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

20070173394 - Paper cutting device with a cutting blade unit and a folding line maker: A paper cutting device includes a guide member which is has one end pivotably connected to the base by a hinge and the other end of the guide member is positioned by two positioning rods. A box for receiving the spare cutting blades and the folding line makers is connected... Agent: Chia-shun Lee

20070173395 - Packaging of the stickpack type with improved opening and method for manufacturing the same: A packaging of the Stickpack type and the like with improved opening, which comprises a single- or multilayer flexible film that forms a hermetically sealed tubular body provided longitudinally with a first sealing band, of the inside/outside type or of the inside/inside type, of mutually opposite longitudinal flaps of the... Agent: Modiano & Associati

20070173396 - Rotary cutting apparatus comprising a placing system for the orderly sorting of cuts: A device creates blanks with the aid of a rotary cutting apparatus. The device is characterized in that a placing system is mounted downstream of the cutting apparatus for orderly sorting of the blanks.... Agent: Dreiss, Fuhlendorf, Steimle & Becker

20070167304 - Method and apparatus for making bags: A machine and method for making bags is described and 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, having a first sealing zone, and an adjacent weakening zone. The weakening zone may be... Agent: George R Corrigan

20070167305 - Folding apparatus: A folding apparatus includes at least a first folding cylinder and a second, folding jaw cylinder. A third measuring cylinder is also provided. The measuring cylinder is usable to cut product sections or signatures of a determined length L from an endless web. The first cylinder is embodied, in one... Agent: Douglas R Hanscom Jones Tullar & Cooper

20070167306 - Folding apparatus for collect operation: A folding apparatus includes a folding blade cylinder that carries at least one group of identical tools which are distributed homogeneously about the periphery of the folding blade cylinder. A cam plate is traced or followed by a control lever of each such group of tools and is usable to... Agent: Douglas R Hanscom Jones Tullar & Cooper

20070161481 - Air evacuation systems and methods for lining a container: An air evacuation system is used for lining a container with a flexible liner. The air evacuation system includes a platform for supporting the container in a formed state, the container including the liner in an unseated position within the cavity. The platform includes a base and a floor extending... Agent: Patrick W. Rasche Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20070161482 - Process for assembling a bag: The invention provides a method of making a bag from a foldable pattern, comprising: a) inserting the foldable pattern into an assembly machine; b) placing a series of glue spots on designated surfaces of the pattern; c) folding the foldable pattern, in a sequence such that the resulting product is... Agent: Lang Michener

20070161483 - Stiffening element and a method for manufacturing of a stiffening elememt: The method comprises the following steps of: providing a substantial flat blank (19) of composite material; and folding said blank (19) along a first folding line (13), the curvature of which is defined by an imaginary three-dimensional intersection line (115) being derived from the radius (R) of curvature of the... Agent: Albihns Stockholm Ab

20070161484 - Carton flap gripping system: A carton flap gripping system including an adjustable pin holder is provided.... Agent: Thompson Hine L.L.P.

20070161485 - Method for binding a quire and device applied thereby: Method for binding a quire formed of folded sheets slipped into each other, characterised in that it consists in providing at least one cut through the sheets of the quire as of a short distance from the folding edge of the quire, whereby every cut through a sheet of the... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070161486 - Broadsheet newspaper printing press and folder: A broadsheet newspaper printing press has at least one print unit printing at least one web of material and a folder. The folder has a cross-cutter to cut the web of material into broadsheet newspapers, a tucker cylinder having a gripper gripping the broadsheet newspapers at a lead edge and... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC

20070161487 - Apparatus and method for forming a discontinuity in an interfolded stack: An interfolding apparatus including first and second interfolding rolls. The first interfolding roll is supplied sheets of web product and the second interfolding roll is supplied additional sheets of web product. The interfolding rolls rotate to form a first number of folds in the sheets and rotate to form the... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich, LLP

20070161488 - Folding device having a stationary folding knife: A folding device comprises a sheet transporting device (52) for transporting sheets (22) in a sheet support plane (BE) and a stationary folding knife (26) arranged opposite the sheet support plane (BE) in a sheet running direction (BL), the folding knife (26) comprising, at the side facing the sheet support... Agent: Bachman & Lapointe, P.C.

20070161489 - Sheet processing apparatus and image forming apparatus equipped with the same: A sheet processing apparatus includes a processing tray on which sheets are stacked in a bundle form, an intermediate portion stapler which staples the intermediate portion of the sheet bundle stacked on the processing tray, a sheet bundle conveying member which conveys the stapled sheet bundle, a curved sheet bundle... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070161490 - Protective device: A novel form of a transportable consumer protective device is provided. In one aspect, the device provides a contact surface securely retained on a portion of supportive device, such as a pillow. Alternative embodiments include adaptations with a reduced friction form to minimize user hair damage or adaptations with absorptive... Agent: Lackenbach Siegel, LLP

20070155607 - Method, apparatus and system for evacuation and heat sealing: Heat sealing of a manual closure bag is provided. A compact rotary heat sealing device may be used. The compact rotary heat sealing device includes a slot or other opening for accepting a bag. Rotatable members are positioned along the slot to assist in feeding the bag through the device.... Agent: Mckee, Voorhees & Sease, P.L.C

20070155608 - Hinge and hinge-producing apparatus and appertaining method for a corner edge of a rectangular tube: A method and apparatus for creating a hinge on a corner edge of a rectangular tube as well as a tube so produced is provided in which a roller having a line defining a diameter of the roller at approximately 45° from a line defining a planar surface of the... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department