Manufacturing container or tube from paper; or other manufacturing from a sheet or web inventions 03/07

20070072755 - Method for erecting tubular blanks and a station, in which this method is carried out: In a station for erecting tubular blanks in boxes, a gripping and raising unit engages a second lateral wall of the blank and subsequently raises the blank into a 90° rotation, so that the blank assumes, due to raising and rotating and because of the weight, a parallelepiped shape with... Agent: William J. Sapone Coleman Sudol Sapone P.C.

20070072756 - Station for withdrawing and erecting flot folded tubular blanks: In a station of a boxing machine, for withdrawing and erecting flat folded tubular blanks into boxes, a blank withdrawing rocker arm strips out a flat folded blank from a magazine and places it onto a operating member situated below and associated to an auxiliary conveying line. The auxiliary conveying... Agent: William J. Sapone Coleman Sudol Sapone P.C.

20070072757 - Case erector apparatus: A case erector is provided which is easily adaptable to different sizes and shaped of R.S.C. cases and the like. The case erector includes a case erector system including a pair of vacuum heads, the range and motion of each being actuated by linear servos. A first vacuum head travels... Agent: Jeffrey A. Pine Baniak Pine & Gannon

20070072758 - Punch/crease plate: Improved punch/crease plate for punching and creasing plate material (4), such as cardboard, paper, plastic or the like, whereby one or several grooves (2) are provided in this punch/crease plate (1) up to a certain depth there where the creased lines (3) are to be realized in the plate material... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070066470 - Method for applying a reclosable seal to a container: A bag is has an opening defined by a pair of walls and a pair of gussets. The walls are joined by the gussets. The bag has two slits. Each of the two slits is formed adjacent a wall and a gusset. Each of the two slits is adjacent the... Agent: Frost Brown Todd, LLC

20070066471 - Bag with a safety net: Ordinary bags are made of either paper or plastic material. Due to a puncture of the bag, the point of puncture quickly becomes a ripping point to further enlarge an originally small opening. The present invention overcomes this shortcoming of ordinary bags by using a new material that is produced... Agent: Lau & Associates, LLC Michael N. Lau

20070066472 - Dunnage converter system: An easy load packaging system, and a stand and a dunnage conversion machine therefor are disclosed. The stand includes a base and a pair of upright guide members mounted to the base and supporting at the upper ends thereof a dunnage conversion machine. The guide members define there between a... Agent: Renner Otto Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20070066473 - Quarter folder apparatus: A quarter folder comprising an input conveyer for receiving a shingled stream of half folded signatures, an aligning section for aligning the signatures, a folding section for folding the shingled stream to thereby form a quarter folded shingled stream, a singulating section to separate the shingled signatures into individual folded... Agent: Eric Fincham

20070066474 - Automatic machine and method for forming a corrugated pallet: A folding and gluing machine is provided for converting a corrugated blank into a panel having at least two parallel struts formed from the blank. The machine forms the struts by having compression chains on each side that exert pressure on the sides of the blank so that struts are... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070066475 - Envelope gum detection: Two sensors and an Operator Interface are mounted on an envelope machine inline after the side seam gumming system. As the envelope under the sensors, they measure the luminance/reflectivity of a certain spot on the envelope where the side seam gum should be located. The reflectivity of the side seam... Agent: Fulbright And Jaworski LLP

20070060458 - Method for the manufacture of an hinge-lid box: The invention is related to hinge-lid boxes or containers for cigarettes, cigars, pastilles, sweets and other goods. The invention relates to a method for the manufacture of said hinge-lid boxes, particularly to a method for attaching of the collar to the packet portion. The method comprises steps wherein and the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070060460 - Folding unit upper part: A folding unit upper part assigned to a folder is disclosed. The utility can be widened for the folding unit upper part, having at least two folding formers with associated inlet rolls and pulling groups, by it being possible for at least one element of the folding unit upper part... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070060459 - Sheet processing apparatus and image forming apparatus: Provided is a sheet processing apparatus including: a pressing rotation member rotating while pressing a folded sheet bundle; a hold member movable along a fold line of the folded sheet bundle, for holding the pressing rotation member; a common drive source; and a drive transfer member for transferring a drive... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070060461 - Folded back portion flattening device, sheet processor, and image forming apparatus: A folded back portion flattening device includes a gripper and a presser. The gripper grips a sheet bundle formed into a booklet with the folded back portion protruding from the gripper. The presser presses the folded back portion of the sheet bundle gripped by the gripper, and includes pressing rollers... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070049476 - High speed laser perforation of cigarette tipping paper: A system and method for controlling a cigarette tipping paper perforation process includes supplying the paper in the form of a flexible web from a supply spindle that is mounted for powered angular rotation to a take-up spindle that receives a portion of the flexible web, and the take-up spindle... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070049477 - Securing arrangement of loose elements of draft scrapbooking page: An apparatus for securely holding and protecting a layout of elements for a page of a scrapbook includes a portfolio having first and second covers, each cover having a width and height each of which exceeds the width and height of a scrapbooking page; and a first overlay having a... Agent: Tillman Wright, PLLC

20070049478 - Folder unit for processing sheet-like materials: Methods and devices for folding a continuous web of material are provided. Systems can include a spiral folder assembly having first and second sets of rotatable spirals, a deflection means to guide the continuous web toward the first set of spirals and the second set of spirals, a beater assembly... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP