assembly for cup forming machine: A bottom sealing workstation is provided for a cup forming machine. The bottom sealing workstation has a linear motion assembly, a rotation assembly, a phase change assembly. A first motor is mechanically connected to a linear motion assembly of the bottom sealing workstation to linearly move the linear motion assembly...

20060094578 - Cover for cardboard composite beverage packages, tools and methods for producing such a cover, and cardboard composite beverage packages provided therewith: The present invention is directed to a cap for laminated carton packaging for beverages, wherein the laminated carton packaging for beverages comprise a cap made of plastic and a packaging body, tools for deep drawing of such a cap, method of manufacturing such a cap as well as the laminated...

20060094579 - Apparatus and methods for folding a nonbonded nonwoven web: Apparatus and methods for folding a nonwoven web without mechanical contact against a folding surface. A first portion of the nonwoven web is secured to a collector by vacuum and a positive pressure differential is applied to a second portion of the moving nonwoven web. An unbalanced lifting force applied...

20060094580 - Apparatus for sealing bag bottom: An apparatus for sealing the bottom of a bag includes a frame through which a bag to be folded is longitudinally advanced. The apparatus includes a pair of cooperating grippers carried by a reciprocably movable gripper carrier. The grippers are operated to opposite edges of the bag, and laterally tension...

20060094581 - Closure device for, and method for closing, bag for food products: A bag for granular products, made of heat sealable film, having an integral handle within the top sealed portion of the bag that fits into and is secured within an opening in the bottom sealed portion of the bag, whereby the bag can be securely re-closed after opening by folding...